Shadows and Highlights: Crafting Exceptional Events Around a Solar Eclipse

Shadows and Highlights: Crafting Exceptional Events Around a Solar Eclipse

Organizing your event to coincide with a solar eclipse offers a unique opportunity to engage attendees on a profound level. By integrating eclipse-themed activities and marketing initiatives, you can harness the anticipation and curiosity surrounding the celestial event to create unforgettable experiences. However, careful planning is essential to manage contingencies like weather and visibility, ensuring that your event remains impactful regardless of external factors. Ultimately, synchronizing your event with a solar eclipse allows you to craft deeply enriching experiences that leave a lasting impression on your audience.

How to Make Your Conference Stand Out from the Competition

How to Make Your Conference Stand Out from the Competition

In a sea of conferences, distinguishing yours is crucial. This blog offers quick insights on embracing a unique theme, innovating the format, focusing on quality content, enhancing networking, delivering a seamless experience, creative marketing, and valuing feedback. By blending creativity, innovation, and meticulous planning, you can create a memorable event that sets a new standard in the conference industry.

Creating Inclusive Hybrid Events: A Practical Guide

Creating Inclusive Hybrid Events: A Practical Guide

In the modern landscape of event planning, hybrid formats have become synonymous with innovation and inclusivity. However, the true power of hybrid events lies not only in their technological prowess but also in their ability to cater to diverse audiences in a meaningful way. Inclusivity isn't just a checkbox; it's a fundamental principle that shapes every aspect of event design and execution. From accessibility features to interactive content, embracing inclusivity ensures that every participant feels valued and engaged, regardless of their physical location or mode of attendance.

5 Smart Strategies to Control Audiovisual and Production Costs for Your Event

5 Smart Strategies to Control Audiovisual and Production Costs for Your Event

Discover savvy strategies to manage your event's audiovisual and production costs without compromising quality. Learn how to prioritize needs, negotiate with vendors, leverage existing technology, streamline setup times, and opt for rentals over purchases. Perfect for event planners seeking to balance superior experiences with budget constraints.

Three Reasons to Implement Design Thinking for Event Transformation... And One Reason Not To

Three Reasons to Implement Design Thinking for Event Transformation... And One Reason Not To

We rely on events to inspire, motivate, educate, network, and inform. It's no wonder that if these events are not designed properly, they can leave attendees drained of energy and disappointed – And that ultimately hurts your ROI and your bottom line. We're sharing three reasons why you should implement the Event Design Canvas(EDC) and one reason why you shouldn't.

Written by Katie K Riggs

It’s Time to Refine and Refuel Your Life

It’s Time to Refine and Refuel Your Life

Women often put themselves at the bottom of the list, and by the time everything else is done, there’s not enough energy to even think about themselves, let alone do something about it. After two long years, our Refine & Refuel event is back to help you focus on your mental, emotional, or physical well-being while strengthening your connections with others.

Written by Katie K Riggs

Ivan H. Scheir’s Windows of Work: A Tool for Volunteer Placement and Engagement

Ivan H. Scheir’s Windows of Work: A Tool for Volunteer Placement and Engagement

This month I was invited to speak at an amazing association focused on women’s empowerment and leadership. The program was a motivational and content-rich experience for the attendees. I was charged with closing out the program and inspiring the women to take the information they gained and put it to good use.

Written by Karyn Nishimura Sneath, Npower

Do You Wish We Had a Crystal Ball for 2022?

Do You Wish We Had a Crystal Ball for 2022?

If you feel like we have been on a roller coaster for the last two years, you aren’t alone. Those of us in the meeting and event industry have been on the ride of our lives. Of course COVID has played a large role in this, but there are many other contributing factors such as heightened social awareness, political unrest, and labor and supply chain shortages — to name just a few.

Written by Katie K Riggs

Riggs & Co: 2021 A Year in Review

Riggs & Co: 2021 A Year in Review

I cannot believe we are days away from the close of another calendar year. It feels like we were just saying good riddance to 2020 yesterday! While 2021 may not have been the breath of fresh air most hoped for, it was overall a successful year for Riggs & Co and our clients. This year brought on a fair share of opportunities for us to grow and stretch our skill sets while supporting our clients in moving through a year that was full of surprises.

Written by Katie K Riggs

Are You Looking to Set Business Goals in 2022?

Are You Looking to Set Business Goals in 2022?

At Riggs & Co, we are dreamers and believe in setting lofty, yet attainable, goals each and every year. We believe this is a key ingredient to the consistent growth we have experienced since opening our doors. Whether or not you own your company, you should be setting yourself up for success by outlining a plan for the year ahead. Without goals, you have no way to monitor your company’s progress or keep yourself or your team accountable. Goals help create a clear path for your company and get you headed in the right direction.

Written by Katie K Riggs