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Even highly experienced #eventprofs sometimes struggle when asked to suggest “something different”, “out of the box” and “not the usual meeting location”. Fact is you cannot know everything and if you’re in a mega-city like London or New York even a lifetime in events won’t bring you to every available space for meetings or events. Here are 7 ways you can hunt out the perfect venue.

As a professional #eventprof in a relatively small city – Dublin – I was constantly amazed by the plethora of new venues that seemed to pop up out of nowhere just when I thought I had everything covered. So how do you ensure you’re always up-to-date? How do you earn and justify the “professional” appellation that’s part and parcel of being an #eventprof?  Here are 7 things you’ve got to d

1. Accept You Don’t Know Everything

The first step to perfect venue knowledge is, paradoxically, to admit to yourself, your competitors and your clients that you don’t have it, i.e., you don’t know everything. An attitude of humility has a strange but devastatingly positive effect: it makes it much more likely that people will share things with you. If you’re an arrogant know-it-all then why would anybody ever share something new with you? You’d already know it and would probably belittle them for thinking their venue discovery was new? Instead be open and humble. Share your knowledge liberally and ask plenty of questions.

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