Thinking of planning a corporate event, but don’t know the types of planning an event? This article sheds light on 20 tips for planning your next corporate event.
After reading this article carefully you don’t need any experienced and professional event planners. You can yourself is able to plan an event that brings success.

1. Make Your Managers and CEO Happy Campers:

If you know the goals and objectives of the event, you can manage and start accordingly, especially when it comes in presenting your event budget. Show your company’s managers and CEO that you care for the event.

2. Keep Your Boss on Higher Positions:

In order to make every guest feel special ask your senior executives and higher ups to keep on rotating their schedule.

3. Plan an Event, according to the Goal:

Make sure to plan your event according to your set goal, always plan 1 and 2 and 3, in order to avoid any unexpected surprises on the day of the event.

4. Advertise and Advertise:

Once you have decided everything, it’s now time to advertise your event. Let people know how your event will be benefited from them and also if they miss what will they lose.

5. Promote Your Employees:

If you are organizing an event to appreciate your employees make sure it has everything that make employees feel special. Arrange front seats for the employees while the back for senior management. Make sure it is all about promoting your employees hard-work.

6. Maximize Your Invites:

What steps you take in order to grab your visitor’s attention? A weekly newsletter or quarterly meeting, perhaps? TIP: Wednesday, particularly at 9:00 am, is the best time to send an initiation.

7. Turn Simple Things into Huge Tool:

Think about your target audience and by keeping their nature in mind create name tags for them. You can make these name tags more interesting by giving some funny name to your guests.

8. Venue:

Special and unique venues can be truly impressive and fun; just you know what the purpose of organizing an event is. Think about transportation and parking, guest count versus available space, if you need a stage check out its area and much more.

9. Always Go for Great Service:

Your guests will always remember if there is something bad in your event, so if you don’t have that much budget, it is better to go for lowering down the budget of the food before thinking to lower down the labor cost.

10. Recognize the Spouses of the Employees:

Besides appreciating your company employees, honor their spouses also. They are a team, if your employees make any sacrifices in your office always remember their spouses are on their back. They also have some credit in it.

11. Find Out Key Brownie Points:

If you are short with budget, better to eliminate something from your event, tell your boss about the item you have eradicated and ask him to donate the amount to the charity and announce it in your event. This will be a key brownie point for you and your team.

12. Decoration Pieces:

Make sure you put centerpieces or other decoration pieces out of reach of children, and later donate those things to your favorite charity. This will help you grab your guest’s attention.

13. Traditional Twist:

If your event involves the exchange of gifts, pull the names and then twist the objective of the swap into the mission for the great gift—like favorite childhood plaything of each employee.  Encourage your guests to donate their favorite things or keep them for the sake of nostalgia —or, buy for their children.

14. Fun Facts:

Make sure your event will be full of fun otherwise your guest will soon turn bore and try to leave the event as soon as possible. TIP: Set the theme of your event and create fun facts according to the theme.

15. Create Food Styles and Save Your Money:

Skip a full meal course. Instead of individual style salads include family-style salads, or you can also think about grab-and-go dessert that helps you save your money. It will create a good impression on your guests when they leave the event with a box of dessert.

16. Use Teams:

Make committees and assign each task to each committee. This will also help you relax.

17. Entertainment:

Entertainment is the only thing that helps you in attracting more traffic. It is not necessary that you only hire professional talent for entertaining your guests; you can also go for upcoming talents of local colleges or universities.

18. Plan Everything Carefully:

As an event planner it is your duty to plan everything about the event carefully. Everything is totally depending on you, so check out each and every point before the event in order to avoid any hurdle later.

19. Give the VIP Treatment to Every Guest:

Make sure you pay attention to your every guest. Every guest feel that they are special to you otherwise they will think hundred times before visiting your next event. Assign your employees to pay attention on all the guests.

20. Save Your Precious Money:

You can only save your precious money on beverages and food items your serve. But make sure the menu you choose must be according to the taste of your guests and in your budget.