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Among different topics regarding the event management industry, our previous articles covered handy software for managers, the type of qualities that managers should possess, tips on successful event organization and reducing stress, as well as listing of events that managers should attend; now we'll talk about the things that make a life of an event manager easier, and consequently more productive.

A Car

Taking trains, subways, taxis or airplanes ranges from reducing costs to raising eco-awareness, however, efficient managers stop here to think and decide if they want to be environmentally friendly or operative. During the day there are a lot of obligations, some would even say minor or low priority tasks, which are easily carried out by car. Hiring a driver or having at least one company car (a matter of the company and business size), will give you more time for specific jobs, running errands and dealing with emergencies.

Portable phone charger (power-bank)

An average person spends about 23 days a year, and 3.9 years in life using cell phones. Event planners are certainly not average people and add digits to this number. If ordinary people spend 23 days in a year using cells, planners must spend at least 35. As you all know very well, the smart phone battery is not its strongest asset, and a planner without the phone is the same as a driver without a vehicle. Unquestionably, you will forget to recharge your phone, but having a car charger or a portable one in your bag might just save your business deal.

Bluetooth headset

 
This handy gadget is not only great due to keeping you safe while driving. Some other reasons for getting it are:

• Multitasking at the office (and home, let’s be honest)
• Listening to music (after you connect it to your phone)
• Looking cool (gives you a cover magazine business look).

Notepad/tablet/iPad

In addition to eloquence and great social skills, tablets are crucial for planners. What are the benefits?

• Elegant and thin, easy to carry around (laptop opposite).
• Support different formats and contain tons of useful gadgets
• Enables document access
• Can be used anywhere

Smartphone

Nowadays, we stopped using cell phones only for making phone calls. Instead, they became our pocket computers and information providers. Features making this device overriding and irreplaceable are:

• the Internet
• variety of cloud access
• e-mails
• social networks
• Viber, Skype, Whatsapp, Line and WeChat
• camera
• Microsoft office
• GPS and many serviceable other.

Emergency kit

Aside the first aid kit that every car has, what should an event planner have in their specialized event kit? Organizing events makes you a witness and a participant of each and every thing that can go wrong (including a scapegoat when everything goes south).

This is why saving the day for an event planner means having extra bobby pins, stain removers, lipsticks and breath mints up their sleeve. Other types of events will need divergent items in respect to their specialty and expertise (like corporate events, where pens, and notebooks might be the words of the day).

Extra cash

Just-in-case money should be included in the preparatory tactic. There are many situations which call for that extra money, the money that isn’t included in the regular costs of the certain job (like for example some last-minute-my-assistant-broke-the-vase-wedding-decoration-emergency).

Positive attitude

Whatever event you organize, wherever the venue is, whoever your client is, always stay positive.  It is an invaluable something you must have at all times and should never lose! A number of things will happen, many plans will go wrong, but you should make a habit of fixing it all and making the best out of every situation.
One might fail to see the momentousness of seemingly ordinary things we have just listed. The thing is, we don’t need much and we don’t need inventions and discoveries to take challenges and turn them into successes. A simple dead battery lead to the reality where we will never be information deprived due to a run-out-of-power device. Similarly, a simple practical emergency kit came to light due to an event manager’s daily reflections.