5 Tips for Your Best Live Event Production

Take your event to the next level with these tried-and-true production tips. Live event production is our domain. It’s where we thrive. We love to put on a show and seamlessly perform all those behind-the-scenes transitions. We revel in the excitement of split decisions and take pride in making those on stage look good. Live event production is a thrilling process that always keeps us on our toes. With hundreds of successful live events under our belt, we’ve come up with the top five tips for running your best live event production. 1. Hire the right attitude. When you’re [...]

By |2017-07-17T11:24:28-04:00July 17th, 2017|Meetings & Live Events, Our Thoughts|

5 Things Your Church Website Should Have: Going Deeper

Take your church website to the next level with these tech features. In our last post about the five basic things your church website should have, we explored the need for easy to find times and locations, an easy way to give, honesty and transparency, and good, original content. Let’s pick up where we left off and show you five ways you could enhance your church website even further. 6. Updated content. This is a task you can give to a web developer or content manager, if you have them. Your developer could build the blog on a platform [...]

By |2017-06-01T13:48:13-04:00June 1st, 2017|Our Thoughts, Web|

5 Things Your Church Website Should Have: The Basics

Keep it simple with these easy church website tips. When a person is searching for a church, one of their first moves will be to check out your website. Make sure it has a few basic necessities! In the first of this two-part article, let’s cover the basic things your church website should have. 1. Easy to find times and locations. Obviously, your church’s meeting times and venue locations will be on your website—they’re your bread and butter—but have you thought about how easy it is to find that information? Why? It’s simple: if people can’t find you, they [...]

By |2017-06-01T13:47:45-04:00May 15th, 2017|House of Worship, Our Thoughts, Web|

Leaders: Don’t be Distracted by the Little Things

There’s a whole new meaning to “the devil is in the details.” Have you ever worked with a CEO who obsessed over the details of their company? One who lead a team of hundreds of employees, yet found themselves worrying about and supervising the small things, attending low-level meetings and dealing with matters their employees should handle? If you know someone like this, you’ve probably witnessed them busying themselves with things you’d consider a waste of their time. To bigwigs who function like this, they think they’re focusing on important details—like responding politely to negative online reviews or fixing [...]

By |2017-04-24T11:01:55-04:00April 24th, 2017|Our Thoughts|

The Age-Old Secret to Effective Video Communications

The secret to better video communications is right under your nose. So far, we’ve written about why your business’s website needs more video, ways to make your video accessible to a wider audience, and reasons to ramp up your video marketing this year. But how do you get there? Whether you’re hiring a professional video production company or looking to try out video communications on your own, this one simple trick will change the way you approach the subject. THE “MORE” BUBBLE It’s a thing. The “More” Bubble is this idea that the people of today get caught in [...]

By |2017-05-15T10:17:18-04:00April 17th, 2017|Our Thoughts, Video|

How To Best Utilize Your Church Volunteers

Get the most out of your volunteer staff for your church’s production. Volunteers are a huge part of church production. They’re the behind-the-scenes unassuming superheros who pull off every weekend service—many, if not all of them, unpaid. Pastors often push for more people to get involved, while those who are already serving, especially in production, cringe at the word “volunteer.” Typically, what comes to mind is sub-par work, creativity, and commitment—and sometimes it’s tough to find people who have any experience in production at all. It can be discouraging to pastors and staff when churchgoers consistently reject the offer [...]

By |2017-02-16T12:56:53-05:00February 13th, 2017|House of Worship, Meetings & Live Events, Our Thoughts|

What Can Live Streaming Do For Your Organization?

Going live with a webcast or streaming broadcast can have a huge impact on your business. Video is predicted to be one of the hottest marketing mediums this year. But don’t take our word for it: Cisco says global consumer consumption of video content will reach 82% of all traffic on the Internet by 2020. Tubular Insights says more people than ever before are watching video on their mobile devices. The Global Web Index cites the great potential for using live streaming to build your brand. Benefits of a Live Stream Broadcast Live stream takes your message and extends [...]

By |2017-02-13T16:53:15-05:00February 10th, 2017|Live Streaming, Meetings & Live Events, Our Thoughts|

Thinking Beyond AV for Your Event

From strategy to social media, there are so many ways to make your event great. One of the most common and effective ways to promote and execute an event is by using technology. Just attend any modern-day event and you’ll see the marks of technology all over it. The lights, the cameras, the big screens displaying what most of the room can’t see on the stage—it’s no secret ingredient to a successful event. It’s been said that technology is both a blessing and a curse. While technology can have the most seamless integration of convenience and speed in our [...]

By |2017-02-03T10:38:06-05:00January 30th, 2017|Meetings & Live Events, Our Thoughts|

Top 10 Reasons to Ramp Up Video Marketing in 2017

If you want to stay competitive, your company is going to need video marketing in 2017. Cisco says 69% of all Internet traffic this year will be video. Syndacast takes it even further – they’re predicting 74%. Even if the reality falls somewhere in between, these are some powerful numbers that your business should pay attention to. Whether it’s live streaming, product advertising, or posting something short and sweet on social media, telling your story with video is now the best way to capture an audience. Let’s look at some of the most compelling reasons to ramp up your [...]

By |2017-02-03T12:08:02-05:00January 22nd, 2017|Our Thoughts, Trends, Video|

Facebook Live? Livestream? Both?

Facebook rules. It’s a brilliantly savvy monetized social media platform that’s getting almost everything right. Just look at the numbers: 1.79 billion people use Facebook each month. 1.18 billion people log into Facebook daily. Many marketers agree that Facebook is still the reigning champ of social media. One of the latest updates in the past year included Facebook Live - a live-streaming video service that most agreed was a move to compete with the rise of Periscope and the now defunct Meerkat. Facebook Live allows businesses to run a real-time feed off a computer or mobile device and post on their business page as [...]

By |2017-01-30T12:50:08-05:00January 6th, 2017|Live Streaming, Our Thoughts, Trends, Video|
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