Decorations can add to Your Theme's Effectiveness

Decorations can add to Your Theme's Effectiveness

Fun, easy ideas that add value to your retreat

A few weeks ago I wrote about planning a women's conference. We talked about choosing a date, scouting out a location, and a theme. Once you've selected and toured a location that really helps to get your planning team excited. Choosing a theme can be a lot of fun and I think that we pointed out some ways to make choosing a theme pretty easy. So how do we enhance that theme... Let's start with some decorations...     Continue Reading | Leave Comment

Written on January 19, 2011, by Emily Ruppel, Posted in Meeting Planner Notes, Value Adding Elements, Short Term Planning

Help your event STAND OUT!

Help your event STAND OUT!

Same-o, Same-o may be percieved as Lame-o

Aaron & I both unknowingly wrote about event content last week, so we thought we'd mush our ideas together and do a little back and forth re-cap of our posts. We're both marketing guys not promotions guys. Not that we don't promote things, but we're wired to first think about what we're promoting, if people will want it, what they'd like better, refine based on feedback, promote, and all the while measure the response to see if its really working or not. We've compiled some comentary on event marketing, we hope it helps you develop a strategy for your event...     Continue Reading | Leave Comment

Written on January 18, 2011, by Zach Norman, Aaron Stanley, Posted in Meeting Planner Notes, Value Adding Elements, Inspirational

Goals & Objectives Follow-up

Goals & Objectives Follow-up

Part 3 of 3 - Have you started yet?

For me to make a change in any area of my life it doesn't require the world to age another year...     Continue Reading | Leave Comment

Written on January 13, 2011, by Zach Norman, Posted in Long Range Planning, Meeting Planner Notes, Goals & Objectives, Value Adding Elements

Content is King!

Content is King!

What makes an event desirable to attend?

Attendees will always base their decision on attending anything your ministry does based on the content. In fact, I think a number of people will choose to attend or not attend based off the benefits of attending will bring to the community in addition to themselves...     Continue Reading | Leave Comment

Written on January 12, 2011, by Zach Norman, Posted in Meeting Planner Notes, Value Adding Elements

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