Event Management 101 - Managing Your Event

The fundamentals of Event Management involve learning the intricacies of systems like supply chain, food, and emergency management. It also involves event registration and security. These components power this complex social business machine.

Facility Management

Perform site inspection to make sure environmental service requirements can be met. Timing between groups must allow for initial setup and closing clean up.

Industry standards for floor space are required by law. Try to obtain a facility that has abundant mass transit to and from airports and hotels. Discounts may be used to encourage smooth wrapping up of financial obligations.

Emergency Management

Applying effective emergency management for Mass Crowd Events is regulated by government agencies and can be out-sourced to companies with experience dealing with the risks involved and are trained to provide a safe environment.

Listing emergency information in appropriate places at your event can help reduce confusion and prevent emergencies.

Food Management

Communicate location and availability of food. Decide whether to charge for meals - it rarely affects attendance. Appropriate cuisine, cleanliness, health and safety measures must be accounted for. References must be verified if using a caterer. Dividing your budget by expected number of guests, supplies, equipment and clean up costs will result in your being sufficiently prepared.

Event Security

Attendees are confident and relaxed when they see ticket taking, crowd control, door monitoring, ushering, and staff that is working barricaded areas, etc.

Adequate staffing, supervision, advance planning of security strategies and thoughtful emergency preparedness are all components to ensuring the well being of participants at your events. All this and a little common sense constitutes a well organized event.

Successful event management is about rolling with the punches. Although no two events will ever be the same, learning from one's mistakes by keeping a report of names, locations, invoices, number of participants, final costs of each element of the process, copies of marketing materials, lists of competent staff and volunteers, suppliers, goals and objectives met, etc. will all serve as valuable ammunition towards your next event. The more organized your final report, the better head start you will have for future events.

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Event Management Memorabilia

Event management is a big thing these days and to find a unique gift to distribute to seminar and conference attendees is not always easy. To find a useful unique gift is even more difficult.

A year or two ago it was flash drives and these were gratefully received because they were seen as a useful gift. Furthermore they were used and displayed in offices around the world that you would never have been able to reach without having some 'walking' advertisement displaying your company name or logo on it.

Everyone seems to give out pens these days and these vary in quality so much that some of them don't even see the end of the seminar or conference they are such poor quality. Then they simply get taken home or back to the office and either put in a drawer or pen holder and there they tend to stay until the ink dries up and then they get binned.

Paper notepads only seem to last as long as the kids don't find them and scribble all over them, or you get them into your office and they get filed away in a drawer to get rid of desk clutter. Sometimes these get fully used but I wouldn't count on too many people seeing your logo or advertising from them.

What works very well is something that gets used, gets carried everywhere with someone, gets a lot of eyeballs seeing it and is considered by the person receiving it as a useful item and they then seem to speak very well of your event or whatever. Word of Mouth advertising is additional advertising that you can never ever pay for. It is the type of advertising that gets you new clients and customers.

By having your advertising 'walking' around your town or the world means you can never know where it gets seen or by whom.

So if you are searching for a unique and useful item for advertising a clients or your next event then I strongly recommend the Minglestick for all those mingling occasions.

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Simple Clown and Simple Fun

In today's world of kids birthday parties, a lot of weight is put on the parents to go out of their way to make their party the most impressive party of the year... but who is this really for? Believe it or not, the hype of a huge party is usually something the parent has worked their child up to. If the parent has decided that a huge amazing birthday party is the way to go then this is what a child will expect, but be warned, a child's expectation way be much more than what you had in mind. Their imaginations might very well out do yours. This can lead to a disappointment on the child's part when the party is not as WOW as it should be.

Having said this, maybe it is a better idea to keep the party simple. I can assure you that your child will be happy with whatever you decide so long as your heart is into the project and you are not running around like a chicken without a head. Smaller, simple parties allow you to spend more time with your child and less time worrying about the donkey in the flowers.

As Zimbo the Clown I have had much experience in the dynamics of what makes a good party, after all, the kids tell me exactly what they think of a party. I make it a point to ask every child about their day and how much fun they are having. So here are some first hand tips to an awesome, simple, cost-effective party.

First of all make sure there is enough food and make sure you put some out before the party starts. Don't put out all the food at once as it might get chowed before all the kids arrive.

Be sure to get a jumping castle to keep the kids busy as they arrive, if jumping castles are out of your budget then have some soccer balls or hoola-hoops for the kids to play with. Kids want to play the minute they walk in the door, so be prepared. If it is summer then the swimming pool works as a great pre-party activity, blow up a few floating animals and balls and the kids will do the rest.

About an hour into the party is the time for the kids party entertainer to take over. Whether it is a Clown with his wonderful balloons or a Magician with a bit of walk around magic, these are trained professionals who will no doubt keep the kids occupied. The most important tip for the parent is to stay involved with the entertainment. If you look excited then the children will pick up on this and they will have a wonderful time.

After the kids entertainer has met all the kids then allow them to put on the show. Have an area where the kids can sit on the floor and a small table for the entertainer to put his magic or tricks on. It is important that the parents help to control the kids during this time. If a child is trying to get their hands into the magic box then it is the parents duty to put the child in line not the entertainer. The entertainer may tell a joke about a shark being in the magic box, this is a hint to the parents that the child needs to be controlled.

After the Magic Show is a good time to do the birthday cake and sing. Have all the kids gather around the table or even better sit at the table. Have the knife ready... you will not believe how many times the candles are blown out and then mom has to run and get the knife. The clown or magician will be happy to help cut the cake while you click away with the camera.

If you have a Magician then your time is probably up after the cake cutting. If you have hired a Clown then you can go the extra hour and have them do some face painting. Again, have a table and two chairs available for this. Please note that clowns and entertainers do get thirsty so during the face painting might be a good time to hydrate them. Entertainers are not there to eat all the food but a little snack/drink will sure keep him/her fresh and at that point they will very well appreciate it.

After the second hour is up the clown or entertainer will be heading out and its time to start winding down the party. By this time the kids now have full tummies and are probably running around looking like super hero's and princesses. Get the party packs ready as the kids will soon be leaving. Allow the birthday child to open a couple presents or all the presents Play some 'pass the parcel' type last minute games. Last of all let the air out the castle, take a deep breath and smile. You have just pulled off a fantastic party.

Take Care

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