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Here you'll find all of our content specifically tailored for venues. Check out our top tips on getting noticed on Hire Space, making your venue accessible, and much more.

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Safer Events

NHS QR Codes: What Are They and Why do I Need Them?

Ahead of the launch of the new NHS COVID-19 app, find out how you can set your venue up for the check-in feature, how it works, and how to use it for your events.

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Venue Marketing

Top Tips For Venue Marketing In a Crisis

Here are some top tips on how to keep your venue top of mind and come out of this crisis strong.

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Venues

3D Virtual Venue Tours Will Be Essential In The New Normal

The new normal will bring about an entirely new expectation of the site visit experience. Be prepared with 3D Virtual Venue Tours.

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Events News

Your Guide to the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme

The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, otherwise known as ‘furloughing’, was designed to protect jobs that may otherwise be lost in the wake of COVID-19. It could be a vital lifeline for many workers and businesses in the hospitality industry.

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Venue Marketing

Keeping Your Venue Wi-Fi Protected

Known as something of a ‘hidden expense’, you’d be surprised to hear any venue talking positively about their online security methods. The issue is that the threat posed by cyber criminals invariably focuses on something venues now have to provide: wi-fi.

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Venue Marketing

Top Tips for a Picture-Perfect Venue Profile

There are thousands of people searching for an event venue every day. And you run a venue that you know would be perfect for them. But how do you make them realise that? The answer is in your profile picture!

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Venues

Health Conscious Venues Raising The Bar On Wellbeing In 2020

Hire Space is delving into the world of wellbeing for 2020 and found five common ‘dimensions of wellbeing’ that should be taken into account and applied to the event industry.

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London Venues

Event Design That Will Wow Your Guests

Take a look at some of the best designed events venues in London - so eye catching that you won't be able to forget them.

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Venues

Brand reputation: your venue’s most valuable asset

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.

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International Events

Hire Space Professional goes International

Hire Space Professional was born in 2016 and I was among the first Account Managers to launch this brand new premium service to our valued Hire Space clients. At this point, it was unimaginable how much the service and the Hire Space Professional client base would develop. and that within a year we would be extending our venue sourcing expertise into the international events arena. We were always ambitious with Hire Space Professional, but also slightly apprehensive about offering our venue fi

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EventLAB Series

EventLAB Podcast: Exciting Openings and The Growth of Co-Working Spaces

Subscribe on Itunes Venue Talk Hire Space takes on around 100 new venues every month and has the inside scoop on the most exciting new venue launches across the country. So we wanted to take advantage of that and bring you some of the very best new openings. We'll be having the Venue Experts on the podcast every few weeks for more Venue Talk so you'll never miss out on an exciting new venue again. Street

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Venues

Prepare. Speak. Win: 9 Essential Speaking and Presentation tips

Presentations make everyone nervous. Whether you’re pitching an idea, delivering a keynote speech at a conference or taking part in a live discussion, speaking in front of an audience is always a little bit daunting. We’ve put together some essential tips to give your next address a boost. Prepare Benjamin Franklin is quoted as saying failing to prepare is preparing to fail. Undertaking the correct preparation for speaking at conferenc

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Eventprofs

EventLAB Podcast - Episode 1: Special Event Service

Subscribe on Itunes Innovation and new ideas are everything in the events industry - it's "who dares wins". That's why we spoke to Glenn Mainwaring, who not only works as part of the events team the Barbican centre, an iconic London venue but also starred in the hit show SAS: Who Dares Wins. Amazing Events Spaces at the Barbican Next Episode Kelvin Newman

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Events

What will the Events Industry look like in 2018?... And what do experts hope it will look like?

We asked leading events experts for their predictions and hopes for where the events industry is going as we head into 2018. Wellbeing, the impact of new technology and the GDPR legislation were all major talking points at EventLAB 2017 and it's clear they'll be a bigger part of the conversation in the new year. With so much in motion in the events industry, let's see what the experts had to say. How will the events industry of 2018 be different to that of 2017? From t

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Venues

The Hire Space Round-Up: Your Guide to What's Hot in the Industry

Every fortnight the Hire Space Team will bring you top industry news, the best new venues on the site and the very best spaces we’ve seen in the last two weeks. Hot Topic Friday marked Equal Pay Day ; the day that campaigns have highlighted as the point when women effectively stop earning relative to their male equivalents. So, we wanted to take

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Venue Marketing

Production by Royal Warrant

From corporate events to stylish social occasions Fisher productions provide a first-class events service. Whatever your event, Fisher Productions have the professional expertise to execute it flawlessly. With clients ranging from Costa Coffee to Hugo Boss, Fisher Productions , are trusted to manage and produce some of the industry's most talked about product l

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Venues

What Sort of Venue Are You?

It's the question that keeps you awake at night. Am I a historic venue? Or more of a party venue? Finally, we have the answers you've been seeking. Thanks to extensive psychoanalytical research, combined with our wealth of venue expertise and experience we're able to finally answer the question that has haunted the events industry for too long. What Sort of Venue Are You? Though the answer may be shocking, with this essential knowledge you can pursue your venue goals with new vigour. Whether y

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Venues

EventLAB Series: The Most Instagram-Worthy Venues This Summer

A great event begins with a great venue. Whether you're hosting a party, launching a product or putting on a conference, having a killer looking venue is a huge asset. It's impossible to overstate the marketing benefit that comes with people organically promoting your event on social media. What better way to generate a buzz and tempt those Instagram influencers than with a gorgeous venue that they just can't help but take photos of. We've picked f

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Events

The Hire Space Glossary: Your A to Z of Events...Part I

"Now here's the story from A to Z..." – Spice Girls, Wannabe , 1996. Sadly, they weren't talking about an events A to Z, as far as we know. But that's OK, as we've got that covered for you right here. In alphabetical order, we present everything you need to know about venues , events and everything in between. (Well, everything that'll fit within the limitation of o

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Digital Marketing

So you've been featured on the Hire Space blog?

You've been featured on the Hire Space blog – woohoo! Hire Space promotes all of its blog content to its community of 100,000+ venue bookers, so you can be sure that lots and lots of people will read the feature. You're always welcome to ask us how we've promoted it – it's what we do best! There are a couple of things you can do to really maximise the impact of the content. Check them out: 1. Link to the feature from your website Third-party endorsements are a fan

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Venues

10 Reasons Why Hire Space Venue Managers Are Events Superstars: Part I

1. Whatever event you put on, they're always enthusiastic about it A Hire Space venue manager not only helps you set up a room, but also makes sure that your guests will have a memorable experience. Once, Harry Upton who's based at Madame Tussauds , hosted an after party for 750 Star Wars fans. Not exactly a fanatic himself... What did he do? He read up on everything Star Wars, got the DJ to mash up the saga's theme songs and everyone dan

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Venues

Optimising Venue Profiles for Customer Searches

As a keen advocate for your venue, you might wonder about your profile's marketing exposure from time to time. Our Community Support team have compiled some top tips to help you optimise your venue profiles for customers. Big Q: Is My Venue Profile Published? Head to hirespace.com , where customers carry out their venue searches. Click the green Search button on our homepage and then click More Filters. Run a search using the Venue Name filter and click Show Results.

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Venues

Make Some Dollars with Your Unsuitable Enquiries

This blog is written for Hire Space venue managers. Not yet a Hirespacer but wanna get involved? Sign up your venue now . Enquiries can be unsuitable at a venue for a number of reasons. Lack of availability, incompatible production requirements, or simply, your space is just too big or small for the client's guest numbers. Rather than turning the client away, why not introduce them to our Venue Experts at Hire Space

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Venues

5 Reasons Why Our Venue Experts Are Simply The Best

If you know anything about Hire Space , you'll know that we're the UK's leading venue website. With more than 100,000 monthly visitors and over 4,000 venues on our extensive database, we've quickly become the nation's favourite event planning resource. But what makes Hire Space really unique, is our team of venue experts . Our experts have the marketplace at their fingertips. Combine this with their extensive knowledge of the venue hire and

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