Live Spark

Planning a sales meeting?

Be sure to check out our report at http://live-spark.com/SalesBrain/

Live Spark updated their phone number.

Live Spark updated their phone number.

Live Spark updated their address.

Live Spark updated their address.

The Pineapple Effect: Increasing Event Engagement in an Unconventional Way

The Pineapple Effect: Increasing Event Engagement in an Unconventional Way

http://live-spark.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-pineapple-effect-increasing-event.html

The Pineapple Effect: Increasing Event Engagement in an Unconventional Way This post isn't about some way that serving pineapple at your event can magically increase audience engagement. It'd be fantastic if a foo...

5 Ways to Herd Your Sheep: Getting your audience where you want them, on time.

5 Ways to Herd Your Sheep (Aka: Getting your audience back on time)

http://live-spark.blogspot.com/2018/03/5-ways-to-herd-your-sheep-getting-your.html

5 Ways to Herd Your Sheep: Getting your audience where you want them, on time. Are your event start times accurate, or merely aspirational? We hear, often, that clients have consistent issues getting their events ...

Disney

20 years ago Live Spark did one of the first examples of for at a .

Since that time, the technology has progressed immensely, but the idea is still novel, fresh, and has the same engaging effect. Watch this cable executive get "Tooned Up"--an experience he was able to take home to his family (Then: VHS tape, Now: Digital sharing on social media).


https://vimeo.com/88524810/35d73b3165

Disney Toon Disney was just launching its cable station and wanted to expose the trade show attendees to their channel. With so many attendees and typical trade show distractions,…

Manipulating Multiple Choice Questions for Better Information Retention

You can manipulate your audience's perception of your information by manipulating your multiple choice questions.

http://live-spark.blogspot.com/2017/08/manipulating-multiple-choice-questions.html

Manipulating Multiple Choice Questions for Better Information Retention When making game show questions for a game show in a large event, many of our clients don't think much about the effect of the question in...

Intel-Microsoft Training for HP

How do you make an amazing workshop experience with Intel, Microsoft, and HP? Allow Live Spark to show you how we did it. https://vimeo.com/195025063

Intel-Microsoft Training for HP Excerpts of an AniMate and Game created for a 90-minute training. Since the focus of the training was security, we brought the "Anonymous Mask" to life…

Optos Music Collective

Live Spark produced this parody of a "Time Life Music Collection" infomercial to highlight the benefits of Optos' Daytona machine. The audience was a group of 3500+ independent optometrists, and it was voted best in show.

https://vimeo.com/216383398/336ef947a2

Optos Music Collective Live Spark produced this for Optos to sell the benefits of Daytona - an eye scanning device that detects eye pathologies. Their audience: 3500 Optometrists at…

Producers vs. Presenters: Taming the Presentation Deadline Beast

Event producers give unreasonable deadlines! Presenters never meet deadlines at all! It's time for: Producers vs. Presenters: Taming the Presentation Deadline Beast

http://live-spark.blogspot.com/2017/03/producers-vs-presenters-taming.html

Producers vs. Presenters: Taming the Presentation Deadline Beast There is an eternal struggle between the event production team and the presenters (internal and, less frequently, external) to get present...

"And the Oscar Goes to...": What we can learn from the 2017 Oscar's big screw-up.

"And the Oscar Goes To....": What we can learn from the 2017 Oscars big screw-up.

http://live-spark.blogspot.com/2017/02/and-oscar-goes-to-what-we-can-learn.html

"And the Oscar Goes to...": What we can learn from the 2017 Oscar's big screw-up. It was a moment in which--I guarantee you--every event producer, or person working with live events, gasped and muttered some version of "...

The Advantages of DIY-Emceeing

The advantages of using your own internal emcee vs. hiring a professional.

http://live-spark.blogspot.com/2017/02/the-advantages-of-diy-emceeing.html

The Advantages of DIY-Emceeing Last entry we talked about the advantages a professional external emcee has over an internal emcee. ( How to Emcee Your Event Like a Pro...

How to Emcee Your Event Like a Pro

What are the professional emcees doing that your internal emcee isn't? Take a look at "How to Emcee Your Event Like a Pro".



http://live-spark.blogspot.com/2017/02/how-to-emcee-your-event-like-pro.html

How to Emcee Your Event Like a Pro At our events sometimes there is an internal emcee (a member/employee of the company holding the event), and sometimes the emcee is extern...

4 Ways to Hamilton Your Event.

4 ways to "Hamilton" your event: Incorporating music to reinforce content.
http://live-spark.blogspot.com/2016/11/4-ways-to-hamilton-your-event.html

4 Ways to Hamilton Your Event. I know more about Alexander Hamilton now that I ever learned in school. I've caught friends casually humming the details of Hamilton's ...

Loved getting to see everyone at these past few days. Back home in Minneapolis, but missing already.

One-Of-A-Kind Education Opportunities | Connect Marketplace 2016

Dan Yaman will be presenting at on August 27th in Grapevine, Texas. If you're there, come say hi and learn how to design a brain-based event! http://www.connectmarketplace.com/education.html

One-Of-A-Kind Education Opportunities | Connect Marketplace 2016 Earn CMP credits, develop skills and grow knowledge at Connect Marketplace education sessions.

Live Spark: The Strategic Event Design Blog: Delta's New Safety Videos: Losing the Course

We hate that Delta Airlines changed their in-flight safety videos. Here is why it's a poor strategy, and what we can learn from Delta's videos--as it applies to events. http://live-spark.blogspot.com/2016/08/deltas-new-safety-videos-losing-course.html

Live Spark: The Strategic Event Design Blog: Delta's New Safety Videos: Losing the Course

#EventIcons - Watch Every Wednesday at 5pm EST

Dan Yaman is going to be on this afternoon at 5p.m. EST (4p.m. CT). Tune in here: http://offers.helloendless.com/eventicons

#EventIcons - Watch Every Wednesday at 5pm EST Sign up to watch every Wednesday at 5pm EST to meet the biggest names in the events industry!

The Myth About Millennials - Prevue Meetings

Audiences have always needed interaction; Millennials are merely a catalyst for necessary change. "The Myth About Millennials" ,

http://prevuemeetings.com/spark/millennial-mindset/the-myth-about-millennials/

The Myth About Millennials - Prevue Meetings Millennials inspire us to rethink event presentations, but where does this leave Gen Xers and Baby Boomers? Dan Yaman of Live Spark talks Millennial myth.

To Engage Millennials Add Competition - Prevue Meetings

Our feature on engaging Millennials at an event, from Prevue Meetings.
http://prevuemeetings.com/spark/millennial-mindset/to-engage-millennials-add-competition/

To Engage Millennials Add Competition - Prevue Meetings Engaging Millennials is regarded as a tricky task. Dan Yaman of Live Spark discusses creative and fun ways of engaging this audience base.

Powervar Training Video

Recording another iteration of this today:
https://youtu.be/KA_6vBqNONU

Powervar Training Video Powervar is the first choice in power protection for OEMs and resellers in the POS industry. All Powervar solutions incorporate a high energy surge diverter,...

Rita Albrecht on Twitter

Paul Bunyan, as captured by an audience member at the . https://twitter.com/BemidjiRita/status/694588974686277634

Rita Albrecht on Twitter “Paul Bunyan helps with the luncheon keynote at in https://t.co/AlqbnAeYgc”

Live Spark: The Strategic Event Design Blog: So you want to waste money at your event...

So you want to waste money at your event? Our blog post will tell you how! http://live-spark.blogspot.com/2016/02/so-you-want-to-waste-money-at-your-event.html

Live Spark: The Strategic Event Design Blog: So you want to waste money at your event...

Sneak peek of an AniMated Paul Bunyan prototype for an upcoming event.

Live Spark: The Strategic Event Design Blog: How to focus your presentation with a game show.

How to focus your presentation with a game show.
http://live-spark.blogspot.com/2015/12/how-to-focus-your-presentation-with.html

Live Spark: The Strategic Event Design Blog: How to focus your presentation with a game show.

Fortune 500 Company Seeks Parrot. Must Be Funny

For what it's worth: Our AniMates are written and performed by real people--and they're spectacular.

huffingtonpost.com Whenever I have my children's full attention, meaning they are only performing two simultaneous tasks on their cell phones, I attempt to offer fatherly advice on subjects ranging from drugs to fashion choices to not spending money like a Kardashian

Live Spark: The Strategic Event Design Blog: Top 5 Mistakes That Bring Your Game Show to a...

So you want to use a game show at your next event? DO NOT MAKE THESE MISTAKES! http://www.live-spark.blogspot.com/2015/07/top-5-mistakes-that-bring-your-game.html

Live Spark: The Strategic Event Design Blog: Top 5 Mistakes That Bring Your Game Show to a...

Live Spark AniMates

Just in case you missed it last week, here's a great way to start your Monday. Find out what Live Spark has been up to...in a SONG!

http://www.live-spark.com/June_Updates/

Live Spark AniMates

Live Spark AniMates

You won't believe what Live Spark has been up to! Let us show you IN A SONG.
http://www.live-spark.com/June_Update/

Live Spark AniMates

Live Spark: The Strategic Event Design Blog: Everything I need to know about an audience I...

Everything I need to know about event audiences...I learned from my baby.

http://www.live-spark.blogspot.com/2015/06/everything-i-need-to-know-about.html

Probably the cutest blog post ever.

Live Spark: The Strategic Event Design Blog: Everything I need to know about an audience I...

Live Sparks: How to transition a breakout session game into a larger general session.

Transitioning a breakout session game into a general session at an event. http://live-spark.blogspot.com/2015/06/how-to-transition-breakout-session-game.html

Live Sparks: How to transition a breakout session game into a larger general session.

Live Sparks: Role Play Roulette

There are right ways and wrong ways to role play at an event.
http://www.live-spark.blogspot.com/2015/06/role-play-roulette.html

Live Sparks: Role Play Roulette

Live Sparks: Hey! Keep it Down in There!

Keep it down in there: Using Game Shows in Event Breakouts. http://www.live-spark.blogspot.com/2015/06/hey-keep-it-down-in-there.html

Live Sparks: Hey! Keep it Down in There!

Live Sparks: Is Your Emcee Square?

Good emcees vs. bad emcees: Is your emcee square?
http://www.live-spark.blogspot.com/2015/05/is-your-emcee-square.html

Live Sparks: Is Your Emcee Square?

Live Sparks: Custom Game Shows: The Seagate Case Study

Using custom game shows at an event: The Seagate Case Study:
http://www.live-spark.blogspot.com/2015/05/custom-game-shows-seagate-case-study.html

Live Sparks: Custom Game Shows: The Seagate Case Study