How to make your events better
NYC Gatherings Calendar and Two New Episodes
Focus on the small things.
My good friend, Olive, says you want to “surprise and delight” people.
She often focuses on surprising and delighting people when someone enters the building BUT before they enter the event.
Remember the last event you went to? What stood out to you? What did you tell someone about after the event?
It likely was about who was there, the conversations you had, or *something else.* That something else likely didn’t cost a lot of money either.
It probably was a surprise and delight moment.
At Your Event
Sooo… how can you surprise and delight someone at your event?
Think about someone’s event attending journey…
How do they enter? Where do they walk? What buttons do they push? When they walk in, what happens? These are your opportunities to surprise and delight people.
If someone enters your event with a smile, your gathering is off to a better start. Sounds good, right?
One “surprise and delight” example
At a recent event, I decided to give people wet hand towels to cool off right when they walked into the venue. People really liked this nice touch.
And how did these hand towels actually get delivered to people at the event???
That same Olive I mentioned before. The one and only Olive Persimmon! She is a legend. Follow her. Email her. I have learned a lot from her. Actually… consider buying one of her books. My favorite one is Olive Un-filtered.
NYC Gatherings Calender
Speaking of events, I created a NYC Gatherings active calendar with gatherings hosted by community builders. People who care about the gatherings they host.
I hope you find a fun NYC Gathering here. Feel free to share the link with a friend too! https://lu.ma/nycgatherings
🎧 Portfolio Career Podcast Episodes
#335: Breakthrough Breakdowns
What was a breakthrough for you?
In this Hot Pod Podcast Mixer episode, a few friends talked about breakthroughs. I shared about how including Loom videos in emails helped me breakthrough to busy and successful people to become podcast guests. These conversations and the podcast has led to many breakthroughs too!
#334: How 3 Communities Have Been Growing: Reading Rhythms, StoryTell, and Met Through Friends
In this podcast episode, you will hear how:
Ben Bradbury and Reading Rhythms host large scale reading parties and how he would love to see more events that give people energy
Rachel Saslaw and StoryTell think about venue selection and building StoryTell while working full-time
Elle Wilson has been building Met Through Friends and what she has noticed about friends of friends and dating
Alright, that’s it for me.
I don’t think I can add a surprise and delight into this newsletter at this point haha.
Feel free to reply back, say hi, and/or leave a comment below if you have any questions or ideas though!
-David Nebinski who wants you to know about cool NYC Gatherings