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If you’re someone who is a real people person, along with being highly creative and a major planning obsessive, working as an events planner could be the perfect role for you. (It’s a fun role too; plus it’s packed full of some amazing opportunities.)
Pre-pandemic you might have sourced a role in an already established company, but (if like many of us) you’ve enjoyed the flexibility of remote working, you might be thinking about starting a small business of your own and keeping that flexibility.
The good news is that with the right approach, starting a remote event planning business can be a lot easier than you might think. It’s simply a case of knowing the best approach to take to launching your business and ensuring that it’s successful.
Bearing that in mind, below is a guide to some of the ins and outs of starting a successful remote planning business – along with tips and advice for how you can ensure that your venture thrives.
Hone your key skills
As an event planner, there are a number of key skills that it really pays to have in the bag. These are effective (and efficient) project management, problem-solving skills, and multi-tasking. If you can nail these three things, you’re already on the way to being a successful event planner.
If you need help nailing these skills, consider taking a couple of online courses or speaking to a careers coach who can help point you in the direction of the skills and knowledge that you need. It’s also worth looking into specialist software for tasks like project management, as there are lots of fantastic pieces of software available.
Build your connections
As a successful event planner, it’s vital that you have a wide range of connections, from relationships with event spaces and event hire companies to caters and entertainers – and everything in between.
If you’re running your business on a local scale, building these connections may be a little easier. However, if you’re running your business nationally (as it’s entirely remote) then this may take a little more time to achieve.
Create a superb website (and marketing pages)
If you’re going to succeed as an event planner, you need to have a well-designed website on hand that points people to your services. This means working with a skilled designer, along with working with an SEO specialist to ensure that your site ranks properly in search engines like Google.
Don’t forget the importance of also creating social media marketing pages, so that you can begin to market your business. Social media is a great method for building a business, and a key element of effective marketing for new businesses, so it pays to utilise it as a tool for getting the word about your venture out there and building up a client base.
There you have it, everything that you should know about starting a remote event planning business.
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