With New Year’s resolutions still fresh in our minds, phrases like “I want to start reading more,” and “I want to start eating healthier” are thrown out nonchalantly.

This month we are focusing on goal planning and holding yourself accountable to those goals using the V2MOM method and Trello! Putting these practices into action, eGuide talked with Emily Washcovick, one of our long time business coaching clients (and friends), to demonstrate how these tools can be beneficial for goal planning in your business and in life!

We have been talking a lot about V2MOM: a framework originally created by Founder and CEO of Salesforce, Marc Benioff that helps businesses plan out their goals, strategies, and approaches for seeing their achievements through.

One of the methods that the eGuide team uses to set goals is V2MOM, a framework originally created by Founder and CEO of Salesforce, Marc Benioff that helps businesses plan out their goals, strategies, and approaches for seeing their achievements through. V2MOM stands for: Vision, Values, Methods, Obstacles, Measures

2020 has been an odd, difficult, rewarding, and memorable year. We’ve all dealt with uncertainty, fear, anger, frustration, boredom, and a full range of other emotions. While there are many things that did not go according to plan in 2020 there were also some pretty great things that happened within the eGuide family. Take a look at what we’ve been up to this year, both professionally and personally!

eGuide’s number one core value is Do Something that Helps Someone. For Giving Tuesday 2020 we wanted to share some organizations that the eGuide team supports and hope that you will too!

Now more than ever, small businesses need our support. We’ve put together a second eGuide to shopping small in preparation for Small Business Saturday!

Offering a mobile ready, no-nonsense approach to virtual events at a price point that may make your key stakeholders happy, Swapcard is a Paris created virtual conference platform that began to ramp up just in time for the pandemic to disrupt an industry.

If you can believe it, pumpkin spice lattes are available at Starbucks. Soon the shortening days will be noticeable, and before you know it we will be in the heart of fall. Fall for eGuide means a second round of fundraising events for nonprofits culminating in Giving Tuesday (December 1st, this year).

As larger conferences are navigating what to do for impending decision deadlines for 2021, we are all coming to terms with the fact that 2021 will be a year of hybrid events at best. Companies are itching to return to live events, and are looking for ways to create a curated, high-touch, experience for their attendees similar to what could be done in person. For that, we are happy to review INXPO.

Covid-19 has put meeting planners in an interesting predicament. They have been left to translate hard skills, developed over years, into a digital and virtual environment. They’ve had to put a temporary pause on being able to walk the floor, bring their teams and executives together for in person rehearsals, and make those fine-tuning adjustments that typically happen days before a live event, and make it all happen virtually.

“You are a bully,” I remember saying. “Tell me in what professional setting is it ever appropriate to throw a pen at someone?” The incident I was referencing, was an event with the Chief Executive “Bully” that happened nearly four years earlier. I had carried that resentment, fresh as the day it happened, around with me for all that time, and it didn’t come to surface until I was resigning. Even now, it’s a challenge to identify the emotions I felt as I was quitting.

For the right client, Adobe Connect would be a great enterprise level solution for virtual meetings, webinars, and training. With focusing on user training, the attendee experience will feel more organic, authentic, and may even be more enhanced than what could be done in an in-person environment. 

Give Lively was created as a donation management platform for nonprofit organizations, and since 2015 has taken the Forever Free Pledge. This combined with an effective integration with Salesforce, positions them as a “low-threshold of cost” platform for donation management, especially for those organizations who are capitalizing on their 10 free salesforce seats through Tech Soup. 

For businesses looking for a turn-key solution for webinars, speaker series, or panel discussions, Demio would be a great place to start. The team at eGuide dove into the free trial of Demio to explore some of the features of the platform and dig deeper into user experience, technical features, and a few use cases.

Many of us are now approaching 2 months of working from home on a regular basis, while this might not have been a change for folks who normally work from home or do so more often than others, for us here at eGuide it has definitely been a change from our normal daily routine of working from our River North office.

During this health emergency, many of us are confined to our home offices taking meetings from the internet rather than face-to-face. While many large organizations have tools and platforms already in place to enable remote work, many small businesses, entrepreneurs, and non-profit organizations are facing challenges when selecting the right set of platforms to continue business and serve their clients and constituents. 

As we leave 2019 behind, securing your home network is a great project to kickstart the new year. In this post, we will cover some of the options available to make your home network safer.

As an events professional, you have the arduous task of keeping up with multiple details about your client, their guests... and everything in between. Microsoft Excel can be an incredibly helpful tool for keeping track of and organizing all these details. But, many event professionals struggle with understanding the ins and outs of Excel, mastering formulas, and becoming experts in pivot tables. Wouldn’t it be nice if someone could walk you through exactly how to use Excel to manage your event, step-by-step? Lucky for you, we’ve done just that!

At times, today’s technology can be both a blessing and a curse. Working on projects that span across several departments can quickly flood your inbox, making it difficult to locate pertinent documents or email messages you know you filed away in the corresponding folder. If only there was an easier way to collaborate on teams. Lucky for us, there is!