Posts Tagged ‘event planning’
7 Crucial Reads for Entertainment Event Professionals
I’ve been planning and producing events for ten years, most of which has been in the entertainment sector. While there is absolutely no substitute for experience, I still find it important to round out my knowledge of corporate event entertainment and employee team building activities by reading whatever I can get my hands on. Below…
Read MoreTaking the Terror Out of Running Huge Trivia Events
When I first started hosting pub quiz nights 5 years ago, my approach was completely low-tech. With a small crowd of fewer than 25 people, I found that all I needed was a stack of trivia questions, a pen and paper to jot down scores, and piles of answer sheets for the participants. When my…
Read MoreExpert, Schmexpert: 6 Details Even Professional Event Planners Overlook
This week, TrivWorks will be producing several large-scale trivia events in Manhattan and Brooklyn, including a fund raiser for VH1 Save The Music Foundation and a brand awareness event for The Economist. As any event planner will tell you, big events are made up of countless small details, and with the many stresses which inevitably…
Read MoreWhat Does the Perfect Trivia Team Building Event Look Like?
Ah, perfection- that most elusive of goals. For those of us who work in the live event industry, we know how hard – actually, impossible – it is to run a “perfect” event, what with so many plates spinning and balls in the air at once. With team building and corporate entertainment activities, the usual…
Read MoreFrequently Asked Questions About Trivia Team Building
With the rise in popularity of pub quiz has come a growing interest in using live trivia as a corporate team building activity. However, as a relatively new approach to an area long characterized by ropes courses, scavenger hunts and 3-legged races, companies probably have a few questions of their own about how trivia can…
Read MoreMatching Company Culture with Summer Associate & Intern Entertainment
Each summer, New York City and other large metropolitan areas are flooded with summer associates & interns – undergrad & graduate students from across the country and world, who arrive for highly competitive (and often lucrative) temporary positions at leading financial, legal and other professional institutions. This summer staff typically works hard and plays hard,…
Read MoreConducting Virtual Team Building Events – MTV Case Study
It’s a classic problem for office managers, corporate event planners and human resources professionals in the 21st Century. You have been tasked with creating a team building activity to help boost morale & foster goodwill amongst the disparate groups which make up your office or department. The only problem is, while you and the majority…
Read MoreHow to Make Corporate Entertainment Events Memorable
This being Memorial Day, I thought it would be a good opportunity to discuss one of the most sought-after aspects of corporate event entertainment, which is how to make it memorable. Whether we’re talking about corporate parties for clients & senior staff, employee team building activities or experiential marketing events to raise brand awareness, the…
Read MoreEvent Planner’s Guide to Surviving Cancellations
I hold a rather unique position in the word of event professionals, being both a planner and a supplier. As such, I can attest to two things regarding event cancellations: 1) they are inevitable, and 2) they are no fun. Neither the planner nor the talent enjoys being told that, for one reason or another,…
Read MoreMaking Trivia Questions Bulletproof
As a trivia theme party planner and team building event producer, I am responsible for researching and writing trivia questions which are appropriate for a wide variety of audiences: bankers, lawyers, teachers, IT professionals, nonprofits, government workers- you name it, it’s up to me to customize it. One aspect of my job, however, which remains…
Read MoreExcellent Client Relation Skills for Event Professionals
Though it doesn’t feel like it, I’ve been involved in the client service industry in some form or another for over 10 years. In a nutshell, if you’re providing a service to others- be it in-house, outsourced or freelance- you’re in client service. This applies to all of us in the events industry, including both…
Read More7 Helpful Tips for Being an Event Emcee
I’ve been asked to emcee a variety of large-scale events over the years based on my unique experience hosting trivia, and am more than happy to do so. Not only does it provide me with additional exposure and the opportunity to practice public speaking in a new way, but it is also a healthy diversification…
Read MoreHow to Specialize Without Being Pigeonholed
I recently returned from my honeymoon, during which time I had the chance to do some relaxed reading- however, instead of my usual diet of books about social media, collaboration & business development, I was able to enjoy some fiction, as well as other lighter stuff. One of the books I got to was Red:…
Read MoreWhy Creating Experience is Rewarding
I love creating experiences. If you had to ask me what’s the one thing that I enjoy most, the one thing that gets my juices flowing, it’s putting all of my energy & creativity into conceptualizing and producing experiences which people will enjoy. It was this desire to make people happy through experience that I…
Read More5 Collaboration Must-Reads for Corporate Event Planners & Producers
Whether you work for a large firm or are a trivia team building events entrepreneur like me, you have probably realized that no matter how good you are at what you do, you simply can’t take your business to the next level on your own. Strategic partnerships, collaboration and joint efforts are needed to truly…
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