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New in Budgets: One Change, Every Version of your Event Budget Updated

Linked budget lines in the eventplanner.net event software keep your scenarios in sync while you keep the freedom to make them different.

Print Badges at the Speed of a Scan - New in our Event Software

Every event planner knows the scene. A long table at the entrance, hundreds of badges laid out alphabetically, two hostesses digging through the S-row while the queue backs up to the parking lot.

1 Week Left: the Countdown Stops on September 30.

Thousands of event companies deserve the award from eventplanner.net. Most never receive it, for one trivial reason.

Festivals are Increasingly about More than Music

4 out of 10 young festival-goers expect to possibly use more drugs than in previous years.

Why Half your Free-Event Registrations won't Show Up, and What Actually Fixes It

Every organiser of free events knows the maths: the room is set for 200, catering is paid for 200, and 120 walk in. It feels like bad luck. It isn't. It's one of the most predictable numbers in the industry, and one of the most fixable.

Draw Your Entire Event Layout, to Scale, in our Event Software

Last week you asked us if Seating could handle full event layouts. It couldn't. Now it can: trace your venue to scale, draw the walls, place the bar and the stage, and send one plan to everyone who has to build the room.

How to Build Attendee Personas for Your Event

Event audiences are like buyers; you must know them well to make an impact. And by 'well', we mean 'extremely well'.

Secretly Building Stands for Your Employer's Client? This Project Manager Now Owes €200.000

A project manager at a Dutch stand-building company spent part of his employment quietly running jobs for one of his employer's...

The 90-minute Event

Somewhere in the last few years the default event stopped being obviously worth a day. Diaries got denser, travel budgets got scrutinised, and the person you most want in the room became the person least able to give you eight hours.

Post your vacancies on eventplanner.net!

The war for talent is fierce in the event industry. Are you looking for a suitable employee? eventplanner.net helps you fill vacancies faster.

Design your floor plan, seat your guests: Seating comes to eventplanner.net

One visual floor plan that seats your guests, guides your attendees and briefs your door staff. Now launching in beta for eventplanner.PRO users.

How to Navigate the Differences Between B2B and B2C Events

Just like running a software business for the health insurance industry is completely different from building a media startup for millennials, planning B2B events is nothing like organizing B2C events.

AI labelling rules have landed. Here is where they bite in event promotion

What changed on 2 August 2026, what it means for your campaign visuals, and the clauses to add to your agency brief.

TIP! - Checklist Event Budget

Drawing up a budget is a continuous, on-going process. It is best to start with a global approximation of costs. Do this before you ask for price tenders. This will allow you to check whether or not you are approaching your project realistically.

Who will be the Best Event Company or Venue of 2026?

eventplanner.net is awarding the best event venues and companies for the 10th time this year. Who will win the coveted award? Vote for your favourite now.

A Heat Plan for Your Outdoor Event

The June 2026 heatwave took out a string of European festivals in a single weekend. Not all were prepared for the heat. Two lessons.

How to Design an Attendee's Journey from Beginning to End

What makes a business truly successful? Is it the products? Or is it more about the marketing strategy? How do affluent entrepreneurs manage to turn their clients into loyal brand ambassadors? And most importantly, could we, as event professionals, learn something from them?

Business travel spending hits a record $1.71 trillion - but almost nobody is travelling more

Companies are spending more on business travel than at any point in history. They are not, however, sending many more people anywhere. This has direct consequences for anyone who organises events for a living.