After over a year of uncertainty, cancellations, pivoting, and changing, the event industry is finally on the track back to normalcy. While event producers are thrilled that we can return to live events and meetings, some audiences are hesitant to attend in-person events. As event industry professionals, it is our duty to create an environment that is welcoming and comfortable for all. For ways to do this, follow BLME’s tips for keeping event attendees informed, comfortable, and safe as the world opens back up.

We can’t believe we are saying this but after a life-altering global pandemic, things are actually returning back to normal! With the vaccine rate up and Covid infection rate down, live events and meetings are starting to make a comeback. While wearing sweatpants on Zoom for over a year had its perks, we at BLME are so excited to get dolled up for the return to live events. Want to know your “return to normal” style? Take our quiz below to find out!

We have gotten many questions about how to create a virtual experience that is similar to what you would offer at an in-person exhibitor event. Some companies even feel it is better to pull out of a virtual exhibitor event than to take part in it. However, we believe that wouldn’t be further from the truth. So, we decided to share our tips on how to host an effective and impactful virtual exhibitor booth.

This month, BLME and friends launched our first official Solopreneur’s Guide - a 7 Module crash course designed to set entrepreneurs up for success. We are so excited about this course that we wanted to give you a sneak peek of some tidbits you’ll learn from our program. Here, we offer a sneak peek at 7 things you’ll learn from the Solopreneur’s Guide.

We at BLME are so excited to see that marijuana is being legalized in more and more states. Since we always like to be ahead of the curve, BLME founder and Chief Experience Officer Beth Lawrence examined trends and happenings in the cannabis industry and came up with her top predictions for the future of the field.

We've received countless questions about The Solopreneur's Guide from so many of you, that we wanted to make sure we answered!

While virtual meetups cannot offer everything at in-person networking events can, Zoom breakout rooms can help them get pretty close. Since the onset of the pandemic, we at BLME have relied on the platform’s breakout room feature more times than we can count. Here, we are breaking down our 5 favorite ways to optimize virtual networking using Zoom breakout rooms.

In case you haven’t heard, next month BLME & Friends are launching the Solopreneur’s Guide, a crash course about setting yourself up for success as a self-employed entrepreneur. Ahead of this launch we sat down with founder and CEO, Beth Lawrence, to learn more about her solopreneurship journey. Read on to discover Beth’s advice, reflections, highs, and lows of entrepreneurship, and how the Solopreneur’s Guide can help others navigate this themselves.

A few months ago, we featured this leadership style quiz in our newsletter and got great feedback. In case you missed it the first time around, want to take it again, or are looking to share it with friends, we wanted to provide access to the quiz on our blog as well. Answer the questions below to learn something new about yourself and how you lead!

Now that we’ve been around the (virtual) block more times than we can count, we have compiled this list of virtual event management essentials for those embarking on similar endeavors. This is a list we wish we had prior to the pandemic so we wanted to share the tips and insight with our fellow industry colleagues. Read on for our must-haves!

Prior to the pandemic, the thought of having to reschedule an event seemed like an issue we would never have to face. However, we have now moved more events than we could have ever imagined. Moving an event comes with many logistics and details that need to be ironed out. While it is not a quick or easy process, it is definitely possible when done correctly. Here, BLME lines up our steps for rescheduling an event, in hopes that we can help others faced with this formidable task.