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Discover the Benefits of Multi-year Event Contracts

As we approach the end of the year, many of our clients have begun planning their 2024 events, which helps them secure the best venues, competitive pricing, and inspired event design. But you can enjoy even greater advantages when you think beyond your next event and bundle multiple events at once.

The Site Selection Issue

This post prepares you to more confidently select live event venues and offers cost considerations to help maximize your event budget. As a full-service, live events partner, we immerse ourselves in your event. From the creative design and technical details to the venue selection, contract terms, and seamless production, we offer peace of mind that every aspect of your event has been meticulously designed and executed to reflect your vision and delight your audience.

The Most Overlooked Budget Items in Site Selection

Based on our extensive experience, we compiled four areas where event planners typically exceed their event venue budget. Consider these items before budgeting your next event to help you minimize venue overages.

Three Questions We Ask During Global Site Visits

We have successfully designed and produced live events all over the world. Our experience has taught us several key questions to ask when conducting a site visit in another country. Here, we outline three of the questions we explore when helping clients plan an overseas event.

The Budget Issue

Many of our clients are entering budget season, so we’re providing some tips to help you reduce unexpected expenses, save money, and accurately plan your budget. As a full-service, live events partner, we’re always available to help co-create your event budget with you to ensure you maximize your money and eliminate many surprises.

Sign Multi-year Event Contracts to Reap Big Budget Benefits

As we approach budget season, many of our clients have begun planning their events for 2026 and beyond, which helps them secure the best venues, competitive pricing, and inspired event design. But you can enjoy even greater savings, especially in your budget, when you bundle multiple events at once with a full-service partner like EPS Events. We skillfully negotiate and manage multi-year event contracts for clients so they can reap these great budget benefits:

Don’t Forget these Often-overlooked Items when Budgeting for 2026 & Beyond

Based on our extensive experience, we compiled four areas where event planners typically exceed their event venue budget. Consider these items before budgeting your events to help you minimize venue overages.

The Experiential Issue

According to HubSpot's The State of Marketing Report, 16% of marketers plan to try experiential marketing, like engaging audiences in real life with pop-ups or events, for the first time this year. If your company is part of that 16% or you're still evaluating whether experiential events are right for you, read on friend! In this issue, we'll dive into some of the trends and considerations when planning your first—or next—experiential event. And, as a full-service events agency, we’ll gladly work with you to co-create an experiential event tailored for your specific needs, goals, and audiences.

Trends in Experiential Events

Experiential events can take many forms, but typically share some common characteristics, such as interactivity, storytelling, and personalization. Designed to create memorable and engaging experiences, adding experiential elements can help customers develop an emotional connection with a brand or product. Here are four experiential trends we’re seeing in the industry that you should explore for your next event.

Three Considerations When Planning an Experiential Event

Whether it’s a concert, pop-up shop, virtual reality simulation, brand activation, educational gamification, or other experiential elements, thousands of memorable experiences can be created for your audiences based on your goals and imagination. To reduce overwhelm and give you a starting point, we suggest you focus on these three aspects first as you plan your audience's ideal brand experience.

The Technical Issue

Creating memorable events is as much about the technical production as it is the artistic and visual design. In this issue, we’ll explore some of the top technical topics that often surprise clients, resulting in higher production costs. As a full-service events agency, we work with you to avoid unnecessary expenses by providing comprehensive technical assessments and expert advice before you sign any contracts with your venue of choice. With our 30+ years in the industry, we know the right questions to ask to save you time and money.

Top Five Reasons Why You Need Backstage Event Space

Allotting space for an adequate backstage area is a necessary part of your event. There are several reasons why you should include backstage space in your technical floorplan, and we’ve compiled our top five that will really add value to your next event.

Save Time & Money on Site Selection

Before you sign a contract with your event site, it’s critical to ensure your audience AND all the necessary technical equipment will fit in the space. Venues throughout the world primarily look at maximizing the room with audience seats, NOT production elements—such as staging, rigging, and other specifications.

The Elevate Your Event

As you plan your end-of-year celebrations, CES exhibit booths, and 2025 kick-off meetings, let us help you elevate those events to leave a lasting impression while simultaneously achieving your goals. Below we explore some of the latest trends and ideas to help you stand out, but if you need more inspiration tailored specifically to your company or event, contact us today!

Exhibiting at CES? Seven Strategies to Uplevel Your Booth

CES is just around the corner and we’re sharing seven ideas to boost the impact of your booth and help your company stand out to the thousands of expected attendees. But hurry! January is just around the corner and these ideas take time to successfully plan and implement. We’re here to help. Schedule a call with our creative and technical teams to discuss bringing your ideas into reality.

Hot Trends for Sales Kick Off Meetings

January is the most popular time for companies to host Sales Kick Off meetings (SKOs) with their regional, national, and international teams. Here are a few ideas to help increase engagement and keep your meetings fresh.

Planning the Event…but Losing the Brand?

As planners, you're often tasked with more than just executing events, you're responsible for delivering on brand, on message, and on budget. But there’s one area that often catches teams off guard: