If you manage events for a venue, a nonprofit, a festival series, or a full calendar of recurring programs, you already know the submission form grind: log in, re-enter the same venue address for the tenth time, upload the flyer again, repeat for every single listing. There is a faster way. Email your event details to [email protected] and we will ...
AI Consulting with Stacy Cook: Get Your Time Back
Email piling up. Calendars that need constant juggling. Small repetitive tasks that eat an hour here and an hour there. Stacy Cook now offers one-on-one AI consulting to help local business owners and professionals put practical AI tools to work on exactly these problems, no classroom required. This is not a course and not a seminar. It is hands-on, personalized ...
How to Add Your Business Events to Vero Vine, Automagically
Got an event coming up? There is an easy way to get it onto the Vero Vine calendar without logging into anything, filling out a form, or waiting on us to notice your flyer online. Just email the details to [email protected] and we will get it added to the calendar for you. What to include in your email: Send us ...
Getting Your Event on the Calendar Just Got Easier
Tired of digging through submission forms every time you need to list an event? There's a faster way. Just email your event details to [email protected]. Whatever you write in the body of your email becomes the listing copy: date, time, location, description, all of it. Attach any photos or flyers and they'll be pulled in automatically as the event images. ...
Fall Is Booking Season. Are You Actually Competing For It?
Summer procrastinators are done stalling. Right now, they're deciding who gets their fall event, and if your marketing has been quiet since Labor Day, you're not in the running. Here's how to close that gap before the holiday season swallows everyone's attention span. 1. Stop Waiting for Inbound Fall doesn't sell itself just because it's "peak season." Every event manager ...
Vendor Price Creep Is Coming, Lock In Your Rates Now
Every fall, the same thing happens. Vendors watch their calendars fill up, feel the leverage shift, and quietly start padding quotes. It's not always a formal price increase, it's a "rush fee" here, a "peak season surcharge" there, a quote that's mysteriously $200 higher than the one from August. By the time you notice the pattern, you've already signed three ...
The Post-Summer Slump Is a Content Opportunity, If You Stop Selling
Summer's over, the event calendar has a lull before the holiday rush, and a lot of local businesses respond by going quiet on social media, or worse, defaulting to promotional posts because there's "nothing happening." Both are mistakes. Fall's slower pace is exactly when audiences notice how you show up, not just that you show up. The fix isn't more ...
Sustainability Isn't a Bonus Anymore, It's a Booking Filter
As holiday event season ramps up, more clients are asking sustainability questions before they sign a contract, not after. It's no longer a values-add mentioned in passing during a pitch. For business and event managers, this is a real differentiator heading into Q4, but only if it's demonstrated, not just declared. Show the Specifics, Not the Slogan "Eco-friendly" as a ...
Beat the Burnout: Staffing Smart for Peak Event Season
Peak season is when event managers make the most money, and lose the most people. If your team is already stretched thin heading into the busiest months, it's worth pausing to ask: are you staffing for the season, or just surviving it? Why Burnout Hits Harder in Event Management Unlike a lot of industries, event work doesn't ease into busy ...
Voting Day: Go Make It Happen
Quick tip: polls are open right now, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., so there's still plenty of time to vote before or after your event day. It's primary day in Florida, and if there's one group of people who understand the power of showing up, it's event managers. You spend your days making sure people arrive, participate, and feel like ...










