
Explore sponsorships in event planning, covering sales, inventory fulfillment, and crafting the sponsorship proposal to secure partnerships.
Develop sponsorship sales by researching aligned sponsors, delivering targeted proposals instead of canned pitches, and prioritizing money requests over donations to fund event needs.
Discover how to compile a sponsorship inventory by listing print and virtual recognition options, leveraging media partners, and outlining discounts and free perks to attract sponsors.
Build trust with sponsors by organizing sponsorship fulfillment, delivering promised items, tracking tasks via emails, task lists, and a Gantt chart, then follow up with surveys and a picture-book recap.
Create a targeted sponsorship proposal in three pages: cover with logos, page two with benefits and inventory, page three with sponsor contributions and a simple signature, tailored to each sponsor.
Explore vendors in event planning by outlining the vendor application process, setting booth pricing, and creating a comprehensive vendor packet with essential information, plus vendor support and fulfillment.
Develop a strong vendor management plan by assessing vendors' needs, ensuring value for price, and coordinating clear communication before, during, and after the event.
Transition vendor applications online to save time and automate reviews; implement a three-step process—apply, approve, pay—with a clear online timeline, online payments, and information on your site.
Set vendor booth pricing by assessing market affordability, attendee value, and event growth, then tier prices by booth location and capacity to meet revenue goals.
Create a comprehensive vendor information packet that includes guidelines, rules, layout maps, parking details, on-site contact, and marketing materials to ensure a seamless, stress free event for vendors and organizers.
Provide vendor support by establishing protocols, cue sheets, and multi-format information online and in a packet, then train volunteers to communicate before, during, and after events and respond professionally.
Discover the essentials of volunteer management, implement a volunteer retention program to keep volunteers year after year, and host a wonderful volunteer training.
Develop a volunteer retention program by training, recognizing, rewarding, and empowering volunteers, treating them as staff, providing growth opportunities, responding quickly, ensuring clear communication, and ongoing appreciation.
Schedule volunteer trainings in evenings or weekends, decide if all volunteers or just leads must attend, and provide a pre-event information packet, refreshments, staff familiarization, name tags, and multi-format materials.
Drive event success by branding and marketing planning, leveraging digital and print channels, crafting a simple logo, and applying swat analysis to the desired audience and registrations.
Brand your event by aligning its culture, values, and mission with every touchpoint—from colors and logos to website, T-shirts, and entertainment—across your marketing plan.
Develop a strategic event marketing plan with a clear brand identity and budget, using SWAT analysis to identify target audiences, opportunities, and unique overlaps in digital marketing.
Leverage affordable digital marketing channels—social media, email, your website, and online community calendars—to expand event reach, collect attendee emails, and drive ticket sales with authentic, engaging content.
Target your audience with print marketing and evaluate budget tradeoffs across banners, flyers, billboards, and more. Assess recycling, traffic impact, and which materials to cut or reuse, with annual inventory.
Design a logo that is simple, clean, easily reproduced, and timeless to reflect the event's feeling and stay visually prominent. Compare similar event logos, gather feedback, and guide your designer.
Conduct a SWOT analysis to reveal your event's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Use these insights to tailor your marketing plan and address vulnerabilities.
Discover how event operations integrate contingency planning, crowd control, and risk management. Build site maps, security plans, and waste strategies to run efficient events.
Create a simple contingency plan that defines unforeseen events from weather and natural disasters to security threats, and maps their likelihood, impact, priority, solutions, roles, timing, and a prep spreadsheet.
Implement proactive crowd control by deploying explicit directional signage, engaging line entertainment, sturdy stanchions, rapid closure alerts, and a comprehensive customer flow map to prevent pileups and safeguard attendees.
Identify and prioritize financial, physical, legal, and structural risks; develop a risk register with resolution plans and assigned owners to mitigate them before the event.
Develop a robust event security plan by identifying critical areas, defining guard tasks, selecting appropriate security types, and planning crowd control and risk areas for safe, smooth events.
Develop a layered site map using an online program detailing staging, restrooms, booths, generators, crossflow areas, access points, and security to enable quick communication, accountability, and risk evaluation.
Learn to design effective event missions and visions, craft a business plan, and map a strategic plan for successful event planning and management.
Create a future-oriented mission statement that defines your event's purpose. Portray the event as if it already exists, focus on one common purpose, and stay specific to your organization.
Establish a clear vision for your event by crafting a concise, positive vision statement that guides your strategic plan, aligns with goals and beliefs, and shapes future outcomes.
Develop an event business plan that serves as the resume for your event, guiding staffing, volunteers, progress, and resource allocation, and addressing four key questions: need, customers, outreach, and funding.
Strategic planning, a leadership tool for lasting change, defines communication goals for everyone involved, identifies strategic issues, and develops a goals-based strategy using guidelines with civic responsibilities, tasks, and deadlines.
*This is course is designed for those involved in the planning, coordination or management of Festivals, Annual City Celebrations, Fairs, Farmer's Markets, Expos, Art Exhibits, Professional Conferences, Concerts, Private Events, Events at an Event Center, Corporate Events, Community Events, Fundraisers/Galas, Sporting Events, Parades, and Traveling Special Events.*
Successful Event Planning and Management will provide you with training on the most important skills needed to plan and manage highly successful events. Specifically, this course discusses Sponsorships, Vendors, Volunteers, Marketing, Operations & Design as it pertains to special events. This course is will benefit you by providing you with training, resources and templates that will help you launch or grow your event.
Plan, Manage and Execute highly successful events as an educated events professional.
Get the training and resources you need to plan, manage and execute highly successful events!
The field of event planning is growing and skilled, trained and educated professional event planners are needed to help events stand out. This course will give you the training you need to become a professional in the industry.
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