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Meetings

With studies showing that a whopping 46% of all meetings are considered “unproductive” or a “waste of time”, it's essential that you keep proceedings entertaining to make sure everyone's engaged. Here are our top tips for making your meeting memorable for the right reasons!

Venues

The most common question we get from venues is “How can we get more bookings from Hire Space?” And the answer is always “Update your profile!” Here's how to make a profile that'll have the bookings flying in.

Awards Ceremonies

The Hire Space Awards celebrates everything that's great with the modern events industry. In a packed National Gallery, 260 events industry professionals gathered to see fifteen winners being crowned.

Venues

It's important to safeguard your brand as a venue in the crowded meeting and events marketplace. This feature from PR experts davies tanner explains how.

Events

Through a number of different initiatives, the Business Design Centre has become a much more environmentally conscious venue.

Digital Marketing

Our guest blogger, Jose Bort is the CEO and Co-Founder of EventsCase - the first truly all-in-one event management software. A thought leader within the events space, Jose has delivered talks at Google Campus, City University and Cass Business School, and is a regular contributor across tech and events publications. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2018 was a landmark year for investment in online channels and data prot

Unique Venues

Event organisers are always looking out for innovative, sustainable venues with great corporate social responsibility. Our account managers have prepared a roundup of their suggestions when the brief is innovation.

Christmas

As the festive season gets underway, we often find ourselves madly wracking our brains for what party food to offer and how to decorate our homes. So we asked Social Pantry to share some inspiration and a recipe or two with you.

London Venues

Christmas in Bavaria is like a fairytale, the twinkling lights of Christmas fairs, the smell of roasting sausages and of course, steins overflowing with beer. So if you've been dreaming of a Weiss(bier) Christmas then there's no need to travel to Munich when you can experience the sounds, tastes, and unique atmosphere of Bavaria right here in London. Opened in 2010, Bierschenke is London's only authentic Munich Beerhall. They are dedicated

Cocktail Inspiration

While autumn may spell the abrupt end of sleeveless t-shirts and the dreaded return of the parka, it's also a time for taking advantage of the unique flavours that characterise the season. Autumn, after all, is defined by the agricultural produce of the season: before we adopted the French automne, those of us that were alive in Old English times used to call the season hærfest, or "harvest". Here are five delicious cocktails to introduce at your autumn events that make the most of the flavours

Conferences

Camden House is a newly developed world class events space, designed to host conferences, exhibitions, product launches, private functions and much more.

International Events

The team from the iconic Hôtel Lutetia in Paris stopped by the Hire Space HQ this week to give us the lowdown on their hotel post-renovation.

London Venues

Come to one of the world’s greatest literary cities and hire a space in the fabulous Faber Creative Spaces located in historic Bloomsbury. Faber & Faber has played host to some of the great writers of our times. Now, the venue also provides an inspiring space in which to learn, work or create. Photo courtsey of Faber & Faber A Bit of History Founded in 1929, in the great city of London, Faber & Faber i

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The ZSL London Zoo officially opened on 27 April 1828, making it the oldest scientific zoo in the world. Today, it has more than a million visitors every year and is one of London's most cherished attractions.

Digital Marketing

Now that we’ve had a quick look at the beginnings of online marketing , it’s time to start looking at what you, as venue marketeers, can do to start bringing in brand new customers online. Your own website is the place to start, and you should play a big part in deciding how it looks. Whether you are building it yourself, or are outsourcing it to a web developer, it should be a reflection of your business - and you know that best! It should

Digital Marketing

If Facebook is a scatter-gun, where your marketing can get to everyone, then LinkedIn is a sniper. It can pinpoint people precisely, on the basis of location, gender, but most importantly, their job. So, if you're after conferences, you can target conference planners. After meetings? You can target meeting planners. After weddings? You can target wedding planners. Here's how. LinkedIn is a business-focused platform, and so it attracts people who are in a high-income bracket, as well as those

Digital Marketing

As a venue, you should have some beautiful, professional photos. And not just of the whole of your space - even the little things, the trinkets, the details, the touches that make your venue what it is. But are you making the most of them? Pinterest is the photographer's paradise. It's a place of strong hues, inventive ideas and beautiful images. It's a place that, for venues, is the ideal landscape to get people excited about what you can offer to everyone planning their event. Here's a step-

Venue Marketing

As a way of getting a message across, of telling a story, or of making a memorable impression, videos are number one. There is no competition. The world is on autoplay, and any marketing strategy needs to have a plan to use them. Here's a five-step plan to get you started. Before we get into how to create a great YouTube video, you've got to create your YouTube Channel. Much like creating a social media 'page', the process is easy to follow. You can get started by clicking here.

Digital Marketing

The world wide web is a multi-faceted thing, but when it comes to marketing, all roads lead to (and from) one place... Google. To understand how best to market your venue to new users online, it's helpful to have a sense of how Google works and thinks - and a brief understanding of the journey it has gone on since its inception in 1996. Here’s a very brief history. 1. PageRank When Larry Page and Sergei Brin started building the platform, they had a simple question to

Digital Marketing

Calling go-getting venue managers! In this series, we'll discuss the basics of online marketing for venues. We’ll talk about social media, SEO, search marketing and a lot more great (and often free) ways to generate new customers for your venue. You can see the full breakdown of the Venue Marketing Series below: 1. Introduction 2. A brief history of online marketing 3. On

Events

We're starting a monthly Guest Blog series, allowing you to hear more from team members across Hire Space. Our Account Specialist, Marcus Stanway-Williams , delves into the world of data and its use in the events industry. Everyone is talking about data. Businesses across the world are waking up to the idea that a deeper understanding of what data is, and how it can be harnessed, will be instrumental in ensuring their success in the future. Specifically, the dat

We're now over halfway through our crowdfunding campaign and almost 80% of the way towards our target from over 100 investors. Many of those have been from the event professionals we work with on a day-to-day basis, so we took a quick five minutes away from the campaign to chat to Marie Froger, Event Sales Manager at Belgraves about why she chose to invest in Hire Space.

Events

As we’ve just passed the halfway mark in our crowdfunding campaign , we spoke to Hannah Schaller, Event Specialist, on why she uses Hire Space and chose to invest in us. A bit about Hannah... Hannah has 12 years experience in events working both agency side and in house, she was an Event Manager for Investec and Simmons & Simmons, specialising in corporate, luxury and social events. More recently Hannah has been working as a freelance

Events

We are very excited to be launching our crowdfunding this month. So we wanted to fill you in on our plans and what the opportunity could hold for you. We've got some specific opportunities for venue managers, so if you're reading this and that's you, check out 'Why Should Venue Managers Invest In Hire Space.' Why are we doing it? Hire Space is changing the events industry and we want your help! Our mission is to be