Here at ThymeBase, we love sharing event planning tips straight from industry experts and other people who know exactly what they’re talking about.
There are marketing questions event planners should be asking. There are answers in Google Analytics for Event Planners. Answers to questions like: Do you know where your website traffic even comes from? Are those event listings sites like sending clients your way? Is your website “working,” whatever that means? This is an article about Google …
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 you’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 …
Google Business Profile For Event Planners: List Higher in Google Search Results Read More »
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 …
Email Tips For Event Planners: How to Rock Email Communication with Clients & Vendors Read More »
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 …
Pandemic Event Planning During the Coronavirus with Kate & Keith Photography Read More »
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 …
Your Event Planning Business and Bookkeeping: Tips From a Finance Pro Read More »
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 …
Email Marketing for Event Professionals: 3 Minutes to an Awesome Email Newsletter Read More »
Google search is a portal between event planners and potential clients. It’s pretty much a fact of modern marketing life so I analyzed real search results so you’ll understand how to reach the first page. Let’s discuss it from the very first result to the bottom. It’ll be fun. Google leverages a ton of data …
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 …
Client Indecision and How Event Planners Can Work Through It Read More »
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 …
Event Planning Software Disobedience: 4 Rules We’re Breaking Read More »
