These days, many businesses are trying to find ways to cut costs and improve efficiencies, while promoting a healthy work-life balance within their workforce. As such, many companies are giving their staff the opportunity to work flexibly and remotely - with many setting their own hours and working from their home office. In extreme cases, some firms have even decided to close a central office space in favour of an entirely home-based operation.

This is all very well and good, as it certainly reduces overheads quite considerably and appears to suit the majority of employees. However, it doesn't suit every situation. What happens, for example, when you have a board or client meeting? Or need to call the staff together for an important communication? Conference calls and emails may not be appropriate.

Fortunately, there is an easy solution - hire serviced meeting rooms. London is the obvious choice, being the business centre of the country; however, there are such offices located in most    [read more..]

Conventions and conferences are an important part of many corporations marketing initiatives. Large scale events such as this are a way to introduce new products or ideas and promote the name of a company. In order for the marketing strategy to be successful companies will want the very best representation and demonstration at each convention and conference. This is why many companies choose to have help from convention staffing and conference staffing agencies.  Whether a company is hosting the event or participating with a booth, staffing agencies provide the hiring capabilities to present the right individuals to represent a corporation.

Comprehensive Solutions

At EventPro Strategies we take pride in the fact that we are a full service solution provider. Convention staffing is done best by people dedicated to the industry with real event experience.  There are three main elements to hiring the right people for a conference, event operational management and staffing, streamline administrative services and project management with detailed measurement. The mix of these    [read more..]

Your budget can be a big constraint while planning an event. Different events have a fixed budget. There is a limit for your spending. Careful considerations need to be given while planning an event based on the available budget figures. There are certain points to be considered while planning a low budget event.

Budget can be flexible based on your affordability. If you can fit in all your expenditures within the pre-planned budget, well and good. Just follow it. But in case there is a possibility of extending your budget, expand it. Final option is to cut down your expenses. Make sure that your budget covers all the expected expenses such as venue, food and beverages, party decorations, etc. Calculate an average expense per person.

Make sure that you only have the invited guests, also be sure of inviting the necessary people only – when you are throwing an event at low cost. When you plan things accordingly, even if the overall cost is    [read more..]

Online event registration tools make it easier for event planners to organize their business transactions as well as allow them to grow into a strong, flourishing community. There are websites all over the internet catering to the event registration need of program managers. What these sites provide are memberships to events people to sign their businesses up online, and then manage their events through the services provided by these websites.  

Even planners no longer have to spend endless, tiring hours making phone calls, monitoring payments and answering endless e-mails, the event registration sites help you! You are able to do things like post up and event, and then people can sign up for your event with no extra work put in by you. They just see your event where it’s being publicized and fill up a form for it. This is a twenty-four hour service that an event planner doesn’t even have to put in; all he or she needs to do is    [read more..]

Event planning can be defined as the systematic management of events and gatherings. It is one of the emerging sectors with a promising future. Event planning that we see in the current scenario has come through various developmental stages during the last century. From small board room meetings to large wedding parties and birthday blasts are being taken care of by event planners.

When we look in to the history of event planning some 100 years ago, it was hardly considered as a profession even. Now event planning is one of the most successful professions in the service sector where individuals are responsible for planning the entire requirements of a social event. Event planners take the responsibility of all the aspects of a function. This can be from the setting up of time, date, location to the arrangement of stage, flower decoration, catering services, stationary supplies, budget creation, advertising, audio visual requirements and any such needs of a function. This ‘’all in one    [read more..]

If there is one thing that frustrates event hosts and planners alike, it is the lack of credence given to the RSVP. Invitations are different from announcements in that they are a petition for your presence. Once you receive one, regardless of your availability, they create an action item for you. Are you in, or are you out? Either way, your host needs to know.

I remember in grammar school when kids brought their neat little bundles of birthday invitations to classrooms. It was there, right in front of everyone, that you either got one...or you didn't. If you did get one, you ran home with it to ask your mom if you could go to the party. "Please, because all my friends will be there" was your plea. My mom usually rolled her eyes, but always said, "Let me call her/his mother". It was in that statement that    [read more..]

The big day is approaching and it's time to think about planning for the wedding! It is natural for couples to be confused over where to start. As you go deeper into your planning, you will experience more obstacles. As a result, consideration of hiring a professional wedding planner might arise. If this happens, here are some reasons why you should employ a professional wedding planner.

 1) Wedding Planner Protects You From Hiring the Wrong Services

 Since they are familiar with the industry, they know the best and reliable vendors, as some companies may not be as professional as they claim.

 Some vendors might charge you higher rates for using their services. Instead, utilizing a wedding planner may help you to get a considerable reduction in rates since in most cases; vendors will offer planner?s clients lower rates.

 2) Wedding Planners Typically Offer Tiered Services

 Maybe you don’t need a wedding planner to plan your wedding. However, you might need to    [read more..]

Picture the professionals of yesteryear. They would struggle for years and years to learn portrait photography as a craft and profession. Spending hours at the feet of an old master picking up all the little secrets that made the master great. If the apprentice was diligent and hard working he might have the opportunity to go out on his own someday. He knew that his hard work would pay off the dividends of a skill that would provide for his family throughout his life.
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>Well, that's how I learned. Learning has changed tremendously with the advent of digital cameras. What was previously a tremendous task has been trivialized. Image putting photographs on the internet without a digital camera or even a scanner. Hummm, Not an easy task. Well now you can fire up your computer and get a great deal of knowledge    [read more..]

By A. Michael Newsum

How talented is your wedding photographer? Of course, you want the best. But, how do you even begin to understand that as a non-photographer? It's within in their style. Do they seem to have a lot of posed photographs? Did the subjects in the images appear like they were having fun?

A great image usually has 3 main components.

1) Great composition. Now you don't have to have a degree in photography to understand basic composition, but the subjects are not normally centered in the image (there are always exceptions). Here's a great sign of great photos. Are they memorable? Do they grab you visually? Do they evoke a strong feeling/emotion when viewed? Those are all good signs.

2) Great lighting. Again, we are getting a little technical, but it does help    [read more..]

One would notice that most great planners are women. Women are usually called upon to uphold the task of making plans for events, budgeting, even a simple family trip! In case you're wondering the reasons underlying this scenario, there is evidence as to why women make great planners. Just as there are major differences between the personality and characteristics of both males and females, these differences make women stand out as better planners compared to their male counterparts.

Researchers generally believe that the female brain is organized to function more symmetrically. This allows integration of both sides of the brain functions more readily compared to the brain of a male. A recent research which included solving word games found that men tended to use only the left side of the brain when completing the task. On the other hand, women drew on both hemispheres. Due to this anatomical and functional brain    [read more..]

When planning a meeting or event, many things can go wrong and sometimes, you may not even be able to anticipate them. Your job as an event planner is to be able to come up with backup plan in these situations and execute them as smoothly as possible. Although event planners are hired for their expertise, their clients have the last say in everything; sometimes, clients are so focused on what they want that they forget that the event planner is there to help them run things and make them look good. In this case, miscommunication can be disastrous and is every event planner’s worst nightmare because clients ultimately end up blaming the event planner. The cleaning up is also one of the downside of event planning, because those elaborate decorations and catered food has to be properly disposed of after the event. It is never easy to clean up a whole garden strewn with rubbish and    [read more..]

Meetings are often considered too formal and in this case it is very important to conduct the meetings in a way that will attract the audience as well as anticipate their interest. The following ideas will be helpful in the successful conduction of a meeting.

1. Kick start your meeting
Start the meeting with a topic of general interest. Ask some simple questions to the members, so that it will lead into a small discussion among the members, which in turn will motivate people to be more active and participative.

2. Use good audio visual techniques
It is advisable to conduct meetings with quality audio, visual medias like power point presentations, videos, pictures etc, which will motivate the spirit of the members to take part actively in the meeting. 

3. Have a proper fixed timing
Timing is very important in formal meetings and if you run out of time, it leads    [read more..]