How to Choose the Right Event Staff for Your Event Preview: Choosing event staff is not simply about finding enough people to fill a rota, because the people working on site will directly influence how visitors experience the event, how smoothly the day runs and how confidently your brand is represented. The right choice depends on the type of event, the…
PR Stunts, Influencers and Live Activations: Creative Ways to Promote Your Event Preview: Promoting an event successfully now starts long before the doors open. A strong pre-event campaign can create curiosity, build recognition and give people something worth talking about before they arrive at the venue. Influencers, PR staff, live activations, street teams and carefully planned crowd moments can all help…
Why Temporary Kitchen, Waiting and Cleaning Staff Matter for Busy Events Autumn brings a busy run of exhibitions, awards evenings, corporate events and festive functions, and for many venues the challenge is not the event itself but having enough people to support it properly. Temporary kitchen staff, waiting staff and cleaners can give existing teams the extra capacity they need…
Why Use an Agency Instead of Recruiting Event Staff Yourself? If you are planning an exhibition, a promotional campaign or any event that needs extra hands on the day, you have probably asked yourself whether you really need an agency at all. On paper, finding your own staff looks straightforward. You post a few adverts, look through the replies, pick…
What Information Do Promotional Staff Need Before an Event? How to Get the Brief Right You might hire experienced promotional staff who fit your brand and have a great event planned, but if your team shows up without the right details, their job becomes much harder. A good staff brief doesn’t need to include everything about your company. It just…
How Many Promotional Staff Do I Need for an Event? A Practical Guide How many promotional staff should you book for an event? There is no standard answer, and simply basing it on visitor numbers or stand size can be misleading. The better approach is to look at what you need your team to achieve, when the pressure points are…
Staffing a Touring Exhibition Across Multiple UK Cities: What You Need to Plan For Most touring exhibitions plan the installation in forensic detail. The staffing gets planned too, but rarely with the same rigour, and the gap between the two shows up in the visitor experience. A venue change is not just a logistical event. It is a staffing reset…
Hiring a Crowd for Big Brand PR Marketing: Why It Works and What It Takes Big brand PR campaigns rarely succeed on concept alone. A clever stunt idea still needs to look and feel like a genuine moment when it plays out in public and lands on camera, and that's where a hired crowd earns its place in the budget…
How to Maintain Consistent Visitor Experience Across a Long-Running Exhibition In short, consistency at a long-running exhibition comes from documenting the standard properly, onboarding every new or replacement team member against it, and checking that it’s holding once the exhibition is actually live. It doesn’t happen by itself, and it doesn’t happen just because the opening week went well. A…
What Is Interactive Event Staffing? (And Why It Requires a Different Kind of Person) In short, interactive event staffing is staff whose job is to actively run part of the guest experience, not simply be present for it. Standard event staff might welcome guests, check tickets, or point people in the right direction. Interactive staff go further; they demonstrate, perform,…