How about a little taste of the tropics in Utah? For this Hawaiian themed event, we brought a touch of the islands to these guests. With our LED Hi Boys glowing in tropical colors, we added other tropical touches around the room using our Canvas Trees and Wireless LED Lighting.
Our Jungle Mountain Backdrop added a fun scene to this space. For the entrance, we used our new bamboo arch structure and add tropical flowers and foliage to it. This marked the way for guests to enter the space and gave them their first taste of what they were in for. And for the entertainment, a party on the islands wouldn’t be complete without fire dancers!
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Throwing an awesome party? Looking for a killer dance floor? Look no further than our LED Dance Floor. It is the perfect addition to any party or space and quickly becomes the center of attention. Lit with our Wireless LED Pixel Tubes, the color combinations and pattern changes are almost endless. Strobing, flashing, fading, and more. People will be drawn to it and will get down and dance the night away.
To complete the look and truly make it feel like you are partying in a hip nightclub, add our new Laser machine to add fun lighting effects to the room. And when it’s paired with our Hazer to lightly fog the room, it really makes the light beams pop and stand out.
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At In The Event™ corporate events are our specialty! We take bland luncheons and transform them into an unforgettable occasion that gets everyone talking. It can be easy for companies to get stuck in a rut with some of their annual events, but we’ve experienced first hand the impact a truly successful corporate event can have. Here are a few guidelines we always keep in mind to guarantee that our corporate events are anything but boring!
Entertainment
If you have the budget to work with, entertainment is a fantastic way to liven up a corporate environment. But, you don’t want to throw fire dancers at just anyone. It’s absolutely essential to understand your audience when selecting event entertainment.
Know Your Audience and Plan Accordingly
Sit down with your client to determine their event goals. Maybe this corporate event is going to bring together two new branches, in which case they might want something very interactive. In another instance your client might be interested in just creating a relaxing environment to reward employees for all their hard work. For the latter, something without one on one audience contact might be best. Ask your client about the company culture, and if possible experience it yourself. Meet employees and get a tour of the office to get a better feel for the demographic and what type of entertainment they might respond best to.
Think Outside the Box
Live music is great, but get even more creative by thinking outside the box! If you’re looking for something truly memorable, think more along the lines of a mentalist (that really gets the audience talking!), an interactive dueling piano show or a speed painter. Of course, you’ll want to use entertainment to enhance the theme of the event. For example, for a western theme event you might select line dancing instructors and bull riding simulators, as opposed to a comedian. Always be sure to pick an option that compliments other pre-determined event aspects.
Engagement
While entertainment is a great way to get people excited at a corporate event, ultimately you want your employees bonding and interacting with each other!
Use Layout and Décor to Encourage Interaction
We often use décor items to encourage interaction. At several conferences, we’ve used our 10’ curved chalkboards to prompt conversation. The chalkboards had a question, related to the conference, that employees responded to with a written response on the board. Additionally, any of our modular LED tables, bars and towers can be accentuated with a custom graphic cling promoting an event topic or question to draw attention to focus points and encourage conversation. We also often employ interactive video screens, which allow guests to interact with a website or app. Taking the concept even further, consider using a video capture device to prompt a question or welcome general feedback.
It’s also essential for the layout to encourage interaction. Make sure the space flows easily so attendees can navigate the area and aren’t confined to one spot for the duration of the evening.
Recognize Employees in Unique Ways
Recognition is a great way to get employees excited and can serve as a focus point of the event. Depending on the industry, recognition can take many forms. We’ve developed custom recognition walls and find that some of our staple pieces work exceptionally well for recognition. Our LED video towers offer a unique recognition opportunity, not just to acknowledge performance but also to show the past year’s highlights, exciting company growth or any type of promotional video.
Takeaways
Giving attendees something unique to take home, or back to the office, creates a long-term event effect. At In The Event™, we always look to tie event elements with branding and often develop custom décor pieces that then become office décor following the event. A takeaway item can be as simple as a display piece signed by all attendees, or as extravagant as a custom 10’ LED logoed spandex wall. A simpler approach is allowing attendees to take home the centerpiece, whether they’re fresh flowers or a branded non-floral centerpiece. Green screen photo ops are another fun event takeaway, whether you physically print the photos at the event or go green and upload them to a website or social media to be shared with a larger audience.
Catering
Food and beverage is a huge part of any event, and if coordinated correctly can be a very memorable and enhancing element. Carefully selected, good food can set the tone for the evening, using a plated dinner to relay a formal tone or creating a cocktail party environment with passed appetizers. Be sure to communicate with guests regarding the formality of the event so they may dress appropriately. A great additional step to take with your corporate event client is to schedule a tasting with the caterer.
Theme Enhancement
Food and beverage is a great opportunity for theme enhancement. A successful occasion brings out the theme in almost all aspects, including food and beverage. We often coordinate destination events with our beautiful state of Utah as the focus point. Food and beverage creates an opportunity for us to further highlight the theme by selecting items local to or popularized by the Salt Lake City area.
Selecting a signature cocktail for the evening is another fun way for catering to tie into the theme. For example, a cocktail the color of the company’s logo (tasted and approved by the client beforehand!) is a fun addition. At a winter wonderland client event, we had a signature blue martini that proved very popular and tied in perfectly with the event color scheme. Further tie catering into the event with themed serveware and servers.
Successful corporate events must let the company culture shine through while creating an environment that makes all attendees excited to be there. With our unique planning approach, we’re moving corporate clients away from dull, repetitive annual gatherings to develop interactive, team enhancing evenings.
What’s your secret to successful corporate events? Tell us about it in the comments!
Every year, our team at In The Event™ chooses a handful of causes to sponsor that help to improve our community. One of the sponsorship opportunities we chose this year was the annual Red Party for the Utah Aids Foundation that is hosted by Hotel Monaco. This Casino themed event raised money and awareness for a great cause. We provided our LED HiBoys, wireless LED lighting, and themed backdrops to help set the mood and theme in the space.
Interested in hosting your own casino night? Check out our theme event decor, made to fit any occasion!
We love hosting events where we can see the attendees having a good time! One of our favorite tools? Interactive event rentals! Our most recent client wanted the guests and attendants to interact with each other and be engaged through out the whole event. We accomplished this by providing chalk walls, arcade games. pool tables, and drawing tables. This encouraged guests to mingle and have fun with each other.
We also paired all of the interactive elements with our Lounge Furniture and LED Hi Boys to help complete the look. These provided the guest areas to relax and visit with each other. To all of the LED Hi Boys and LED Towers we added graphics with the companies branding.
Learn more about our interactive engagement rentals! Click here to view our rental packages!
We love hosting events where we can see the attendees having a good time! One of our favorite tools? Interactive event rentals! Our most recent client wanted the guests and attendants to interact with each other and be engaged through out the whole event. We accomplished this by providing chalk walls, arcade games. pool tables, and drawing tables. This encouraged guests to mingle and have fun with each other.
We also paired all of the interactive elements with our Lounge Furniture and LED Hi Boys to help complete the look. These provided the guest areas to relax and visit with each other. To all of the LED Hi Boys and LED Towers we added graphics with the companies branding.
Learn more about our interactive engagement rentals! Click here to view our rental packages!
Looking for a fun and unique runway for your next fashion show? How about one of our LED Runways?
We recently partnered with the great people at Emerald Expo to provide an LED Runway for the Fashion Shows during the 2015 Outdoor Retailers Winter Market.
Our modular LED runways were the perfect solution for these events. We were able to create a long, lighted runway that helped highlight the fashions being presented. We used the same modular units to create stairs to the upper stage to continue a seamless look. When our runways are paired with our Wireless LED Lighting, the possibilities are nearly endless. You can create any size, shape, and color of runway you have in mind.
Don’t leave them hanging without fashion runway lighting! From the classic LED spotlight to our Studio Light, making your models shine is essential to the perfect fashion show runways.
Click Here to see our runway in action and see the highlights from the 2015 Outdoor Retailers Winter Market Fashion Show.
In The Event™ is excited to announce 25 new products for 2015! We have added some popular items you have been asking for from furniture, to bars, to drapes and lighting. We are happy to add some of the latest trends to our inventory. Look through this mini book and be sure to visit our Rentals Page to check out more details on the new items, see our full inventory, and download a copy of our complete rental packages!
To view the new products click here.
In The Event™ recently celebrated our 7th anniversary with some major milestones, including an office expansion, a new website launch and a new staff addition to the team. As we’ve expanded our rental inventory and thus our design abilities, we’re proud to see this growth that’s accompanied our hard work.
With our ever-expanding inventory came a recent office expansion. We now occupy the building next door, adding another 1,500 square feet to our total 10,000 square feet warehouse and office space. We’ve always encouraged clients to explore our office space to really get a feel for the products in person. Now, with the added space, we have even more flexibility in setting up staging areas to guarantee that our clients know exactly what they’re getting prior to the event.
This additional space also allowed us to add to our team, keeping up with client demands. We recently welcomed Chelsea Mangold to the ITE family. We pride ourselves on providing extremely personalized services and adding an account manager allows us to maintain that high level of service as our organization grows. Before joining In The Event™, Chelsea coordinated events for the United States Ski and Snowboard Association, NCAA Division II Sports, and other sporting events in addition to local city and organization gatherings. You can read more about Chelsea and the entire In The Event™ family in our new and improved About section.
The final piece for us was launching a new website complete with a new shopping cart. We’ve made the rental and planning process even easier, with detailed product pages that allow visitors to select the desired quantity and add available rental items to their quote list. Once a quote list is submitted, one of our planners will contact you directly with a detailed price quote that same day.
So, what’s next for In The Event™? You can expect continued creativity, superior service, excellent staff and overall fantastic events! In the next year, we plan to add more innovated LED lighting, staging, furniture and a line of new bars.
Our team at In The Event™ is so grateful for our wonderful clients and partners we’ve worked with these past 7 years. Thank you to everyone who’s been a part of our success.
Red is a very powerful color and was perfect to set the theme for this Awards Gala. Custom rose centerpieces were a beautiful finishing touch to this setup.
The floral arrangement with the 20 foot shimmer fabric uplift backed by LEDs to create a glowing focal point.
The second event of this 7 event series was the ladies lunch. We designed an airy, refreshing spring atmosphere to fill the venue. You will notice the duck mascot dressed up as a bumble bee, with more bees in the floral centerpieces. We customized everything: the hedges to the dining tables, floral arrangements to the table cloths.
The venues high ceilings helped create a refreshing and open atmosphere.
The floral centerpieces sporting white and yellow flowers with miniature bees.
The large tables allowed for all the ladies to enjoy a meal together and catch up. Keep on the lookout for 5 more event posts!
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