Barter agreements – our daily bread and butter, AMPER Trade Fair #5

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Barter

Hi everyone,

today I would like to mention our daily bread and butter, grease on our wheels, sunshine of our days and moonlight of our nights. I would like to mention a barter agreements.

At the first place, what does barter mean. Well, basically it’s exchange of something for something. It could be goods, for goods, services for services. Best thing about it, you don’t need any money. (for detail info please visit Wikipedia)  We are using this type of agreement quite often. Usually 95% of our medial and professional cooperation are based on the principles of a barter agreement. Continue reading →

Puzzle called Floor Plans, AMPER Trade Fair #4

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Good evening from my time zone everyone.

It’s 11:15 p.m. and I have few minutes, to write down my weekly update from the trade fair organizing, until my first ever American pie is baked. At the end of the last week I started to work on the floor plan. Floor plan is one of the fundaments of every trade fair. Exhibitors are all hipped about the best possible positioning, visitors are guided by it during the event and for us managers it’s one big puzzle. Continue reading →

Pricing policy, AMPER Trade Fair #3

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Everything is about money. I mean not everything, but when you are making living out of something, it is usually about money. My job is no exception, even though I am doing event management which I consider as highly satisfying because of other reasons that making money. I have a business plan to meat and I am responsible for highest possible revenue from the event. That means not only for my company, but also for the companies participating in our event. Continue reading →

Practice makes masters – Public speaking skills, AMPER Trade Fair #2

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As the trade fair manager, I have to do great deal of promotion activities in order to present our trade fair to the public. With public presentations it’s the same like with almost everything you study at school. School gives you an idea what is it like, but reality is always different and you are never prepared as you would like to. I know about myself, that I am pretty good speaker, with pretty good presentation skills and decent body language, but still I was really nervous before my first public presentation. Continue reading →

The D-Day, Foto Expo #2 + gallery

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I’ve got to be honest here. Every time I participate in organization of such an event as festival or trade fair, it reminds me why I always wanted to do this job. I was feeling so much alive, feeling that I am actually creating something, that I am creating great experience to everyone who came to our event. Let me guide you through my regular event day. This one was really long, because we didn’t have possibility to prepare everything before the event. Please, bring yourself a nice cup of tea and be patient with me. Continue reading →