Drawing on examples from across the industry, HeadBox COO, Charlie Marr discusses current literature across the industry and attempts to debunk the complexities surrounding COVID-safety in meetings and events.
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Top Tips from Livitay on Looking After Your Mental Health in a Crisis
When lockdown first began, we spoke to Livitay founders, Jack Needham and James Naylor about ways to protect your mental and physical health in a crisis. We caught up with them over Mental Health Awareness Week to discuss their new app.
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The Evolution of Events after COVID-19
Over the last couple of months, the way we work, live and do business has changed immeasurably. COO Charlie Marr explores how these changes have affected the events industry, the challenges we are all facing and how he sees events involving in the future as a result. COVID-19 has transformed our lives professionally and personally.…
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New Tools for Listing and Managing Your Spaces
This week we’ve released some really exciting product updates that make it a breeze to create and manage your listings in HeadBox First up, you now access your listings through a new My Venues link in your navigation. On the brand new My Venues page you’ll see all of your Spaces, now grouped by Venue, so it’s…
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CEO Corner: Love-Based Leadership – My Interview with Yetunde Hofmann
“When do most people in their lives do something where they come together to create something much bigger than themselves? Be someone, do something that is greater than themselves? That is pretty hard to find. Love enables this.” Last Thursday I moderated our first HeadBox Connect Virtual Panel on the “Power of Everyday Leadership” with…
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The Role Technology Can Play in Boosting Productivity and Performance
As part of our 2020 Event Disruptor Report, Senior Marketing Executive Amy Stroud explored how the concept of the workplace is expected to become vastly altered in the near future. With environment linked so closely to productivity, the onus is on employees to adopt tech solutions that will attract and maintain talent. The productivity of…
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Platform Advertising, Some Risks Just Have to be Taken: A panel discussion at the Sharing Economy Global Summit 2020
Earlier this month, I took part in a panel discussion at the Sharing Economy Global Summit at Lloyd’s in London. The title of the session was “Platform Advertising, Some Risks Just Have to be Taken”, and I was kindly invited along to share our learnings from launching and growing HeadBox over the last 5 years.…
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The Importance of Predicting Revenue in a High Growth Start-up
Accurately forecasting revenue is vitally important to a high growth start-up. Often you will be looking to raise money on revenue being delivered at the time of the fundraise or based on future months. Forecasting is vitally important in securing your desired recurring revenue run rate. Based on my experiences at HeadBox I am going…
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How can good design and user experience revolutionise the events industry?
As part of our 2020 Events Disruptor Report, Product Designer Josh Richardson and Lead Brand Designer John Scott have explored how ‘good design’ is increasingly being acknowledged as a driver of competitive advantage in today’s fast-paced world. But what does ‘good design’ mean? In modern tech companies, this largely means utilising Design Thinking principles to…
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Growing Pains: How to Build a Sustainable, Exciting and Successful Company Culture
HeadBox has grown from a start-up of 4 people to a Small-Medium Enterprise (or “scale up” to use a trendier term) with 60 employees over the last 4 and a half years. During that time we have learnt a lot about the exciting opportunities and potential pain points that scaling a team and building a…
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