How To Keep Event Attendees Informed, Comfortable, & Safe as the World Opens Up
How To Keep Event Attendees Informed, Comfortable, & Safe as the World Opens Up

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.

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COVID 19, Event Industry Tips, Event PlanningBeth LawrenceComment
What’s Your “Return-to-Normal” Fashion Aesthetic?
What’s Your “Return-to-Normal” Fashion Aesthetic?

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!

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Future of Events, Networking Event Tips, Hybrid EventsBeth LawrenceComment
BLME’s Guide to Virtual Exhibitor Booths
BLME’s Guide to Virtual Exhibitor Booths

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.

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Event Vendors, Experience Design, Future of EventsBeth LawrenceComment
Sneak Peek: 7 Things You’ll Learn From the Solopreneur’s Guide
Sneak Peek: 7 Things You’ll Learn From the Solopreneur’s Guide

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.

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Business Tips for Success, Entrepreneur Life, Solopreneur's GuideBeth LawrenceComment
5 Ways to Optimize Virtual Networking with Zoom Breakout Rooms
5 Ways to Optimize Virtual Networking with Zoom Breakout Rooms

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.

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Creating Community, Networking Event Tips, Virtual EventsBeth LawrenceComment
Interview: Founder and CEO Beth Lawrence on Her Journey as a Solopreneur 
Interview: Founder and CEO Beth Lawrence on Her Journey as a Solopreneur 

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.

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Business Tips for Success, Entrepreneur Life, InterviewBeth LawrenceComment