Kamis, 19 Oktober 2017

How to Organise Your Christmas Party Entertainment and Have a Fun Evening Too

Choosing entertainment for your Christmas party can be a daunting task. You have a group of 100plus people who never socialise with each other, generally only talk to the people they know and spend most of the evening avoiding their boss!

Not a situation that shouts fun!

There is however a simple solution, one that is often overlooked or left until last in the event organising process, entertainment.

After organising entertainment for the last 13 years I can honestly say that entertainment can either make or break a Christmas party and this depends on how much research is done by the organiser.

Here's a checklist to help you choose the best Christmas party entertainment for your company;

1) Find out the average age of your guests (there's no point in booking a DJ if you guests are over 50 and will probably leave straight after the meal)

2) Find out the average gender of your guests (if most of your guests are female you probably won't want Belly Dancers!)

3) Are you guests bringing their partners? (If so you'll need to make the entertainment more general so having a company quiz is probably out.)

4) Ask you guests what they'd like (it sounds obvious but simply asking your guests what type of entertainment they'd like is sometimes the best way to please the majority)

5) Find out your entertainment budget as early as possible (there's no point spending hours talking to Christmas party DJ's, bands, magicians and casinos if you know you've only got £100 to spend)

When you get the answers from this checklist you're ready to start finding your entertainment.

Now comes the second conundrum, do you use an entertainment agent, go directly to the acts or use the entertainment that your venue recommend?

This can completely confuse the average Christmas party organiser.

It's probably best to only go directly to the act if you're only having one entertainment act, think of all the stress it's going to be having three or four acts calling you on the day asking the same questions!

This is where going with an entertainment agent can help, the agent will look after all the acts so you don't have to and they'll deal with all those small questions that will just add to your stress!

If your venue does recommend an entertainment agent then it's probably best to go with this option, they've been recommended for a reason and their acts have probably all worked at the venue before so they'll know how to get in, set up and who to speak to if there are problems.

If you're stuck for Christmas party entertainment ideas here's a few

Drinks Reception Entertainment

This can set the tone for the whole evening, if you're guests relax and talk to each other then you're going to relax too! So how do you break the ice?

The best way to do this is with some 'Walkabout entertainment' for example a Close Hand Magician or Caricaturist.

Close Hand Magicians are great because they subtly mingle in with your guests, come up to small crowds of people and draw in other guests to watch. This means that by the end of the trick all the guests should be left laughing and commenting 'how did they do that!' with someone they don't really know, in effect breaking the ice.

Caricaturists do the same thing with the added bonus that you're left with a gift to put above the computer at work.

Entertainment after the main meal

It's sometimes a fun idea to have a surprise element to your evening and what better way to do it than by having your waiters who have been quietly serving you all night suddenly break into song!

This will delight all your guests, make them laugh and stop people talking shop at the end of the meal.

Main Christmas party entertainment

This is the most exciting party of the entertainment, the main event! Will it be a Christmas party band or a DJ, or if you can afford it, both.

A Christmas party band adds a great live feel and if they're good, can have the immediate effect of getting every dancing. A DJ will do the same but with the added bonus that they generally play for longer, although it can be a bit cheesier and generally it will take people longer to get up and dance.

Other Christmas party entertainment ideas

Other ideas include Casinos and Belly Dancers which can be great if you have mainly male guests. Henna artists, Butlers in the Buff and Chocolate Fountains are all better for female guests unless everyone is on a diet!

Remember, when you're guests are leaving the event, the biggest talking point isn't the food, decorations, venue or the staff, it's the entertainment.


Rabu, 27 September 2017

Entertainment Promotions Increase Brand Exposure Through Digital Entertainment Incentives

Entertainment promotions provide your company with a powerful platform from which you can harness your audience's unquenchable desire for digital entertainment. New movies continue to draw enormous crowds. Rising music artists continue to grab the entertainment spotlight. Custom promotions can be designed to deliver digital incentives that leverage the popularity of Hollywood blockbusters, music artists, high-profile television programs, and video games. Your target market is already exposed to these entertainment channels. Entertainment promotions give you a unique opportunity to tap into those channels.

A growing number of companies are launching entertainment promotions as a cost-effective strategy for reaching their target audience. You can do the same.

In this article, we'll describe the most popular entertainment promotions and explain how you can leverage them. We'll also take a closer look at creating custom promotions with specific digital content that delivers a memorable interactive experience to consumers. Lastly, we'll explain how radio promotions and entertainment promotions can dovetail with one another to build promotional momentum and connect with your audience.

Types Of Entertainment Promotions At Your Fingertips

Consider the entertainment channels to which your audience connects. Then, think about the enormous breadth of content they consume through those channels. Each highly-anticipated movie, prominent music artist, and popular television show gives your company an opportunity to connect with viewers and fans. Entertainment promotions deliver digital content that builds upon the popularity and anticipation surrounding these entertainment outlets.

For example, your company can offer music downloads that target fans of an artist who is launching a high-profile tour. Or, you can offer skins, images, videos, and similar digital incentives to ride the wave of anticipation behind an upcoming movie. Each year, blockbuster video games are released that capture that market segment by storm. You can launch entertainment promotions that cater specifically to that market.

How Brand Promotions Leverage Your Brand Identity

All companies have a brand identity. The problem is, most squander it; they rarely leverage their brands effectively to promote their products and build market awareness. Brand promotions integrate core elements of your brand into digital entertainment incentives. When consumers download images, videos, music, and other digital content that share a link with your products, the experience strengthens your brand in their minds. It engages them through a promotional channel that encourages them to purchase your products. By associating your brand with popular entertainment incentives, you'll also enjoy increased customer loyalty.

Entertainment Promotions: Creating Custom Promotions For Your Company

One of the unique strengths of an entertainment promotion is flexibility in design. They can be customized to fit a refined approach. This is critical because your target market is entirely different than others. The connection you enjoy with your audience is unique.

Custom promotions give you an opportunity to deliver digital incentives that meet a tightly-honed objective. Rather than delivering a vast menu of content choices to consumers, these promotions focus on a specific subset. That allows you to hone your campaign and create a stronger connection with your audience. The more refined your offer, the easier it is to appeal to your market.

How Radio Promotions And Entertainment Promotions Work Together

Radio has traditionally been reserved for promoting artists and their labels. However, music labels, sponsors, brands, and retail giants have discovered that radio promotions offer mutually beneficial advantages. For example, you can launch an entertainment promotion that builds upon the anticipation behind an upcoming album release. As the first songs are released on the radio, your promotion can offer free downloads as a consumer incentive. Given that radio stations serve limited geographic areas, your entertainment promotions can target specific cities, improving the refinement of your customer database.

Connecting With Your Audience Through Entertainment Digital Promotions

The world is moving at a faster pace than ever. People are consuming content with their laptops and mobile devices in ways that were unimaginable a few years ago. While many companies seem intimidated by the shift, this new landscape has yielded exciting promotional opportunities. Entertainment promotions leverage this new paradigm and bridge the gap between your brand and your customers. You can form a unique connection with your audience by building upon the popularity of movies, music, video games, and other entertainment content.

Digital entertainment promotions allow you to exploit an inexhaustible pool of licensed digital content. They are an ideal platform from which to connect with your target audience, build brand exposure, and dramatically increase customer loyalty.


Rabu, 13 September 2017

Make Recognition Dinners and Awards Banquets Special With Entertainment

Have you ever attended an event that has been prepared to give recognition, distribute awards, or show gratitude to the efforts and accomplishments of several people? If you have, then you would agree when I say that in events like these, meals are usually incredible and venues are commonly carefully chosen... How about the entertainment? I think you would agree with the fact that including a good form of awards banquet entertainment is important as well. And if you are going to organize similar events, you must be aware of what to look for and how to choose your banquet entertainment.

Awards banquet entertainment? How exactly will that help you and your event?

First of all, events like these are geared towards showing gratitude to the efforts and accomplishments of people. Apart from serving them with good food, it is a must that you let them enjoy the event. Enjoy not just by eating, but literally enjoy the whole event. Here is when awards banquet entertainment comes in.

Yes, good food is important but good entertainment is as important as well. Providing a good and appropriate entertainment to your awards banquet will make your event extra special. Aside from letting your audience have fun, entertainment will keep your audiences attention from drifting away. Apart from that, good awards banquet entertainment will serve as a motivation for people attending the event to look forward to future occasions.

What are the things that you should remember in order to pull off an effective awards banquet entertainment?

Hire entertainers whose humor is compatible with your audience. There are a lot of performers and entertainers out there. You have to select those who will deliver jokes and acts that will be comfortable for your audience to laugh about.

Next is try to go for an act that involves audience participation. Let us admit it... awards banquet can be a bit long and dragging. Having an act that will encourage your audience to participate, talk, move, and interact will keep the event alive, and prevent people from feeling bored.

In corporate banquets, it will be better if you get an entertainer who could incorporate your company, products, principles, and even strategies with their performances as this would add up to your workers' morale and motivation.

If you are going to hire performers, see to it that you have the equipments that she or he will need, like microphone, microphone stands, speakers, music players, and even a large space if she or he is going to perform an extraordinary act. It is best if you hire an entertainer who fits with your resources, or if not, you can hire someone and adjust a bit in order to give him or her the needed equipments.

So there you have it. Things to remember when preparing an awards banquet entertainment have been given. Do not forget them as these would help you with your future event planning.Have you ever attended an event that has been prepared to give recognition, distribute awards, or show gratitude to the efforts and accomplishments of several people? If you have, then you would agree when I say that in events like these, meals are usually incredible and venues are commonly carefully chosen... How about the entertainment? I think you would agree with the fact that including a good form of awards banquet entertainment is important as well. And if you are going to organize similar events, you must be aware of what to look for and how to choose your banquet entertainment.

Awards banquet entertainment? How exactly will that help you and your event?

First of all, events like these are geared towards showing gratitude to the efforts and accomplishments of people. Apart from serving them with good food, it is a must that you let them enjoy the event. Enjoy not just by eating, but literally enjoy the whole event. Here is when awards banquet entertainment comes in.

Yes, good food is important but good entertainment is as important as well. Providing a good and appropriate entertainment to your awards banquet will make your event extra special. Aside from letting your audience have fun, entertainment will keep your audiences attention from drifting away. Apart from that, good awards banquet entertainment will serve as a motivation for people attending the event to look forward to future occasions.

What are the things that you should remember in order to pull off an effective awards banquet entertainment? Hire entertainers whose humor is compatible with your audience. There are a lot of performers and entertainers out there. You have to select those who will deliver jokes and acts that will be comfortable for your audience to laugh about.

Next is try to go for an act that involves audience participation. Let us admit it... awards banquet can be a bit long and dragging. Having an act that will encourage your audience to participate, talk, move, and interact will keep the event alive, and prevent people from feeling bored.

In corporate banquets, it will be better if you get an entertainer who could incorporate your company, products, principles, and even strategies with their performances as this would add up to your workers' morale and motivation. If you are going to hire performers, see to it that you have the equipments that she or he will need, like microphone, microphone stands, speakers, music players, and even a large space if she or he is going to perform an extraordinary act. It is best if you hire an entertainer who fits with your resources, or if not, you can hire someone and adjust a bit in order to give him or her the needed equipments.

So there you have it. Things to remember when preparing an awards banquet entertainment have been given. Do not forget them as these would help you with your future event planning.


Kamis, 31 Agustus 2017

The Seven Keys To Finding The Perfect Entertainment For Your Christmas Party

As we approach the holiday season, many of us are going to be planning Christmas parties and holiday celebrations. Finding the right entertainment for these events is a huge undertaking. Get it right and you're a hero! Get it wrong and your guests have to suffer through a boring program. No pressure, huh?

Don't worry! As a professional speaker and entertainer, I have worked with some of the finest event planners in the industry and have learned from them all. Follow this guide to help you through the decision making process and guarantee that you have a massively successful event.

1. Planning

One of the very first steps when planning an event is to decide on as many of the specific details as possible. These details should include date, time, location, number of guests invited, etc. Most entertainers and speakers will ask you these questions to get an idea of what you are planning so they can adjust their performance to best fit your event.

2. Type of Program

The type of event you are planning will also dictate what type of program to consider. If you are planning a Christmas party, you will obviously be looking for a different type of program than if you are planning your child's birthday party. You must consider who your guests are and what they will find entertaining.

Keep this in mind: your entertainer is representing you at the party. Therefore, you have an excellent opportunity to show off without lifting a finger! The person you choose should be professional and have experience that gives you confidence in them. You will know about an entertainer's or speaker's level of experience by their resume, testimonials, references, and letters of recommendation.

3. Choosing the Right Program

All savvy, business-minded, professional entertainers and speakers have websites. A well designed website allows your future entertainer to list their specialties, describe exactly what they do and how they do it, as well as post video clips, photos, letters of recommendation, etc. A good website is the ultimate brochure for entertainers to inform potential clients on who they are.

You should be able to see enough from an entertainer's website to get a really good idea of whether he or she will be able to do the job for you or not. Be sure to evaluate whether or not the entertainer you are considering specializes in entertaining groups like yours.

4. The Initial Contact

There are several ways to make contact with your prospective entertainer or speaker. The easiest is to just pick up the phone and call the entertainer's office. Making contact with your prospective entertainer with a phone call is an excellent way to get to know them. By actually speaking with your entertainer you can learn things that you may not be able to tell through other contact methods. A conversation allows you to hear the person's voice and it allows you to get an impression about how appropriate this person is for your event. A phone conversation also allows your entertainer to ask you specific questions that they need answered in order to quote a fee, check availability, and be sure that they are the right fit for your event.

Another option is to send the entertainer an email. Email is a great way to make first contact with your prospective entertainer. If you choose to make contact through email, try to give as many details about the event as possible. Include your phone number and a window of time when you will be available to talk so that the entertainer can call you back and ask additional questions he or she may have.

An additional way to make contact with your entertainer is to fill out a web form that is on his or her website. A web form will have specific fields such as name, phone number, your address, type of function, venue address, approximate number of guests expected, etc. The web form is often a preferred method of contact over email because it is designed to provide the entertainer with specific information needed in order to quote a fee, check availability, etc.

Price Shopping? Everyone is on some kind of budget. The general rule of thumb is this: Do not go with the lowest price. Going with the lowest price is likely a precursor to disappointment. In the entertainment and speaking fields remember the old adage "you get what you pay for."

5. Contracts, Confirmation Calls and Letters

Once all the details have been decided on, you should expect to receive a contract from your entertainer or speaker. This is not something to stress over. It is normal operating procedure for any professional entertainer or speaker. In fact, if you don't get a contract, you should start to wonder.

The contract basically spells out all the details that have been agreed upon when discussing your event. You should take the time to review all of the details, including type of program, start and end time, venue address, price, etc. The performance agreement should set you at ease because you now know that your entertainer has all the details correct and can prepare to deliver a dynamic, appropriate program.

6. The Day of the Event

As far as the program goes, you should have had several discussions with your entertainer by now which would answer any and all questions that either of you may have had. It should be clear, because of the previously agreed upon details in the contract, what time your entertainer will arrive, when and where they will set up, and what time the program will begin. Be sure that you or the main contact person of the event is carrying a cell phone in case your entertainer runs into any last minute issues and needs to contact you.

7. Last Minute Details and Showtime!

You've done your research and selected the best program for your event. At this point, there should be nothing for you to worry about. Kick back, relax and enjoy!


Senin, 07 Agustus 2017

Tips On Booking The Best Entertainment Talent Agency

When you host an event, particularly a business event, you want to make sure that you not only have the tasks associated with the business or core purpose of the event arranged to ensure success, but you also want to make sure that you have the best and most appropriate entertainment that your guests will enjoy. If you are having a difficult time trying to decide the best type of entertainment and where to secure the entertainment, you will greatly benefit from booking your entertainment using the services of an entertainment talent agency.

Booking the best entertainment agency means you will have the ability to select the entertainment for your event from a variety of different types of entertainment. When you book the best entertainment talent agency, you will be able to choose from such entertainers as: comedians, bands, musical tribute entertainers, celebrity impersonators, DJs, and more. The best entertainment agency will offer a variety of entertainers of different types and will assist you with choosing the best entertainment that blends well with your specific event.

Booking an entertainment agency is easy when you search the internet. When you look for an agency on the internet, you will be able to browse various entertainment agencies and review the services and types of entertainers they offer. You will get an idea of the costs and you will have their contact information so you can call or email them about the details of your event. They will then respond and provide you with more details about their agency and services and how they can help you.

The best entertainment agency will be easy to work with and understand your specific needs. They will listen to your wishes regarding your event and provide you with suggestions about the type of entertainment your specific guests will enjoy. The agency will also be more than willing to answer all of your questions and provide you with a price estimate. You can ask for references as well as find out how long they have been in the entertainment talent agency business. Also, when discussing your event, it is important to tell them your location so they can find the right entertainment for that particular event such as a big convention room, auditorium, or a smaller office type space. The best talent agency will provide the right entertainment to fit the theme of the event such as providing a comedian that delivers a clean non profanity comedic presentation. Understanding your guests is essential to getting the right entertainment for your event.

An entertainment talent agency can really help you get the right entertainment for your event. They can advise on the best entertainment that integrates well with the event, will help to rejuvenate attendees, and make the entire event much more enjoyable and memorable for the guests. When you hire an entertainment talent agency for your event, it will help ensure that the entertainment that you book makes the event a success. If you require entertainment services for your next event, consider booking an entertainment talent agency.