Our initial research in 2016 rounded up 33 dining sets representing a promising balance of cost, features, and design. We whittled down that list by examining online reviews and, in some cases, talking to people who owned the furniture sets. We made trips to Home Depot and IKEA to examine sets in person and witness how shoppers reacted to them in the stores. Then we ordered three dining sets and timed how long it took to assemble them in a Los Angeles backyard. For our 2018 update, we ordered another two dining sets and assembled them in another Los Angeles backyard. During both tests, we examined screws, joints, and the apparent quality of construction. And, over the course of several weeks, we paid attention to how comfortable the dining sets were for different purposes, asking visitors to compare the comfort of the seats and the overall aesthetics of the sets. In June 2021, we researched six more patio dining sets. Due to testing limitations during the pandemic, we were not able to assemble these new sets at home. So we narrowed our search to dining sets that we could touch and analyze at big-box stores, that had great reviews at the time, and that were eligible for return or exchange. In 2022, we expanded our research to direct-to-consumer brands—like Article, Blu Dot, and Neighbor—and added larger dining sets and new outdoor living room options, such as sofas and lounge chairs.
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You know more than anyone just how much goes into planning the perfect event. It’s on you to nail the right setting, the invitations, the music, and the small yet significant details that bring it all together.
There’s nothing better than seeing the delight on your clients’ faces when they see your vision come to life on the day of the event. But the times that your work didn’t live up to their expectations? Eek! We don’t ever want you to be in that position.
One way to knock your events out of the park is to include an event planning questionnaire as part of your discovery process. By asking your clients the right questions pre-event, you can rest assured that you’ll deliver the event experience your clients are after.
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Here are 20 questions to ask in your event survey that can be applied to just about any event management process - weddings, graduations, corporate events, conferences, fundraisers, birthdays, networking events, and the list goes on!
Ask these questions to get a feel for what the client is looking for when working with you as an event planner.
Ask these questions to understand exactly what type of event you’re planning.
Ask these questions to narrow down what’s most important to the client and where their preferences lie.
Ask this question to find out what other tasks your client needs your assistance with.
You can create and send out your event survey using a few different tools. We’ll explore some pros and cons here.
Google Forms and Gravity Forms are two online forms tools you can explore to develop your event planning questionnaire. They are easy to use but two things to keep in mind are that:
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1. Clients have to finish forms in one go
Ideally, you want to make life as easy as possible for your client. And when they use online forms like these, they have to submit all their answers in one go. They can’t save their work and come back to the form later when they have more time. If your client has to deal with inconveniences like this, it will only mean that there will be delays in getting content back from them.
2. You need to use email to follow up on form completion
The downside of using online forms like Google Forms or Gravity Forms is that it’s still on you to do the manual work of following up with your client over email to remind them to complete your survey. This can be a huge time suck!
When you use a tool like Content Snare intended to collect this kind of information, you avoid these two headaches.
1. Clients can fill out the questionnaire in chunks
When your client gets their questionnaire through Content Snare, they can answer as much of it as they want to, and come back to it later. Easy peasy. With an auto-save feature built into the forms, all information is saved and your clients can complete the form over multiple sessions, picking up where they left off last.
2. You don’t need to use email to follow up
Content Snare cuts out the need for you to send email reminders. You can choose how often you want the platform to send your clients reminders then sit back and let it do the work for you. Content Snare will remind your clients to complete the questionnaire till all the information is complete and received.
We hope the questions and tools in this post have given you some helpful guidance on how to put together an event planning questionnaire to improve your pre-event discovery.
Are there any other questions you think are worth asking in an event survey? Let us know in the comments!
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