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When your event clients give you tough love … listen

When your event clients give you tough love … listen

by Jeff Kear | Mar 3, 2015 | Best Practices, Business, Business Management, Customer Service

It’s hard starting your own business from scratch, building it from nothing, generating stable revenues, getting an office, bringing on employees. And even if you love it, even if you have an undying passion for it, you can always feel the pressure to keep up...
11 clever tricks for dealing with difficult event clients and customers

11 clever tricks for dealing with difficult event clients and customers

by Jeff Kear | Feb 11, 2015 | Best Practices, Business, Business Management, Customer Service, Event Management, Event Planning, Sales

If you have worked in any service-based business, you have encountered difficult customers, and event planners, event venues, caterers, florists and other event professionals certainly have their fair share of them. When it comes to difficult event clients, there are...
How to overcome negative social media reviews for your events business

How to overcome negative social media reviews for your events business

by Jeff Kear | Dec 6, 2014 | Best Practices, Business, Business Management, Event Marketing, Marketing, Online Resources

Bad or less-than-ideal customer experiences happen to all of us at some point. No matter how professional and diligent we are and no matter how hard we try to be perfect (and, BTW, nobody is perfect), sometimes things just happen, many of which are completely out of...
5 proven techniques for influencing event clients and prospects

5 proven techniques for influencing event clients and prospects

by Jeff Kear | Nov 6, 2014 | Best Practices, Business, Business Management, Event Marketing, Marketing, Sales

Whether you are an event venue or an event planner, prospects and clients are looking to you for guidance and answers. However, sometimes they aren’t always quick to take your seasoned advice. This may be because they are fixated on having a certain thing done...
10 Do’s and Don’ts on how to turn event issues and complaints into victories

10 Do’s and Don’ts on how to turn event issues and complaints into victories

by Jeff Kear | Apr 8, 2014 | Business, Business Management, Customer Service, Event Management, Event Planning, Event Venues, Venues

Very few events happen in which there are no issues or problems encountered, mainly because there are so many moving parts when planning and staging an event. Frankly, any event that goes off without even a minor snag should be considered a miracle, and you should...
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