The Events Podcast: Recent Episodes
Dan Taylor and James Sayer
'The Events Podcast' gives #eventprofs tips, tricks and tactics to run profitable and stress-free meetups, conferences, and events of all kinds
Serial entrepreneur Martin Stoila returns to explain what is ‘NFT ticketing’ and why you should care about it.
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About the Events Podcast: I’m your host Dan Taylor, and each week I talk with event entrepreneurs about how they plan, promote and run their events.
We help you build your ‘Events Empire’ by growing your business using live events. Whether you are full-time or part-time, running community meetups, conferences, trade shows, IT training, or music events. Whatever the type of event, we focus on finding actionable tips that you can use straight away.
We are looking for a sponsor for the podcast, so if you are interested, please email me at dan@appsevents.com
Kevin is an entrepreneur and we talk podcasting, and Kevin’s entrepreneurial journey to build multipls streams of income
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I hope you enjoyed the podcast, and if you did, please please leave us a review. It helps us!
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About the Events Podcast: I’m your host Dan Taylor, and each week I talk with event entrepreneurs about how they plan, promote and run their events.
We help you build your ‘Events Empire’ by growing your business using live events. Whether you are full-time or part-time, running community meetups, conferences, trade shows, IT training, or music events. Whatever the type of event, we focus on finding actionable tips that you can use straight away.
We are looking for a sponsor for the podcast, so if you are interested, please email me at dan@appsevents.com
Ben is an educator and entrepreneur who has developed a course on design thinking. We talk about Ben’s entrepreneurial journey and explain what is ‘design thinking’ and why you should use this in your business.
Listen on: Apple Podcasts / Podbean / Stitcher / Spotify / YouTube / Google Podcasts
I hope you enjoyed the podcast, and if you did, please please leave us a review. It helps us!
Get in touch with me to talk about anything at all via dan@appsevents.com.
Sign up for our newsletter to get notified when the podcast is live at http://gg.gg/y4se5
About the Events Podcast: I’m your host Dan Taylor, and each week I talk with event entrepreneurs about how they plan, promote and run their events.
We help you build your ‘Events Empire’ by growing your business using live events. Whether you are full-time or part-time, running community meetups, conferences, trade shows, IT training, or music events. Whatever the type of event, we focus on finding actionable tips that you can use straight away.
We are looking for a sponsor for the podcast, so if you are interested, please email me at dan@appsevents.com
Mark is an entrepreneur, speaker, and the bestselling author of the fantastic book ‘The Career Toolkit https://www.thecareertoolkitbook.com/
We have a wide-ranging discussion, including learning about Mark's background, how to write a popular book, how to get the most out of podcasting, how to thrive in business, and finally how to run amazing events.
One great takeaway is when you host lunches at your conference or event have signs with different topics placed on each table, and people can pick the table depending on their area of interest.
Listen on: Apple Podcasts / Podbean / Stitcher / Spotify / YouTube / Google Podcasts
I hope you enjoyed the podcast, and if you did, please please leave us a review. It helps us!
Get in touch with me to talk about anything at all via dan@appsevents.com.
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About the Events Podcast: I’m your host Dan Taylor, and each week I talk with event entrepreneurs about how they plan, promote and run their events.
We help you build your ‘Events Empire’ by growing your business using live events. Whether you are full-time or part-time, running community meetups, conferences, trade shows, IT training, or music events. Whatever the type of event, we focus on finding actionable tips that you can use straight away.
We are looking for a sponsor for the podcast, so if you are interested, please email me at dan@appsevents.com
My wife recently gave me a copy of ‘The Millionaire Expat’ by Andrew Hallam. I loved the book and connected with Andrew on Linkedin. He agreed to chat on the podcast, and here we are. (This is an excellent testament to LinkedIn as a networking tool!)
We learn all about achieving financial independence, work-life balance, and much more.
This episode is also posted on ‘The International Schools Podcast, which I host with John Mikton, who joins us on the podcast halfway through. We get into a few references to schools, but most of the content is fantastic for all entrepreneurs.
Listen on: Apple Podcasts / Podbean / Stitcher / Spotify / YouTube / Google Podcasts
I hope you enjoyed the podcast, and if you did, please please leave us a review. It helps us!
Get in touch with me to talk about anything at all via dan@appsevents.com.
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About the Events Podcast: I’m your host Dan Taylor, and each week I talk with event entrepreneurs about how they plan, promote and run their events.
We help you build your ‘Events Empire’ by growing your business using live events. Whether you are full-time or part-time, running community meetups, conferences, trade shows, IT training, or music events. Whatever the type of event, we focus on finding actionable tips that you can use straight away.
We are looking for a sponsor for the podcast, so if you are interested, please email me at dan@appsevents.com
This week it’s just me on the mic so let me know what you think! I’m currently out in Bahrain with the family, so I will give an update on why I’m in Bahrain and where in the world I have been, then get into my thoughts on online events (you might disagree with me :)) and how I see 2022 shaping up!.
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I hope you enjoyed the podcast, and if you did, please please leave us a review. It helps us!
Get in touch with me to talk about anything at all via dan@appsevents.com.
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About the Events Podcast: I’m your host Dan Taylor, and each week I talk with event entrepreneurs about how they plan, promote and run their events.
We help you build your ‘Events Empire’ by growing your business using live events. Whether you are full-time or part-time, running community meetups, conferences, trade shows, IT training, or music events. Whatever the type of event, we focus on finding actionable tips that you can use straight away.
We are looking for a sponsor for the podcast, so if you are interested, please email me at dan@appsevents.com
James runs a successful online community called superfastbusiness.com which he started by running live events. He gets into detail about the ‘why’ and the ‘how’ of building your own online community.
Listen on: Apple Podcasts / Podbean / Stitcher / Spotify / YouTube / Google Podcasts
I hope you enjoyed the podcast and if you did then please, please leave us a review. It really helps us!
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About the Events Podcast: I’m your host Dan Taylor and each week I talk with event entrepreneurs about how they plan, promote and run their events.
We help you build your ‘Events Empire’ by growing your business using live events. Whether you are full time or part time, and whether you are running community meetups, conferences, trade shows, IT training, music events. Whatever the type of event we focus on finding actionable tips that you can use straight away.
We are looking for a sponsor for the podcast so if you are interested please email me at dan@appsevents.com
Ever since reading the ‘Four Hour Work Week’ I’ve been fascinated with building remote teams. James has done this to great success and we talk about why you might want to do this, why the Philippines, and most importantly how to make it work.
Listen on: Apple Podcasts / Podbean / Stitcher / Spotify / YouTube / Google Podcasts
I hope you enjoyed the podcast and if you did then please, please leave us a review. It really helps us!
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About the Events Podcast: I’m your host Dan Taylor and each week I talk with event entrepreneurs about how they plan, promote and run their events.
We help you build your ‘Events Empire’ by growing your business using live events. Whether you are full time or part time, and whether you are running community meetups, conferences, trade shows, IT training, music events. Whatever the type of event we focus on finding actionable tips that you can use straight away.
We are looking for a sponsor for the podcast so if you are interested please email me at dan@appsevents.com
This week it’s just me on the mic so let me know what you think! I’m currently out in Dubai and have just finished up a couple of events, so I give an update on why I’m in Dubai and what my first impressions are of the first events I’ve been to since the start of COVID.
Listen on: Apple Podcasts / Podbean / Stitcher / Spotify / YouTube / Google Podcasts
I hope you enjoyed the podcast and if you did then please, please leave us a review. It really helps us!
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About the Events Podcast: I’m your host Dan Taylor and each week I talk with event entrepreneurs about how they plan, promote and run their events.
We help you build your ‘Events Empire’ by growing your business using live events. Whether you are full time or part time, and whether you are running community meetups, conferences, trade shows, IT training, music events. Whatever the type of event we focus on finding actionable tips that you can use straight away.
We are looking for a sponsor for the podcast so if you are interested please email me at dan@appsevents.com
This week's podcast is a repost from my other podcast ‘The International Schools Podcast’ and it was so interesting I thought I’d post it here as it has loads of lessons for entrepreneurs.
Lawrence has overcome a huge amount of adversity to be a success with multiple businesses including a web and social media agency that includes Premiership footballers as clients.
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About the Events Podcast: I’m your host Dan Taylor and each week I talk with event entrepreneurs about how they plan, promote and run their events.
We help you build your ‘Events Empire’ by growing your business using live events. Whether you are full time or part time, and whether you are running community meetups, conferences, trade shows, IT training, music events. Whatever the type of event we focus on finding actionable tips that you can use straight away.
We are looking for a sponsor for the podcast so if you are interested please email me at dan@appsevents.com
Justin has spent most of his life in Hong Kong where he runs the hugely successful 21CL conference, in addition to a lot of smaller training events across Asia. We talk about Justin's origins setting up a website for his former school and how he parlayed this into starting and growing a huge Education technology conference.
You can reach Justin via:
E: jahardman@21c-learning.com
W: www.21c-learning.com
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I hope you enjoyed the podcast and if you did then please, please leave us a review. It really helps us!
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About the Events Podcast: I’m your host Dan Taylor and each week I talk with event entrepreneurs about how they plan, promote and run their events.
We help you build your ‘Events Empire’ by growing your business using live events. Whether you are full time or part time, and whether you are running community meetups, conferences, trade shows, IT training, music events. Whatever the type of event we focus on finding actionable tips that you can use straight away.
We are looking for a sponsor for the podcast so if you are interested please email me at dan@appsevents.com
Today's episode is a little different. Normally on this podcast, we focus on people running events, but today I thought it would be interesting to look at things from the other side, and take a deep dive into exhibiting at trade shows.
It’s especially interesting for me with my company AppsEvents as we are planning on exhibiting at some trade shows now that (hopefully) the World is starting to open up.
Here are some of the topics Jim gets into
- How even Small businesses can win BIG at Trade Shows
- 7 secrets to help Small Businesses Win at Trade Shows...without spending an additional penny over their budget
- Why You need to be running your Trade Show booth like a 5-star restaurant
Jim Cermak is a Trade Show coach and the host of the Trade Show University podcast - noted as a Top 5% podcast globally. Jim brings over 30 years of marketing, training and events, and loves sharing the success secrets from working and planning trade shows. He has been a judge for the 2021 Virtual Event Awards, is a partner of the Virtual Event Institute, and has collaborated with Caesar’s Entertainment.
You can reach Jim via:
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Email: jim@tradeshowu.biz
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Cell: 216-906-4715
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LinkedIn @ https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimcermak/
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I hope you enjoyed the podcast and if you did then please, please leave us a review. It really helps us!
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About the Events Podcast: I’m your host Dan Taylor and each week I talk with event entrepreneurs about how they plan, promote and run their events.
We help you build your ‘Events Empire’ by growing your business using live events. Whether you are full time or part time, and whether you are running community meetups, conferences, trade shows, IT training, music events. Whatever the type of event we focus on finding actionable tips that you can use straight away.
We are looking for a sponsor for the podcast so if you are interested please email me at dan@appsevents.com
Have you ever thought about putting on a music festival? What about launching a mass participation running event in your town? Robbie McClung has done both.
Robbie bootstrapped his business while working a series of jobs which is an approach we highly recommend here at the podcast. We learn how he did it, and how he survived COVID and came out in a position to do amazing in the coming year.
If you are interested in mass participation sporting events then check out my series of two interviews with Chris Robb who is an absolute legend in this area.
Gerbz is a developer and entrepreneur who's done over 10k crypto transactions with e-commerce customers since 2013. He co-hosts The BitLift Podcast, which helps people responsibly navigate their way down the crypto rabbit hole.
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About the Events Podcast: I’m your host Dan Taylor and each week I talk with event entrepreneurs about how they plan, promote and run their events.
We help you build your ‘Events Empire’ by growing your business using live events. Whether you are full time or part time, and whether you are running community meetups, conferences, trade shows, IT training, music events. Whatever the type of event we focus on finding actionable tips that you can use straight away.
We are looking for a sponsor for the podcast so if you are interested please email me at dan@appsevents.com
Since I first heard about Crypto in 2012 I have been completely fascinated with the subject. There are so many rabbit holes you can go down; the tech side, the philosophical side which inevitably leads you to question ‘what is money?’.
This week I am joined by GERBZ, a very interesting player in the crypto space who runs the website https://bitlift.com/ which has some amazing resources to learn about crypto. I wanted to get GERBZ on the pod initially to give some concrete advice for people running live events so we start off by talking about how event producers can take payment in crypto.
We then freestyle about how GERBZ sees the future of crypto and the internet and stay tuned to hear his ‘end of 2011 price prediction.’
Gerbz is a developer and entrepreneur who's done over 10k crypto transactions with e-commerce customers since 2013. He co-hosts The BitLift Podcast, which helps people responsibly navigate their way down the crypto rabbit hole.
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About the Events Podcast: I’m your host Dan Taylor and each week I talk with event entrepreneurs about how they plan, promote and run their events.
We help you build your ‘Events Empire’ by growing your business using live events. Whether you are full-time or part-time, and whether you are running community meetups, conferences, trade shows, IT training, music events. Whatever the type of event we focus on finding actionable tips that you can use straight away.
We are looking for a sponsor for the podcast so if you are interested please email me at dan@appsevents.com
As long-term listeners may know, back when I started this podcast I launched a software system for event organizers to sell tickets called EventsFrame. To be honest, my main inspiration to start this podcast was in the hope of promoting it…. but that led to me really enjoying podcasting and the podcast has outlived my involvement with EventsFrame :)
Enter Martin. Martin is a serial entrepreneur living in Prague who I’ve known for many years. We used to be part of a weekend mastermind where a group of us would go off for a weekend to different towns and cities in the Czech Republic, book a conference room in a hotel and try to help each other out, followed of course by several beers in the evening. On one of these weekends, I was talking about how hard it was to juggle the software business with my events business and Martin said ‘why don’t I take it over’. The rest is history and Martin joins me on the pod today to talk about running an events software company during the worst time for live events in our lifetime!
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About the Events Podcast: I’m your host Dan Taylor and each week I talk with event entrepreneurs about how they plan, promote and run their events.
We help you build your ‘Events Empire’ by growing your business using live events. Whether you are full-time or part-time, and whether you are running community meetups, conferences, trade shows, IT training, music events. Whatever the type of event we focus on finding actionable tips that you can use straight away.
We are looking for a sponsor for the podcast so if you are interested please email me at dan@appsevents.com
Dan and James get back on the pod after a hiatus to discuss what they have been doing through COVID, what are their plans for the future, and what they see as the future for in-person events this year and in 2022.
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I hope you enjoyed the podcast and if you did then please, please leave us a review it really means a lot to us! Get in touch with me to talk about anything at all via dan AT appsevents.com
Dan Taylor on social media:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dantcz/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DanTaylorAE
Web: www.appsevents.com
About the Events Podcast: I’m your host Dan Taylor and each week I talk with event entrepreneurs about how they plan, promote and run their events.
We help you build your ‘Events Empire’ by growing your business using live events. Whether you're running community meetups, conferences, trade shows, IT training, music events, or any type of event we focus on finding actionable tips that you can use straight away.
This podcast is sponsored by AppsEvents. We produce over 300 of our events across the globe from training to conferences and we are now sharing our expertise with a small group of event professionals.
There are a couple of we can help you:
Firstly we can run the logistics for your event. We have a whole support team that can handle all the heavy lifting for you. We can set up your website and agenda. Liaising with speakers, dealing with the huge volume of questions from attendees which you will receive. Liaise with venues and We can even come to your event to help you run it on the ground. Get in touch with james@appsevents.com and we’ll jump on a call.
Secondly, I offer one on one coaching to help event entrepreneurs grow their events. I want you to get more attendees, produce epic events, make more money, and most importantly to do it all with no stress.
Just email me at dan AT appsevents.com
Damian is a career sales professional, sales coach, and all-round sales guru. We dive into his fascinating backstory including living and working all across the World, then get into some concrete discussions about how to approach sales for your events. Topics we cover include:
- Living in Asia and having US clients
- Cold calling - is it dead?
- Basic sales principles
- Setting aside an hour a day for sales
- How to always ‘start with value’
- Using Loom to send video clips to kick off a conversation with your prospect
- Do you need a CRM?
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Damian Thompson on social media:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/damianthompson/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DamianThompson
Web: https://vpsales.co/about
Dan Taylor on social media:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dantcz/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DanTaylorAE
Web: www.appsevents.com
About the Events Podcast: I’m your host Dan Taylor and each week I talk with event entrepreneurs about how they plan, promote and run their events.
We help you build your ‘Events Empire’ by growing your business using live events. Whether you're running community meetups, conferences, trade shows, IT training, music events, or any type of event we focus on finding actionable tips that you can use straight away.
This podcast is sponsored by AppsEvents. We produce over 300 of our events across the globe from training to conferences and we are now sharing our expertise with a small group of event professionals.
There are a couple of we can help you:
Firstly we can run the logistics for your event. We have a whole support team that can handle all the heavy lifting for you. We can set up your website and agenda. Liaising with speakers, dealing with the huge volume of questions from attendees which you will receive. Liaise with venues and We can even come to your event to help you run it on the ground. Get in touch with james@appsevents.com and we’ll jump on a call.
Secondly, I offer one on one coaching to help event entrepreneurs grow their events. I want you to get more attendees, produce epic events, make more money, and most importantly to do it all with no stress.
Just email me at dan AT appsevents.com
Luke Reed was a popular guest on the podcast one year ago, when event producers were living in a completely different world! Firstly check out that interview where Luke talks about running meetups and growing to become a large conference business.
Luke comes back to bring us up to date on his story and talk about the current situation and how he had to cancel his upcoming 2020 conferences. Luke has managed to make the best of a bad situation though and started up a completely new online business and we get into how he did this. This interview is packed with useful tips for anyone looking to run online and subscription businesses.
Connect with Luke:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/luketechcircus/
Listen on: Apple Podcasts / Podbean / Stitcher / Spotify / YouTube / Google Podcasts
I hope you enjoyed the podcast and if you did then please, please leave us a review it really means a lot to us!
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About the Events Podcast: I’m your host Dan Taylor and each week I talk with event entrepreneurs about how they plan, promote and run their events.
We help you build your ‘Events Empire’ by growing your business using live events. Whether you're running community meetups, conferences, trade shows, IT training, music events, or any type of event we focus on finding actionable tips that you can use straight away.
This podcast is sponsored by AppsEvents. We produce over 300 of our events across the globe from training to conferences and we are now sharing our expertise with a small group of event professionals.
There are a couple of we can help you:
Firstly we can run the logistics for your event. We have a whole support team that can handle all the heavy lifting for you. We can set up your website and agenda. Liaising with speakers, dealing with the huge volume of questions from attendees which you will receive. Liaise with venues and We can even come to your event to help you run it on the ground. Get in touch with james@appsevents.com and we’ll jump on a call
Secondly, I offer one on one coaching to help event entrepreneurs grow their events. I want you to get more attendees, produce epic events, make more money and most importantly to do it all with no stress
Just email me at dan@appsevents.com
Michael Kruppe manages the ‘Shanghai New International Expo Centre’, one of the largest expo venues in the world. He’s lived in China for over 30 years so we have an interesting and wide-ranging chat about living and running events in China, with plenty of advice for people thinking of running events there.
Today we talk about:
- Michaels background
- How he ended up going to China
- The changes in China over 30 years
- What shows take place at SNIEC
- How the COVID crisis unfolded and how they dealt with it
- Opening up again and running events
- What it’s like living in Shanghai in 2020
- The size range of events can they host in SNIEC
- The future for exhibitions in China
Michael: on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-kruppe-640a3aa/
www.sniec.net
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I hope you enjoyed the podcast and if you did then please, please leave us a review it really means a lot to us!
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About the Events Podcast: I’m your host Dan Taylor and each week I talk with event entrepreneurs about how they plan, promote, and run their events.
We help you build your ‘Events Empire’ by growing your business using live events. Whether you're running community meetups, conferences, trade shows, IT training, music events, or any type of event we focus on finding actionable tips that you can use straight away.
This podcast is sponsored by AppsEvents. We produce over 300 of our events across the globe from training to conferences and we are now sharing our expertise with a small group of event professionals.
There are a couple of we can help you:
Firstly we can run the logistics for your event. We have a whole support team that can handle all the heavy lifting for you. We can set up your website and agenda. Liaising with speakers, dealing with the huge volume of questions from attendees which you will receive. Liaise with venues and We can even come to your event to help you run it on the ground. Get in touch with james@appsevents.com and we’ll jump on a call
Secondly, I offer one on one coaching to help event entrepreneurs grow their events. I want you to get more attendees, produce epic events, make more money and most importantly to do it all with no stress
Just email me at dan@appsevents.com
Lovelda is a full time moderator, host and ‘master of ceremonies’ based in the UK. Lovelda tells us about her background and how she makes a full time living from being on stage!
Today we talk about:
- Lovelda’s background and the countries she’s lived in
- What personality types can do this type of work?
- How does Lovelda get work?
- How Lovelda got her start, and tips to get started
- Differences between the three types of work
- Can you do this full time?
- Work in one location or travel?
- How much prep does Lovelda do for each engagement?
- Any courses to learn how to do this?
Connect with Lovelda:
https://www.lovelda.com/
https://www.instagram.com/loveldavincenzi/
https://twitter.com/loveldavincenzi?lang=en
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I hope you enjoyed the podcast and if you did then please, please leave us a review it really means a lot to us!
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About the Events Podcast: I’m your host Dan Taylor and each week I talk with event entrepreneurs about how they plan, promote and run their events.
We help you build your ‘Events Empire’ by growing your business using live events. Whether you're running community meetups, conferences, trade shows, IT training, music events, or any type of event we focus on finding actionable tips that you can use straight away.
This podcast is sponsored by AppsEvents. We produce over 300 of our events across the globe from training to conferences and we are now sharing our expertise to a small group of event professionals.
There are a couple of we can help you:
Firstly we can run the logistics for your event. We have a whole support team who can handle all the heavy lifting for you. We can set up your website and agenda. Liaising with speakers, dealing with the huge volume of questions from attendees which you will receive. Liaise with venues and We can even come to your event to help you run it on the ground. Get in touch with james@appsevents.com and we’ll jump on a call
Secondly I offer one on one coaching to help event entrepreneurs grow their events. I want you to get more attendees, produce epic events, make more money and most importantly to do it all with no stress
Just email me at dan@appsevents.com
Today’s guest is a professional speaker. He has actually built a 7-figure business based on speaking and he speaks at over 200 events per year. Simone Vincenzi is his name and he is a master at the art of speaking, presentation, sales, and conversions.
Today we talk about:
- Who is Simone Vincenzi?
- How he started putting on free events
- Growing his business
- How he speaks at 200 events a year
- His team - how is it structured?
- The benefits of living and working in London
Listen on: Apple Podcasts / Podbean / Stitcher / Spotify / YouTube / Google Podcasts
I hope you enjoyed the podcast and if you did then please, please leave us a review it really means a lot to us!
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About the Events Podcast: I’m your host Dan Taylor and each week I talk with event entrepreneurs about how they plan, promote and run their events.
We help you build your ‘Events Empire’ by growing your business using live events. Whether you're running community meetups, conferences, trade shows, IT training, music events, or any type of event we focus on finding actionable tips that you can use straight away.
This podcast is sponsored by AppsEvents. We produce over 300 of our events across the globe from training to conferences and we are now sharing our expertise with a small group of event professionals.
There are a couple of we can help you:
Firstly we can run the logistics for your event. We have a whole support team who can handle all the heavy lifting for you. We can set up your website and agenda. Liaising with speakers, dealing with the huge volume of questions from attendees which you will receive. Liaise with venues and We can even come to your event to help you run it on the ground. Get in touch with james@appsevents.com and we’ll jump on a call
Secondly, I offer one on one coaching to help event entrepreneurs grow their events. I want you to get more attendees, produce epic events, make more money and most importantly to do it all with no stress
Just email me at dan@appsevents.com
By popular demand, we have the return of James Schramko. James is the bestselling author of the fantastic book ‘Work Less Make More’ and owns ‘Superfast business’ - a membership community for online entrepreneurs. He runs an annual conference in Australia ‘Superfast Business Live’ and ‘Maldives Surf Business Mastermind’. We discuss:
- James ‘Superfast business’ conference - Running it right before COVID hit Australia
- Can online replace in-person events?
- How James set up and runs his operations team in the Philippines
- What are the opportunities going forward for event entrepreneurs?
- The mental side of thriving in a crisis and shutting out negativity
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About the Events Podcast: I’m your host Dan Taylor and each week I talk with event entrepreneurs about how they plan, promote, and run their events.
We help you build your ‘Events Empire’ by growing your business using live events. Whether you're running community meetups, conferences trade shows, IT training, music events, or any type of event we focus on finding actionable tips that you can use straight away.
This podcast is sponsored by AppsEvents. We produce over 300 of our events across the globe from training to conferences and we are now sharing our expertise with a small group of event professionals.
There are a couple of we can help you:
Firstly we can run the logistics for your event. We have a whole support team that can handle all the heavy lifting for you. We can set up your website and agenda. Liaising with speakers, dealing with the huge volume of questions from attendees which you will receive. Liaise with venues and We can even come to your event to help you run it on the ground. Get in touch with james@appsevents.com and we’ll jump on a call
Secondly, I offer one on one coaching to help event entrepreneurs grow their events. I want you to get more attendees, produce epic events, make more money and most importantly to do it all with no stress
Just email me at dan@appsevents.com
Steve Monnington is a business broker for events companies and popular events columnist. and his first two interviews were among our most popular episodes. Steve returns to analyze the current situation from an event producers perspective
We discuss:
- How the crisis unfolded
- We discuss the events that went ahead and the ones that canceled - and how they dealt with it
- We talk about online events
- What is the future for events in 2020?
- What is the outlook for 2021?
- Is this a good time for event entrepreneurs?
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Welcome to The Events Podcast, I’m your host Dan Taylor and each week I talk with event entrepreneurs about how they plan, promote, and run their events.
We help you build your ‘Events Empire’ by growing your business using live events. Whether you're running community meetups, conferences, trade shows, IT training, music events, or any type of event we focus on finding actionable tips that you can use straight away.
This podcast is sponsored by AppsEvents. We produce over 300 of our events across the globe from training to conferences and we are now sharing our expertise to a small group of event professionals.
There are a couple of we can help you:
Firstly we can run the logistics for your event. We have a whole support team that can handle all the heavy lifting for you. We can set up your website and agenda. Liaising with speakers, dealing with the huge volume of questions from attendees which you will receive. Liaise with venues and We can even come to your event to help you run it on the ground. Get in touch with james@appsevents.com and we’ll jump on a call
Secondly, I offer one on one coaching to help event entrepreneurs grow their events. I want you to get more attendees, produce epic events, make more money and most importantly to do it all with no stress
Just email me at dan@appsevents.com
Dan is a business and lifestyle coach who has also run several live events in Europe and Latin America. He’s a very thoughtful guy and has a lot of opinions about the current coronavirus situation. We talk about what the possible scenarios are and discuss how it might impact live events in the Fall of 2020 and the future.
Dans story
Dans lockdown in Spain
Coronavirus - what's going to happen?
What is the future for live events
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Roman has a really interesting story. Born in the Soviet Union he ended up moving to London where he founded several companies. He now runs a company called Splento which helps match event photographers with events.
We talk about leveraging content to maximize engagement before, during and after the event and lots of great tips to maximize photography in your promotion…. even if you have no money to pay for a photographer.
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Get in touch with Roman at: https://www.splento.com/about-us
Last week I was lucky enough to be interviewed by Tyler for his amazing 'The Build Cycle Podcast' (I highly recommend you check out this episode I reposted it here on the podcast). This week, however, we turn the tables and I talk to Tyler about his upcoming conference the https://www.peakcontentsummit.com/ which is a content marketing strategy conference for brand & marketing managers. This the first time Tyler has run the conference so we get into a lot of the issues that first time conference organizers face, and how Tyler overcame them.
Tyler is an entrepreneur and founder of the https://bikerumor.com/ website.
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Get in touch with Tyler at https://www.peakcontentsummit.com/
Last week I was lucky enough to be interviewed by Tyler for the amazing 'The Build Cycle Podcast' for entrepreneurs which I highly recommend you check out over www.tylerbenedict.com . We got into a lot of detail about how to plan and promote conferences and actually make a profit so please let me know what you think by leaving a review or email me at dan@appsevents.com
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Andy Fossett has had an interesting entrepreneurial journey. He moved to Japan to teach in a rural school where he was the only foreigner. He transitioned to founding GMB - a company providing online fitness training. They also run in person workshops around the world.
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Get in touch with Andy at a@gmb.io
I’m currently in Asia for two months with my family, running some conferences and training events and squeezing a few days holiday in as well. It included a fascinating trip to run an event in Kathmandu, Nepal, which I discuss in the intro.
This week's episode is a bit of an ‘off-topic’ one. I was delighted to be asked to be a guest on The Anomalous Educator Podcast by Ray Blakney.
The podcast focuses on teachers looking to do their own online businesses but a lot of the content is great for anyone looking to run their own training events, whether online or in person.
We get into a few topics including:
- An overview of using Google classroom to run your own training events and online courses
- Some more background about the company I founded ‘AppsEvents’
Check out Ray’s podcast over at The Anomalous Educator Podcast
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Gail Crowe runs an events agency in the UK and we catch up for a quick chat about her business.
I’m back in Prague after two weeks in Seattle and Portland and we catch up about my trip including:
- The event we ran….what went well and what could be improved
- Thoughts on Portland and Seattle
- Climbing Mount Rainier
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You contact Gail at gail@magnifisense.co.uk and https://www.magnifisense.co.uk/.
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Stuart runs a series of entrepreneurial retreats in cool locations called coworkation and just ran his first conference Freedom X Fest in the Spanish Pyrenees which lasted 6 days and had over 400 attendees!
Stuart came to Europe from Australia as a backpacker and started off in Spain where he had a lot of adventures; from turning his apartment into a ‘pop up hostel’ to running pub crawls then guided trips to Oktoberfest amongst other destinations.
Stuart focussed on getting a good database of companies selling products to the digital nomad/location independent community in order to get them to co-promote his events and/or become sponsors.
Stuart maintains an active Facebook page that has over 18,000 likes and shares a lot of photos and content there to build interest in his events. He talked about how he uses YouTube and Instagram to promote his events as the cool locations lend themselves well to this type of visual marketing.
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Stuart has been a Location Independent Entrepreneur over the past 15 years. He has founded several location-specific event companies in Barcelona, yet his passion for travel and unconventional work practices fuelled his desire to create a truly lifestyle-based business model. An avid 'future of work' enthusiastic and itinerant traveler, Stuart brings his is experience of the location independent lifestyle with Coworkation, curating Travel Inspiration & Professional retreats for entrepreneurs and creatives.
https://coworkation.com/
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This week's episode features an amazing entrepreneur Chris Ducker. Chris runs The YouPreneur Summit, an annual conference with over 500 attendees, and has used meetups and masterminds throughout the growth of his many businesses. He’s a super inspiring guy and I think you are going to love this conversation.
In our chat we discuss:
- Going to Cebu, Philippines - why he went there
- How Chris became a ‘virtual CEO’ and only occasionally goes into the office
- Becoming an outsourcing expert and founding www.virtualstafffinder.com
- What it’s like to start a BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) company in the Philippines
- Running ‘Tropical Think Tank’ a high ticket price ($4000) event in the Philippines
- Becoming a personal branding expert the Youpreneur expert
- Why and how did he start the ‘Youpreneur Summit’ in London
- Full circle - Why Chris moved back to the UK
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www.youpreneur.com
www.youpreneursummit.com/
www.chrisducker.com
Derek is a school principal who has worked in International Schools in the Netherlands, Italy and Now Kathmandu. He also worked on the team to produce a Tedx Ed in Amsterdam, and we talk a lot about how to go about to set up and run a successful TEDx.
Listen to the end of the podcast as Derek shares some great tips about how to get chosen to speak at conferences and how to put on amazing presentations.
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https://twitter.com/DerekHarwell1
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Chris Robb has done a lot! From running events at his school growing up in Zimbabwe to being the road manager for the Sydney Olympics. He founded the Singapore Marathon and sold it to Ironman before launching his career as an international consultant and speaker. He now lives in Bali and runs the Mass Participation Asia conference (now Mass Participation World) and is a sought after speaker and consultant.
Also check out Chris’s first interview on the podcast which is a fascinating insight into his life story, leading up to how he ended up founding, and then selling the Singapore Marathon
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Chrisrob.asia
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James is the author of the fantastic book ‘Work Less Make More’ and owns ‘Superfast business’ - a membership community for online entrepreneurs. In this interview we discuss:
- How James spoke at his first event while still an employee and sold a $5000 course
- How his first event promised all attendees to have an online business up and running at the end of the second day - and achieved it!
- The benefits of taking a speaking course to become a better speaker
- His system to produce a huge amount of podcast and video for very few hours spent each week
- Maldives Surf Business Mastermind - How James gets a group of high-level entrepreneurs on a boat for a tropical mastermind. We discuss the benefits of this type of event and why there are more and more of them
- Superfast Business Live - A conference now in its 10th year with 150+ attendees. James talks about how he plans and promotes this event and the benefits, including keeping in touch with his community and getting new members
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Earlier this year, I had the honor to be a guest on the Tropical MBA Podcast for the second time. If you haven’t checked out the Tropical MBA Podcast yet it is genuinely my favorite podcast about business and entrepreneurship so please check it out wherever you get your podcasts.
We talk a lot about the origins of AppsEvents and how I came to be working with schools around the world and Dan Andrews is a master interviewer.
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Taylor is a fascinating guy. He’s a hacker who used his skills to become a well-paid consultant, helping governments and companies protect their systems. He’s a regular at Def con, which is an annual conference in Vegas for hackers everywhere. I’ve personally been and it’s an amazing event and at a huge scale. Even more interesting is that the conference is cash only and no pre-registration…. so they have no idea about how many people will turn up. Taylor partnered with Defcon to run local meetups and other events relating to security and Infosec, which we discuss in detail.
What is really interesting about Taylor is that he runs his business empire from an RV (recreational Vehicle) and he travels full time across the US with his wife!
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You can get in touch with Taylor at https://taylorbanks.com
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Chris ran charity projects in Costa Rica, Peru, and Africa where he got a taste for running live events. This led him to run ‘The Entrepreneur House’, a productivity-focused residential retreat in multiple cities including Barcelona and Chiang Mai. Chris started off running his events over two months which is a pretty herculean feat!... but has now reduced it down to 10 days.
Chris travels full time with his girlfriend although he likes to stay in one place for several months at a time and told me the term ‘slowmad’ which I hadn’t heard before to describe this lifestyle.
Chris is a Podcasting machine and he’s produced close to 400 podcast episodes that I can find! Podcasting is a major sales funnel for his events but we discussed how this is a long term proposition and you need to really enjoy it. The second major sales funnel is posting in forms and groups that Chris is a part of. Chris shares his content widely on social media (Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram) and this also helps with attendees but no one platform worked especially well for him.
Along with the events, Chris runs productivity coaching and the podcast also helps him get new clients for this.
In terms of the logistics of the events, Chris makes it a super casual format with fixed sessions then free time in between and the attendees often organize trips, etc by themselves. Chris gets involved to make sure everyone is having a good time and to keep the group dynamic good, although with the kind of people he attracts it’s always a friendly crowd.
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You can get in touch with Chris via his website https://www.thebusinessmethod.com/
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Luke founded a company called ‘Tech Circus’ that runs meetups and conferences in the UK around some focussed tech areas such as UX Design and FinTech.
It’s a super interesting chat as we get into some basics that I get asked about a lot: How do run meetups, then grow this community and then run larger conferences. Luke did this and he drops a lot of knowledge on how he achieved it.
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Steve Monnington is a business broker for events companies and his first interview was one of our most popular episodes.
We get into a lot more great content about how to position your events business for sale, how to grow your conference to be an exhibition and then Steve’s new initiative ‘The Events Growth Academy’.
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You contact Steve through his website or connect with him on Twitter. Check out also the link below:
How much is your exhibition worth?
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Mikey Robins is a professional event planner based in Philadelphia. He runs events for high net worth individuals and companies across the East Coast of the US. We learn about what an event planner actually does and how they make money. Mikey gives a lot of tips for anyone looking to get into this area including how to get your first client, getting business by referrals, chasing repeat business and social media presence.
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This week's guest is Helen Nurse who used a background in television production to start a children's entertainment company in the UK called ‘Wonder Adventures’ together with her husband. It’s fascinating to learn about this area of events and the complex planning that goes into making engaging entertainment for kids.
We discuss all the ways that Helen promotes events where they are selling tickets, and also private events such as Children's parties. We get into some ‘old school’ techniques like distributing flyers and print advertising which are still going strong for Helen!
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Diversity is becoming something people are much more aware of nowadays and our guest this week Redgina Hill is the Diversity and Inclusion Officer at a University in Indiana. In addition, she has branched out to form her own consulting practice.
Redgina is running her first event next month so it’s the perfect time to talk to someone about how they are putting a first event together, plus promoting and planning it. We also discuss what she hopes to get from the event and what her plans are to grow the business afterward.
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On The Events Podcast, we have spoken to a lot of people running retreats in beach or mountain locations. Today's guest though has taken it to the next level! He is running a huge conference for over 300 entrepreneurs in the Canadian Wilderness and attracting big-name speakers for free. Find out how he’s done it on this weeks interview.
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You contact Steven at https://firesideconf.com/
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I’m fascinated by anything to do with the music industry and today's guest Romeo Crow has a long career as a professional musician. He started running a series of open-mic nights across London and the UK and has grown it into a huge business with events every day of the week.
We talk about:
- Romeo's background as a musician
- How to make money as a musician in 2019
- Open-mic events - what are they?
- The business model for open-mic nights - Romeo gets paid by the venue (pub) and we discuss how he recruits new venues to act as hosts
- How Romeo makes sure he always has enough musicians every night, and his ongoing recruitment process for musicians
- Romeo’s business systems: Romeo is of a fellow fan of ‘The e-Myth’ book and systemizes everything…. Including buying a new PA and other equipment for each venue and storing it on site to save on transportation. He also keeps all equipment the same brand and model so his staff can operate it easily.
- Celebrity news! Find out which famous musicians turned up for Romeos open-mic nights!
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It’s something every event producer thinks at one time…. “I’d love to sell my events company.” But is it even possible, and who would buy your event or events?
On this week's episode of ‘The Events Podcast’, I spoke with Steve Mornington from Mayfield Merger Strategies. Steve is a ‘business broker’ for selling events, and his company handles the whole ‘Merger & Acquisition’ process.
This is an amazing interview for anyone who may be thinking about selling their event in the future. Steve is super knowledgeable on this topic and handles multiple millions in deal flow each year. On the interview we get into:
- What type of events are the easiest to sell
- The difference between ‘Conference businesses’ and ‘Exhibition businesses’
- When to sell your event
- How to sell your event
- Who is buying events right now
- The role of private equity companies in events
- How many times profit do events sell for
- What the sale process looks like
- Does the seller have to be involved in future years?
- What is the outlook like for selling your event in the next few years?
- The importance of travel when running a global business
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You contact Steve through his website or connect with him on Twitter. Check out also the link below:
How much is your exhibition worth?
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I’ve known John Mikton for over 9 years now and he’s been a huge help and a mentor to me as I launched my company AppsEvents. I wanted to talk to John on the podcast as he’s a really interesting guy...A lot of listeners don't know about the world of ‘International Schools, but John has used them as a way to live and work quite literally across the World and raise a family along the way.
John is one of the best people I know at building up his knowledge and connections to become an expert in a specific niche and we talk about how he did this.
He also is a sought after trainer and conference speaker so we get into how this came about. Finally, John has been involved in dozens of conferences across the world so we discuss some things that he recommends that work really well.
In this interview we discuss:
- His background and how he got started with International Schools
- How he used this job to live all around the World, including Tanzania, Tokyo, Prague, Zurich, Luxemburg
- Building his profile as an influencer. Why he went ‘deep not wide’ and build up a huge name as someone on the narrow field of International School Education Technology
- Working as a trainer and speaking at conferences
- We discuss some of the events we have run together and what John has seen work well with conferences
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https://www.facebook.com/groups/217006628337791/
https://beyonddigital.org/
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It’s great to have returning guest Jeff Berwick back on the podcast to talk about the recent ‘Anarchapulco 2019’ conference. This year the conference doubled in size to 2000 people which brought with it a new set of challenges.
Jeff runs a conference for Anarchists which is a hugely fascinating topic in itself, but this year there was a lot of drama which leads to a lot of cancellations before the event. There was the tragic shooting before the conference of a member of Jeffs community, plus the decline in Bitcoin price (many attendees had paid with Bitcoin and Jeff had not hedged against this).
However, against all these odds Jeff pulled off a great event. He explains how he structured his committee to run things without him getting involved directly (Jeff is a true ‘hands off’ manager) and we talk a lot about how to get a team to run a large event successfully.
Check out our first interview with Jeff too about the background to Anarchapulco
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https://www.youtube.com/user/TheDollarVigilante/featured
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It was great to chat to David who is co founder of Demio - some really cool webinar software (that integrates with EventsFrame of course ;))
It’s a great entrepreneur ‘origin story’. David is one of the new breeds of entrepreneurs who have never had a job, and I really love these stories, as when I came out of college it wasn’t an option to start an online business but now it’s a viable career choice.
David had a lot of false starts including launching 4 web apps before he stuck with Demio and even then it took 2 years to launch it, so it was a real struggle in the early days.
We also learn about running virtual meetups, training and events via webinars and discuss:
- How to keep people engaged with regular activities, quizzes etc.
- How to sell a virtual event using testimonials and social proof
If you want to hear more of David, he interviewed me on his podcast about the story of EventsFrame so check it out here it was a fun chat
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This week's episode is a bit different. I was delighted to be a guest on the ‘More Travel in Life Podcast’ with Jen Miller to talk about travel and business. I’ve always been fairly nomadic and been able to run conferences and training events remotely, and we discuss how I did it, and also how we manage a remote team distributed around the World.
I actually wrote a Medium post about how running live events are a great business for digital nomads which ties in pretty well to this interview.
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Jethro is a former professional squash player whose career was cut short when he suffered a career-ending injury on court. He used this to his advantage and formed squashskills.com, a successful membership site for squash players. In this wide-ranging discussion, we get into a lot of topics including:
- Turning an injury into an opportunity
- Starting a subscription membership site and bring profit from month 1!
- How to run sporting coaching events
- How Jethro promotes his electronic music events
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This week's episode features an amazing entrepreneur Chris Ducker. Chris runs The YouPreneur Summit, an annual conference with over 500 attendees, and has used meetups and masterminds throughout the growth of his many businesses. He’s a super inspiring guy and I think you are going to love this conversation.
In our chat we discuss:
- Going to Cebu, Philippines - why he went there
- How Chris became a ‘virtual CEO’ and only occasionally goes in to the office
- Becoming an outsourcing expert and founding www.virtualstafffinder.com
- What it’s like to start a BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) company in the Philippines
- Running ‘Tropical Think Tank’ a high ticket price ($4000) event in the Philippines
- Becoming a personal branding expert the Youpreneur expert
- Why and how did he start the ‘Youpreneur Summit’ in London
- Full circle - Why Chris moved back to the UK
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www.youpreneur.com
www.youpreneursummit.com/
www.chrisducker.com
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This week's episode is a bit different. I was delighted to be a guest on the ‘SaaS Breakthrough Podcast’ with David Abrams from Demio to talk about EventsFrame, the ticketing system I co founded. I am often asked about the backstory of EventsFrame by listeners so this is a great way to tell the full story.
I thought I would post it here as I get into a lot of detail about how we founded the software and a lot of the problems and ‘war stories’ of our entrepreneurial adventure so far. If you are thinking about starting an app or software for event producers this is the episode for you!
In this interview we discuss:
- Founding AppsEvents - our Google for Education Partner company
- How we came to start EventsFrame to use ourselves
- AppSumo - What it is…...and the good, the bad and the ugly of doing an AppSumo offer
- How to make your ticketing software more viral
- How podcasting really helps you grow your network
- How hard it is to start a business, and how there is no substitute in the beginning for hours and hours spent contacting potential customers
- What are our plans for EventsFrame - (Side note we are looking for a sales and marketing co founder so get in touch!)
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https://learn.demio.com/podcast/
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The world of social media marketing is one I’m just getting to grips with so it was great to talk with Masiska who is an expert on the topic. She has worked not only with event organisers but with hotels, resorts and destinations which is interesting to hear about things from the other side also.
‘Social media influencers’ has a lot of negative connotations (to me anyway) but Mariska explains how to find experts in your field and how you can use influencers to make your event a success ...even on zero budget.
In this interview we discuss:
- What are social media influencers and how can you use them even on zero budget
- Learn how your speakers are an influencer that you can use to support your event (Connected point: Check out the interview with Liam Martin and his tips on how to get your speakers to record YouTube promo videos)
- The ‘MPI’ organization and how attending it’s meetups can help you build a career in the events industry
- How to make a standard promo post about your event and give it to your speakers and anyone else involved in your event to promote
- The importance of looking at social media as a conversation, not just you promoting yourself
- Why LinkedIn is still Mariska's favourite channel as it’s completely business focussed
- Some great tips on how to connect with people on LinkedIn and use ‘sales navigator’ successfully
- How to negotiate with venues and use your social media marketing to help this
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariska-kesteloo-influencermarketing/
http://www.wordofmice.com/
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I’ve known Coran for a few years. Along with his wife Leanne they live a fairly nomadic life, but often spend 3-4 months in Prague where we have spent a lot of time together.
It was also an interesting chat from a general business & entrepreneurship stand point following on from my chat with Anton Kraly last week about Drop Shipping as Amazon FBA selling is a different but business model
We also have a great discussion about promoting yourself online including newsletter, YouTube/Facebook/Instagram video strategies to do week in week out, including how Coran repurposes content to all channels and his exact workflow.
In this interview we also discuss:
- How Coran started by networking his way on to podcasts
- How Coran bombed at his first speaking event in Hong Kong…. and this still led to Coran getting a customer!
- How Coran got his first paid speaking arrangement (in Ukraine)
- Corans hack for speaking to attendees after he has presented to maximise his contacts
- The importance of networking with speakers and sponsors at the event
- The reasons why Coran still speaks for free all the time even though he gets paid to speak
If you enjoyed this chat check out two related interviews:
- Anton Kraly who talks about dropshipping as Amazon FBA selling is a different but similar business model
- Corbin Ball who is a sought after speaker on the subject of events and event technology
- If you want more podcasts about about selling your business check out interviews with Steve Monnington and Justin Cooke
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Anton runs the hugely popular website Dropship lifestyle where he teaches people to set up and run dropship stores…. a really interesting business model where you set up an online store with no inventory and of course run your business from anywhere.
In this interview we discuss:
- What is drop shipping? And how it is a great way to make money online
- How Anton structures his business with an office in Austin and a Philippines remote team
- How Anton runs annual retreats for his community for around 100 people in locations such as Thailand, Hawaii, Prague and more!
- What he’s learned from over six years of continuously running an annual event
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By popular demand we have Will Kunhardt returning to the podcast for the second time. If you didn’t get to check out Will’s first appearance and talk about his journey from classical conductor to ‘immersive events’ mogul it’s a ‘must listen’ so check it out wherever you listen to your podcasts. There's also a direct link below:
https://goo.gl/kHdTFZ
This interview takes place three months after the last one. Will has just finished an epic two month run of the Great Christmas Feast in London, an ‘Immersive Experience’ on an epic scale….every day for two months….so we get into all the stories while they are still fresh in his mind.
This interview is amazing in that we have some inspiring ‘big picture’ visions of someone building a growing company, combined with some actionable tips to get attendees to your events right now. In this interview we discuss:
- The problems setting up the feast, including his idea to bring a crane in at midnight to Central London to secretly lift in kitchen equipment
- The importance of recruiting a good Project Manager and how Will didn’t need to be there ‘in person
- Will talks about going full time and founding his events company The Lost Estate
- Will talks about what’s next The Lost Love Speakeasy his most ambitions event yet and one with no end date.
- Their plans for an agency to help other run ‘Immersive Experiences’
- We give you some AMAZING and actionable tips to help promote your events including:
- Lead ads for Instagram
- Multiple landing pages for different interests - micro targeting
- Divi for Wordpress
- YouTube pre roll ads
- Two layered ads on Facebook
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https://www.thelostestate.com/
http://lostlovespeakeasy.thelostestate.com/
http://insidetheestate.com/
Will email will@theaco.co.uk
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Liam is the founder of TimeDoctor and staff.com and also runs the ‘Running Remote’ conference in Bali. In this interview we discuss:
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- How Liam started off with a plan to be a Sociology professor but it didn’t work out as he wasn’t good at teaching
- How he started the conference by finding a niche that no existing conference was serving (a great tip for listeners
- Why Liam wears his ‘Running Remote Conference’ t shirt every time he speaks at another conference
- We discuss how not many people talk about the economics of running a conference (apart from The Events Podcast)
- How Liam focused heavily on the financials to make sure he didn’t lose money
- How you can get hotels to pay you 10-20% of all room booking fees
- How to negotiate with hotels
- How he is dealing with local governments who want to pay to bring his conference to them as they want to attract remote workers
- How it’s way easier to get sponsors for your second conference (Liam 10x’d his prices!)
- How he gets to break even just from sponsors
- Pro Tip: Get speakers to record a promo video to show they are speaking at your event - great social proof
- They sold 9% of tickets in first month, 19% in second, 30% in third, 15% in fourth, 28% in fifth, 10% in sixth
- Pro Tip: If you can get 50% of conference attendees to come again next year you are doing great
- How they made a mistake only having vegetarian food in year one
- If you have a VIP party….then charge for it
- How he got all his speakers Diplomatic Immunity!
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James is the author of the fantastic book ‘Work Less Make More’ and owns ‘Superfast business’ - a membership community for online entrepreneurs. In this interview we discuss:
- How James spoke at his first event while still an employee and sold a $5000 course
- How his first event promised all attendees to have an online business up and running at the end of the second day - and achieved it!
- The benefits of taking a speaking course to become a better speaker
- His system to produce a huge amount of podcast and video for very few hours spent each week
- Maldives Surf Business Mastermind - How James gets a group of high level entrepreneurs on a boat for a tropical mastermind. We discuss the benefits of this type of event and why there are more and more of them
- Superfast Business Live - A conference now in its 10th year with 150+ attendees. James talks about how he plans and promotes this event and the benefits, including keeping in touch with his community, and getting new members
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Justin is the co-founder of Empire Flippers…. one of the world biggest online business brokers. He moved to the ‘wild west’ city of Davao, Philippines to start their first office and now have a global remote team with over 50 employees.
Justin is a great example of someone who is not in the events business BUT has consistently used events to GROW his business. He has used residential meet ups to build relationships with customers and team members. He also has a ton of useful info about exhibiting at conferences, and tips both for exhibitors and for conference organizers.
On the interview we discuss:
- The story of how Empire Flippers was founded in Davao, Philippines
- How they built their business as a fully remote team and run ‘in person’ meetups twice a year to get the team working together
- Founding annual ‘Empire Retreats’ - Their meetup’s for clients and team members in a cool villa in Phuket, Thailand. Check out the YouTube video!
- Why they sponsor a lot of conferences and what they look for to get an ROI
- Some tips for conference organizers on how to keep sponsors happy
- Lots of tips for event sponsors including “Why if you go to an event it’s important to be in the right room, at the right parties to meet the right people”....and how to make this happen
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Chris Robb has done a lot! From running events at his school growing up in Zimbabwe to being the road manager for the Sydney Olympics. He founded the Singapore Marathon and sold it to Ironman before launching is career as an international consultant and speaker. He now lives in Bali and runs the Mass Participation Asia conference and is a sought after speaker and consultant
On the interview we discuss:
- How Chris organized a running event at his school to pay for the school running track to be resurfaced
- How he went to University in South Africa and ran events there
- What are the business models for mass participation sporting events
- Moving to Sydney and working on the Olympics as road manager
- The huge rise of ‘Tough Mudder’ style races
- Starting the Singapore Marathon and selling it to Ironman
- Why he moved to Bali
- His advice for people wanting to speak at conferences
- What are the opportunities for entrepreneurs to start a new event now
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- Chrisrob.asia
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-robb/
- http://massparticipationasia.com
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Luke founded a company called ‘Tech Circus’ that runs meetups and conferences in the UK around some focussed tech areas such as UX Design and FinTech.
It’s a super interesting chat as we get into some basics that I get asked about a lot: How do run meetups, then grow this community and then run larger conferences. Luke did this and he drops a lot of knowledge on how he achieved it.
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It’s time to introduce my co-host on the podcast James Sayer. James and me met at my second ever conference, which I ran in Bangkok six years ago and have been running events together ever since. In that time we have ran over 100 events together of all sizes in almost every country in Asia so it’s been a real adventure.
We hope you enjoy this ‘origin story’ recorded from Prague and Bangkok
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Clare and David run the Prague chapter of ‘Founder Institute’. A pre-seed accelerator for startups. I met them when I was lucky enough to be a mentor at two of their recent events. For their first ever meetup the got 75 attendees, and over 100 to their second. I wanted to find out how they did this to see what listeners running meetups can learn from this….so I got them on the pod
On the podcast we discuss:
- How their first entrepreneurial venture (a mobile app) went wrong
- How they founded their own digital marketing agency and what customers they focus on
- How they ended up running a local chapter of the Founder Institute
- How they partnered with local entrepreneurs to gain quick access to a large local network
- How the majority of registrations came from Facebook ads
- How Instagram ads are still undervalued
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Jason is a really fascinating guy. After College he started his career with ‘experiential marketing’ - running roadshows worldwide to promote products and services. He worked as a tour manager for an up and coming rock band before starting two successful podcasts and a membership community for location independent entrepreneurs. He runs meetups and events worldwide for his community.
On the podcast we discuss:
- How Jason started off with experiential marketing
- Being a tour manager for a rock band
- His successful website ‘EventExchange’
- How he started his podcast
- Running meetups for his community while on the road
- Running conferences for his community in the US and Mexico
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On the interview we talk about:
- How Emma-Jane started off in sales and how we think it’s the best grounding for being an entrepreneur
- How the Supper Club grew as an events focussed community to 450 members
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Emma-Jane Packe (EJ), Managing Director of The Supper Club
Biography
Emma-Jane (EJ) is Managing Director of The Supper Club, a membership community exclusively for high growth entrepreneurs with revenues ranging between £1 million and £500 million. Founded in 2003, its mission is to inspire an entrepreneurial mindset in ALL leaders. EJ is passionate about enterprise and after consulting on a start up at post product stage she was inspired to get more involved with entrepreneurial businesses. She now supports fast growth business owners and their teams and enjoys meeting some of the country’s most inspiring minds daily. She is also an authority in developing successful teams. Her insight comes from working with and talking to hundreds of entrepreneurs and business leaders about their experiences as well as growing her own teams across Europe.
The Supper Club
The Supper Club is an exclusive membership community of over 450 inspirational founders and CEOs of high growth businesses. Since 2003, we have enabled thousands of members to realise their growth ambitions. The average growth of our members is 34 per cent year on year with average sales from £1m to £500m. We support members through all stages of the entrepreneur lifecycle, from scale to sale and beyond. The Supper Club is highly valued for the quality and diversity of its membership, event experiences and pro-active personal support. We bring the right members together at the right time to support each other in their journeys by sharing the hard-learned lessons along the way.
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I’m fascinated by everything to do with China so it was a real pleasure to talk from Mike Michelini who has not only spent years living in mainland China but has also been running events there for several years.
Mike left a job on Wall Street to start selling bar products online, leading him to help others do the same and eventually move to China to run events for people sourcing from China.
On the podcast we discuss:
- Why Mike moved to China
- What it’s like and work in China
- How the China trade shows work and how people source products from China
- Global Sources and Canton Fair - the huge China trade shows
- How Mike runs his events in China
- How Mike uses upsels before and during his events to increase revenue
- Mikes upcoming event in Colombia
- Why Mike moved to Chiang Mai Thailand
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mike@globalfromasia.com
https://www.globalfromasia.com
https://mikesblog.com
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Corbin Ball is a world renowned expert on Event technology and all aspect of the events business. He’s also an accomplished speaker who gets invited to speak at events across the US, Asia, Europe and Middle East.
This interview we cover:
- How Corbin build his career as a speaker and consultant and his advice to others doing the same
- What are the trends in Events Technology and the events business in general
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This was the most fun interview so far for me and Jeff is a real larger than life character. Jeff is an Anarchist who founded the ‘Anarchapulco’ conference in Mexico which he has grown in just four years from a 60 person meet up to over 4500 attendees!!
Jeff gives a lot of great advice for people starting out building a conference, including:
- How to produce a lot of free content to build your personal brand and the brand of your event
- How he keeps his ticket price low to maximize attendees and help out the audience
- How Jeff and his team have an obsessive focus on giving attendees the best conference experience ever
- Why Jeff hosts his conference in Acapulco Mexico
- How Jeff speaks at a lot of conferences and this helps him see what works and what doesn’t work for his events
- To really ‘niche down’ with your event - it’s amazing how specific you can get with events
- How Jeff likes to recruit a great team and get them to take care of the detail of running an event
- As the conference got bigger how Jeff recruited a professional event manager
- Jeffs background….how he made and lost a fortune in the past
- Jeffs rap career
- Bitcoin price outlook
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Johnny FD is a big name in the ‘Digital Nomad’ community. He runs two successful podcasts and hosts the ‘Nomad Summit’ each year at two venues in Las Vegas and Chiang Mai, Thailand. He ran his first event by posting a meet-up in Facebook and has grown it in a short time to a hugely popular event with 400+ attendees. This interview has ton of great tips on how to get started running your first conference.
If you are interested in becoming a digital nomad and working from anywhere in the world check out his conference taking place Jan 19-21 2019 in Chiang Mai..
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Chris Robb has done a lot! From running events at his school growing up in Zimbabwe to being the road manager for the Sydney Olympics. He founded the Singapore Marathon and sold it to Ironman before launching is career as an international consultant and speaker. He now lives in Bali and runs the Mass Participation Asia conference and is a sought after speaker and consultant
On the interview we discuss:
- How Chris organized a running event at his school to pay for the school running track to be resurfaced
- How he went to University in South Africa and ran events there
- What are the business models for mass participation sporting events
- Moving to Sydney and working on the Olympics as road manager
- The huge rise of ‘Tough Mudder’ style races
- Starting the Singapore Marathon and selling it to Ironman
- Why he moved to Bali
- His advice for people wanting to speak at conferences
- What are the opportunities for entrepreneurs to start a new event now
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This is an amazing interview to hear from to a conference organizer about how she plans, markets and runs large events. Catalina manages two annual conferences in Austin and Bangkok for a group for ‘location independent entrepreneurs’ called the Dynamite Circle founded by Dan and Ian from The Tropical MBA which I’m also a member of.
On the interview we discuss:
- How Catalina moved from Spain to Miami then went to work in China aged just 18
- What it was like living in Shenzhen
- How she came to work for the Dynamite Circle
- How they sell a lot of tickets for the next year right after the end of the conference, and before the dates are even announced!
- The pros and cons of holding an annual conference in the same venue versus moving it around
- The problems in Asia with customs when your shipping packages from sponsors worldwide
- How the payment schedule works when working with conference hotels
- Why you might not want to use a hotel for the first year of a conference
- How conference hotels in the US are way more expensive then in Asia and charge for every extra
- How they start very early looking for sponsors and speakers
- How people love to hear real stories from their peers rather than professional speakers
- How they go for ‘actionable;’ rather than ‘inspirational’ sessions
- How they send a feedback form right after the event
- How they run three whole days of pre conference sessions at the hotel
- How they sometimes have to find replacement speakers at the last minute
- The structure of their conference team
- How they organize a team of volunteers to help run the actual conference
- How they use Attendify App and EventsFrame
- How the party venues change hands so often in Bangkok that they always need to find new ones
- How they have a ‘Master of Ceremonies’ for the whole event to introduce everyone on stage and also coordinate the parties.
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This was my favourite interview so far and I think you will really like it! Will Kunhardt is a fascinating guy…. A classically trained violinist who wanted to be a conductor and got his start by putting on his own concerts instead of waiting to he hired.
Will parlayed that into founding his own Orchestra (called the Arensky Chamber Orchestra) then co founding a company to run a series of epic ‘Immersive Experiences’ in London, including one coming up in December 2018 called The Great Christmas Feast..a ‘secret dining experience’ experience based around Charles Dickens ‘Christmas Carol.’
We talk a lot about how Will still remains creative and works as a musician and composer while retaining full control over his creations and running a profit making business.
On the interview we talk about:
- How Will got his start as a classical music conductor by putting on his own events
- How becoming a conductor is more competitive than becoming a premiership footballer
- How Beethoven, Mozart and Wagner were hardcore promoters and hustlers
- How Will founded his own orchestra
- How Will had to get good at getting Government arts funding for his orchestra to survive
- How he co founded an events company The Lost Estate to put on immersive experiences, including The Great Masked Ball, based around Swan Lake
- How Will promoted their events almost exclusively using Facebook ads, which he taught himself despite not being a Facebook user.
- How the ‘Immersive Experience’ events category is a huge and growing one
- The influence of the ‘Four Hour Work Week’ book by Tim Ferriss on both our businesses
- How Dickens ‘The Christmas Carol’ essentially rebooked Christmas and gave us many of the traditions we still enjoy today
- The level of analysis Wil does for his events. Thinking at every stage how will this make the attendee feel.
- Gary Vaynerchuks phrase ‘Clouds and Dirt’....how it’s important to get into the high level vision to produce something amazing, while still getting into the nitty gritty logistics to make an event work
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It’s something every event producer thinks at one time…. “I’d love to sell my event.” But is it even possible, and who would buy your event?
On this week's episode of ‘The Events Podcast’ I spoke with Steve Mornington from Mayfield Merger Strategies. Steve is a ‘business broker’ for selling events, and his company handles the whole ‘Merger & Acquisition’ process.
This is an amazing interview for anyone who may be thinking about selling their event in the future. Steve is super knowledgeable on this topic and handles multiple millions in dealflow each year. On the interview we get into:
- What type of events are the easiest to sell
- The difference between ‘Conference businesses’ and ‘Exhibition businesses’
- When to sell your event
- How to sell your event
- Who is buying events right now
- The role of private equity companies in events
- How many times profit do events sell for
- What the sale process looks like
- Does the seller have to be involved in future years?
- What is the outlook like for selling your event in the next few years?
- The importance of travel when running a global business
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How much is your exhibition worth?
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On this week's episode of ‘The Events Podcast’ I spoke with Stuart Jones. Stuart runs a series of entrepreneurial retreats in cool locations called coworkation and just ran his first conference Freedom X Fest in the Spanish Pyrenees which lasted 6 days and had over 400 attendees!
Stuart came to Europe from Australia as a backpacker and started off in Spain where he had a lot of adventures; from turning his apartment into a ‘pop up hostel’ to running pub crawls then guided trips to Oktoberfest amongst other destinations.
Stuart focussed on getting a good database of companies selling products to the digital nomad/location independent community in order to get them to co promote his events and/or become sponsors.
Stuart maintains an active Facebook page which has over 18,000 likes and shares a lot of photos and content there to build interest in his events. He talked about how he uses YouTube and Instagram to promote his events as the cool locations lend themselves well to this type of visual marketing.
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https://coworkation.com/
Stuart has been a Location Independent Entrepreneur over the past 15 years. He has founded several location specific event companies in Barcelona, yet his passion for travel and unconventional work practices fuelled his desire to create a truly lifestyle-based business model. An avid 'future of work' enthusiastic and itinerant traveller, Stuart brings his is experience of the location independent lifestyle with Coworkation, curating Travel Inspiration & Professional retreats for entrepreneurs and creatives.
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On this week's episode of ‘The Events Podcast’ I spoke with Chris Reynolds from The Business Method. I was lucky enough to be interviewed on Chris’s podcast so it’s great to get him on ours.
We are both part of an entrepreneurs group called the ‘DC’ and have met in person a few times but I didn’t know much about his background so it was cool to dig in and talk about his background and how it led to his events.
Chris ran charity projects in Costa Rica, Peru and Africa where he got a taste for running live events. This led him to run ‘The Entrepreneur House’, a productivity focused residential retreat in multiple cities including Barcelona and Chiang Mai. Chris started off running his events over two months which is a pretty herculean feat!... but has now reduced it down to 10 days.
Chris travels full time with is girlfriend although he likes to stay in one place for several months at a time and told me the term ‘slowmad’ which I hadn’t heard before to describe this lifestyle.
Chris is a Podcasting machine and he’s produced close to 400 podcast episodes that I can find! Podcasting is a major sales funnel for his events but we discussed about how this is a long term proposition and you need to really enjoy it. The second major sales funnel is posting in forms and groups that Chris is a part of. Chris shares his content widely on social media (Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram) and this also helps with attendees but no one platform worked especially well for him.
Along with the events Chris runs productivity coaching and the podcast also helps him get new clients for this.
In terms of the logistics of the events Chris makes it a super casual format with fixed sessions then free time in between and the attendees often organise trips etc by themselves. Chris gets involved to make sure everyone is having a good time and to keep the group dynamic good, although with the kind of people he attracts it’s always a friendly crowd.
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On this week's episode of ‘The Events Podcast’ I spoke with Joe Glover from The Marketing Meetup and it was a really interesting chat. Joe started off doing marketing for the ‘Business of Software Conference’, which is a big deal for the SaaS community, where he ran the marketing for the UK and USA conferences.
They were lucky in that one of the founders was Joel Spolsky who already had a huge audience and this always makes promoting an event 10x easier. Their main marketing method they used was recorded videos of all the speakers at the conference and releasing them gradually throughout the year, with email opt in (using Wistia). Once they had email addresses they then marketed the conference via an email sequence.
We discussed event location and how they went for the approach of keeping the same venue so it had a familiar homely feel that attendees wanted to make a regular part of their year. I have mixed feelings on this as sometimes a new venue or new city each year keeps the conference feeling fresh.
Moving on Joe founded The Marketing Meetup as an event in Cambridge to meet other marketers and had 30 people to the first event. He promotes with Meetup.com and LinkedIn (adding friend requests).
Joe monetises the event with sponsors,. He drew up a list of companies, then approached the CEO (again on LinkedIn). He made the events monthly and holds the event at a sponsors offices so no fees and another sponsor pays for drinks. He has a Facebook community which he has to approve members and he finds this is really useful.
Joe has now started a ‘franchise’ model for other cities where other people run the events and find the sponsors and keep 70% of the revenue. ALso rally interesting that Joe does all this while working a full time job
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@josepheglover
joe@themarketingmeetup.com
themarketingmeetup.com
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On this week's episode of ‘The Events Podcast’ I was spoke with Adam Levo from mradampe.com . It was a really interesting chat and relevant both to teachers and employees looking to start speaking at conferences and running their own events.
Adam started as PE Teacher in the UK before heading off for some world travels and working in International Schools in Shanghai and Saudi Arabia.
Adam’s main advice for teachers and others looking to speak at conferences is to build a solid online presence and start sharing content, specifically posting all your presentations on Twitter and your blog. Also all his blog posts have a ‘call to action’ where he looks to get an email address, for example buy giving away an eBook or some content.
Also we discussed about not being greedy up front :) Adam picked the conferences he wanted to visit as an attendee anyway, then asked to speak. Only later did he ask for expenses or a fee, sometimes on his second or third visit to the conference. I can’t emphasise this enough for new speakers…. ‘Don’t ask for money until you really deserve it!’ Also at the event help out with everything! The organizer will love you and be MUCH more likely to work with you in the future.
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More info about Adam is below and if you’re a school looking to turbo charge the use of technology in your pE department he’d love to her from you
Adam is a physical educator originally from England, but has taught in the UK, China and Saudi Arabia across all age groups. He has presented at a number of conferences around the world sharing his love of physical education and meaningful technology to educators from all subjects. When Adam is not teaching he enjoys collaborating on projects with practitioners from across the globe and sharing his knowledge, via his blog or social media. Adam is a Google Certified Educator, Google Innovator, Google Trainer and Apple Teacher. He has a passion to use his knowledge to make life easier, by working smarter, not harder.
Checkout his blog: mradampe.com or his new Google Innovation project chargedupeducation.com
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On this week's episode of ‘The Events Podcast’ I was delighted to talk to Gemma Stow, founder of The F Movement - Empowering ambitious women to stop hiding, believe in themselves and run unstoppable businesses. It was a really interesting chat and relevant both to people with communities looking to run events, and also people looking to run public events to help get new customers.
Gemma runs an online community and hosts regular free meetups for her community members. We discuss how Gemma founded her community to help introvert women in business like herself support each other and get more confidence in things like networking, public speaking and sales.
It was interesting to chat to Gemma as she holds her meetups in wine bars and restaurants and keeps them super social and informal. Gemma has members across the UK so holds them in different cities to maximise the amount of attendees who can make it. This is a useful tact for community owners to reach the maximum number of their member in person. I also know of people with global communities running meetups in many different countries.
The second type of event that Gemma runs are public paid events called ‘Introverts Talk Business’ where she charges a small fee (£29) and holds a mastermind type format. We discussed how it’s great to charge a small fee any time you can as it means that people actually turn up to your free events (more on that in a blog post I made earlier in the year). One great tip was she has ‘place cards’ set out so there’s no confusion about where people will sit etc and a structure where everyone introduces themselves to get attendees more relaxed.
Gemma does a lot of online promotion and uses content marketing, where she writes a blog post giving some tactical advice about business or networking and shares it across every platform. LinkedIn was the one platform she mentioned that had generated a lot of attendees for her. She also said just being super active online on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram had served her well.
More information about Gemma is below and if you’re a female introvert entrepreneur she’d love to hear from you!
Gemma Stow helps female introverts who are building their own business, to have the confidence to be way more visible through different ways of networking online and offline to get results they want.
Founder of The F Movement - Empowering ambitious women to stop hiding, believe in themselves and run unstoppable businesses
Nominated for “Business Women of the Year” by Yorkshire Choice Awards 2018
www.gemmastow.com
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