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Event Planning UK – From Nothing… to an Event Venue

Ex nihilo It’s Latin and it means “out of nothing” This is our speciality. We’re working with a couple of clients at the moment where this is literally the case.  We are taking disused, abandoned or empty spaces and helping to turn them into useable venues – the ultimate in recycling!  There is a lot [...]

Cameron urges Royal Wedding Celebrations

Cameron urges Royal Wedding Celebrations

I was encouraged to see David Cameron today talking up people holding street parties to celebrate the Royal Wedding, due to take place later this month (on the 29th, if you’ve been living under a rock for the last few months).  His approach should be welcomed by all event organisers – reduce red tape, stop [...]

Building Credibility through Event Websites

Building Credibility through Event Websites

I spend quite a lot of my day on the web – surfing for information about event management, looking at event suppliers, venues, other event companies or event freelancers.  Its amazing how many websites I come across put me off, rather than make me want, to work with someone.  Here are a few things that [...]

Knowing your Event Audience

Knowing your Event Audience

When thinking about 5 questions to ask when looking for an event venue in yesterday’s blog post I talked about knowing about your audience – and how it can help you to decide on a venue for your event. When you are registering delegates or selling tickets to an event (especially using an online registration system) your customer is already giving you information (whether it just be their name and email or more information such as credit card details and address) – so why not take the opportunity to ask them more information as part of the process – you’ll probably never get a better time to collect information about your customers and they won’t mind as much because they are already in the ‘form filling out’ mode

5 Questions to ask when Looking for Event Venues

5 Questions to ask when Looking for Event Venues

Yesterday I wrote about finding unusual event venues – which made me think about the many venues that I’ve had to find over the years for clients. Unless you are using an event management company or venue finding agency to look for your venues you might want to think about the following.

Unusual Event Venues

Unusual Event Venues

One of the things that sets us apart here at Entourage Live is our approach to working on events.  Whilst most event companies will tell you that they are ‘different’ in one way or another – we will truly take any challenge that our clients can throw at us…  This week we are working with [...]

Our New Blog!

Our New Blog!

Welcome to the blog from event management specialists Entourage Live…