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One Week Until Event Day

We are thrilled to share that we are one week away from event day. Event day. EVENT DAY. Something we were not sure would ever get to happen in 2020. Our hearts and minds are racing with the adrenaline that only a live, in-person event can bring. In this…

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Improve Your Event Production: How to Make Technology Work for You (& Your Event!)

By David Kramer & Kari Johnson Throughout the year, we’ll be presenting our top ten tips for improving event production. We first visited this topic in 2012, but we have learned so much since then that we have even more to say. The first tip we… Read More

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The Best Lessons We’ve Learned!

We posed a question to our staff and the event industry at large via Facebook. The question was, “What is the best lesson you have learned from working events?” The answers were so compelling that we just had to share! No matter what your past experience… Read More

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Reflecting on 2019…… and Revving Up for 2020!

All throughout the year, we are energized by the here and now. We are present to the daily delights, challenges, solutions and successes. The details and momentum of event life garner our attention and carry us along. But as we enter a new year, let’s take a moment to sit……

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Let’s (Walkie) Talk About Radios

By Erin Piafsky Walkie-talkies are cool. Or at least I think they are. Maybe I was subconsciously influenced in my youth by a steady diet of movies that showed characters using two-way radios (like this one, this one, or… Read More

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AIDS Walk Atlanta & Music Festival Recap

By Janelle Benuska This past weekend, members of the Event 360 team produced the AIDS Walk Atlanta & Music Festival for the AIDS Healthcare Foundation. Taking place in beautiful Piedmont Park, approximately 5,000 people attended to walk, run, and/or enjoy the festival… Read More

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The Event 360 team is proud to partner with Team RWB

The Event 360 team is proud to partner with Team RWB to produce their brand new P2P fundraising event – the Epic Eagle Challenge! After many months of concepting and planning, the new event will launch this November in two locations. We are honored and excited to be…

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Spring MMRF Event Season Wraps Up!

By Jake Geiger This past June, a small but mighty team from Event 360 wrapped up the spring season with the MMRF Team for Cures 5K walk/run at Calf Pasture Beach Park in Norwalk, CT. This was the 43rd 5K that Event 360 has produced for the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation.…

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New Partnership for 2019 — AIDS Walk Atlanta & 5K Run

Event 360 is proud to announce we’ll be producing the 2019 AIDS Walk Atlanta & 5K Run. This event “is the Southeast’s largest community fundraiser and awareness event for HIV/AIDS, benefiting AID Atlanta and eight other local HIV/AIDS service providers.” Over its history, the… Read More

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Tips to Climbing the Ladder from Your Home Office

By Cody Carroll When I started college, I imagined my future job in a suit, working in a cubicle with a fancy phone and a room to report to when I needed to meet with my manager. Yet, here I am, approaching the one-year mark in my career, and I……

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FYRE’D UP: Truths from Fyre Festival (Part 2)

By Cheryl Stern We recently delved into some takeaways from the two hit documentaries about Fyre Festival, the disastrous luxury music festival of 2017 that shall live in infamy. (See FYRE’D UP, Part 1.) Now that we’ve explored our thoughts on the… Read More

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FYRE’D UP: Truths from Fyre Festival (Part 1)

By Cheryl Stern If you’ve paid any attention to pop culture as of late, you’re already aware that this month brought us not one, but two documentaries about Fyre, the doomed luxury music festival of 2017. The sordid tales behind the planning and execution of the festival-gone-wrong… Read…

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Throwback Thursday with Event 360

Over the years, we have covered a vast array of topics on our Event 360 Blog, giving our followers the kind of advice that can lead to safer, more successful and efficient events―events that leave your participants feeling happy and fulfilled. In case you’ve missed any of that great content,……

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Algebraic Word Problems (eek!) and Event Staffing – Part 2

By Jane Kramer In our last post, we posed what sounded like an algebraic word problem: How do you manage 81 event professionals, based in 65 cities, living in 17 states, staffing more than 41 events? We answered by sharing tips for preparing event staff prior… Read More

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Algebraic Word Problems (eek!) and Event Staffing – Part 1

By Jane Kramer How do you manage 81 event professionals, based in 65 cities, living in 17 states, staffing more than 41 events? It sounds like a word problem from math class, right? At Event 360, our employees crisscross the country from March to December, making awesome happen…

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Happy Holidays from Event 360

Hard to believe another holiday season is upon us! While it’s easy to get sidetracked by the stress of the holiday season, we’re all joined by a common holiday pastime – reflection. The past year has been filled with building strong relationships (old and new) and countless events (old and……

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Working With Millennials: What We Want You to Know

By Alyssa Curran People can’t utter the word “millennial” today without seeing visions of artisanal fair trade coffee and hipster-plastic-rimmed glasses flash through their head, but as a card-carrying millennial myself (1985! What a year!), I wanted to write a blog post about some of the misconceptions… Read…

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How Event 360 Produced Five Events in One Weekend

By Jillian Schranz You know how they say, “Save the best for last?” At Event 360, we saved the MOST for last. After producing 32 events over the first 34 weeks of our 2016 event season, we pulled out all the stops to produce five events on the second…

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2016…What I’m thankful for

By Mike Murphy Well, there it is. Our 2016 event season is nearing an end. And with that, the wind, rain, heat, cold, clouds, sunshine, airplanes, rentals cars and hotel rooms that make up our year of outdoor events are close to giving us a little time off. It also……

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Partner Spotlight: United Site Services

When planning an event, most people think about the fun stuff first: Decorations, music, ceremony, speeches, T-shirt designs. But it’s the unglamorous stuff that can make or break your participant experience – such as, are there enough toilets? For more than 15 years, United Site Services, which provides portable toilets,……

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