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Keeping Your Attendees Cool During Summer Events

Summer is one of the best seasons for events. After all, most of the people out during the summer are looking for some great summer fun, and if you market and organize your event right, it could be exactly what they’re looking for. This is also the time of the year where a lot of people have a lot of free time, and that can really boost your attendance numbers if you market to the right audience. However, you have to approach planning a summer event in a strategic manner. Your attendees may be willing to attend your summer event, but you need to make their safety a priority. This includes keeping them safe from the heat while they enjoy your event. Fortunately, there are some creative ways that you can go about doing this. Wow them with refreshing food and drink When it comes to event food and drink during the summer, you can probably get away with serving ice water, and be done with it. However, you’re a top class event organizer, and your attendees are definitely g…

How to Handle Over Budgeting in Tampa Events Planning

There’s a lot of planning involved when it comes to handing the budget when organizing Tampa events. One of the most important factors that you should definitely keep an eye on is the budget planning for the events. Your event budget determines how far you can take you planning, and how creative you’re going to have to get to stay within budget. However, there may be times when you go over budget, even unintentionally. There may be times that you encounter circumstances that you weren’t prepared for, like a sound system break down, and in need of emergency repair. Or you may find that you have to pay for unexpected extra costs for fees that you didn’t expect. There are a lot of reasons why you might accidentally go over budget, and it’s not worth beating yourself up over, as this is something that happens to the best of us. If you find that you’ve gone over budget with your events planning, here are some ways that you can counter this. Make sure that you account for…

Dealing With Doubts As You Start Your Own Tampa Events Business

If you are thinking of starting your own Tampa events business, you may be having your doubts now. Don’t fret. It’s normal to feel inadequate to run a business, especially starting an event organizing business. The event organizing industry is a million-dollar industry now. Not long ago, when you need to host an event, you do it by yourself with the help of your friends and family. So long those days are gone. We hire everyone for everything now—from events organizers to florists to events stylists to makeup artists to hairdressers to photobooth operators, etc. Whether you have a passion for managing events or you simply want a chunk out of this big industry, you should not be afraid to deal with the challenges and risks that may come. Your passion should be your driving force What are you passionate about? Are you passionate about helping people? Earning money? Organizing events and people? Whatever it is that you are passionate about, that will be your driving force…

5 Things You Can DIY During Tampa Events

Hosting Tampa events can be pretty expensive because you have to hire a lot of people to get it to the ground. Invitations, food, flowers, music, and lights could cost thousands of dollars. Not to mention that you have to hire an organizer to manage your events before and during the day itself. However, thanks to the internet, your creativity, and a lot of help from your friends and family, you can set your events to success without needing to spend too much on suppliers. Here are the five things that you are most likely able to do by yourself: Invitations Look, if you have a computer and printer at home, you will be able to make your own invitations. There are loads of templates on the internet that you can find and use. Just fill up all the important information there, and you will be good to go. Don’t have a printer? Have them printed outside and you’re still saving a lot of bucks. Provided that you won’t have those cool designs on invitations these days such as em…

Being On Time for Tampa Events

Punctuality is a bit of a confusing point for many Tampa events. Some say that it’s best to be fashionably late, while others say that you must never be late. It seems as though everyone has an opinion on when’s the best time to arrive for an event. While arrive late is definitely rude, there are some events where it might make more sense to arrive a little past the indicated time on the invite. Here are some event scenarios and the acceptable time frame that you should show up in. Corporate events Formal corporate events like fundraisers are a bit of a gray area. You definitely want to be there in time for the presentations and awards, but you’re unsure about what time to arrive for the cocktail hour which usually starts an hour before the event. It would be best to arrive somewhere in the middle. You don’t want to dash in at last minute just in time for the presentation as you should be mingling with the other attendees while waiting for the event to start. Arrive …

Can You DIY Your Own Tampa Events?

Some days, you just want to sit down and watch as an event organizer manages your Tampa events. Then, there are some days when you think you can do it yourself and you embrace the cudgels and actually manage a whole event by yourself (or with friends and family). Personal events should not be that hard to organize because you’re handling families and friends. Professional events, on one hand, is a different beast altogether because you really need expert services and professional help for those. Do your own research If you want to organize your own events, you better not be lazy at researching for the best possible suppliers and second options. That means scourging the internet for information about people in the industry whose talents and skills you can tap. It’s about finding caterers, florists, stylists, printers, souvenir makers, etc. You have to search social media and online forums for these people because they could make organizing an event much, much easier. …