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Smarter Event Planning

40 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratings

Take control of your event destiny and develop a successful event strategy with The Eventrepreneur. Join Jason Allan Scott and inspiring guests as he cuts through the sometimes confusing jargon and best practices and services to help you not work harder but live and plan your events smarter.

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Leading a Remote Team Successfully

May 12, 2020 00:00 - 9 minutes - 9.22 MB

Title: Leading a Remote Team Successfully   Subscribe   Apple| Spotify| Stitcher     A Podcast Company - is the leading podcast production company for brands, organizations, institutions, individuals, and entrepreneurs. Our team sets you up with the right equipment, training, and guidance to ensure you sound amazing. - www.apodcastcompany.com   You're listening to a podcast produced by A PODCAST COMPANY. This show was made by podcast syndicator where we help you go from...

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May 07, 2020 00:00 - 13 minutes - 12.7 MB

Title: Be Productive / What We Learned from Some of Our Best Guests!   Subscribe   Apple| Spotify| Stitcher     A Podcast Company - is the leading podcast production company for brands, organizations, institutions, individuals, and entrepreneurs. Our team sets you up with the right equipment, training, and guidance to ensure you sound amazing. - www.apodcastcompany.com   You're listening to a podcast produced by A PODCAST COMPANY. This show was made by podcast syndicato...

Productivity Tips From Incredibly Busy People

May 05, 2020 00:00 - 16 minutes - 15.7 MB

Title: Productivity Tips From Incredibly Busy People   Productivity Tips From Incredibly Busy People 1. Have a single purpose focus. "Pick one thing and do that one thing—and only that one thing—better than anyone else ever could." We can derive a great deal of power from developing a laser focus on our top business priorities. It's one of the attributes that sets apart the average businessperson from the more successful one. 2. Ruthlessly block out distractions. Tennis legend ...

Master Motivation

April 23, 2020 00:30 - 14 minutes - 13.7 MB

While there are many things in life that are out of our control, motivation is not one of them. There will always be conditions, people, and situations that can affect your motivation, but staying motivated is within your control, no matter the conditions.   1 What makes you tick?   Everyone will differ slightly in what drives them, and one person’s motivation will not be the same as their teammates’. Start by getting a sense of where your motivation comes from. When are you at your ...

Resilience To the Rescue

April 21, 2020 00:30 - 17 minutes - 16.4 MB

Resilience To the Rescue    3 Valuable Quotes    1. "Resilience isn't a single skill. It's a variety of skills and coping mechanisms. To bounce back from bumps in the road as well as failures, you should focus on emphasizing the positive."   2. Someone said adversity builds character, but someone else said adversity reveals character. I'm pleasantly surprised with my resilience. I persevere, and not just blindly. I take the best, get rid of the rest, and move on, realizing that y...

Mastering Management of Remote Workers

April 16, 2020 00:30 - 13 minutes - 12.9 MB

Mastering Management of Remote Workers   2 Valuable Quotes    1.  "Rapport does not come from doing and talking about work. Rapport comes from getting to know them as a complete person."   2. "one for these team members. Pick a time that always works for you for your remote 1 on 1s and make them sacred on your calendar. If you absolutely have to, reschedule it, but never cancel."     Master Remote Workers Rules: 1) Make time for small talk. 2) Use video as much as you...

How To Work From Home

April 14, 2020 00:30 - 16 minutes - 16.1 MB

How to WFH   How To WFH    3 Valuable Quotes    1. The end of the workday can sort of melt into the evening and then bedtime before you know it, If you truly work best in the evenings, it’s fine to structure your day that way, but do it on purpose, not as a default thing that happens because you forgot to have boundaries.”   2."Make sure you have a stress-free zone, at work (yes even your home office). ... Look for a break room.. No need for a fancy setting. All you need is s...

Structuring Your Workday From Home

April 09, 2020 00:30 - 20 minutes - 19.9 MB

Structuring your WFH     3 Valuable Quotes    1. “Getting comfortable leaning into the technology to replicate in-person collaboration is key to fostering productive remote environments. But it’s not just about technology. Establishing trust, ensuring accountability, and fostering good collaboration is critical to a successful remote work environment.”   2. “Set an alarm and have a consistent morning habit or ritual. Even put makeup on or fix your hair if you like. Anything tha...

Take these certain actions in uncertain times

April 07, 2020 00:30 - 17 minutes - 16.3 MB

Take these certain actions in uncertain times   3 Valuable Quotes    1. Eleanor Roosevelt wrote, “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face … You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”    My body usually protests against that statement, but theoretically I concur with Eleanor. I sincerely believe the good stuff happens when we are afraid. If we go a lifetime without being scared, as Julia Sorel said, it m...

Helping Event Professionals With Their Personal Branding

April 02, 2020 00:30 - 16 minutes - 15.9 MB

Huge tech issues - I am so sorry BUT amazing episode  Smarter Event Planning Season 3:  Dahlia El Gazzar, DES, altMBA, ECC  Helping #eventprofs with their personal #branding, #Linkedin + #Eventtech for when the industry comes roaring back.    I am determined to use my network + knowledge of #tech + #digitalmarketing + #branding to help those that need it the most so when the industry comes roaring back - you are more than ready.    My OMG-attitude about all things tech and audi...

"Don't Fear The Future!" says Diana Brandle 

March 31, 2020 01:00 - 33 minutes - 31.2 MB

Episode 2 of Season 3 of Smarter Event Planning Podcast:    "Don't Fear The Future!" says Diana Brandle    "... exactly why our job will continue in the future. Because we are the emotionally intelligent leaders. And no Alexa can do that, no Siri can do that—they can’t see if the boss got up on the wrong side of the bed and is having a bad day. They can’t judge these situations properly."    Diana Brandl holds a Degree in International Administration and Management, specializing ...

"Don't Fear The Future!" says Diana Brandl

March 31, 2020 01:00 - 33 minutes - 31.2 MB

Episode 2 of Season 3 of Smarter Event Planning Podcast:    "Don't Fear The Future!" says Diana Brandl   "... exactly why our job will continue in the future. Because we are the emotionally intelligent leaders. And no Alexa can do that, no Siri can do that—they can’t see if the boss got up on the wrong side of the bed and is having a bad day. They can’t judge these situations properly."    Diana Brandl holds a Degree in International Administration and Management, specializing in...

The Business of People with Roxy Robinson

March 26, 2020 02:30 - 38 minutes - 35.7 MB

The Business of People with Roxy Robinson.  Smarter Event Planning Podcast :    Roxy Robinson, a female entrepreneur from South Africa is setting a benchmark for all women who wish to become an entrepreneur. She is a woman of many talents and started her business journey in 2004 with a promotional modeling agency and gradually spread her wings to multiple new businesses.    She runs a concierge company www.roxstarconcierge.co.za that provides services to niche clientele across the ...

Designing people-centric, purpose driven events

March 23, 2020 01:30 - 36 minutes - 34 MB

Designing people-centric, purpose driven events. SITE global. Writer, speaker, connector, collaborator speaks to Jason Allan Scott    Season 3 of Smarter Events Planning  THE EVENT HEROES SEASON   Specialties: Wrestling alligators - the more complicated the event seems, the more useful I will be to you! Developing events for our industry peers allows me to bring creative energy to events and use the combination of ubiquitous technology and human nature to create relevance for our p...

Titans Of Events

February 25, 2020 00:30 - 21 minutes - 20.6 MB

Titans Of Events.  Smarter Event Planning Podcast :  Jason Allan Scott talks to Mark Felstead about Season 2 and what’s to come in Season 3.  Mark is from London, arrived in Chemnitz, Germany at the end of the ‘90s and moved to Berlin in 2001. Now lives near Kurfürstendamm in West Berlin with his gorgeous wife and daughter. He has had a varied career path and have mostly been self-employed within the events industry for the last 15 years. I loves dancing (disco) and is always the fi...

Event Tech meets Berlin!

February 18, 2020 00:30 - 17 minutes - 16.7 MB

Virtual tours of properties have many advantages – you can draw a shortlist or even choose the hotel and event space without having to visit the city or venue in advance - saving time and helping the planet.  Visualizer Group offers one of the best tools available using real photographic images and interactive floor plans. Today we talk to Kimmo, CEO from Visualizer Group. Although he is in Helsinki Finland, many of the previously featured Hotels in Berlin make use of this tool to enhance th...

Work Life Balance with Marcel from Impact Business

February 11, 2020 00:30 - 22 minutes - 21.5 MB

Marcel Seibt founded Impact Business in Berlin with a vision of bringing a life -work-balance climate to the city’s growing start-up scene.  He works with many companies offering a range of courses, seminars and workouts from nutritional lunches and tea breaks to yoga and meditation to bring a little mindfulness and balance to their working life.  He also works with you during your events to make sure your delegates stay concentrated and relaxed through offering a well-balanced diet and stre...

Stephan Ullerup from Übervent

February 04, 2020 00:30 - 25 minutes - 24.2 MB

Stephan Ullerup is the Managing Director of Uber Event – a small DMC focused on the incoming Scandanvian market for the City.  In his own unique style he describes the event scene here from his Danish perspective as well as his personal experience of coming to the City, settling down and starting a business (and a family) here. We talk about the challenges and temptations the city has to offer as well as learn about his colourful past!! Links: https://uebervent.com Linked in: https://w...

SUSTAINABILTY - Talking with Michael Stober of Landgut Stober

January 28, 2020 00:30 - 28 minutes - 27.1 MB

Landgut Stober, located some 20 miles outside of Berlin is the historical site where the August Borsig’s first designed and built world-beating locomotives. Hear today the story how Michael Stober fell in love with the run-down buildings in the 90s and has lovingly and carefully invested over 18m Euros in its meticulous restoration, concentrating on its use of sustainable materials throughout.  Today it is a multiple award-winning conference and hotel complex (Germany’s most sustainable) so ...

Top Tips from Merryn Scholz of K.I.T. Group

January 21, 2020 00:30 - 24 minutes - 22.9 MB

K.I.T. Group is one of Europe’s leading Professional Conference Organisers (PCO) hosting more than 26 National and International conferences a year for up to 30,000 people!  Merryn Scholz heads a team of more than 100 employees that plan, book and execute these events.  There is simply not a more experienced person to turn to when it comes to looking at Berlin’s Hotel landscape than Merryn.  Share with me too her passion for the city and why she has made it her home and hear about some of he...

Escape Rooms with Sophie Els of Business Elephant

January 14, 2020 00:30 - 23 minutes - 22.4 MB

Business Elephant provides and designs mobile Escape Room concepts to be incorporated into your event.  No matter what hotel or venue you are hosting your event at in Berlin, Business Elephant can come and produce your tailored made Escape Room for you. They can be created to work around the motto of your event or can be set against Berlin’s rich history of espionage and Spy swapping and dodging through border controls. They are both testing of your lateral thinking skills but at the same ti...

The Student Hotel - Berlin's New Kid on the Block!

January 07, 2020 00:30 - 23 minutes - 22.5 MB

The Student Hotel has very recently opened and is the newest property of a fast-growing brand of hotels that are designed ostensibly with longer staying guests in mind, e.g. those studying in Berlin.  It is however a very relaxed and modern hotel and you feel at home here whether millennial or baby boomer! Alongside well-appointed rooms it offers cooking and laundry facilities, a gym, rental bikes and great restaurant and bar facilities. The staff are extremely friendly and something like 28...

AXICA in the DZ Bank Building

December 24, 2019 00:30 - 25 minutes - 24.1 MB

AXICA in the DZ Bank building – A Frank Gehry masterpiece right in the heart of Berlin. An absolute jewel in the crown of Berlin’s event locations. Today we meet one of the city’s absolute highlights both for its unique event space and pure architectural brilliance. We are talking with Nadine Unger about the Frank Gehry building right next to the Brandenburg Gate.  It used to be known as an insider tip but now with over 160 events held here a year that can no longer be the case!  One of ...

Vienna House Andels Berlin

December 17, 2019 00:30 - 25 minutes - 23.9 MB

Vienna House Andels Berlin – 10 years on this flagship hotel of the Vienna House Group celebrates its success in a hotel that was originally never meant to be!  We are talking to the flagship conference and convention hotel of the Vienna House chain of hotels which has over 30 hotels in Germany. Meet one of Berlin's true Sales Professionals and hear about what I like to call the "the hotel with a heart!" as well as talking about some surprising new venues in Berlin's edgy, up and coming ...

Crowne Plaza City Center Berlin

December 10, 2019 18:15 - 22 minutes - 21.6 MB

Meet the Crowne Plaza City Centre Berlin .... One of Berlin's leading event and conference hotels right in the centre of the City! Meet one of the rising stars of Berlin's hotel scene and learn about some of the leading technology they employ to make your life easier and planning smarter! Crowne Plaza City Centre: https://www.cp-berlin.com & https://crowneplaza.visualizer360.com/berlin-city-centre www.asemblr.com www.podcastsyndicator.com www.apodcastcompany.com  

Mark Felstead of MCF Consulting Takes Over!

December 03, 2019 00:30 - 23 minutes - 21.8 MB

SMARTER EVENT PLANNING PODCAST - EPISODE 1 SEASON 2: Mark Felstead MCF Consulting takes over the show for a season of talking events in Berlin. Jason Allan Scott Interviews him for what's to come.

He's A World Traveler And Author With A Passion For Community And Startups - Andrew Hyde

May 14, 2019 23:00 - 31 minutes - 29.6 MB

SMARTER EVENT PLANNING: A vagabond and a minimalist that sold everything but 15 things and went on a big trip (82 countries). He founded Startup Weekend, three other startups and was employee #1 Techstars. With roots in freelancing and design, he can hold a conversation about best interface practices as well as how to build cabins with hand tools. He is also a marathoner, Ironman competitor, blogger and event organizer. He started Ignite Boulder, TEDxBoulder, Startup Weekend, Startup Week ...

Talking Intentional Life and Event Design with Meeting Hall of Famer Tahira Endean, CMP

April 30, 2019 23:00 - 35 minutes - 33.7 MB

Meetings Hall of Famer, talking intentional life and event design. Meet Tahira Endean, CMP. After decades of traveling the world to plan, speak, teach, blog and engage in all things events related Tahira is at the top of her field. A recipient of peer recognition including the Meetings Canada Hall of Fame, Top Five Women in #eventtech, 2016 MeetingsNet ChangeMaker and 2017 Top 20 Canada's Most Fascinating Women in Events, Tahira continues to give back to the industry. She thrives on the ...

Business Speaker, Author, and Seasoned Marketing Professional - Dr. Heidi Thorne

April 23, 2019 23:00 - 50 minutes - 46.8 MB

Do you have a book in you? Wanna know what to do with it, if you do? Dr. Heidi Thorne, MBA/DBA, is a business speaker, author and seasoned marketing professional with over 25 years of combined experience in sales, marketing, advertising and public relations, including over 15 years as editor of a trade newspaper covering the plumbing and mechanical contracting trades. In addition to two advanced business degrees (MBA/DBA), Heidi also has five years of experience teaching at the college level...

Million-Dollar One-Person Business Author Elaine Pofeldt

April 16, 2019 23:00 - 45 minutes - 44.1 MB

What do you need to become more productive in the time you have? We speak to Elaine Pofeldt, Best selling author of Million-dollar, one -person business's for Forbes, to find out. Elaine Pofeldt is also a contributor for CNBC and has been published in Money, Inc, Good Housekeeping and Marie Claire, amongst others. She earned her BA in English at Yale, is a mother to 4 children and lives in New Jersey, USA.

15th Degree's Founder - Papillon Luck

April 09, 2019 23:00 - 50 minutes - 46.7 MB

Papillon Luck, the Founder of 15th Degree, has often been described as completely irrepressible, resolutely positive and super high energy. With constant determination and resilience, Papillon epitomizes a serial innovator and visionary early adopter. A background in investment banking and start-up hedge funds working alongside senior executives who struggled to manage their health whilst traveling, led her to create these premium travel fatigue supplements none too soon in that she saw a ...

ShopAppy Founder - Dr. Jackie Mulligan

April 02, 2019 23:00 - 34 minutes - 32 MB

In an era of endless innovation and constant disruption, what is any company really worth? Dr. Jackie Mulligan, founded ShopAppy. “ShopAppy gives local shops and businesses in every town a 24-hour shop window, doesn’t take commission on sales and encourages shoppers to look at what amazing things are on their doorstep which in turn inspires visits and customers. It is great to have convenience but it is also great when you feel good about where you shop. That's what might make us all shopapp...

Head of Client Services at The Creative- Terence Corness

March 27, 2019 00:00 - 27 minutes - 26.3 MB

Traditional marketing talks at people. Content marketing talks with them.” These days, people want to learn before they buy, be educated instead of pitched. Learn more from Terence Corness Head of Client Services at The Creative

The PA Way Founder - Skevi Constantinou

March 20, 2019 00:00 - 23 minutes - 21.9 MB

What has a Giraffe, A Red Haired Greek and a PA have in common? Listen to Skevi Constantinou Executive Assistant & Founder of THE PA WAY thepaway.co.uk Finalist for Birmingham PA Awards 2018 and find out.

All 3 of Event First Steps Co-Founders!

March 13, 2019 00:00 - 34 minutes - 40.6 MB

Taking the first steps in organising events is daunting no matter age or previous experience. So can three young woman guide you out of the fear?" Event First Steps, an initiative set up in order to help people organising events. Jason Allan Scott speaks to : Caitlin Kobrak - Co-Founder of Event First Steps and Social Media Manager at George P. Johnson. Priya Narain - Co-Founder of Event First Steps, and Sales and Event Manager at Boulevard Events and Elena Clowes- Co-Founder of Event First ...

SEPP-S1-05 Eight PR's Amber Maher - Co-founder of Slime London

March 06, 2019 00:00 - 23 minutes - 22.6 MB

SMARTER EVENT PLANNING: its wet, its sticky, its dirty and it made her money and made her a success, find out what is and who is Amber Maher? Amber Maher, Eight PR / Co-founder of Slime London Co-founded Slime London, a pop-up experience dedicated to the UK's current demand for all things 'modern slime'. The event took place in central London over the course of 2 days and welcomed over 4 thousand attendees, attracting media bodies such as the BBC and Conde Nast Traveller. As co-founder, I ...

SEPP-S1-04 Backup-Charity's Maura Jackson

February 27, 2019 00:00 - 23 minutes - 22 MB

SMARTER EVENT PLANNING Brought to you by ASEMBLR Find out what is the most needed thing for the Homeless crisis ? The Answer will surprise you. Todays guest is Maura Jackson, CEO of the charity BACKUP.

SEPP-S1-03 Kevin Jackson - Voted Most Influential in Events

February 20, 2019 00:00 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MB

Episode 3: Kevin Jackson Voted: Most Influential in Events: Business Growth Specialist Speaker, Author. Talking data and measurement on the show. Creating growth for businesses and brands A long-standing disruptor and thought-leader, Kevin has been an influential player with some of the world’s most respected marketing services groups, working with a vast range of brands, he has explored every discipline within the marketing mix. Although marketing ecosystems may have evolved over the last t...

SEPP-S1-02 Association Of MBA's Leah Carter

February 04, 2019 21:55 - 27 minutes - 26.2 MB

Smarter Event Planning: Episode2: with Leah Carter : Founder and Creative Director at Leah Naomi, Global Events Planner, Head of Department, Association Of MBA's. Head of Events, educated to master’s degree level. Proven success in managing all aspects of large scale, 5 star events in over 5 of the world’s continents. Strong background working in a variety of industries, including a multinational premium brand, reporting directly to the CEO. Experience in project managing B2B and B2C events;...

SEPP-S1-01 The Entrepreneur's Godmother - Alison Edgar

February 04, 2019 21:51 - 14 minutes - 13.7 MB

'Smarter Event Planning” Sponsored by Asemblr is hosted by Jason Allan Scott, The Eventrepreneur . Episode1 : Hi, I’m Alison Edgar, The Entrepreneur’s Godmother: she helps entrepreneurs of all shapes and sizes learn to love selling. She is passionate about helping startups and SMEs which is why I’ve been voted one of the UK’s top 10 business advisors, won multiple awards and been invited to both Downing Street and Buckingham Palace. Get to know her better here : This podcast is proudly broug...