The Events Podcast

Listen on: iTunes / Podbean / Stitcher / Spotify / YouTube Diversity is becoming something people are much more aware of nowadays and our guest this week Redgina Hill is the Diversity and Inclusion Officer at a University in Indiana. In addition, she has branched out to form her own consulting practice. Redgina is running her first event next month so it’s the perfect time to talk to someone about how they are putting a first event together, plus promoting and planning it. We also discuss what she hopes to get from the event and what her plans are to grow the business afterward. This podcast is brought to you by www.eventsframe.com - Effortless ticketing and attendee management with NO ticket fees...Make the switch from Eventbrite today. Email dan@eventsframe.com with the subject line ‘PODCAST’ for a special discount code. I hope you enjoyed the podcast and if you did please leave us an iTunes review it really means a lot to us! Finally please join our Facebook Community of #eventprofs to keep the learning going Get in touch with me via dantaylor.me You contact Redgina at https://www.redginahillconsulting.org/about Sign up to our newsletter, delivered every Friday to get notified when the podcast is live, plus the latest events news of the week!

Listen on: iTunes / Podbean / Stitcher / Spotify / YouTube On The Events Podcast, we have spoken to a lot of people running retreats in beach or mountain locations. Today's guest though has taken it to the next level! He is running a huge conference for over 300 entrepreneurs in the Canadian Wilderness and attracting big-name speakers for free. Find out how he’s done it on this weeks interview. This podcast is brought to you by www.eventsframe.com - Effortless ticketing and attendee management with NO ticket fees....Make the switch from Eventbrite today. Email dan@eventsframe.com with the subject line ‘PODCAST’ for a special discount code. I hope you enjoyed the podcast and if you did please leave us an iTunes review it really means a lot to us! Finally please join our Facebook Community of #eventprofs to keep the learning going Get in touch with me via dantaylor.me You contact Steven at https://firesideconf.com/  Sign up to our newsletter, delivered every Friday to get notified when the podcast is live, plus the latest events news of the week!

Listen on: iTunes / Podbean / Stitcher / Spotify / YouTube I’m fascinated by anything to do with the music industry and today's guest Romeo Crow has a long career as a  professional musician. He started running a series of open-mic nights across London and the UK and has grown it into a huge business with events every day of the week. We talk about: Romeo's background as a musician How to make money as a musician in 2019 Open-mic events - what are they? The business model for open-mic nights - Romeo gets paid by the venue (pub) and we discuss how he recruits new venues to act as hosts How Romeo makes sure he always has enough musicians every night, and his ongoing recruitment process for musicians Romeo’s business systems: Romeo is of a fellow fan of ‘The e-Myth’ book and systemizes everything…. Including buying a new PA and other equipment for each venue and storing it on site to save on transportation. He also keeps all equipment the same brand and model so his staff can operate it easily. Celebrity news! Find out which famous musicians turned up for Romeos open-mic nights!  This podcast is brought to you by www.eventsframe.com - Effortless ticketing and attendee management with NO ticket fees....Make the switch from Eventbrite today. Email dan@eventsframe.com with the subject line ‘PODCAST’ for a special discount code. I hope you enjoyed the podcast and if you did please leave us an iTunes review it really means a lot to us! Sign up to our newsletter, delivered every Friday to get notified when the podcast is live, plus the latest events news of the week! Finally please join our Facebook Community of #eventprofs to keep the learning going Get in touch with me via dantaylor.me You contact Romeo at https://romeocrow.me/

Listen on: iTunes / Podbean / Stitcher / Spotify / YouTube It’s something every event producer thinks at one time….  “I’d love to sell my events company.” But is it even possible, and who would buy your event or events? On this week's episode of ‘The Events Podcast’, I spoke with Steve Mornington from Mayfield Merger Strategies. Steve is a ‘business broker’ for selling events, and his company handles the whole ‘Merger & Acquisition’ process. This is an amazing interview for anyone who may be thinking about selling their event in the future. Steve is super knowledgeable on this topic and handles multiple millions in deal flow each year. On the interview we get into: What type of events are the easiest to sell The difference between ‘Conference businesses’ and ‘Exhibition businesses’ When to sell your event How to sell your event Who is buying events right now The role of private equity companies in events How many times profit do events sell for What the sale process looks like Does the seller have to be involved in future years? What is the outlook like for selling your event in the next few years? The importance of travel when running a global business This podcast is brought to you by www.eventsframe.com - Effortless ticketing and attendee management with NO ticket fees....Make the switch from Eventbrite today :) Email dan@eventsframe.com with the subject line ‘PODCAST’ for a special discount code. I hope you enjoyed the podcast and if you did please leave us an iTunes review it really means a lot to us! Sign up to our newsletter, delivered every Friday to get notified when the podcast is live, plus the latest events news of the week! Finally please join our Facebook Community of #eventprofs to keep the learning going Get in touch with me via dantaylor.me You contact Steve through his website or connect with him on Twitter. Check out also the link below: How much is your exhibition worth?

Listen on: iTunes / Podbean / Stitcher / Spotify / YouTube I’ve known John Mikton for over 9 years now and he’s been a huge help and a mentor to me as I launched my company AppsEvents. I wanted to talk to John on the podcast as he’s a really interesting guy...A lot of listeners don't know about the world of ‘International Schools, but John has used them as a way to live and work quite literally across the World and raise a family along the way. John is one of the best people I know at building up his knowledge and connections to become an expert in a specific niche and we talk about how he did this. He also is a sought after trainer and conference speaker so we get into how this came about. Finally, John has been involved in dozens of conferences across the world so we discuss some things that he recommends that work really well. In this interview we discuss: His background and how he got started with International Schools How he used this job to live all around the World, including Tanzania, Tokyo, Prague, Zurich, Luxemburg Building his profile as an influencer. Why he went ‘deep not wide’ and build up a huge name as someone on the narrow field of International School Education Technology Working as a trainer and speaking at conferences We discuss some of the events we have run together and what John has seen work well with conferences This podcast is brought to you by www.eventsframe.com - Effortless ticketing and attendee management with NO ticket fees...Make the switch from Eventbrite today. Email dan@eventsframe.com with the subject line ‘PODCAST’ for a special discount code. I hope you enjoyed the podcast and if you did please leave us an iTunes review it really means a lot to us! Sign up to our newsletter, delivered every Friday to get notified when the podcast is live, plus the latest events news of the week! Finally please join our Facebook Community of #eventprofs to keep the learning going Get in touch with me via dantaylor.me More information on John is below: https://www.facebook.com/groups/217006628337791/ https://beyonddigital.org/

Listen on: iTunes / Podbean / Stitcher / Spotify / YouTube It’s great to have returning guest Jeff Berwick back on the podcast to talk about the recent ‘Anarchapulco 2019’ conference. This year the conference doubled in size to 2000 people which brought with it a new set of challenges. Jeff runs a conference for Anarchists which is a hugely fascinating topic in itself, but this year there was a lot of drama which leads to a lot of cancellations before the event. There was the tragic shooting before the conference of a member of Jeffs community, plus the decline in Bitcoin price (many attendees had paid with Bitcoin and Jeff had not hedged against this). However, against all these odds Jeff pulled off a great event. He explains how he structured his committee to run things without him getting involved directly (Jeff is a true ‘hands off’ manager) and we talk a lot about how to get a team to run a large event successfully. Check out our first interview with Jeff too about the background to Anarchapulco This podcast is brought to you by www.eventsframe.com - Effortless ticketing and attendee management with NO ticket fees....Make the switch from Eventbrite today. Email dan@eventsframe.com with the subject line ‘PODCAST’ for a special discount code. I hope you enjoyed the podcast and if you did please leave us an iTunes review it really means a lot to us! Sign up to our newsletter, delivered every Friday to get notified when the podcast is live, plus the latest events news of the week! Finally please join our Facebook Community of #eventprofs to keep the learning going Get in touch with me via dantaylor.me More information on Jeff is below: https://anarchapulco.com/ https://www.youtube.com/user/TheDollarVigilante/featured

Listen on: iTunes / Podbean / Stitcher / Spotify / YouTube / Sign up for our newsletter, delivered every Friday for the latest Podcast and more info on getting you started running amazing events. It was great to chat to David who is co founder of Demio - some really cool webinar software (that integrates with EventsFrame of course ;)) It’s a great entrepreneur ‘origin story’. David is one of the new breeds of entrepreneurs who have never had a job, and I really love these stories, as when I came out of college it wasn’t an option to start an online business but now it’s a viable career choice. David had a lot of false starts including launching 4 web apps before he stuck with Demio and even then it took 2 years to launch it, so it was a real struggle in the early days. We also learn about running virtual meetups, training and events via webinars and discuss: How to keep people engaged with regular activities, quizzes etc. How to sell a virtual event using testimonials and social proof If you want to hear more of David, he interviewed me on his podcast about the story of EventsFrame so check it out here it was a fun chat The podcast is sponsored by www.eventsframe.com - Effortless ticketing and attendee management with NO ticket fees and plans from just $20/month! Email dan@eventsframe.com with the subject line ‘PODCAST’ for a special secret discount code I hope you enjoyed the podcast and please leave us a review anywhere on the web it really means a lot to us! Finally please join our Facebook Community of #eventprofs to keep the learning going and get in touch with me via dantaylor.me Sign up to our newsletter, delivered every Friday to get notified when the podcast is live, plus the latest events news of the week! More information on David can be found below and please check out his podcast directly it’s really cool!: https://learn.demio.com/podcast/  

Listen on: iTunes / Podbean / Stitcher / Spotify / YouTube / Sign up for our newsletter, delivered every Friday for the latest Podcast and more info on getting you started running amazing events. This week's episode is a bit different. I was delighted to be a guest on the ‘More Travel in Life Podcast’ with Jen Miller to talk about travel and business. I’ve always been fairly nomadic and been able to run conferences and training events remotely, and we discuss how I did it, and also how we manage a remote team distributed around the World. I actually wrote a Medium post about how running live events are a great business for digital nomads which ties in pretty well to this interview. The podcast is sponsored by www.eventsframe.com - Effortless ticketing and attendee management with NO ticket fees and plans from just $20/month! Email dan@eventsframe.com with the subject line ‘PODCAST’ for a special secret discount code. I hope you enjoyed the podcast and please leave us a review anywhere on the web it really means a lot to us! Finally please join our Facebook Community of #eventprofs to keep the learning going and get in touch with me via dantaylor.me Sign up to our newsletter, delivered every Friday to get notified when the podcast is live, plus the latest events news of the week!  

Listen on: iTunes / Podbean / Stitcher / Spotify / YouTube / Sign up for our newsletter, delivered every Friday for the latest Podcast and more info on getting you started running amazing events. Jethro is a former professional squash player whose career was cut short when he suffered a career-ending injury on court. He used this to his advantage and formed squashskills.com, a successful membership site for squash players. In this wide-ranging discussion, we get into a lot of topics including: Turning an injury into an opportunity Starting a subscription membership site and bring profit from month 1! How to run sporting coaching events How Jethro promotes his electronic music events The podcast is sponsored by www.eventsframe.com - Effortless ticketing and attendee management with NO ticket fees and plans from just $20/month! Email dan@eventsframe.com with the subject line ‘PODCAST’ for a special secret discount code. I hope you enjoyed the podcast and please leave us a review anywhere on the web it really means a lot to us! Finally please join our Facebook Community of #eventprofs to keep the learning going…. and get in touch with me via dantaylor.me Sign up to our newsletter, delivered every Friday to get notified when the podcast is live, plus the latest events news of the week! More information on Jethro can be found below: www.squashskills.com

Listen on: iTunes / Podbean / Stitcher / Spotify / YouTube / Sign up for our newsletter, delivered every Friday for the latest Podcast and more info on getting you started running amazing events. This week's episode features an amazing entrepreneur Chris Ducker. Chris runs The YouPreneur Summit, an annual conference with over 500 attendees, and has used meetups and masterminds throughout the growth of his many businesses. He’s a super inspiring guy and I think you are going to love this conversation. In our chat we discuss: Going to Cebu, Philippines - why he went there How Chris became a ‘virtual CEO’ and only occasionally goes in to the office Becoming an outsourcing expert and founding www.virtualstafffinder.com What it’s like to start a BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) company in the Philippines Running ‘Tropical Think Tank’ a high ticket price ($4000) event in the Philippines Becoming a personal branding expert the Youpreneur expert Why and how did he start the ‘Youpreneur Summit’ in London Full circle - Why Chris moved back to the UK The podcast is sponsored by www.eventsframe.com - Effortless ticketing and attendee management with NO ticket fees and plans from just $20/month! Email dan@eventsframe.com with the subject line ‘PODCAST’ for a special secret discount code I hope you enjoyed the podcast and please leave us a review anywhere on the web it really means a lot to us! Finally please join our Facebook Community of #eventprofs to keep the learning going…. and get in touch with me via dantaylor.me Sign up to our newsletter, delivered every Friday to get notified when the podcast is live, plus the latest events news of the week! More information on Chris can be found below and please check out his podcast directly it’s really cool!: www.youpreneur.com www.youpreneursummit.com/ www.chrisducker.com

Listen on: iTunes / Podbean / Stitcher / Spotify / YouTube / Sign up for our newsletter, delivered every Friday for the latest Podcast and more info on getting you started running amazing events. This week's episode is a bit different. I was delighted to be a guest on the ‘SaaS Breakthrough Podcast’ with David Abrams from Demio to talk about EventsFrame, the ticketing system I co founded. I am often asked about the backstory of EventsFrame by listeners so this is a great way to tell the full story. I thought I would post it here as I get into a lot of detail about how we founded the software and a lot of the problems and ‘war stories’ of our entrepreneurial adventure so far. If you are thinking about starting an app or software for event producers this is the episode for you! In this interview we discuss: Founding AppsEvents - our Google for Education Partner company How we came to start EventsFrame to use ourselves AppSumo - What it is…...and the good, the bad and the ugly of doing an AppSumo offer How to make your ticketing software more viral How podcasting really helps you grow your network How hard it is to start a business, and how there is no substitute in the beginning for hours and hours spent contacting potential customers What are our plans for EventsFrame - (Side note we are looking for a sales and marketing co founder so get in touch!) The podcast is sponsored by www.eventsframe.com - Effortless ticketing and attendee management with NO ticket fees and plans from just $20/month! Email dan@eventsframe.com with the subject line ‘PODCAST’ for a special secret discount code. I hope you enjoyed the podcast and please leave us a review anywhere on the web it really means a lot to us! Finally please join our Facebook Community of #eventprofs to keep the learning going…. and get in touch with me via dantaylor.me Sign up to our newsletter, delivered every Friday to get notified when the podcast is live, plus the latest events news of the week! More information on David can be found below and please check out his podcast directly it’s really cool!: https://learn.demio.com/podcast/  

Listen on: iTunes / Podbean / Stitcher / Spotify / YouTube / Sign up for our newsletter, delivered every Friday for the latest Podcast and more info on getting you started running amazing events. The world of social media marketing is one I’m just getting to grips with so it was great to talk with Masiska who is an expert on the topic. She has worked not only with event organisers but with hotels, resorts and destinations which is interesting to hear about things from the other side also. ‘Social media influencers’ has a lot of negative connotations (to me anyway) but Mariska explains how to find experts in your field and how you can use influencers to make your event a success ...even on zero budget. In this interview we discuss: What are social media influencers and how can you use them even on zero budget Learn how your speakers are an influencer that you can use to support your event (Connected point: Check out the interview with Liam Martin and his tips on how to get your speakers to record YouTube promo videos) The ‘MPI’ organization and how attending it’s meetups can help you build a career in the events industry How to make a standard promo post about your event and give it to your speakers and anyone else involved in your event to promote The importance of looking at social media as a conversation, not just you promoting yourself Why LinkedIn is still Mariska's favourite channel as it’s completely business focussed Some great tips on how to connect with people on LinkedIn and use ‘sales navigator’ successfully How to negotiate with venues and use your social media marketing to help this The podcast is sponsored by www.eventsframe.com - Effortless ticketing and attendee management with NO ticket fees and plans from just $20/month! Email dan@eventsframe.com with the subject line ‘PODCAST’ for a special secret discount code ;) I hope you enjoyed the podcast and please leave us a review anywhere on the web it really means a lot to us! Finally please join our Facebook Community of #eventprofs to keep the learning going…. and get in touch with me via dantaylor.me Sign up to our newsletter, delivered every Friday to get notified when the podcast is live, plus the latest events news of the week! More information on Mariska can be found below: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariska-kesteloo-influencermarketing/ http://www.wordofmice.com/

Listen on: iTunes / Podbean / Stitcher / Spotify / YouTube / Sign up for our newsletter, delivered every Friday for the latest Podcast and more info on getting you started running amazing events. I’ve known Coran for a few years. Along with his wife Leanne they live a fairly nomadic life, but often spend 3-4 months in Prague where we have spent a lot of time together. It was also an interesting chat from a general business & entrepreneurship stand point following on from my chat with Anton Kraly last week about Drop Shipping as Amazon FBA selling is a different but business model We also have a great discussion about promoting yourself online including newsletter, YouTube/Facebook/Instagram video strategies to do week in week out, including how Coran repurposes content to all channels and his exact workflow. In this interview we also discuss: How Coran started by networking his way on to podcasts How Coran bombed at his first speaking event in Hong Kong…. and this still led to Coran getting a customer! How Coran got his first paid speaking arrangement (in Ukraine) Corans hack for speaking to attendees after he has presented to maximise his contacts The importance of networking with speakers and sponsors at the event The reasons why Coran still speaks for free all the time even though he gets paid to speak If you enjoyed this chat check out two related interviews: Anton Kraly who talks about dropshipping as Amazon FBA selling is a different but similar business model Corbin Ball who is a sought after speaker on the subject of events and event technology If you want more podcasts about about selling your business check out interviews with Steve Monnington and Justin Cooke This podcast is sponsored by www.eventsframe.com - Effortless ticketing and attendee management with NO ticket fees and plans from just $20/month! Email dan@eventsframe.com with the subject line ‘PODCAST’ for a special secret discount code. I hope you enjoyed the podcast and if you did please share the podcast with one person you think will enjoy it. This REALLY helps us. Finally please join our Facebook Community of #eventprofs to keep the learning going…. and get in touch with me via dantaylor.me Sign up to our newsletter, delivered every Friday to get notified when the podcast is live, plus the latest events news of the week! More information on Coran can be found on https://thefbabroker.com/about  

Listen on: iTunes / Podbean / Stitcher / Spotify / YouTube / Sign up for our newsletter-delivered every Friday to get notified when the podcast is live, plus we send you weekly tips that you can use right now to run profitable events! Anton runs the hugely popular website Dropship lifestyle where he teaches people to set up and run dropship stores…. a really interesting business model where you set up an online store with no inventory and of course run your business from anywhere. In this interview we discuss: What is drop shipping? And how it is a great way to make money online How Anton structures his business with an office in Austin and a Philippines remote team How Anton runs annual retreats for his community for around 100 people in locations such as Thailand, Hawaii, Prague and more! What he’s learned from over six years of continuously running an annual event This podcast is sponsored by www.eventsframe.com - Effortless ticketing and attendee management with NO ticket fees and plans from just $20/month! Email dan@eventsframe.com with the subject line ‘PODCAST’ for a special secret discount code. I hope you enjoyed the podcast and if you did please share the podcast with one person you think will enjoy it. This REALLY helps us. Finally please join our Facebook Community of #eventprofs to keep the learning going…. and get in touch with me via dantaylor.me More information on Anton can be found at https://www.dropshiplifestyle.com/retreat/

Listen on: iTunes / Podbean / Stitcher / Spotify / YouTube / Sign up for our newsletter, delivered every Friday for the latest Podcast and more info on getting you started running amazing events. By popular demand we have Will Kunhardt returning to the podcast for the second time. If you didn’t get to check out Will’s first appearance and talk about his journey from classical conductor to ‘immersive events’ mogul it’s a ‘must listen’ so check it out wherever you listen to your podcasts. There's also a direct link below: https://goo.gl/kHdTFZ This interview takes place three months after the last one. Will has just finished an epic two month run of the Great Christmas Feast in London, an ‘Immersive Experience’ on an epic scale….every day for two months….so we get into all the stories while they are still fresh in his mind. This interview is amazing in that we have some inspiring ‘big picture’ visions of someone building a growing company, combined with some actionable tips to get attendees to your events right now. In this interview we discuss: The problems setting up the feast, including his idea to bring a crane in at midnight to Central London to secretly lift in kitchen equipment The importance of recruiting a good Project Manager and how Will didn’t need to be there ‘in person Will talks about going full time and founding his events company The Lost Estate Will talks about what’s next The Lost Love Speakeasy his most ambitions event yet and one with no end date. Their plans for an agency to help other run ‘Immersive Experiences’ We give you some AMAZING and actionable tips to help promote your events including: Lead ads for Instagram Multiple landing pages for different interests - micro targeting Divi for Wordpress YouTube pre roll ads Two layered ads on Facebook This podcast is sponsored by www.eventsframe.com - Effortless ticketing and attendee management with NO ticket fees and plans from just $20.month! Email dan@eventsframe.com with the subject line ‘PODCAST’ for a special secret discount code. I hope you enjoyed the podcast and if you did please leave us a review anywhere on the web it really means a lot to us ! Finally please join our Facebook Community of #eventprofs to keep the learning going…. and get in touch with me via dantaylor.me Sign up to our newsletter, delivered every Friday to get notified when the podcast is live, plus the latest events news of the week! More information on Will can be found on below: https://www.thelostestate.com/ http://lostlovespeakeasy.thelostestate.com/ http://insidetheestate.com/   Will email will@theaco.co.uk