Oct. 27, 2025

How to Survive Planning a Corporate Event When It’s Not Your Day Job

How to Survive Planning a Corporate Event When It’s Not Your Day Job

Have you ever been asked to plan a major corporate event even though it’s not part of your regular responsibilities? If that sounds familiar, you’re not alone—and this episode is designed with you in mind. The Event Pro Show, hosted by Seth Macchi, CEO of LEMG in Charlotte, NC, takes you inside the realities of corporate event planning when it isn’t your full-time role. Seth explores why bringing in specialized partners such as fractional heads of events, strategic event consultants, and technical planners can make all the difference, protect your sanity, and help deliver a successful outcome. He also introduces key experts and resources that can guide you in assembling the right team, maximizing ROI, and avoiding common mistakes. From all-hands meetings to virtual summits to large-scale conferences, you’ll gain practical strategies to make your next event unforgettable. Tune in for expert guidance, real-world solutions, and clear advice on finding the right event partner, no matter your starting point.

 

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So tell me if this sounds familiar. Your boss just walked up to you and

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asked you to plan the next big corporate event. But that's not

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really what you do. You do something else entirely. You're not an events

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person. So where do you go from here? Well, let's get into

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it. Welcome to the Event Pro show. Your ultimate

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guide to the world of corporate events. Whether you're a corporate event planner,

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experiential marketing pro, producer, technician, or anyone involved

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in creating exceptional events, this podcast is your go to resource for

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valuable insights, expert tips and inspiring stories from the industry's

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leading professionals.

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Well, welcome to the Event Pro Show. I am your host, Seth Macchi . I'm

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the CEO of lemg. We're an event production company based

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in Charlotte, North Carolina. We travel all over the country producing

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primarily corporate events. And our

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main client type are meeting planners. Now through the

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years there's been this interesting phenomenon

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that happens that I see over and over again

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and it's how I began the show. It's we,

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we have someone reach out to us. They are internal

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in a company and they don't

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do events in their day to day job. They have some

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other responsibility and for whatever reason their boss

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asked them to plan a corporate event

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and they're just trying to figure out how to put the thing

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together. And to make matters

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worse, sometimes these are in companies

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where either they have a lot of turnover or they have

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a lot of upward promotions. So the next time that event happens,

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maybe it's two years later or a year later. Often the

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people that figured it out last time have moved on and they're

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no longer available. So it's this constant wheel of trying to

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figure out how to put on a corporate event. And

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that institutional knowledge just goes out the window whenever somebody leaves.

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And so you can see in our clients faces the

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frustration and they're overwhelmed because all

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of us are working jobs where companies are leaner.

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You're doing more with less. And then planning

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an event is actually a lot harder than what it sounds like

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on the outside. And so what do you do in that situation?

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What do you do when your

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boss has an idea? They're like, hey, why don't we get all the, instead of

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our sales team going around the region and meeting with all of our suppliers,

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why don't we do a virtual event and we'll bring all 100 of our

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suppliers online to a virtual event? Let's, let's

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just do that. That sounds easy. Or we want to do an all hands

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meeting at this beautiful venue

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and just Just go ahead and put that thing together because

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you know, you're in marketing and, and that's kind of a marketing

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thing and you should, you should figure that out. And, and that,

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that type of logic to me as, is as crazy

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as, you know, maybe your, your boss walking

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up to you and saying, hey, didn't you guys just build

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a custom home? Well, we're thinking about adding

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on to our, our headquarters downtown. And

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so why don't you just head up that project and just, just put together

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the project and get that thing built for us. Because you built a

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home that's, that's about as crazy as that. And planning an event

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is, is very difficult. It takes a lot of skill. And

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if you were just googling how

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to plan an event and you found yourself on this podcast,

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this podcast episode is for you.

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And so what do you do in this situation? Well, there are event

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planners, meeting planners that specialize in exactly what

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you're looking for. And I say that not knowing what you're looking for. And

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what I mean by that is there are many types, first of all of event

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planners. So for example, there are corporate event planners, which I'll be talking on.

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And these, they, they focus on business events, association

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events, those type of things. But there's also social event planners,

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nonprofit event planners, educational event

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planners. You can have planners that do sports things, entertainment

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event planners, all of these are different disciplines within

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planning. And just so you know, this is not an

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all encompassing or supposed to be, be all and end all

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episode on event planning is just to highlight the need to

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use partners to plan corporate events. And

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so I'm going to focus on corporate events. So within the corporate

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event space, the way I see it is it's

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broken up by a few subtypes of planners.

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do a large format event and it's just

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you, and there's no events team within your company. So

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let me, let me give you an example. You need to do an event for

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500 people and they want to do

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it at some sort of a convention center

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or ballroom at a hotel. They're not sure of what

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city, but maybe you have three different cities that have

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the highest concentration of people at your company. So

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maybe they're looking at Austin and they're looking

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at Phoenix and they're looking at Atlanta. I don't know. I'm just

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giving you examples. And they know they want to do an event for 500

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people. They know they wanted to, they know the messaging sort

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of that they want to say they know they want to do some training with

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it. And you have people that work for your company and

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they live all over the country. So that's quite an ask.

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service event planning. And there are people out there that

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have companies that will come alongside you. And so

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the term that's become popular lately, I don't know if you've heard of this,

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but fractional. So you can, small companies can hire a fractional

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CEO or a fractional cfo. You

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know, you need financial guidance. You can bring someone in with the experience of

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a large company cfo, but you only hire them for a

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day, a week and they come in for your finance time

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and you work on finances and you get the access to

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somebody that would work at a larger company, but you're only paying for a portion

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of their time, you know, 20% of their time. And so it's, it's much

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more affordable. You can do the same thing with a, you know, a

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CMO like a chief marketing officer where they come in and

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do marketing at a high level because they have experience at larger

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organizations, but they only devote a portion

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of their time weekly to your business. So that's a fractional service.

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And so in that mindset, did you know that there are fractional

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events departments or fractional heads of events?

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So each, each example I'm going to give, I'm going to give you an example

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company you can go and look at that. I would recommend there's a company called

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Wendy Porter Events run by, you guessed it, Wendy Porter,

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incredibly experienced events professional

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and she calls herself a fractional head of events. And so

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what that would mean is the scenario I just gave you, you,

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you really need an events department. And so

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Wendy would come in and bring a team, whatever you would

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need, whatever deficiencies you have and would help you plan that event. So

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whether you've got logistic needs, travel needs, sourcing

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needs. So sourcing of a venue, sourcing of hotels, figuring

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how to move people around the city when they're there, figuring

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out how to feed them, you know, catering or off site experiences,

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what rooms within a venue, you're going

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to use all the negotiating and all of that,

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she would come in and do that. So this is a high touch, full

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service event planning, project management strategy

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that you could bring in and take the weight

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off of you and plan an exceptional event the very first time

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out the gate as if you'd been doing it all along. And

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so that's, that's the fractional

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type of service that you could look at. And

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this I would recommend. We're going to drop all this information

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in the description of this podcast, but I would recommend trying

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checking out Wendy Porter Events and just talking to Wendy about what you need

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in that scenario, the next level from

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that. And I am going to shy away from the term next level down

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from that. I would say the next level over would

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be somebody that's more of a strategic event optimizer.

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So this would be the other type. So

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the example I'm going to give here is Brella Productions.

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So you can check that link out. But, but this

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is more of you have an event that you have planned, but

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you need to, you want to optimize it, you want to make it better. So

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what a company like Brella would bring is they are planners,

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but they are highly technical. So they bring their

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technical strategists to the table, a

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solutions architect, where they're

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looking at the event that you have kind of planned

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or what you want to do. And they're thinking about the technology behind

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it, thinking about how you can utilize different tools

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that exist right now to accomplish what you want to do.

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And so Brella is great at those type

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of things. They also do resource management, vendor

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negotiations. So they'll help you build out a comprehensive plan

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plan, especially on the technical side, and then work

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with you to procure all of the vendors that you would need

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to utilize the strategy that you

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have put in place. And they're, they're going to also make sure that you

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understand and you're up to date on the newest technology so that you

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are being as efficient as possible. So that's a strategic event

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optimizer. So the two that we've talked about so far is

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fractional events department, that would be like Wendy Porter

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and then a strategic event optimizer that'd be like Brella

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Productions. The next level down from that is what

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if you have a concept already that you've been given and

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now you're a steward of this concept, but again, you're

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not really an events person. You come from another, another direction

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and you need someone to really just be a technical

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planner for you. So in this case,

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maybe you have a strong following and

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you understand what you want to do at an event, you even understand

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maybe the venues that you want to go to, but you just don't know

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how to do the technical side of it there. I would

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recommend someone like Julie Lightoff. And again, I'll

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link to her LinkedIn page. But she's more of

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a technical planner. And what her superpower

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is and what this type of person, their superpower is

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they excel both in event planning

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and the technical portions

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of events. So, for example, she's an expert in

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audio visual, so really understands and can get really into

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the details, into the weeds on the audio visual side and can bring

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those two components together. And so she's A solution

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where you just need to fill that gap in would be

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an excellent resource for that. So these are, these are

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different solutions. I'm giving you three levels here. And again,

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it's not like a level down or up. It's just what option

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would you need for what you're trying to solve. The problem you're trying to solve,

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where you have a fractional head of events, they kind of plug in. They're

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like you have a whole event department that shows up at your company and then

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disappears when the event's done, can be very efficient. There's

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a strategic event optimizer which is just taking

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an existing skeleton of an event and tweaking it until it's

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optimized to its fullest potential. And then you have a technical

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planner that is just coming in and making sure

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that all the components are there that you need to get the job

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done. And then I would say the last option

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in that is if it's just a singular thing, a

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singular discipline within an event, then you

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would have partners that you would develop. So, for example,

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if you just need to cater something, you would develop catering partnerships.

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That's something that you could probably do yourself. But again, you could bring in one

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of the people I mentioned or teams I mentioned. If you need just

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an AV partner to do basic

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AV for events, that's fine. Reach out to someone like me. And

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if it's just av, you've got everything else, reach out to them. But if it

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goes beyond singular disciplines, I would highly recommend,

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you know that pressure you're feeling like, how am I going to do this? That's

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very valid. And also it's very common. And people don't

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know that. The services that I just went through, where you can hire

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an event planner to work alongside you or an event planning team to whatever

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degree you need, and it's incredibly affordable

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against the stress that it causes trying to do it

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yourself. And what is the value of hiring someone

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like this? And the event is an exceptional event

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and it checks all the boxes and you get great ROI versus

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not doing this, not spending this extra bit of money, not investing

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in this. And the event is nowhere near what

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you wanted it to be. So you have to look at the roi, the total

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ROI of this and a lot of times it's very much worth the

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investment and just from a vendor in the

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corporate event space. With lemg we work with lots

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of companies and when someone use utilizes

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this strategy, it is almost

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always such a positive experience for our

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end client. It ends up being a great event. And they,

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these planners are a great conduit between all the vendors

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and services and the end client. And they take,

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they buffer, they're a buffer there between your day job

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and all of the things that you need to do

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to plan an event. So I would highly recommend checking out the

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people that I have in the comments and thinking about that.

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But I'll leave you with this thought. Think beyond procurement.

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And so what I mean by that is when you

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get into events, it's very different

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than being in a procurement department that is maybe at a construction

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site where you need a bag of nails, you need

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a pallet of two by fours and you need a

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bunch of bags of cement or something like that. It's kind of commoditized products

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that you kind of know

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the cost that they are. No matter who you get it from, it's going to

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be similar cost. Events are very much not like

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that. And so having a specialist that works with you that kind of

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vets all the partners and all the solutions and, and kind

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of optimizes it to your exact needs, that's a necessity.

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So think beyond procurement. Think about strategic partners.

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So these are strategic partners to help you accomplish your

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meeting goals. And think about fractional solutions.

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And there's that word again, but really fractional in all

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of this. You're borrowing somebody's, you're renting someone's

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lifelong expertise for your event

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for that moment and your chances of having a

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first time out the gate, incredible home run event

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goes up dramatically when you hire these

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specialists. So the ROI is definitely there. I would recommend you

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looking into this. Of course if you need anything AV

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related for your corporate event, please reach out to me, Seth ,

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or go to LEMG Live. We would love to help you.

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We could also recommend these meeting planning solutions to you

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because it's in everyone's best interest for you to do

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this. Thank you for joining us on the Event Pro show. We have episodes

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every week where either I'm talking and giving tips about

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how to produce better events or plan better events, or I'm

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introducing you to one of my friends in the industry that I think you need

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to know. You can check out all of our back episodes@the eventpro

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show.com. we will see you on the next one. Thank you so

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much. The Event Pro

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