Event Management

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Robert Mackasek:

While the quest for My Event continues I thought I’d share with you a super useful template for managing events.The template is based on Openproj What is Openproj? As for its website “OpenProj is a free, open-source desktop alternative to Microsoft Project. OpenProj has been downloaded over 150,000 times in the first weeks since it […]

This post applies to all those events which involve a registration process. By that I mean also those events with tickets as that could be conceived as registration. First of all registration is crucial. It helps in several aspects: it gives you an idea on how much people will participate to your event it gives […]

To some of my regulars, this post should have appeared long before. In fact I have been thinking about it for a while. The thing about events is that it may appear that everyone is capable of planning and executing an event. To a certain extent that is the truth. You may in fact notice […]

I realize coming up with a Gantt chart could be a bit of an hassle if you are starting from zero. I previously posted on how to make a Gantt chart, nonetheless I found also few videos on Youtube on how to create one in the easy to use Excel (pretty similar for those using […]

As said before, I am working on starting my event planning business. As I am still in the get-all-the-info-you-can phase, I bumped into a lot of people suggesting that being an event planner means being continuously updated with trends and practices. Such need is in fact understandable as events require skills from fairly different areas. […]

If you want to know how to start your own event management company, read on and I'll do my best to help you.