Wednesday, May 7, 2008

New York Event Spaces

Organizing an event involves a lot of hard work, discipline, and meticulous planning, as a profession it involves big money and planned management. The client has a party in mind and wants his guests to enjoy the party, he/she also wants the party to be successful in every aspect and win praises for the arrangement. To do all this, a busy client will most often prefer an event management company. It is now entirely the responsibility of the event manager to turn the client’s wishes into reality.

An event manager first designs the basic outline of the whole event as he visualizes it, after which he has to prepare the marketing plans, look for sponsors, work on the logistics, choose and select the site, hire performers if needed, print and at times send mails and invitations, select menus, and along with many other related activities the event manager finalizes plans in co-ordination with the host. The kind of events for which you hire an event management company can be anything from product launches, conferences, concerts, press conferences, promotions, fashion shows, television based events to personal celebrations and farewells.

The latest trend in New York City’s exquisite event spaces, clubs, and restaurants is that they depend on event management companies to get the word out. The finest event management companies have been working over the years and delivering results for the city’s finest celebrations at exclusive venues in New York City. So if you are planning an event, personal or professional, you already know where you need to go and whom to contact. Successful New York events happen almost every day, but they have the best brains and hard work of the best event management companies behind them. They grow with event management companies.

For more information on event planning, contact Mario Stewart at EMRG Media NYC, New York's Premiere Event Planning Company at www.emrgmedia.com/ or call at 212-254-3700.

Monday, May 5, 2008

Top Ten Things To Remember When Planning an Event

Top Ten Things To Remember When Planning an Event


Whether you’re a seasoned event planner, just starting out, or simply someone stuck with the responsibility of planning an event, it is essential to keep in mind these ten nuggets of successful event planning no matter the nature of your event:

1. Have a clear vision.
On your mark, get set, research! Before anything begins, it is your responsibility to explore and dig up any and all ideas and creative possibilities regarding planning this event. What type of services will you need? Location, location, location. What type of activities? Will entertainment and lodging be in the mix?

2. You are the soldier of this planning event.
It is your duty to tackle all problems and worries that come as an event planner. You, and only you, are the one who has to take all the hits to resolve all issues, conflicts, and issues, so put on your armor and get ready to rumble.

3. Find your direction early in the event planning game.
From the food servers to the floor sweepers, you must be aware and involved in every essential piece and part regarding the success of this event. You must coordinate every grain of sandy detail and each person involved in the affair. Take nothing for granted. Inspect the site and meet each vendor of the venue. Note: This part of the event planning may involve starting weeks, months, or even years before the actual date of the event.

4. Stay excruciatingly organized.
If you know organization is a weak skill of yours, fix it fast! If you need to buy a book or take a course on organization, do it! Or hire an assistant who is sublime at keeping you on task. Leave nothing undone!

5. Keep everyone on your team motivated.
It’s the kiss of death for your event if you cannot control and lead your staff and all the vendors involved in this important production. Communication is vital here. Have timely meetings and appoint co-leaders to keep everyone informed of any changes or situations that may affect them and the success of the event. Empower your team and watch their morale and effort spike!

6. Keep a really, really realistic budget.
Need we say more? If you do not eyeball your budget often and astutely monitor all monies coming in and out, you could be steering your event toward a Titanic catastrophe. Stay on top of your budget lest you sink your ship.

7. Keep a central timeline.See number 6. Just as you must keep a steady eye on your budget, so must you have a heavily detailed timeline, down to the minute, especially on the day of your event. No gaping holes here or well, again, refer to #6. Glug, glug.

8. Make your publicity plan famous.Have strong media contacts ready to go before, during and after the event. Don’t have any contacts? You’re making us sweat here. Create a media plan.

* Go and meet the reporters who cover events such as the one you are planning.
* Pick up the phone and call them.
* Send them information well before your event.
* Think creative. Think like a reporter. Write a press release that practically writes the article for them. Make it easy. Make it legitimate.
* Look for the contacts that best suit your event. Do it well ahead of time.
* Have a pre-event release.
* Invite the reporters and media folk to the event.
* Plan wickedly smart photo ops.
* Think of great angles for post event articles.
* Film video and send it.
* Most of all, log all the contacts you make during this event and remember them for the next one.
* Send thank you notes.

9. Testimonials, videos, reviews, oh my!
Once your event is over, gather up testimonials from attendees who thought it was an absolute masterpiece of a success. During the event have team members roving with video cameras, enough footage for fabulous promotions for the next event or to sustain proof of your magnitude of ability. Make sure reviews are written either by critics or writers you’ve contacted. Everything that can be documented and recorded is further proof that your event planning produces miraculous events, more successful than the last. Or, should there be mistakes or calamities that happened, you – like the best athletic coach – will have the footage to spot the errors and make sure they never happens again.

10. Never settle for mediocrity.
Keep looking for new and innovative ways for your event. If it feels like you’ve been doing the same theme or expression forever, then it may be time to shake things up. As internationally famous party planner and party coordinator Stu Feinstein advises an idea might be hot for a season or two but the key is to never stand still. Action, as always, is everything.

For more information on event planning, contact Mario Stewart at EMRG Media NYC, New York's Premiere Event Planning Company at www.emrgmedia.com/ or call at 212-254-3700.

How To Be an Event Planner

How To Be an Event Planner

Since you were in grade school your school assignments were finished weeks ahead of time. In high school you were on every social committee from the Prom to Homecoming. When you graduated from college you made lists of organizations and companies that matched your qualifications and where you’d send your resume. When your parents celebrated their 25th anniversary, you planned a party that everyone is still talking about. And now that you are employed in what you purposefully planned as your dream job, now you are kicking yourself because it’s like a light went off; you were meant to be an event planner!

It’s what the Scottish writer James M. Barrie meant when he said “nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.” Never has it been clearer to you that your talents, skills and passion all add up to becoming an event planner and not your current career path. Is it possible to transition and what makes up an event planner anyway?

An event planner is someone who organizes meetings, conferences, festivals, parties, trades shows, well, anything that needs planning. And yes, it is quite possible to transition into the 500-billion dollar industry. If you are someone who delights in planning every single detail involved in an event, you indeed are the stuff that makes a successful event planner. And while some event planners have a bachelor’s degree in business administration, marketing, tourism, or hospitality administration, there are lots of other viable routes to gain entry into the growing profession of more than 90,000 event planners with even more in demand as far into the future as 2014.

How to become an event planner:

1) Take an online course. There are good ones just waiting to help you. Check with your local college or university for any continuing education courses that apply to event planning. Check out any and all books and research everything you can on event planning.

2) Join a fundraising committee. There are countless charities with hundreds of committee members sitting on them. Check your workplace to see if there are any committees available for you to join. If not, seek out committees in your community. This is a two-fold opportunity: first, you’ll be giving vital energy to a great service and secondly, you’ll be gaining enormous event planning experience which involves making crucial contacts, networking, meeting friends and colleagues, and getting your foot in the event planning door.

3) Join a professional group. Once you’ve sat on a fundraising committee, now you should join a group of event planners where you will meet other planners, make future business arrangements, trade tips and secrets, and collaborate on more projects.

4) Don’t take no for an answer! If nothing seems to be working, seek out event-planning firms, call them and offer yourself as an intern and tell them you want to learn from the best. If there aren’t any internships available, volunteer. Make coffee, empty the trash, walk the boss’s dog. Become part of the firm and soon you may find yourself in an internship, hired or able to seek out a position with a competitor. And the rest, will be gravy.

Once you have made the transition and find that indeed you are an event planner, you will find that many options available to carve out a specialty niche in event planning that may include: corporate events, firm outings, holiday events, launch parties, movie premieres, store openings, wedding planning, and more. No longer will you be wishing from afar; you will be right on schedule with your dreams and plans. And you will not have missed a beat.

For more information on event planning, contact Mario Stewart at EMRG Media NYC, New York's Premiere Event Planning Company at www.emrgmedia.com or call at 212-254-3700.

Friday, April 18, 2008

Go for a Bachelor Party with a Difference

Your wedding is round the corner and your friends are pestering you for that grand Bachelor Party that everybody will want to remember for years together. Bachelor parties mark the transition from a single independent lifestyle into the commitments of married life.
You also want a grand finale to your bachelor life and want to hang out with your best friends, that one night- Bachelor Style! Yet, you are worried and don’t have a clue about how to go about doing things, to top it all you simply don’t have the time to go about arranging a fabulous party! Before you start loosing hope, stop and look - there is help around, somebody waiting to make your party a super duper success.
Event management companies are taking the burden off your shoulders and doing everything necessary to arrange a successful party for you at affordable prices. In planning an event, the most important decisions are always regarding the venue, location, venue size and type and of course, the right ambience. Each event that we celebrate in life has a specific purpose, scope and ambience about it. It is often difficult for an individual to be the perfect host while going about handling all details for the perfect party, single-handedly. In such a situation, event management groups come as a blessing as they look after every aspect of your bachelor party while you are left only to enjoy the party and win appreciation.
Event management groups are the need of the day- whether you are arranging for a wedding party or looking ahead to launch your new office, whether you need a corporate ambience or a personal touch, a lavish affair or a budget party, these event management companies will provide you with highly customized solutions- a perfect party that you will remember a lifetime.

Monday, March 17, 2008

Paving the Way for Event Management Companies

Are you looking for an event management company at New York, which will effectively handle your corporate as well as personal events, parties and functions? Yes, many such groups provide excellent event management services by taking up full responsibility for the job, so you are left without tension and can go about doing your work.
If you are thinking of looking up the yellow pages for names- just forget it. Just login to your PC, type event management companies in New York and you will find the best names flashing before you. Browse through the websites, select the company that suits you, and call them to make your life easy.
Over the years event management companies have restructured and customized their services to able to deliver effectively to a variety of customers. These firms generally provide full-service, marketing, event planning and publishing services. Whether you are organizing an international workshop or an annual get together, or wanting to celebrate your daughter’s birthday in style, these event management groups take on the full responsibility to make your events a grand success, that too at affordable and comprehensive prices to suit your budget.
On a corporate level, if you are planning to launch a new space or improve an existing business, these companies provide services which include planning of an appropriate marketing campaign, incorporating, savvy strategies, resourceful campaigns, imaginative web design, personal client databases, and customized public relation services that will contribute to your progress and overall success. Considering each company’s specific needs, a unique and structured marketing strategy is formulated to ensure business productivity, financial security and increased visibility.
One thing that is common among New York City’s coolest clubs, hottest restaurants, lounges and exquisite event spaces, is that: they count on event management companies to make their presence felt. So get the same expertise to become a winner and ensure that your message reaches the key trendsetters, and corporate decision makers who are important to your business.