How To Grab the Attention of Your Event Attendees - 4 Helpful Tips Most, seasoned event planners know that people’s attention is a scarce resource. An average person has only so much of it and then you have to compete with their smartphones for grabbing it. There...
During 2018 we managed conferences and award ceremonies at multiple venues in London, Birmingham, Norwich, Farnborough and many more locations around the UK Choosing a venue for a client is based on many criteria. The simplest being its size and availability, a conference for 1,000 delegates...
At Purple Patch all have our favourite venues that we love working with – and sometimes its easy to keep returning to them, not out of laziness but because they are prove winners. However, each year a new set of venues pop up that keep the...
A great article published on Event Brite’s blog. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/blog/make-an-event-more-environmentally-sustainable-ds00/ 1. Work out your impact Before you try and improve things, you need to know what impact your event is already having on the environment. It doesn’t always follow, but higher carbon impacts tend to go hand-in-hand with increased...
If you’ve got some prior experience with organising events of any scale, you perhaps already know how precious engagement and the interactions with the audience are. But in times when attention spans are shrinking at a great pace and most people are highly distracted, you...
In our previous article, we gave you a glimpse of where the events industry is headed in the future when it comes to the adoption of new and upcoming technologies. (In case you haven’t read it yet, we do recommend you check it out here!) This...
The rapid evolution in technology is reshaping every industry, and the events industry isn’t an exception to this phenomenon. Having said this, it isn’t always easy to keep up with the pace at which the industry is adapting with newer forms of technology. Unless, of...
At Purple Patch one of the things we do rigorously is to double check everything the day before the event. This involves ‘walking in the shoes’ of a delegate, a presenter and the AV crew. Imagining at each stage of the process that we are...