Your First Solo Event? You’re Doing It Right!
You just finished your first solo event and you’re feeling really good about it. Now, it’s time to LISTEN to the professionals, who will tell you the most important things about making these events work for you.
Here are my top 10 tips for getting the most out of your event:
1.Take pictures!! We have a template for your pictures that you can edit and use for your social media posts. It is located under the “Printables” tab in the event portal. Use it so that we can share your success with our entire organization!
2.Give yourself a break. You did something amazing today! Be proud of yourself! Take some time to rest and recover from all of your hard work. You may even want to consider taking a day off from work tomorrow to recover fully. (We won’t tell!)
3.Remember that you don’t have to do everything alone. There are many people in our organization who are ready, willing and able to help you feel successful and supported at every step along the way. Start by reaching out to the person who invited you! They would love to hear how things went,
You just finished your first solo event and you’re feeling really good about it. Now, it’s time to LISTEN to the professionals, who will tell you the most important things about making these events work for you.
How do you know when it’s time to do a solo event?
You’ve been doing events with other people and they’re going well! You’re able to create strong rapport with the audience members and they seem to be responding well to your messages. It’s time, now, to take the next step and see if you can hold an event on your own.
How do I get started?
Start small: You want to make sure that you can plan and execute an event before trying anything too large. Aim for a group of 30-50 people and then grow from there. The more experience you have, the bigger your events will get!
Are there any unique challenges of doing a solo event?
Absolutely! When you’re doing an event with others, there are more opportunities for support from your peers. Make sure that you have someone in the room who can help out if something goes wrong or if things get overwhelming for you! How do I know
You just finished your first solo event and you’re feeling really good about it. Now, it’s time to LISTEN to the professionals, who will tell you the most important things about making these events work for you.
1. You created a community of people who had something in common to talk about.
2. You gave yourself an opportunity to create relationships with your guests that would have taken months of networking to accomplish in other ways.
3. You provided valuable information to people who might have thought they didn’t need what you have to offer them and now they do!
4. You made a great first impression and they are going to remember you and what you do because of this event!
5. You learned more than you can imagine about how to plan an event, which means your next one is going to be even better!
6. And finally, if you are an agent, guess what? YOU JUST WROTE A CONTRACT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You just finished your first solo event and you’re feeling really good about it. Now, it’s time to LISTEN to the professionals, who will tell you the most important things about making these events work for you.
1. You might be tempted to look at what your competition is doing for their events, but don’t do it. They aren’t doing anything different than what you are doing. Every event is individual and unique.
2. The key is not to worry about getting a big crowd or finding a great speaker—you’re both of those things and you have enough experience with other people’s events that you know how they work and can easily do the same thing yourself.
3. Just make sure that your next event has these three things: a message, an offer, and a call to action that asks attendees to do something right now (like buy tickets to another event).
You just finished your first solo event and you’re feeling really good about it. Now, it’s time to LISTEN to the professionals, who will tell you the most important things about making these events work for you.
We know you want to start planning your next event immediately, but we strongly suggest that you take a few days off from looking at spreadsheets and charts and lists of contacts. Allow yourself some time to relax and recharge. You’ll be able to go back over all the data with a fresh perspective and make better decisions for your next event.
Ask for feedback from everyone, including your volunteers and all of the participants as well as attendees. Send out a survey to everyone on your list, or have an online survey going during the event so people can give you instant feedback. Listen carefully to what people say, accept their suggestions where they make sense, and don’t take it personally if they don’t like something or have negative comments. You learn more from negative comments than you do from positive ones!
If you have any questions about anything I have said in this article, please feel free to contact me at any time!
As you are probably aware, many of our biggest millionaires are people who had nothing — and then they worked their way to the top. They started by doing what you did: hosting events that were low-cost and high-impact. As we’ve said before, your first solo event is a milestone in your journey to success.
But how do you KNOW you’re on the right track? How can you tell if your event was “good enough”? To answer those questions, we asked our top millionaires for their advice on how to host a great event. Here are the most important things to remember:
1. MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR TIME AT THE EVENT
This may seem obvious, but it’s still worth repeating. Your time at the event is finite — so make the most of it! Don’t get bogged down in the details. Focus on getting through the day as quickly and painlessly as possible. Remember: time is money, so spend it wisely!
2. TAKE ADVANTAGE OF ALL THE RESOURCES AT YOUR DISPOSAL
You’ve done your research and learned as much as you can about hosting an event on your own — but that doesn’
The first thing that came to mind when I asked myself what my favorite event was, was also the first event I ever did by myself. Back in January of 2009, I started planning an event for the summer outside of my school at a local park. I went to the park, met with their head of programming, and we planned a “Country Fair” that would include a petting zoo, pony rides, and games like potato sack races and water balloon tosses.
I worked really hard on this event. It took me months to plan it out, create flyers and get them around town, find volunteers to help out on the day of the event, order T-shirts for everyone involved so they could identify themselves as volunteers and so people who came could easily know where to go if they had questions or needed directions.
When I wasn’t working on this project alone, I had friends helping me make plans or brainstorm ideas. My friends were super supportive and helpful because they knew how important this was to me. If they weren’t coming up with ideas or helping come up with games for the day of our event, they were helping me pass out flyers or answering questions on Facebook about our event.
When the day finally came, we
