What is an Event?

Event can be described as a public assembly for the purpose of celebration, education, marketing or reunion. Events can be classified on the basis of their size, type and context. An event can be: Social / life – cycle event like Birthday party, engagement, wedding, funeral etc; Education and career event like education fair, job fair, workshop, seminar, debate, contest, competition etc (more about events)

What is Event Management?

It is the process of analyzing, planning, marketing, producing and evaluating an event. It is a different way of promoting a product, service or idea. If an event is managed efficiently and effectively, it can be used as a very powerful promotional tool to launch or market a product or service. Events Management requires certain core values to be deployed to every element, process and decision to justify professional approach and achieve effective and efficient results.
(Further Reading: Event Management Wikipedia ; Event Planning Wikipedia)

People Involved in organizing an event

The number of people involved in organizing an event depends upon the size and scale of the event. While organizing a small party may require only one or two people, organizing a very large event like olympics may require several thousand people. A typical trade show has following event professionals: Event Manager, Event Planner, Event Coordinators, Information manager, Logistic manager (more about people involved in event management company)

Following people are involved in supporting an event: Organizers, Sponsors, Partners, Clients and Supporting Agencies. These people can either be an individual or a company. They either finance the whole event or some of its part or provide some service either at subsidized rate or for free. An Organizer finances maximum amount of money in an event. Therefore he has maximum control over the event. (more about event sponsors)

Event management is a multi million dollar industry which is growing at the rate of 150% per annum with events being hosted almost daily. Organzing a perfectly synchronized, well planned, well conducted and memorable event, require the supervision and services of well trained and experienced event professionals.Therefore event management companies are always on a look out for event professionals Success of an event manger depends upon how well he organized the event and up to which extent he is able to achieve event and marketing objectives (more about how to become an event planner)

Following steps can be adopted to form an event management company: Decide the services you wish to sell; Do market research, market analysis, product analysis, competitors analysis and SWOT analysis; Prepare your business and marketing plan i.e. How you are going to promote your organization? How you are going to build its image (more about forming event management company)

Event Planning Forum
Through this forum you can discuss and share event management and planning ideas with other event professionals. You can network with them. You can promote your business and events; upload your events photos and event videos.You can also create groups, blogs and can even do live chat with other event planning professionals.