The Events Podcast

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I’m fascinated by everything to do with China so it was a real pleasure to talk from Mike Michelini who has not only spent years living in mainland China but has also been running events there for several years.

Mike left a job on Wall Street to start selling bar products online, leading him to help others do the same and eventually move to China to run events for people sourcing from China.

On the podcast we discuss:

1. Why Mike moved to China

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More information on Mike is below and if your doing business in China or Hong Kong he’d love to hear from you:

[email protected]

https://www.globalfromasia.com

https://mikesblog.com

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Corbin Ball is a world renowned expert on Event technology and all aspect of the events business. He’s also an accomplished speaker who gets invited to speak at events across the US, Asia, Europe and Middle East.

1. How Corbin build his career as a speaker and consultant and his advice to others doing the same

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This was the most fun interview so far for me and Jeff is a real larger than life character. Jeff is an Anarchist who founded the ‘Anarchapulco’ conference in Mexico which he has grown in just four years from a 60 person meet up to over 4500 attendees!!

Jeff gives a lot of great advice for people starting out building a conference, including:

1. How to produce a lot of free content to build your personal brand and the brand of your event

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More information on Jeff is below:

https://anarchapulco.com/

https://www.youtube.com/user/TheDollarVigilante/featured

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Johnny FD is a big name in the ‘Digital Nomad’ community. He runs two successful podcasts and hosts the ‘Nomad Summit’ each year at two venues in Las Vegas and Chiang Mai, Thailand. He ran his first event by posting a meet-up in Facebook and has grown it in a short time to  a hugely popular event with 400+ attendees. This interview has ton of great tips on how to get started running your first conference.

If you are interested in becoming a digital nomad and working from anywhere in the world check out his conference taking place Jan 19-21 2019 in Chiang Mai..

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More information on Johnny is below:

http://www.nomadsummit.com

https://www.johnnyfd.com/

https://www.youtube.com/user/JohnnyJ3N/videos

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Chris Robb has done a lot! From running events at his school growing up in Zimbabwe to being the road manager for the Sydney Olympics. He founded the Singapore Marathon and sold it to Ironman before launching is career as an international consultant and speaker. He now lives in Bali and runs the Mass Participation Asia conference and is a sought after speaker and consultant

On the interview we discuss:

1. How Chris organized a running event at his school to pay for the school running track to be resurfaced

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More information on Chris can be found on the links below:

Chrisrob.asia

https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-robb/

http://massparticipationasia.com

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This is an amazing interview to hear from to a conference organizer about how she plans, markets and runs large events. Catalina manages two annual conferences in Austin and Bangkok for a group for ‘location independent entrepreneurs’ called the Dynamite Circle founded by Dan and Ian from The Tropical MBA which I’m also a member of.

1. How Catalina moved from Spain to Miami then went to work in China aged just 18

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This was my favourite interview so far and I think you will really like it! Will Kunhardt is a fascinating guy…. A classically trained violinist who wanted to be a conductor and got his start by putting on his own concerts instead of waiting to he hired.

Will parlayed that into founding his own Orchestra (called the Arensky Chamber Orchestra) then co founding a company to run a series of epic ‘Immersive Experiences’ in London, including one coming up in December 2018 called The Great Christmas Feast..a ‘secret dining experience’ experience based around Charles Dickens ‘Christmas Carol.’

We talk a lot about how Will still remains creative and works as a musician and composer while retaining full control over his creations and running a profit making business.

On the interview we talk about:

1. How Will got his start as a classical music conductor by putting on his own events

I hope you enjoyed the podcast as much as I enjoyed talking to Will and if you did please leave us an iTunes review it really means a lot to us !

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Visit https://www.thelostestate.com/ for more information on William Kunhardt and if you can get to London anytime in December then I can’t recommend highly enough to check out The Great Christmas Feast.

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It’s something every event producer thinks at one time….  “I’d love to sell my event.” But is it even possible, and who would buy your event?

On this week's episode of ‘The Events Podcast’ I spoke with Steve Mornington from Mayfield Merger Strategies. Steve is a ‘business broker’ for selling events, and his company handles the  whole ‘Merger & Acquisition’ process.

This is an amazing interview for anyone who may be thinking about selling their event in the future. Steve is super knowledgeable on this topic and handles multiple millions in dealflow each year. On the interview we get into:

1. What type of events are the easiest to sell

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You contact Steve through his website or connect with him on Twitter. Check out also the link below:

How much is your exhibition worth?

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On this week's episode of ‘The Events Podcast’ I spoke with Stuart Jones. Stuart runs a series of entrepreneurial retreats in cool locations called coworkation and just ran his first conference Freedom X Fest in the Spanish Pyrenees which lasted 6 days and had over 400 attendees!

Stuart came to Europe from Australia as a backpacker and started off in Spain where he had a lot of adventures; from turning his apartment into a ‘pop up hostel’ to running pub crawls then guided trips to Oktoberfest amongst other destinations.

Stuart focussed on getting a good database of companies selling products to the digital nomad/location independent community in order to get them to co promote his events and/or become sponsors.

Stuart maintains an active Facebook page which has over 18,000 likes and shares a lot of photos and content there to build interest in his events. He talked about how he uses YouTube and Instagram to promote his events as the cool locations lend themselves well to this type of visual marketing.

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More info about Stuart is below:

https://coworkation.com/

Stuart has been a Location Independent Entrepreneur over the past 15 years.  He has founded several location specific event companies in Barcelona, yet his passion for travel and unconventional work practices fuelled his desire to create a truly lifestyle-based business model.  An avid 'future of work' enthusiastic and itinerant traveller, Stuart brings his is experience of the location independent lifestyle with Coworkation, curating Travel Inspiration & Professional retreats for entrepreneurs and creatives.

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'The Events Podcast' gives you tips, tricks and tactics to run profitable and stress-free events!

Hosts Dan Taylor and James Sayer (who run over 300 events a year) talk with event professionals each week to find how they plan, promote and execute their events.

We discuss everything; from hosting community meet-ups , to running conferences, meetings, trainings, trade shows, concerts and more.

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On this week's episode of ‘The Events Podcast’ I spoke with Chris Reynolds from The Business Method. I was lucky enough to be interviewed on Chris’s podcast so it’s great to get him on ours.

We are both part of an entrepreneurs group called the ‘DC’ and have met in person a few times but I didn’t know much about his background so it was cool to dig in and talk about his background and how it led to his events.

Chris ran charity projects in Costa Rica, Peru and Africa where he got a taste for running live events. This led him to run ‘The Entrepreneur House’, a productivity focused residential retreat in multiple cities including Barcelona and Chiang Mai. Chris started off running his events over two months which is a pretty herculean feat!... but has now reduced it down to 10 days.

Chris travels full time with is girlfriend although he likes to stay in one place for several months at a time and told me the term ‘slowmad’ which I hadn’t heard before to describe this lifestyle.

Chris is a Podcasting machine and he’s produced close to 400 podcast episodes that I can find! Podcasting is a major sales funnel for his events but we discussed about how this is a long term proposition and you need to really enjoy it. The second major sales funnel is posting in forms and groups that Chris is a part of. Chris shares his content widely on social media (Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram) and this also helps with attendees but no one platform worked especially well for him.

Along with the events Chris runs productivity coaching and the podcast also helps him get new clients for this.

In terms of the logistics of the events Chris makes it a super casual format with fixed sessions then free time in between and the attendees often organise trips etc by themselves. Chris gets involved to make sure everyone is having a good time and to keep the group dynamic good, although with the kind of people he attracts it’s always a friendly crowd.

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You can email me at [email protected]

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More info about Chris is below and you can get in touch with him via his website below

https://www.thebusinessmethod.com/

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