The Events Podcast

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Serial entrepreneur Martin Stoila returns to explain what is ‘NFT ticketing’ and why you should care about it.   Listen on: Apple Podcasts / Podbean / Stitcher / Spotify / YouTube / Google Podcasts   I hope you enjoyed the podcast, and if you did, please please leave us a review. It helps us!   Get in touch with me to talk about anything at all via dan@appsevents.com.   Sign up for our newsletter to get notified when the podcast is live at http://gg.gg/y4se5 About the Events Podcast: I’m your host Dan Taylor, and each week I talk with event entrepreneurs about how they plan, promote and run their events.   We help you build your ‘Events Empire’ by growing your business using live events. Whether you are full-time or part-time,  running community meetups, conferences, trade shows, IT training, or music events. Whatever the type of event, we focus on finding actionable tips that you can use straight away.   We are looking for a sponsor for the podcast, so if you are interested, please email me at dan@appsevents.com

Kevin is an entrepreneur and we talk podcasting, and Kevin’s entrepreneurial journey to build multipls streams of income   Listen on: Apple Podcasts / Podbean / Stitcher / Spotify / YouTube / Google Podcasts   I hope you enjoyed the podcast, and if you did, please please leave us a review. It helps us!   Get in touch with me to talk about anything at all via dan@appsevents.com.   Sign up for our newsletter to get notified when the podcast is live at http://gg.gg/y4se5 About the Events Podcast: I’m your host Dan Taylor, and each week I talk with event entrepreneurs about how they plan, promote and run their events.   We help you build your ‘Events Empire’ by growing your business using live events. Whether you are full-time or part-time,  running community meetups, conferences, trade shows, IT training, or music events. Whatever the type of event, we focus on finding actionable tips that you can use straight away.   We are looking for a sponsor for the podcast, so if you are interested, please email me at dan@appsevents.com

Ben is an educator and entrepreneur who has developed a course on design thinking. We talk about Ben’s entrepreneurial journey and explain what is ‘design thinking’ and why you should use this in your business.  Listen on: Apple Podcasts / Podbean / Stitcher / Spotify / YouTube / Google Podcasts I hope you enjoyed the podcast, and if you did, please please leave us a review. It helps us! Get in touch with me to talk about anything at all via dan@appsevents.com. Sign up for our newsletter to get notified when the podcast is live at http://gg.gg/y4se5 About the Events Podcast: I’m your host Dan Taylor, and each week I talk with event entrepreneurs about how they plan, promote and run their events. We help you build your ‘Events Empire’ by growing your business using live events. Whether you are full-time or part-time,  running community meetups, conferences, trade shows, IT training, or music events. Whatever the type of event, we focus on finding actionable tips that you can use straight away. We are looking for a sponsor for the podcast, so if you are interested, please email me at dan@appsevents.com

Mark is an entrepreneur, speaker, and the bestselling author of the fantastic book ‘The Career Toolkit https://www.thecareertoolkitbook.com/   We have a wide-ranging discussion, including learning about Mark's background, how to write a popular book, how to get the most out of podcasting, how to thrive in business, and finally how to run amazing events.   One great takeaway is when you host lunches at your conference or event have signs with different topics placed on each table, and people can pick the table depending on their area of interest.   Listen on: Apple Podcasts / Podbean / Stitcher / Spotify / YouTube / Google Podcasts   I hope you enjoyed the podcast, and if you did, please please leave us a review. It helps us!   Get in touch with me to talk about anything at all via dan@appsevents.com.   Sign up for our newsletter to get notified when the podcast is live at http://gg.gg/y4se5 About the Events Podcast: I’m your host Dan Taylor, and each week I talk with event entrepreneurs about how they plan, promote and run their events.   We help you build your ‘Events Empire’ by growing your business using live events. Whether you are full-time or part-time,  running community meetups, conferences, trade shows, IT training, or music events. Whatever the type of event, we focus on finding actionable tips that you can use straight away.   We are looking for a sponsor for the podcast, so if you are interested, please email me at dan@appsevents.com

My wife recently gave me a copy of ‘The Millionaire Expat’ by Andrew Hallam. I loved the book and connected with Andrew on Linkedin. He agreed to chat on the podcast, and here we are. (This is an excellent testament to LinkedIn as a networking tool!)   We learn all about achieving financial independence, work-life balance, and much more.   This episode is also posted on ‘The International Schools Podcast, which I host with John Mikton, who joins us on the podcast halfway through. We get into a few references to schools, but most of the content is fantastic for all entrepreneurs.   Listen on: Apple Podcasts / Podbean / Stitcher / Spotify / YouTube / Google Podcasts   I hope you enjoyed the podcast, and if you did, please please leave us a review. It helps us!   Get in touch with me to talk about anything at all via dan@appsevents.com.   Sign up for our newsletter to get notified when the podcast is live at http://gg.gg/y4se5 About the Events Podcast: I’m your host Dan Taylor, and each week I talk with event entrepreneurs about how they plan, promote and run their events.   We help you build your ‘Events Empire’ by growing your business using live events. Whether you are full-time or part-time,  running community meetups, conferences, trade shows, IT training, or music events. Whatever the type of event, we focus on finding actionable tips that you can use straight away.   We are looking for a sponsor for the podcast, so if you are interested, please email me at dan@appsevents.com

This week it’s just me on the mic so let me know what you think! I’m currently out in Bahrain with the family, so I will give an update on why I’m in Bahrain and where in the world I have been, then get into my thoughts on online events (you might disagree with me :)) and how I see 2022 shaping up!.   Listen on: Apple Podcasts / Podbean / Stitcher / Spotify / YouTube / Google Podcasts   I hope you enjoyed the podcast, and if you did, please please leave us a review. It helps us!   Get in touch with me to talk about anything at all via dan@appsevents.com.   Sign up for our newsletter to get notified when the podcast is live at http://gg.gg/y4se5 About the Events Podcast: I’m your host Dan Taylor, and each week I talk with event entrepreneurs about how they plan, promote and run their events.   We help you build your ‘Events Empire’ by growing your business using live events. Whether you are full-time or part-time,  running community meetups, conferences, trade shows, IT training, or music events. Whatever the type of event, we focus on finding actionable tips that you can use straight away.   We are looking for a sponsor for the podcast, so if you are interested, please email me at dan@appsevents.com

James runs a successful online community called superfastbusiness.com which he started by running live events. He gets into detail about the ‘why’ and the ‘how’ of building your own online community.   Listen on: Apple Podcasts / Podbean / Stitcher / Spotify / YouTube / Google Podcasts   I hope you enjoyed the podcast and if you did then please, please leave us a review. It really helps us!   Get in touch with me to talk about anything at all via dan@appsevents.com   Sign up to our newsletter to get notified when the podcast is live   About the Events Podcast: I’m your host Dan Taylor and each week I talk with event entrepreneurs about how they plan, promote and run their events.   We help you build your ‘Events Empire’ by growing your business using live events. Whether you are full time or part time, and whether you are running community meetups, conferences, trade shows, IT training, music events. Whatever the type of event we focus on finding actionable tips that you can use straight away.   We are looking for a sponsor for the podcast so if you are interested please email me at dan@appsevents.com

Ever since reading the ‘Four Hour Work Week’ I’ve been fascinated with building remote teams. James has done this to great success and we talk about why you might want to do this, why the Philippines, and most importantly how to make it work.   Listen on: Apple Podcasts / Podbean / Stitcher / Spotify / YouTube / Google Podcasts   I hope you enjoyed the podcast and if you did then please, please leave us a review. It really helps us!   Get in touch with me to talk about anything at all via dan@appsevents.com   Sign up to our newsletter to get notified when the podcast is live   About the Events Podcast: I’m your host Dan Taylor and each week I talk with event entrepreneurs about how they plan, promote and run their events.   We help you build your ‘Events Empire’ by growing your business using live events. Whether you are full time or part time, and whether you are running community meetups, conferences, trade shows, IT training, music events. Whatever the type of event we focus on finding actionable tips that you can use straight away.   We are looking for a sponsor for the podcast so if you are interested please email me at dan@appsevents.com

This week it’s just me on the mic so let me know what you think! I’m currently out in Dubai and have just finished up a couple of events, so I give an update on why I’m in Dubai and what my first impressions are of the first events I’ve been to since the start of COVID.   Listen on: Apple Podcasts / Podbean / Stitcher / Spotify / YouTube / Google Podcasts   I hope you enjoyed the podcast and if you did then please, please leave us a review. It really helps us!   Get in touch with me to talk about anything at all via dan@appsevents.com   Sign up to our newsletter to get notified when the podcast is live   About the Events Podcast: I’m your host Dan Taylor and each week I talk with event entrepreneurs about how they plan, promote and run their events.   We help you build your ‘Events Empire’ by growing your business using live events. Whether you are full time or part time, and whether you are running community meetups, conferences, trade shows, IT training, music events. Whatever the type of event we focus on finding actionable tips that you can use straight away.   We are looking for a sponsor for the podcast so if you are interested please email me at dan@appsevents.com

This week's podcast is a repost from my other podcast ‘The International Schools Podcast’ and it was so interesting I thought I’d post it here as it has loads of lessons for entrepreneurs.   Lawrence has overcome a huge amount of adversity to be a success with multiple businesses including a web and social media agency that includes Premiership footballers as clients.   Listen on: Apple Podcasts / Podbean / Stitcher / Spotify / YouTube / Google Podcasts   I hope you enjoyed the podcast and if you did then please, please leave us a review. It really helps us!   Get in touch with me to talk about anything at all via dan@appsevents.com   Sign up to our newsletter to get notified when the podcast is live   About the Events Podcast: I’m your host Dan Taylor and each week I talk with event entrepreneurs about how they plan, promote and run their events.   We help you build your ‘Events Empire’ by growing your business using live events. Whether you are full time or part time, and whether you are running community meetups, conferences, trade shows, IT training, music events. Whatever the type of event we focus on finding actionable tips that you can use straight away.   We are looking for a sponsor for the podcast so if you are interested please email me at dan@appsevents.com

Justin has spent most of his life in Hong Kong where he runs the hugely successful 21CL conference, in addition to a lot of smaller training events across Asia. We talk about Justin's origins setting up a website for his former school and how he parlayed this into starting and growing a huge Education technology conference.   You can reach Justin via: E: jahardman@21c-learning.com W: www.21c-learning.com   Listen on: Apple Podcasts / Podbean / Stitcher / Spotify / YouTube / Google Podcasts   I hope you enjoyed the podcast and if you did then please, please leave us a review. It really helps us!   Get in touch with me to talk about anything at all via dan@appsevents.com   Sign up to our newsletter to get notified when the podcast is live    About the Events Podcast: I’m your host Dan Taylor and each week I talk with event entrepreneurs about how they plan, promote and run their events. We help you build your ‘Events Empire’ by growing your business using live events. Whether you are full time or part time, and whether you are running community meetups, conferences, trade shows, IT training, music events. Whatever the type of event we focus on finding actionable tips that you can use straight away. We are looking for a sponsor for the podcast so if you are interested please email me at dan@appsevents.com

Today's episode is a little different. Normally on this podcast, we focus on people running events, but today I thought it would be interesting to look at things from the other side, and take a deep dive into exhibiting at trade shows.   It’s especially interesting for me with my company AppsEvents as we are planning on exhibiting at some trade shows now that (hopefully) the World is starting to open up.   Here are some of the topics Jim gets into How even Small businesses can win BIG at Trade Shows 7 secrets to help Small Businesses Win at Trade Shows...without spending an additional penny over their budget Why You need to be running your Trade Show booth like a 5-star restaurant   Jim Cermak is a Trade Show coach and the host of the Trade Show University podcast - noted as a Top 5% podcast globally.  Jim brings over 30 years of marketing, training and events, and loves sharing the success secrets from working and planning trade shows. He has been a judge for the 2021 Virtual Event Awards, is a partner of the Virtual Event Institute, and has collaborated with Caesar’s Entertainment.   You can reach Jim via: Email: jim@tradeshowu.biz Cell: 216-906-4715 LinkedIn @ https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimcermak/    Listen on: Apple Podcasts / Podbean / Stitcher / Spotify / YouTube / Google Podcasts   I hope you enjoyed the podcast and if you did then please, please leave us a review. It really helps us!   Get in touch with me to talk about anything at all via dan@appsevents.com   Sign up to our newsletter to get notified when the podcast is live   About the Events Podcast: I’m your host Dan Taylor and each week I talk with event entrepreneurs about how they plan, promote and run their events.   We help you build your ‘Events Empire’ by growing your business using live events. Whether you are full time or part time, and whether you are running community meetups, conferences, trade shows, IT training, music events. Whatever the type of event we focus on finding actionable tips that you can use straight away.   We are looking for a sponsor for the podcast so if you are interested please email me at dan@appsevents.com

Have you ever thought about putting on a music festival? What about launching a mass participation running event in your town? Robbie McClung has done both.   Robbie bootstrapped his business while working a series of jobs which is an approach we highly recommend here at the podcast. We learn how he did it, and how he survived COVID and came out in a position to do amazing in the coming year.   If you are interested in mass participation sporting events then check out my series of two interviews with Chris Robb who is an absolute legend in this area.   Gerbz is a developer and entrepreneur who's done over 10k crypto transactions with e-commerce customers since 2013. He co-hosts The BitLift Podcast, which helps people responsibly navigate their way down the crypto rabbit hole.    Listen on: Apple Podcasts / Podbean / Stitcher / Spotify / YouTube / Google Podcasts   I hope you enjoyed the podcast and if you did then please, please leave us a review. It really helps us!   Get in touch with me to talk about anything at all via dan@appsevents.com   Sign up to our newsletter to get notified when the podcast is live   About the Events Podcast: I’m your host Dan Taylor and each week I talk with event entrepreneurs about how they plan, promote and run their events.   We help you build your ‘Events Empire’ by growing your business using live events. Whether you are full time or part time, and whether you are running community meetups, conferences, trade shows, IT training, music events. Whatever the type of event we focus on finding actionable tips that you can use straight away.   We are looking for a sponsor for the podcast so if you are interested please email me at dan@appsevents.com

Since I first heard about Crypto in 2012 I have been completely fascinated with the subject. There are so many rabbit holes you can go down; the tech side, the philosophical side which inevitably leads you to question ‘what is money?’.   This week I am joined by GERBZ, a very interesting player in the crypto space who runs the website https://bitlift.com/ which has some amazing resources to learn about crypto. I wanted to get GERBZ on the pod initially to give some concrete advice for people running live events so we start off by talking about how event producers can take payment in crypto.   We then freestyle about how GERBZ sees the future of crypto and the internet and stay tuned to hear his ‘end of 2011 price prediction.’   Gerbz is a developer and entrepreneur who's done over 10k crypto transactions with e-commerce customers since 2013. He co-hosts The BitLift Podcast, which helps people responsibly navigate their way down the crypto rabbit hole.    Listen on: Apple Podcasts / Podbean / Stitcher / Spotify / YouTube / Google Podcasts   I hope you enjoyed the podcast and if you did then please, please leave us a review. It really helps us!   Get in touch with me to talk about anything at all via dan@appsevents.com   Sign up to our newsletter to get notified when the podcast is live   About the Events Podcast: I’m your host Dan Taylor and each week I talk with event entrepreneurs about how they plan, promote and run their events.   We help you build your ‘Events Empire’ by growing your business using live events. Whether you are full-time or part-time, and whether you are running community meetups, conferences, trade shows, IT training, music events. Whatever the type of event we focus on finding actionable tips that you can use straight away.   We are looking for a sponsor for the podcast so if you are interested please email me at dan@appsevents.com

As long-term listeners may know, back when I started this podcast I launched a software system for event organizers to sell tickets called EventsFrame. To be honest, my main inspiration to start this podcast was in the hope of promoting it…. but that led to me really enjoying podcasting and the podcast has outlived my involvement with EventsFrame :)   Enter Martin. Martin is a serial entrepreneur living in Prague who I’ve known for many years. We used to be part of a weekend mastermind where a group of us would go off for a weekend to different towns and cities in the Czech Republic, book a conference room in a hotel and try to help each other out, followed of course by several beers in the evening. On one of these weekends, I was talking about how hard it was to juggle the software business with my events business and Martin said ‘why don’t I take it over’. The rest is history and Martin joins me on the pod today to talk about running an events software company during the worst time for live events in our lifetime!   Listen on: Apple Podcasts / Podbean / Stitcher / Spotify / YouTube / Google Podcasts   I hope you enjoyed the podcast and if you did then please, please leave us a review. It really helps us!   Get in touch with me to talk about anything at all via dan@appsevents.com   Sign up to our newsletter to get notified when the podcast is live   About the Events Podcast: I’m your host Dan Taylor and each week I talk with event entrepreneurs about how they plan, promote and run their events.   We help you build your ‘Events Empire’ by growing your business using live events. Whether you are full-time or part-time, and whether you are running community meetups, conferences, trade shows, IT training, music events. Whatever the type of event we focus on finding actionable tips that you can use straight away.   We are looking for a sponsor for the podcast so if you are interested please email me at dan@appsevents.com

Dan and James get back on the pod after a hiatus to discuss what they have been doing through COVID, what are their plans for the future, and what they see as the future for in-person events this year and in 2022. Listen on: Apple Podcasts / Podbean / Stitcher / Spotify / YouTube / Google Podcasts I hope you enjoyed the podcast and if you did then please, please leave us a review it really means a lot to us! Get in touch with me to talk about anything at all via dan AT appsevents.com Dan Taylor on social media: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dantcz/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DanTaylorAE Web: www.appsevents.com About the Events Podcast: I’m your host Dan Taylor and each week I talk with event entrepreneurs about how they plan, promote and run their events. We help you build your ‘Events Empire’ by growing your business using live events. Whether you're running community meetups, conferences, trade shows, IT training, music events, or any type of event we focus on finding actionable tips that you can use straight away. This podcast is sponsored by AppsEvents. We produce over 300 of our events across the globe from training to conferences and we are now sharing our expertise with a small group of event professionals. There are a couple of we can help you: Firstly we can run the logistics for your event. We have a whole support team that can handle all the heavy lifting for you. We can set up your website and agenda. Liaising with speakers, dealing with the huge volume of questions from attendees which you will receive. Liaise with venues and We can even come to your event to help you run it on the ground. Get in touch with james@appsevents.com and we’ll jump on a call. Secondly, I offer one on one coaching to help event entrepreneurs grow their events. I want you to get more attendees, produce epic events, make more money, and most importantly to do it all with no stress. Just email me at dan AT appsevents.com

Damian is a career sales professional, sales coach, and all-round sales guru. We dive into his fascinating backstory including living and working all across the World, then get into some concrete discussions about how to approach sales for your events. Topics we cover include: Living in Asia and having US clients Cold calling - is it dead? Basic sales principles Setting aside an hour a day for sales How to always ‘start with value’ Using Loom to send video clips to kick off a conversation with your prospect Do you need a CRM? Listen on: Apple Podcasts / Podbean / Stitcher / Spotify / YouTube / Google Podcasts I hope you enjoyed the podcast and if you did then please, please leave us a review it really means a lot to us! Get in touch with me to talk about anything at all via dan AT appsevents.com Sign up to our newsletter to get notified when the podcast is live Damian Thompson on social media: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/damianthompson/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DamianThompson Web: https://vpsales.co/about   Dan Taylor on social media: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dantcz/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DanTaylorAE Web: www.appsevents.com About the Events Podcast: I’m your host Dan Taylor and each week I talk with event entrepreneurs about how they plan, promote and run their events. We help you build your ‘Events Empire’ by growing your business using live events. Whether you're running community meetups, conferences, trade shows, IT training, music events, or any type of event we focus on finding actionable tips that you can use straight away. This podcast is sponsored by AppsEvents. We produce over 300 of our events across the globe from training to conferences and we are now sharing our expertise with a small group of event professionals. There are a couple of we can help you: Firstly we can run the logistics for your event. We have a whole support team that can handle all the heavy lifting for you. We can set up your website and agenda. Liaising with speakers, dealing with the huge volume of questions from attendees which you will receive. Liaise with venues and We can even come to your event to help you run it on the ground. Get in touch with james@appsevents.com and we’ll jump on a call. Secondly, I offer one on one coaching to help event entrepreneurs grow their events. I want you to get more attendees, produce epic events, make more money, and most importantly to do it all with no stress. Just email me at dan AT appsevents.com