Whether it's a music festival, a museum exhibition, a fashion event, a conference, a friend's wedding or birthday, or your block party, you need to attract your audience and communicate your event in an interesting, attractive way.
Do you excel at bringing people together? Turn your passion for event planning into a career. Event planners are employed in every industry. They bring teams together to achieve goals, celebrate milestones, bond outside the office, and work more productively. This course will give you tips, tricks, and techniques to make your next event a success—whether it's your first or fifty-first. Valerie Berry covers topics such as understanding your client's objectives, selecting a venue, getting the right technology in place, negotiating a budget, and building menus. Plus, learn how to manage the thousands of details that occur in the two weeks leading to an event, and follow up afterwards to make sure your clients and your vendors are satisfied.
Events are a big business. Over $512 billion is spent annually on events, from trade shows and fundraisers to online webinars, and it can be challenging to attract delegates and attendees in this crowded space. To make your next event a success, you need to plan and promote it far ahead of time. This course offers tips to successfully market your event. Chartered marketer Luan Wise reviews the different types of events, the stages of event marketing, and the resources you need to prepare and make your event more successful. She also reviews different methods of promotion, from traditional advertising and public relations to email, direct mail, and social media.
Event Planning Certification Online.
Explore the remarkable world of the professional events planner in this insightful nine-module certificate. A fantastically-rewarding creative industry with limitless scope for advancement, the services of outstanding event planners have never been in greater demand. From important business meetings to upmarket weddings and right through to sprawling music festivals, event managers single-handedly determine the event’s success or otherwise. A career of rewards and responsibilities in equal measures, to become proficient in the art of event planning is to become a powerful and priceless business asset.
This introductory event planning certification online, investigates the practical skills, theoretical knowledge and personal traits required to succeed in this highly-competitive industry. Course content of this online event planning certification, introduces candidates to a variety of common event types, breaking the event planning process down to its core elements and exploring each in-depth. Candidates build an advanced understanding of event budgeting, venue selection criteria, event theme and concept considerations, critical health and safety legislation, event marketing strategies and closing/evaluating events.
Ultimately, successful candidates will have the opportunity to seek positions with working event management agencies, or to start their own private event planning businesses.