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Unique Venues

A Truly Unique Venue: Mail Rail at The Postal Museum

Shortlisted for Best Unique Venue in the Hire Space Awards is Mail Rail at The Postal Museum. Mail Rail operated from 1927 until 2003. In 2017, The Postal Museum was opened to allow the public to share its legacy.

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Unusual Venues

Three Little-known Secrets about Wellington Arch

Wellington Arch easily topped our list of venues least known to be available for events recently. Few know it as Constitution Arch, the historic structure became a familiar sight to Londoners since the late 1820s. We uncovered three little-known secrets which make Wellington Arch the truly unique venue it is today (and for you to boast about your London knowledge). 1. The Arch was home to London’s smalle

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Venue Marketing

3 Smart Tools #Eventprofs Should Try

If other businesses are benefiting from new tech offerings, why shouldn't us #eventprofs get a slice of that pie? 1. Buzzhire On-Demand Staffing We all fear that same event nightmare: You're putting on an event in a couple of hours. You've set up the presentations for the first stream of the event with the second stream ready in the other room. Everything is on track until you get that WhatsApp message from a team member who would be manning the registration desk and clo

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6 Reasons Why Venues Should Join Hire Space

Four years ago, we launched Hire Space to connect event venues with new customers easily via our online platform and Venue Expert service. We've come up with 6 reasons why Venue Managers might like working with Hire Space, and why venues should join the club ! 1. Best SEO in the Industry = High Web Traffic Our Marketing team has enhanced our site visibility on search engines and as a result 1.3M customers visited our web site in 2016 (7% higher than the previous year). Ou

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How to Add New Spaces to Your Venue Easily

Has your venue recently undergone a refurb or even more excitingly, launched a brand new event space for hire? Our Community Support team have compiled some top tips to help you add new space profiles easily on Hire Space. How to Add New Space(s) for Publishing Log in to your venue account on Hire Space then head to the Spaces tab. Name your new space then click the button labeled Add a new space. Using Will's Studio as an example, the Spaces tab d

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10 Reasons Why Hire Space Venue Managers Are Events Superstars: Part II

Check out 10 Reasons Why Hire Space Venue Managers Are Events Superstars: Part I 6. They're always, always on the ball However meticulous your scheduling and logistics planning is, things can still go wrong, problems can still arise, and it would be down to the venue manager to ensure that the event will go on as smoothly as possible. Jack Mayorcas at Tanner Warehouse

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10 Reasons Why Hire Space Venue Managers Are Events Superstars: Part I

1. Whatever event you put on, they're always enthusiastic about it A Hire Space venue manager not only helps you set up a room, but also makes sure that your guests will have a memorable experience. Once, Harry Upton who's based at Madame Tussauds , hosted an after party for 750 Star Wars fans. Not exactly a fanatic himself... What did he do? He read up on everything Star Wars, got the DJ to mash up the saga's theme songs and everyone dan

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Optimising Venue Profiles for Customer Searches

As a keen advocate for your venue, you might wonder about your profile's marketing exposure from time to time. Our Community Support team have compiled some top tips to help you optimise your venue profiles for customers. Big Q: Is My Venue Profile Published? Head to hirespace.com , where customers carry out their venue searches. Click the green Search button on our homepage and then click More Filters. Run a search using the Venue Name filter and click Show Results.

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Make Some Dollars with Your Unsuitable Enquiries

This blog is written for Hire Space venue managers. Not yet a Hirespacer but wanna get involved? Sign up your venue now . Enquiries can be unsuitable at a venue for a number of reasons. Lack of availability, incompatible production requirements, or simply, your space is just too big or small for the client's guest numbers. Rather than turning the client away, why not introduce them to our Venue Experts at Hire Space

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Managing Admin Access to Your Venue Profile

Lots of venues have a team of event superstars managing enquiries daily. Because of this, quite a few venue managers have requested a feature allowing them to manage access to their venue profiles easily. That means adding and removing team members' Hire Space accounts, in a few clicks. Guess what? It's been released! Add a new admin in 28 Seconds: Give it a go! First, log into your Hire Space account and head to your venue profile. Click on the ta

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Responding to a New Enquiry

Hire Space Enquiry Cycle in 47 Seconds We recommend users to use a Chrome browser when managing Hire Space enquiries for an optimal experience. When a customer contacts a Hire Space Venue, a notification email is sent to the venue's registered email inbox(es): * Click the Respond button on your notification email to be redirected to the new enquiry * On the enquiry page, you can see the customer's event brief and contact details. Should anything change, you can update them, a

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Film and Photo

360° Film and Photography

We recently partnered with London Filmed to create our most immersive event recording at Nine Adam Street . We thought it was pretty cool, so we made that partnership a bit more permanent. As a result, we can now offer film and photography packages to both customers and venues. London Filmed has also created a virtual tour at the Round House

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