Event Planner Blog
Why I No Longer Subscribe to "Hustle Culture"
A story like mine is not unique, and not new. Hospitality industry veterans are no stranger to the hustle, and its effect on one’s personal life and mental and physical health. Workers who stay later, come earlier, and run themselves into the ground in service of the company they work for are praised, while those looking to achieve work-life balance are mocked.
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.
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!
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.
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.
6 Cannabis Industry Trends and Predictions
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.
All Your Solopreneur's Guide Questions, Answered!
We've received countless questions about The Solopreneur's Guide from so many of you, that we wanted to make sure we answered!
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.
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.
Quiz: What's Your Leadership Style?
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!