How to Find the Right Event Partners

How to Find the Right Event Partners

Hitching your wagon to the right event partners can make all the difference in the world. These partnerships can help you acquire a new audience, add credibility to your event, and increase revenue. But how do you go about finding the right strategic partners?   ...
Experiential Marketing Ideas for Your Next Event

Experiential Marketing Ideas for Your Next Event

After two years of being locked down, consumers are looking for more engagement and more brand experiences than ever before. In fact, 68% of marketing leaders have stated their organization is forced to compete more and more on the sole basis of customer experience....
How to Ask for – And Get – A Bigger Event Budget

How to Ask for – And Get – A Bigger Event Budget

As an event planner, you probably spend a lot of your time trying to plan the best event possible around a tight budget. And there are many tricks of the trade that help planners pull this off. But what if instead of always trying to do the impossible you simply asked...
How to Maximize Your Corporate Events in a Recession

How to Maximize Your Corporate Events in a Recession

Recession is a dirty 9-letter word. No one likes a recession and almost everyone is negatively impacted by it. But a brief look back at history suggests the event industry gets a particularly brutal beating when the economy struggles. That’s because as companies learn...
5 Event Signage Ideas That Draw a Crowd

5 Event Signage Ideas That Draw a Crowd

If you’re like a lot of the event planners we work with, you put an awful lot of thought into your program’s agenda, choosing the right venue and keynote speakers, and of course, hiring a caterer that can elevate the typical “corporate event food.” But how much...
Why Gamification Should be Part of Your Event Planning Strategy

Why Gamification Should be Part of Your Event Planning Strategy

At J.Shay Events, we’re all about two things: Finding new ways to boost audience engagement, and having a solid event planning strategy that helps you reach your goals in quantifiable ways. It just so happens that event gamification helps you do both!   What Is...