Dean Levitt

Raised on a farm in South Africa, Dean moved to the United States to pursue a career in music, eventually finding his way to the tech world. What began as a booking tool for musicians became an email marketing tool that grew to over 200,000 users and an exit to GoDaddy. While growing his previous company, Mad Mimi, Dean realized he had a passion for helping small businesses grow online. Dean is a mentor at 500 Startups, a co-founder of ThymeBase Event Planning Software, and an avid surfer. Dean's love of events began in college when he worked as a musician at weddings and other events, and led the front-of-house team for one of Boston's busiest venues.

Google My Business for Event Planners

Google Business Profile For Event Planners: List Higher in Google Search Results

Customers will discover your business on Google so you should own the search terms most relevant to you. Google Business Profile for event planners can help. Even if youโ€™re getting leads via sites like The Knot or PartySlate, Google Search plays a role in their web traffic, which they then refer to you. Search Engine …

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Email Tips for Planners

Email Tips For Event Planners: How to Rock Email Communication with Clients & Vendors

Who needs email tips from an event planning software guy? Event planners do. Event communication happens via email. Phone calls are nearly extinct, and you can’t express a vision through text messages. Whether we’re talking wedding planners or corporate event experts, email is where it’s at. But ho-lee-crap some people don’t have any email skills …

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Pandemic Planning For Your Wedding During the Coronaviruste & Keith Photography

Pandemic Event Planning During the Coronavirus with Kate & Keith Photography

Pandemic event planning is a whole different ballgame, whether you’re using event planning software or not. Luckily, I found an excellent video and blog post I wanted to share with everyone. I think it’s worth a watch. I’ll also add some excerpts below. Kate and Keith are luminary wedding photographers based in New England. I’ve …

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Event Planning Business and Bookkeeping

Your Event Planning Business and Bookkeeping: Tips From a Finance Pro

Bookkeeping is tiresome. Taxes are worse than annoying, they’re excruciating. But my father always said that the only thing worse than paying taxes is not paying taxes. I mean, I get it. But it sucks. I was chatting recently to an exceptional makeup artist named Kate, who does weddings around the Finger Lakes area. I …

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Email marketing for event planners

Email Marketing for Event Professionals: 3 Minutes to an Awesome Email Newsletter

Email marketing is a chore. Trust me, I’m an expert. I’ve been working with email newsletters since around 2008 and seen, quite literally, millions of ’em. I’ve analyzed tens of thousands of subject lines, and hundreds of thousands of clicks. I could write a book on email marketing. In fact, I once did. Okay, it …

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Client Indecision and How Event Planners Can Work Through It

Client Indecision and How Event Planners Can Work Through It

Client indecision cuts into event planning margins. But what is driving the indecision? And what the hecking heck can you do about it? I asked thirty event planners what the hardest part of planning events was. After tallying up over 200 issues that plague their – and your- work life, 21%, a fifth, were attributable …

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Event Planning Software Disobedience

Event Planning Software Disobedience: 4 Rules We’re Breaking

Event planning software should serve event planners. But I believe there is a cold aloofness, an inauthenticity, to the available options. When we first started designing ThymeBase event planning software, I took a look at the other guys and didn’t like what I saw. Event planners are doers, go-getters. Planners are pull-it-off-no-matter-what geniuses who eat …

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