Ethics, kickbacks and disclosure
Module 1: Foundations · 15 min
Vendors offer commissions; venues offer favours. Decide now how you handle them, and how you disclose relationships to clients, the way this…
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Planning your own event well.
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Reading a floor plan and a BEO
Module 1: Foundations · 15 min
Two documents decide whether a room works. Learn to read scale, capacities, egress and the BEO line items that hide costs.
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Tools of the trade
Module 1: Foundations · 15 min
A planner needs a budget spreadsheet, a timeline, a run of show, a vendor contact sheet, a floor plan tool and a…
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Twenty terms you need on day one
Module 1: Foundations · 15 min
BEO, run of show, F&B minimum, attrition, COI, SOP, load-in, strike, rider, gobo. Planners speak a dialect; this lesson teaches the twenty…
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The event lifecycle: six phases
Module 1: Foundations · 15 min
Discovery, concept, planning, production, execution, wrap-up. Every lesson in this course sits in one of these phases, and most failures come from…
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Types of events and who plans them
Module 1: Foundations · 15 min
Social, wedding, cultural, corporate and public events share one process but differ in who decides, who pays and what success means. Knowing…
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