The Red Wagon

Eleven and a Half

// It's here! Eleven and a Half is Corwin Hiebert's tell-all event planning eBook. This 18 page down-loadable PDF is crammed full of insights, ideas, and action steps with you, the event planner, in mind. Whether you're an event “professional” or someone who self-inflicts events on themselves through entrepreneurial necessity, volunteerism, or an ever expanding job description this eBook will help you make your next event a huge success. Eleven and a Half is written in such a ...

Business Building

This is my favourite time of year as an event producer. The big rush of summer is over and all my large annual projects are behind me and I can focus on the non-urgent but very important items of business that just don't make the "A" list during the busy times. This coincides with the best time of year for me: Fall. Autumn is not only beautiful in Vancouver (warm, sunny, and colourful trees) but it's also my wedding anniversary so it's nice to have some downtime. I'm a pretty wired guy though an...

The Emperor’s Planner

Don't worry - this is NOT a techy post. Though a Microsoft logo usually scares the creative spirit out of most of us I wanted to make sure that I gave credit to the application that has made my life easier. SharePoint is a program that works like a secure blog for your event project. For each client (or project) you can have a dedicated landing page, post comments, host discussions, create calendar items, upload images and documents, assign tasks, you name it! It's really a virtual office for yo...