Planning Events Regardless of Location with Carolien Mertens
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English - March 27, 2017 15:07 - 31 minutes - 29 MBBusiness Health & Fitness business coaching entrepreneurship marketing personaldevelopment Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Carolien Mertens, M.A. is a location-free event planner, working from New York, Italy, Greece, Germany,
Switzerland, and counting, for digital entrepreneurs, biz owners and coaches.
In less than 5 years, over 100 professional events and 10, 000 participants she has expanded to include
major organisations such as LingoGlobe, the European Commission and several national governments, universities and museums.
Her #1 priority is to give her clients the opportunity to focus and thrive on their offline event through her signature flexible planning strategy, that ensures smooth event flow & intense participant experience.
SUMMARY
In this podcast, Alison talks to Carolien Mertens about event planning. Carolien elaborates on how she came into the event planning industry and opens up about the challenges she faced becoming an entrepreneur and leaving her corporate job. She touches on her most important first step for organizing a live event. She gives a little insight to how she runs her location independent business , ie. does she travel to her clients and what is done online. Carolien explains how she handles stress as an event planner,
QUOTES
"I can say that for every event I attended I made some friends that I still work with today"
"stress for me is a kickstarter"
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