TOP käytäntöön pantavat asiat:
- LE kokonaisvaltaisemmaksi, tapahtuma alkaa lentomatkasta Suomeen, should provide information from the very beginning. Good tutorial about the basic facts you should know about Finland, how to get to Jyväskylä, what kind of things to bring, what else is here to see.
- When making an offer, you should put more effort into it. Do your research properly, provide couple good option, all of which have wellt-thought perusteluja why they would be the best ones to choose. Venues, programs, schedules etc. Also the presentation, offer can also include things for all the senses. Think videos, smells, textures, visuals. Make it as concrete as possible, so if you are offering an eventplanning for company get-together, make the deciders see themselves sitting in the venue of your choosing, relaxing over a drink.
- Think everything through from the clients point of view. What might be possible problemparts? What information would you like to receive beforehand so that you would feel comfortable?
Wonderful book to read, just love it! Must read her first book as well, which apparentely is even more focused on the event planning itself, where this book takes you through the steps of making a business out of it and what kind of things you should consider with different steps. (the preparation for the sale, the sale, the execution, the post-event marketing) You can sense the huge amount of work that her company puts into just making the offer for their clients. In that stage I’m guessing her clients are such bigs companies you really don’t compete with price anymore, it’s more about the quality of the service and the attention to details that has helped her to be so successful. This should be every eventplanners must-read book, so many small points come to mind when you read it with a certain event in mind. AKA when you have something concrete to mirror the examples and points with. So this is actually one of the first books I would consider buying and using as an ongoing reflecting flat for different events.
She has some good points about how you should remember also to consider the client very throughly. Think if the event your offering showcases their values and brand. Is the venue, program, theme, performers, menu etc up to their standards and also will they be within the brand your client wants to build? There have been some events that have really upgraded company’s brand, when the theme has successfully coupled a good charity cause and the company, but then there have been some truly harmful failures, when the performers have been questionable or there has been something else in the whole that has been overlooked. It’s also good to deliver the exact proposal your client is asking, but it propaply would be nice, at least in the field of event planning, to make a proposal with something extra added to it, that the client may have not even considered. Small things are the key element to a successful, and memorable, event. The things that say: we have considered your needs, we appreciate you’re being here, we will do everything we can to have you enjoy this event.
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What should be told to visitors of Team Academy who come from abroad?
- how to get to jyväskylä
- hotels to stay at
- couple of places that serve dinner on sundays, their opening hours
- some info about the climate and the weather of the present, what kind of clothes to bring
- prices in finland, what’s the range
- emphasise how small jyväskylä is and how all the hotels are within walking distance of Team Academy, so less than a mile away
- walking directions from train station to team academy – maybe a video? With map&pictures of the tube and ta?
- Currency, money can be exchanged in banks, list of banks and their operation hours. There is also ATMs almost at every corner in the center, they are marked with orange OTTO-signs.
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- nordea
- osuuspankki
- tapiola
- säästöpankki
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- list of the most important places to see in jyväskylä
- list of emergency contacts – police, hospital, firemen and the contact info of us
- jyväskylä is a student city, that’s why there are so many young people
- places to shop?
- There is wireless provided at team academy premises.
- Cultural differences?
- No formal dresscode, team academy and other company’s visited during program are very casual. Finland as a country is fairly unformal.
- Short dictionary of the most needed words
- käyttäjänimi-username
- salasana-password
- vedä-flush (in the bathroom)
- avoinna-open
- suljettu-closed
- seuraava-next
- juna-train
- juna-asema-train station
- linja-auto -bus (also the word bussi is used)
- linja-auto asema – bus station
- lentokenttä – airport
- portti – gate
- uloskäynti – exit
- lipunmyynti – ticket office
- taksi – cab, taxi
- OTTO – ATM
- kielletty – forbidden, not allowed
How to get here:
Address of Team Academy: Piippukatu 3, 40100 Jyväskylä, Finland
You can fly to Helsinki, Tampere or straight to Jyväskylä
From Helsinki to Jyväskylä
by train, check http://www.vr.fi/en/index.html for schedules
by bus, check http://matkahuolto.com/en/ for schedules (there’s a bus leaving from the airport that comes straight to Jyväskylä, set Helsinki-Vantaa Airport as the starting point)
From Tampere to Jyväskylä
by train, check http://www.vr.fi/en/index.html for schedules (there’s a bus between airport and train station departing every hour)
You can also come by bus, but from Tampere train is the easiest solution. Check http://matkahuolto.com/en/ for schedules of buses.
Hotels in Jyväskylä (all of these are located within walking distance of Team Academy)
Hotel Yöpuu – http://www.hotelliyopuu.fi/yopuu_en/
Scandic Hotel – http://www.scandichotels.com/Reservation/Select-Hotel/
Sokos Hotel Alexandra – http://www.sokoshotels.fi/en/hotels/jyvaskyla/alexandra/
Sokos Hotel Jyväshovi – http://www.sokoshotels.fi/en/hotels/jyvaskyla/jyvashovi/
Milton hotel – http://www.hotellimilton.com/etusivu-eng.html
Cumulus hotel – http://www.cumulus.fi/hotellit/jyvaskyla/en_GB/jyvaskyla/
Omenahotelli – http://www.omenahotels.com/