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Planning a Surprise Party

 Event Planning
Jan 03, 2013
 
3 Ways to Successfully Surprise Someone We’ve all done it: breathing quietly in the dark, your leg crammed between the vacuum cleaner and the shelving, peering through the slots in the closet door for the signal so you can burst out and give the person who walks through that door something that’s just a small [...]

Planning a Fundraising Event

 Event Planning
Jan 03, 2013
 
How to Raise Money An Incredibly Extensive List of Fundraising Event Ideas and How to Plan Them Need to raise some money for your organization or charity? Here’s a really long list of ideas to get you started: auction, silent auction, bake sale, craft sale, walk, run, show, concert, raffle, spaghetti dinners, breakfasts, pancake breakfasts, coffee [...]

Planning a Wedding

 Event Planning
Jan 03, 2013
 
The 3 P’s of Wedding Planning Wedding Planning, The Easy Way Upon researching for writing this blog post, I came to the realization that planning a wedding can be incredibly intimidating. I actually got nervous when scrolling through the thousands of planning sites and explanations of everything that can go wrong… and then I remembered [...]

Marketing Tools for Events

 Event Planning
Jan 03, 2013
 
4 Common Sense Tips For Event Marketing You start to break a sweat in your pressed suit and black tie on your way up to the microphone. You look into the beautifully arranged event hall you spent days decorating and catering perfectly to your audience’s needs. Your purpose was to flaunt your company’s most innovative [...]

Summer in Wilmington: Historic Downtown

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Jan 03, 2013
 
A Day Downtown Visit Zebulon’s House In 1852, a man named Zebulon Latimer built a house on the corner of Third and Orange streets in Downtown Wilmington. He was a wealthy merchant from Connecticut at the time, so his house was not just a house; it was a lavish Italianate mansion. His intricate paintings, ornate [...]

Summer in Wilmington: The NC Aquarium at Fort Fisher

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Jan 03, 2013
 
Summer in Wilmington: The NC Aquarium at Fort FisherSwimming With the Fish You decide you want to become one with nature this summer and get up-close and personal with some rare species. So after building your raft out of logs you chopped down in your back yard and tied together with hemp rope, you set sail from Wrightsville Beach. You’re halfway to Africa, [...]

Summer in Wilmington: Thalian Hall

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Jan 03, 2013
 
A Night on Broadway… Or Chestnut Street You’re all dressed up in your finest chic attire, meandering through the flashy lit-up streets of Times Square to find your theater where you’ll watch world-renowned actors and actresses working with an exquisite orchestra to create a dazzling performance you’ll never forget… But wait, you don’t live in [...]

Summertime in Wilmington, NC

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Jan 02, 2013
 
What To Do This Summer in Wilmington It’s just a regular summer day: a balmy 97 degrees and humid. It’s mid-July, and you find yourself hiding in the comfort of your air-conditioned home. The neighborhood kids have begun playing the “I dunno, what do you wanna do?” game as they sit around, unamused by the [...]

How Does ListMyEvent.com Benefit Me?

 ListMyEvent.com Blog
Jan 02, 2013
 
How Does ListMyEvent.com Benefit Me?The Benefits of ListMyEvent.com You’ve just made an account for your organization on ListMyEvent.com… Now what? What benefits will this bring? Well, it’s really quite simple. ListMyEvent.com requires minimal effort on your part, but gives major benefits in return. All you have to do is put your events on the site. That can take as [...]