by Auaha | Sep 11, 2019 | Planning
Managing an outside speaker for a large event can get complicated! That’s why I want to share a few tips and tricks that will aid you in simplifying speaker management for your next conference. When you envision your upcoming event, you won’t get far without...
by Auaha | Aug 27, 2019 | Strategy
When debriefing, you’ll be evaluating event success by taking a look at three key essentials: Stop, Keep, Start. But before we dig into the actual debriefing, I want to address something that I see happening to a number of organisations. Far too many event planners,...
by Auaha | Aug 13, 2019 | Strategy
Some of those best trips are those that end with the people we love and enjoy most in this world. Today I’m going to share how conference planning is really a journey, and hopefully provide a few ideas for how you can get your delegates excited about joining that...
by Auaha | Jul 30, 2019 | Top Tips
Start Planning Early If your goal is to just throw something together, you may technically have an “event”, but it won’t be nearly as profitable as it could have been. Amazing, profitable events, the kind that attract the best delegates, don’t come about last minute....
by Auaha | Mar 13, 2019 | Famil
I adore the eighties, it’s probably my favourite decade. The earlier half in particular, the clothes, (OMG the clothes!) the make up, the music, the dance moves, such a mixed bag of goodies, this is my go to ‘music’ era after a couple of glasses of vino. So...
by Auaha | Feb 26, 2019 | Famil
I’ve organised a few meetings in the mighty Waikato, but had never actually been there; so it’s safe to say, this was the first experience of the region with my event manager goggles on. To be completely honest, I wasn’t expecting much – my inside voice was...
by Auaha | Jan 28, 2019 | Famil
Up bright and early for packing, checking out and depositing the luggage with the concierge then off to our first location. Once again the sun shone on Auckland and the sun glasses stayed firmly fixed. Now call me nieve, but I didn’t expect to see such a...
by Auaha | Jan 27, 2019 | Famil
I love airports, honestly, I think I would live in an airport if I could, you know like Tom Hanks from that movie Terminal, (if you haven’t seen it I highly recommend it). So I was not about to turn down the chance to visit the mothership and fly off into the big...
by Auaha | Jan 26, 2019 | Behind the Scenes
January 1st is always a good time to reset for the coming year. It’s also the last quarter of the financial year, so a good time to get focused on hitting those financial goals before 31 March 2019. I don’t think of it so much as a time to set some new...
