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Karen Hartline - Behind the Curtain
The document provides 50 tips from Karen Hartline, CEO of Reinventing Events, for hosting successful events. Some key tips include setting clear goals, planning for unexpected fees, giving attendees opportunities to network before the event, turning negatives into positives, including speakers and sponsors creatively, providing various food and snack options, saying thank you after the event, and keeping an event emergency kit. The overall message is to think about the event from the attendees' perspective.
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- 1. INBOUND15 Behind the Curtain— 50 Tips for Hosting Badass Events Karen Hartline CEO, Reinventing Events #50tips @khartline
- 2. --13 years ofevent production experience --Orchestrate events in U.S. and U.K. --Produce variety of events including: conferences, dinners, launch parties and road shows --Work with budgets of all sizes Karen Hartline | @khartline
- 3. --Questions? --Share presentation viaemail --Learn at least 1 new thing AGREEMENT
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- 5. INBOUND15 1 Set goalsfrom the beginning #50tips @khartline
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- 7. INBOUND15 3 Give attendeesan opportunity to meet BEFORE the event #50tips @khartline
- 8. INBOUND15 Speed networking may be cheesy,but it works 4 #50tips @khartline
- 9. INBOUND15 5 Absorb thefees #50tips @khartline
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- 11. INBOUND15 7 Don’t expectyour community to come to you—go to them! #50tips @khartline
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- 16. INBOUND15 8 Turn anegative into a positive #50tips @khartline
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- 18. INBOUND15 10 Create templatesand checklists! #50tips @khartline
- 19. INBOUND15 Be ready for lastminute ideas 11 #50tips @khartline
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- 21. INBOUND15 12 Use ahashtag, not a new Twitter profile #50tips @khartline
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- 23. INBOUND15 13 Ask speakersto attend the event, not just speak #50tips @khartline
- 24. INBOUND15 14 Include moreQ&A time #50tips @khartline
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- 26. INBOUND15 15 Prep yourspeakers #50tips @khartline
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- 28. INBOUND15 17 Don’t makeyour panel facilitator do all the work #50tips @khartline
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- 30. INBOUND15 19 Make aclear ask #50tips @khartline
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- 33. INBOUND15 Start your event outside thevenue 21 #50tips @khartline
- 34. INBOUND15 22 Music inbetween sessions helps keep energy up #50tips @khartline
- 35. INBOUND15 23 Have yourplaylist offline #50tips @khartline
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- 37. INBOUND15 25 Get yoursales team involved #50tips @khartline
- 38. INBOUND15 Include a WOW factor26 #50tips@khartline
- 39. INBOUND15 Provide a coatcheck 27 #50tips @khartline
- 40. INBOUND15 28 Offer stressrelief at your event #50tips @khartline
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- 42. INBOUND15 29 WiFi isa must #50tips @khartline
- 43. INBOUND15 Power it up! 30 #50tips@khartline
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- 45. INBOUND15 31 Don’t sellattendee list to sponsors #50tips @khartline
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- 47. INBOUND15 33 No pay-to-play #50tips@khartline
- 48. INBOUND15 Get your swag on!34 #50tips@khartline
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- 50. INBOUND15 35 Help facilitatelunch discussions with table topics #50tips @khartline
- 51. INBOUND15 36 Provide avariety of options for food #50tips @khartline
- 52. INBOUND15 Limited catering budgets means gettingcreative37 #50tips @khartline
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- 54. INBOUND15 38 Make yourwater fancy #50tips @khartline
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- 59. INBOUND15 42 Prep post-eventemails BEFORE the event starts #50tips @khartline
- 60. INBOUND15 43 Have contentready to go #50tips @khartline
- 61. INBOUND15 Do your own debrief44 #50tips@khartline
- 62. INBOUND15 45 Announce yournext event #50tips @khartline
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- 64. INBOUND15 Have an event emergencykit46 #50tips @khartline
- 65. INBOUND15 47 Use aSafe Word #50tips @khartline
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- 67. INBOUND15 49 Have work/lifebalance #50tips @khartline
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- 69. INBOUND15 Think about it fromthe attendees perspective 50 #50tips @khartline
- 70. INBOUND15 Karen Hartline CEO, ReinventingEvents @khartline #50tips reinventingevents.com karen@reinventingevents.com