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Corporate Planning

How to Choose an Event Venue (Without Losing Your Mind or Your Budget)

My friend Sarah booked her wedding venue after a single 20-minute tour. She loved the chandeliers. Six months later,

Dec 29, 2025 9 min read
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How to Charge a Fee for Your Event Planning Service (Updated 2026)

Quick answer: Event planners charge in one of five ways: an hourly rate ($25 to $100+/hr), a flat fee,

Jun 3, 2025 9 min read
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How To Start Event Planning With No Money

Quick answer: Yes, you can start an event planning business with no money. The fastest path is to plan events

Jun 2, 2025 15 min read
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How Event Planners Use ChatGPT to Improve Their Planning

By using ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence tool, event planners can create a big advantage for themselves. In addition to saving

Aug 20, 2023 8 min read
Event Planning

How To Get Clients For Your Event Planning Business

Click play to watch this whole video and then be sure to read all the free methods below that can

Sep 17, 2022 8 min read
Event Planning

How To Do A Styled Shoot

You may be wondering… “what is a styled shoot?” Well, here is everything you need to know about styled shoots!

Jan 10, 2021 17 min read
Bar Tips

Wedding Alcohol Cost and Bar Budget

Almost everyone who plans a wedding has to decide how much of their budget to allocate toward the bar and

Dec 18, 2020 4 min read
Event Planning

12 Event Operations Things You Need to Know

You’ve been working hard to gain your first event client. And then… boom! You book one! After the initial

Dec 14, 2020 7 min read
Software

How To Put On a Great Virtual Event

The Covid-19 pandemic has certainly put us through a series of firsts: * Panicking * Purchasing (toilet paper, anyone?) * Pausing (not

Dec 1, 2020 7 min read
covid-19

State of the Union: How COVID-19 is Impacting the Events Industry

Event cancellations are heartbreaking to most event planners. We get excited for our client’s events, almost as much as

Nov 20, 2020 10 min read
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Create Your Event Planner Website in 10 Minutes

Common questions we get are: Do you need a website for your business? What type of pages do you need

Nov 15, 2020 4 min read
Corporate Planning

How to Get an Event Planning Internship

Understand Your Options Growing up, whenever I pictured a professional in the events industry, I thought of Jennifer Lopez, scurrying

Nov 11, 2020 7 min read