Halloween is just around the corner, and well, we didn’t feel right about not doing SOMETHING. Join us on Saturday, October 31st from 3pm - 5pm for a safe but spooky Halloween Drive-BOO at RED VELVET’s headquarters on North Lamar.

Tomorrow RED VELVET turns 18. The company is officially out of its teenage years and will find itself a freshly minted ‘adult’. The timing is a bit ironic because this year - regardless of our ‘age’ - we’ve been forced to grow up in ways we couldn’t have anticipated. That’s probably true for all of us!

Ladies and gentlemen, budgeting season is upon us!

But this year, things will run differently, thanks to the pandemic and companies’ need to remain agile going into 2021. We can all expect a makeover of sorts, but one thing is clear, this will have a serious and lasting domino effect on the events market - for ALL planners, be they on the client or agency side.

We're excited to announce that we have a new Facebook series called Coming Clean with Cindy! It's a no bullsh*t 15-minutes live Q&A led by Cindy to have an open conversation with our industry peers and clients.

We recently hosted a virtual event digital experience for our clients in the midst of pivoting to virtual that was quite eye-opening. Note that we’d already completed two similar experiences (one internally and another for our industry peers) with the same theme and a similar format. The client event was holistically different, however, in that the energy, the passion and the hunger for information was ever more palpable. Surprised?

For the first few months, we all held out – to some degree – for live events to come back in full force, and quickly. We now know it’s going to be awhile, and when the live events industry does rebound it will assuredly come with new safety protocols, and the landscape will look different in terms of size and make-up.

Events and meetings in the age of technology are tricky and have been for some time. Meeting etiquette was beginning to lose its footing before COVID-19 forced us into quarantine, and now it seems even more elusive as the social mores that kept us intact are adjusting to (not evolving with) our new way of living.

From Connect Corporate Magazine. RED VELVET’s Art Director, Chris Tyre, explains why an immediate “yes” from a client may not be enough.

From the Cvent podcast. Cindy shares her take on utilizing gamification for events and how you can track your ROI with Brooke and Cody with How Great Events Happen, the Cvent podcast.

RED VELVET is proud to be named one of the Best Places to Work by Austin Business Journal for the third consecutive year!

We are all going through SO much change in our world and this industry! But if you’re anything like us, you’re embracing it with all you’ve got, and using the time to get trained up on all things virtual, because the landscape of options is a lot bigger and wider than maybe any of us really knew before now.