The Event Essentials: The Digital Guide to Enhancing Meeting and Event Success from etouches outlines a four-step process, including the essential tips and tools you need to create and run your event, engage attendees, and grow your meeting.
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This checklist from Endless Events provides nuggets of information along with each item planners need to check off as they go through the planning process. It’s all in there, from initial ideation and market research, through budgeting and sponsorship, site selection, and marketing. It also provides a short-term timeline running from four weeks out to post-event follow-up.
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Facilitator and author Kristin Arnold offers a series of seven free videos on how to create panels that are dynamic, educational, and overall awesome, including a five-step process to make your panelists shine. She also offers a “Knowledge Vault” of panel moderation best practices, templates, and checklists.
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Author and facilitator Adrian Segar has spent decades developing his concept of peer conferences that work—and he’s willing to share free downloads of many of the elements he uses to create relevant, memorable peer-driven conferences, including PDF supplements to his book, Conferences That Work.
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Want to know the current trends and best practices when it comes to working with sponsors? This guide from Eventbrite explains why the standard gold/silver/bronze packages are overrated, the “B2B secret, sponsorship-winning weapon,” and how to determine the value of your sponsorship opportunities.
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