Casual or Formal Seminars
When you do a seminar or event, one of your first things to decide is whether it should be formal or casual.
Read more »Miking Seminar Events
One of the things that annoys the CRAP out of me is when I get a recording of an event and people haven’t miked the audience properly.
Read more »Choosing Outside Speakers
Planning on doing an event? Thinking of considering using outside speakers? BE CAREFUL!
Read more »Seminar Attire
I hate getting dressed up. It doesn’t matter what it is. I also think that greater learning can take place when people are in a more RELAXED mode.
Read more »Opening and Closing Your Seminar
In psychology, there is a term called the Primacy-Recency affect. This refers to the fact that people remember most what they saw first and last.
Read more »Consulting Business from Seminars
If you do seminars and workshops you’re going to want to offer coaching and consulting to those who attend your events.
Read more »Seminar Call-ins from Gurus
One of the things I LOVE to do at my events is have my friends call in. It’s always better if you can have people show up in person to do some teaching, but this isn’t a bad alternative.
Read more »Seminar Event Moods
Every event has a MOOD. Whether you like it or not, this is the case. The question is whether or not you will ORCHESTRATE this mood or will it EVOLVE without your influence.
Read more »Seminar Equipments: Rent or Buy?
There is an old rule in the seminar business with regards to renting equipment. If you rent it 4 times you own it.
In the case of microphones, recording equipment, video cameras, it almost better to buy equipment if you think you’ll use it 4 or 5 times. Now with Ebay, you can always RESELL it [...]
Creating Your Seminar Workbook
When someone shows up at an event it’s always a good idea for you to give them some kind of a guide for them to take notes in.
For a short event, it’s fine that you give them merely a one or two page handout.
The longer and more expensive the event, the bulkier the seminar workbook [...]