Tips for Matching Event Entertainment

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Planning an event entertainment can be one of the most daunting tasks ever. It requires a lot of creativity as well as knowledge of what the targeted audience enjoy most. The journey towards finding the most perfect and wonderful event performers should be treaded carefully to avoid little mistakes that may prevent it from being a success. Below are some of the greatest tips for matching to the corporate guests.

Look forward to finding best corporate entertainers

Most people in the corporate entertainment industry know that there is a distinction that should not be crossed in regards to entertainment content. It is therefore important to seek those individuals who have great reviews from other business clients. They should have a great experience in their stage performances.

Always ask for a preview of their entertainment videos

Most corporate entertainers normally have a clip that shows exactly what their performances look like. It is important to watch a preview of this and know the suitability and

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How to Hire Corporate Entertainment

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For many people, hiring entertainment for a corporate event can be an overwhelming task. The entertainment you select has to be professional and suited for all audiences. On the other hand, it is easy to get stuck in the corporate rut of doing “the same old thing” year after year.

How important is keeping your existing clients and employees for your organization? Showing appreciation to clients and your staff can boost morale, strengthen business relationships and help your company grow. Having the right entertainment at your event will accomplish that!

So how do you break from the ordinary and book entertainment that is new and engaging for your group? Below are some suggestions to make the hiring process easier for you.

1. Plan Your Event

Plan how would like the evening to go. If you know the exact type of entertainment you are having, then plan the event around that entertainment. Otherwise, plan out time for the different events and make a time-table. If you haven’t decided on the entertainment then be

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Tips for Booking Entertainment for Event

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Finding entertainment for a corporate convention, holiday party or conference can seem like a overwhelming task. There are literally thousands of excellent, good, and down right horrible corporate entertainers available. This list will give you some advice on how to narrow down your search and find entertainment that will help make your event a success!

#10 – PLAN EARLY. The most popular corporate entertainers book up very quickly for popular dates. During the corporate holiday party season (Nov-Jan), entertainers can begin to book up over a year in advance. Avoid disappointment and start looking for about entertainment as soon as you know the date of your corporate event.

#9 – KNOW WHAT YOU WANT (AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, WHAT YOUR AUDIENCE WANTS). You can make your search for an entertainer easier if you have an idea of the type of entertainment that would work well for your group. Popular corporate entertainment includes:

COMEDY – Comedy acts can be a great way to get your group

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Art in a State of Entertainment

Art has to be entertaining. If not, it will fail to communicate with its audience in any constructive way and any message that it might carry will be lost. Any song you write about love that doesn’t entertain the ear, will be discarded… and its message of love will be dissolved by the sounds of boredom and indifference of your listener.

The same applies to all forms of art. Directors know that once people start snoring during their movies, they’ve lost the game. Writers, painters… they all know that once you fail to entertain your reader/viewer, any chance you had at communicating your emotions and your beliefs, is evaporated faster than hydrogen on a bright sunny day in the heart of Cairo.

That being said, art being entertaining is one thing… and art being “entertainment” is another.

A good example here is the magician. He is an entertainer and his goal is by definition self-explanatory… to entertain with the use of magic. What he does takes tremendous skills, an abundance in talent and dedication to his work. By being an entertainer, does he care if the members

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Creativity for Live Events Entertainment

Creativity for events entertainment is becoming an essential necessity to the outcome of any event. Clients are looking for that talking point of the night and are requesting for something “different”. Event Managers are being stretched when it comes to creating imaginative entertainment ideas to find something brand new for their client.

Here are a list of some tips and ideas as to how you can bring something new to the table when it comes to live events entertainment and performances:

1. Know your clients and guests requirements. What are they looking to gain or achieve from the event? The better understanding you have of the brief the easier for the performer to recommend and provide the right performance for the event.

2. Use specialists within the entertainment industry like an entertainment company or a choreographer. If your event is heavily live event entertainment based you might want an entertainment specialist to help you pitch. They will know the act inside and out, so will be able to answer any questions from your client, which will help you win the pitch.

3. Build a

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Finding The Best Corporate Entertainer

Hiring the best corporate entertainer is no doubt going to be a priority for your corporate event. You want an entertainer who is professional, suits the occasion, and frankly, does a good job of entertaining the audience. Here are some tips to help you select the best corporate event entertainment for your next event:

Consider the Audience and Occasion

First and foremost – to choose a great entertainer, you need to think about your audience and the type of entertainment the majority will enjoy. Popular types of corporate entertainment include comedy, music, and magic acts. Comedic entertainers are great for getting your group laughing and enjoying themselves. Some corporate entertainers do stand-up comedy, while others add magic, games, or other performances to their comedic acts. The best entertainers offer variety and are able to enrapture audiences across the board.

Plan a Realistic Budget

If you want the best, then you are going to have to pay for it. You cannot expect to get the top rated professional corporate entertainer for a small fee. Depending on the person’s or group’s reputation and experience, as well

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Entertainer for Your Kid’s Party?

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There are many children’s entertainers in Leeds and the surrounding areas, you just need to do a quick Google search for “Children’s Entertainers Leeds” and you’ll have more than enough to choose from. There are clowns, magicians, fairies and pirate themed event organisers that specialise in entertaining for kids parties.

Just a couple of the best in the North West (and East):

JingJangJooJong – The crazy couple who create a magical alien world to entertain with.

Make a Wish Entertainment – Specialising in fairy-tales for children

So if you’re struggling to think of something to do, just hire an entertainer, most of them are members of Equity so they are quality performers. Make sure they have public liability insurance however so that any little injuries from the activities are fully covered and you have nothing to worry about. You may also wish to check for CRB clearance which many of them advertise having.

Equipment

Is it a dance, a do, a ball, a shower? Whether a birthday party, surprise party, or a calm British tea party, there’s some equipment you should make sure you have!

The things below aren’t

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How to Use Entertainment to Make Your Party a Smashing Success!

If you’re planning a holiday party this year some kind of entertainment may be a great addition as a part of the festivities. Even more than the location, the décor, and other elements, the right entertainment can set the tone for your event and give your guests a unique, memorable, and truly enjoyable experience that they can carry with them for many a day to come. The right entertainment can add atmosphere and class, humor and fun, or inspiration and encouragement to the tone of your event.

What Kind Of Entertainment?

The most important question is, what needs do you want the entertainment to fill? Will it be the main event of the evening, one of several highlights, or will it simply be background to everything else?

If the entertainment will be the main event of the evening, you may want to have some sort of feature performer such as a variety act of some kind; a magician, a comedian, a juggler, a singer, a show band, etc., and you will probably want the entertainment to last somewhere between thirty minutes to an hour or so.

If the entertainment is simply one part of

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Choosing Wedding Entertainment

So you’ve just got engaged! It’s now time for the excitement to begin. You’ve got a wedding to plan! At this point you’ve probably got a lot of questions running through your mind. Where do you begin? What questions should I ask vendors? Where am I going to get the money? Wait, how much money are we talking about? On the contrary to what most couples believe, wedding planning can actually be fun. With proper planning and allocated time to complete it you can create your truly unique and exciting Chicago Wedding reception.

When it comes to the entertainment portion of your reception this should be treated with care as with all your other very important wedding details. The entertainment seems to be one of, if not the most important components to a reception. Sure, the food, decorations, and socialization are very important but without entertainment, these events would take on an entirely different personality.

For affairs that are focuses around the entertainment, or at least ones where it is responsible for a major role in the success or failure of the event, some serious considerations must be taken when hiring the right entertainment.

Will

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How to Choose the Best Birthday Entertainment

One surefire way to hold an unforgettable birthday party for your child is to hire professional birthday entertainment. It’s not easy keeping a group of children happy and entertained on your own. By leaving the party entertainment to professional birthday entertainers, you can focus on the logistics of the party all the while ensuring that the event is successful and enjoyable for the children.

Picking a Birthday Entertainer That is Suitable for the Age Group

A party entertainer that is perfect for 1-3 year olds is not going to be appropriate for a party of 9-12 year olds. Base the decision of what kind of birthday entertainment you hire on the age group of the children attending the party. Children between the ages of 1-3 years old need simple entertainment that is easy to digest. Children in this age group have very short attention spans so they can’t focus on long performances of any sort. The perfect party entertainment for this age group would be someone dressed in a Barney suit or other popular character to give out balloons and dance with the children.

Some people mistakenly

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Questions For Entertainment Centers

If you own a home entertainment center or looking at new entertainment centers to buy, you probably have a few questions. There are a number of different types, sizes, and colors to choose from. If you’re purchasing your very first entertainment center, read through the following questions and answers, and get more familiar with the options you have.

What’s the Average Price Range of Entertainment Centers?
The price for a home entertainment center can range from under $100 to many thousands of dollars. The price will vary greatly based on the size, material, and design of the piece. Entertainment centers can be as simple as a TV stand with shelves to a complete unit that takes up an entire wall. The price will depend on what type of entertainment center you want.

What Materials are Entertainment Centers Made From?
Home entertainment centers are made of all sorts of materials. Often they use different materials to provide adequate function and sleek styling. Common materials include:

# Wood (oak, mahogany, Cedar, etc.)
# Metal
# Glass
# Plastic
# Pressboard

Often these materials are combined to

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How to Organise Your Christmas Party Entertainment

Choosing entertainment for your Christmas party can be a daunting task. You have a group of 100plus people who never socialise with each other, generally only talk to the people they know and spend most of the evening avoiding their boss!

Not a situation that shouts fun!

There is however a simple solution, one that is often overlooked or left until last in the event organising process, entertainment.

After organising entertainment for the last 13 years I can honestly say that entertainment can either make or break a Christmas party and this depends on how much research is done by the organiser.

Here’s a checklist to help you choose the best Christmas party entertainment for your company;

1) Find out the average age of your guests (there’s no point in booking a DJ if you guests are over 50 and will probably leave straight after the meal)

2) Find out the average gender of your guests (if most of your guests are female you probably won’t want Belly Dancers!)

3) Are you guests bringing their partners?

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Entertainment Promotions Increase Brand

Entertainment promotions provide your company with a powerful platform from which you can harness your audience’s unquenchable desire for digital entertainment. New movies continue to draw enormous crowds. Rising music artists continue to grab the entertainment spotlight. Custom promotions can be designed to deliver digital incentives that leverage the popularity of Hollywood blockbusters, music artists, high-profile television programs, and video games. Your target market is already exposed to these entertainment channels. Entertainment promotions give you a unique opportunity to tap into those channels.

A growing number of companies are launching entertainment promotions as a cost-effective strategy for reaching their target audience. You can do the same.

In this article, we’ll describe the most popular entertainment promotions and explain how you can leverage them. We’ll also take a closer look at creating custom promotions with specific digital content that delivers a memorable interactive experience to consumers. Lastly, we’ll explain how radio promotions and entertainment promotions can dovetail with one another to build promotional momentum and connect with your audience.

Types Of Entertainment Promotions At Your Fingertips

Consider the entertainment channels to which your audience connects.

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Different Types of Entertainment

Before we look into different types of entertainment, first let’s define what entertainment is. Entertainment is any kind of activity that provides amusement for people in a passive way, other entertaining activities that involve participating are considered recreation or hobbies.

There are many types of entertainment for particular tastes, for example we have cinema, theatre, sports, games, social dance, concert, comedy shows, animations, impressionists, clowns and the list goes on and on.

These form of entertainment can than be divided into groups according to the age and interest of the people being entertained. For instance we have child , adult , live action , public and corporate entertainment. In this article we’ll give a brief explanation to some of these forms.

Child Entertainment

Kids need to be entertained and some times the entertainer or the entertainment agency needs to find a balance between mental and physical activities. Clowns, puppets, pantomimes and cartoons tend to appeal to children, though adult might find it enjoyable too.

Adult Entertainment

Adult Entertainment many times is related to the sex industry, but this

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Awards Banquets Special With Entertainment

Have you ever attended an event that has been prepared to give recognition, distribute awards, or show gratitude to the efforts and accomplishments of several people? If you have, then you would agree when I say that in events like these, meals are usually incredible and venues are commonly carefully chosen… How about the entertainment? I think you would agree with the fact that including a good form of awards banquet entertainment is important as well. And if you are going to organize similar events, you must be aware of what to look for and how to choose your banquet entertainment.

Awards banquet entertainment? How exactly will that help you and your event?

First of all, events like these are geared towards showing gratitude to the efforts and accomplishments of people. Apart from serving them with good food, it is a must that you let them enjoy the event. Enjoy not just by eating, but literally enjoy the whole event. Here is when awards banquet entertainment comes in.

Yes, good food is important but good entertainment is as important as well. Providing a good and appropriate entertainment

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Types of Entertainment for Parties

When choosing the most memorable entertainment for parties, first take a look at what kind of party or event it is. Depending on the event, such as weddings, there are wedding entertainment ideas and for corporate events, there are corporate event ideas.

To make it simpler, you can divide the types of entertainment into a group. Remember, entertainment for parties and events can be considered an amusing type of activity from very passive to very interactive. For instance, group classifications are: children, group, public, private or corporate. You want to find the right entertainment for the specific group you would like to entertain for the event.

Here are some examples:

Public Entertainment

When you walk through the park or subway station in any big city, you can probably see a large range of public entertainers amusing the city’s bystanders and passers-by for any amount of money. There are all sorts of public entertainers from Jazz musicians, a violin soloist to mimes. Public entertainers flock to bigger cities because there are a large number of concentrated people in an area to hopefully make some kind

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The Perfect Entertainment For Your Christmas Party

As we approach the holiday season, many of us are going to be planning Christmas parties and holiday celebrations. Finding the right entertainment for these events is a huge undertaking. Get it right and you’re a hero! Get it wrong and your guests have to suffer through a boring program. No pressure, huh?

Don’t worry! As a professional speaker and entertainer, I have worked with some of the finest event planners in the industry and have learned from them all. Follow this guide to help you through the decision making process and guarantee that you have a massively successful event.

1. Planning

One of the very first steps when planning an event is to decide on as many of the specific details as possible. These details should include date, time, location, number of guests invited, etc. Most entertainers and speakers will ask you these questions to get an idea of what you are planning so they can adjust their performance to best fit your event.

2. Type of Program

The type of event you are planning will also dictate what type

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Entertainment, the Smoke of Societal Inequality

Entertainment, seemingly as tame as a lamb, is a villainous rogue that robs people of the justice and equality that they truly deserve. Though as innocent and beautiful as a child, it lulls the oppressed masses into a false, guileful sense of security; comfort; and well-being. Entertainment, quite often, is the emollient that soothes the ever-burning, acheful wounds in the human soul; gaffing society’s masses into believing that all is well. And more often than not; it blocks critical, constructive thought so vital for the engenderment of long needed change. Society’s masses, lulled into the deep sleep of false entertainment, are condemned to the musty barracks of poverty and a mendacious sense of security. Dancing in the lanes that the world’s heartless billionaires have painted for them; society’s brainwashed, beguiled masses pitch their tents beneath the shadow of pauperdom and woe. Their world; riddled with sham, make belief, and falsehood; is a strange, yawning prison that houses poverty’s and injustice’s impressionable lambs whose minds are carbon copies of the wishes of the rich. Entertainment is the “Haves” brainwashing tool of choice; it predisposes people to accepting less than they are worth and leaves unjust societies unchanged.

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Entertainers Nightmares and How to Avoid Them

Booking children’s entertainers for your child’s birthday party can be like playing a game of Russian roulette, you often don’t know what you are getting before it is too late. There is nothing sadder than a disappointed child on their birthday and sadly, if you have booked an incompetent entertainer, there is little you can do about it on the day.

The internet is full of people selling services as birthday entertainers and children’s entertainers but how can you tell if they are any good at what they do? Sadly there is no regulation or governing body to complain to if you have a bad experience with a children’s entertainer this means the onus is on you to do your homework before making a commitment to book.

Nightmare 1

So you surf the web and find an entertainer you feel will suit your needs, you speak to them on the phone and all seems to be in order so you make a booking. On the day you are horrified to find the entertainer who arrives at your party is not the entertainer you thought you booked.

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Entertainer for Your Corporate Event Entertainment

You have everything set for your employee appreciation event or customer appreciation event. Your CEO introduces the entertainment for the evening and then, slowly, everything comes crashing to a halt. Instead of the laughter and applause that you hoped to hear, you hear silence and heavy sighs. The talent, which you thought was the perfect corporate entertainer for your group, panics and starts insulting the audience. You slowly slink down into your chair and wonder if your resume is up-to-date.

As Maya Angelou once said, “People will forget what you said and forget what you did, but they will never forget how you made them feel.” While the food may be great and the room looks beautiful, these will be quickly forgotten. What your group won’t forget is how miserable they felt watching the entertainer you chose to add some “fun” and excitement” to your event. It’s odd that, sometimes, an events manager will spend months on planning certain aspects of an event – food, hotel, decorations, etc – but wait to the last minute to book the proper corporate event entertainment.

Here are a few corporate event entertainment ideas

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