Event Organization – A blessing or a burden?

An upcoming event should be an excellent blessing and not just a blessing in disguise. Why go through so much stress and pain before the D-day when technology can be an efficient tool? The trademark joy and anticipation of an upcoming event should not be soiled with stress, worries and anxiety.

There are thousands of extremely skillful Event vendors (Professionals) in Nigeria but they cannot be located easily. Let’s say I need a fashion designer in Yaba (a place in Lagos State) to sew a Bespoke Agbada (flowing wide-sleeved robe) for my upcoming event, there are two evident issues here. Firstly, I need a specific Professional to get the job done.

Secondly, I am very interested in the location of this Professional due to reasons best known to me. Traditionally, I would ask friends and colleagues about this specific need or I would go online to search for Fashion designers and filter the results manually or by Social media hashtags.

The drawback of the first solution is that I have to let a lot of people know about my plans of sewing my favourite Agbada which might not yield any good result while the drawback of the second solution is that many vendors use a lot of incorrect hashtags to make their profiles or posts trend.

Let me give a perfect example of this fact, there was a day the hashtag #LampardOut was trending on Twitter. This was when Frank Lampard lost a pre-season match after he was appointed as the Coach of Chelsea Football Club. I decided to check some of the posts with this trending hashtag and to my greatest surprise, someone made a post about needing more Twitter followers and added #LampardOut to the post to make it appear among posts with this trending hashtag.

This is misleading and defeats the essence of hashtags, this form of deceit is used by a lot of people to make their profiles or posts trend on Social media. This is not entirely a new strategy; it buttresses the fact that all generic solutions have numerous drawbacks.

Nothing beats a bespoke solution to a problem; a very good example is an SUV (Sport utility vehicle) which traverses a rough terrain better than a Sports car because it was made for this purpose. Social media is good for locating Event vendors but it is not a sophisticated solution and does not possess a reliable filtering mechanism.

A lot of Event vendors are lost on Instagram with a meagre number of Clients because they cannot be located easily. What is the essence of having excellent skills if they can’t be utilized to make enough money to earn a living? Why can’t technology be harnessed to solve the problems of the Event Industry? Why should a skillful Event professional be unemployed? Why should it be stressful to organize an Event? Why should the blessing associated with an upcoming Event always be disguised as a burden?

I asked myself these questions and was motivated to provide a satisfying solution. After all, the first step to developing a solution is identifying the problem. This motivation birthed Event Kernel – the one-stop-shop for Event Professionals.

Event kernel is an event marketplace where Vendors (Professionals) and Clients meet. Event vendors can be located in any State or location in Nigeria using a powerful filtering mechanism. Power is good but it is nothing without control, this is coined from the slogan of Pirelli – the great multinational company that manufactures tyres.

Social media gives power to Vendors through hashtags but this feature cannot be controlled as some Vendors have mastered the dubious act of adding so many trending locations as hashtags to their posts to get located wrongly as emphasized earlier. Technology is power, Event kernel is the control, hence power is now a great thing in the Event Industry.

Vendors can be found easily by harnessing the powerful filtering mechanism of Event Kernel. Do you need a Cake Baker in Surulere? Hurray, the era of checking the search results on Social media and seeing one Cake Baker from Asokoro, Abuja among the list is over.

The era of searching for an Event professional with a hashtag and seeing the post of a person begging for followers is a thing of the past. You can hit the bull’s eye within seconds thanks to this great Application. Sew your Bespoke Suit and wear it on the D-day without asking the whole world about suitable Fashion designers in your preferred location.

To Event Vendors, the platform to make money with their skills has arrived. With Event Kernel, the days of being unemployed are over.

To Clients, the platform makes them organize their events with ease thus having the full package of blessings without any form of disguise so it’s a win for all Stakeholders in the Event industry.

Visit eventkernel.com to harness the power of this great application.