The Event Planners Workshop
This podcast will explore ideas, challenges and solutions in the art of planning exceptional audience experiences and meaningful events.
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Early Adopters Aren’t Your Evangelists (opens the original)
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Early Adopters Are Not Influencers: Rethinking Early Bird Tickets and Event Marketing Sally reflects on insights from Seth Godin’s This Is Marketing, challenging the assumption that early adopters become long-term buyers or evangelists. She explains that early adopters mainly validate and test an offer by surfacing FAQs, broken links, unclear messaging, and delivery expectations, but they often get bored and do not drive broader sales. Sally reframes early bird tickets as a tool to attract early
Freelancing in Events: Identity, Scope Creep, and What We Lose When We Settle for Less (opens the original)
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Freelancing in Events: Identity, Scope Creep, and What We Lose When We Settle for Less In this episode of The Event Show, I sit down with Nadine Cove to unpack what it really looks like to build a career in events when you have worn every hat, from running an agency to freelancing on festivals in Tasmania. We talk about the identity question of what we even call ourselves, why role lines keep blurring, and how scope creep pulls us into doing more than we were hired to do. Nadine and I compare in
Are You an Event Manager on the Verge of Burnout? (opens the original)
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Mel Kettle ran 300 events in a single year for Microsoft. One event every working day. She told me this on the podcast this week and I just sat there thinking, how did you survive that. Turns out, she didn't really. Not without a cost. Mel's experience as a PCO in her 20s revealed an industry that puts on the pressure to keep showing up. Eventually she burnt out with chest pains, blood pressure so high her doctor didn't know how she was still walking around, and a warning that she'd have a strok
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