Our method
Our method: the steps, the lead times and who decides what
The same method for a company, a federation or a local authority: five steps, stated lead times, one single contact.
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The SOST’N Method, in five steps
The same for every format, described in our white paper.
Listen
Goals, budgetary and regulatory constraints, risks.
Design
Scenario, partners, scheduling: a workable project.
Coordinate
Single supplier contact: follow-up, schedule, commitments kept.
Support
Before, during, and through to the debrief.
Evaluate
Results, budget overruns, points to change.
What to plan for, and from when
Orders of magnitude, counted back from the event.
- Seminar, congress, conference: four to six months.
- Official ceremony, opening, New Year: three months, six with authorities.
- Twinning ceremony with a foreign delegation: six months.
- Group travel abroad: six months, more outside Europe.
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Request a quoteWho decides what
Ambiguity over responsibilities derails an event, public or private.
- You decide: content, guests, order of speakers, budget.
- SOST’N decides: technical resources, suppliers, operations on the day.
- Decided together: running order, floor plan, staging.
- Division written into the quote, costed item by item.
SOST’N, and what we can say about ourselves
Our clients keep their image. The volumes remain.
- 35+events produced a year
- 300 to 400people welcomed at large-scale events
- €10Mof events produced by SOST’N
- Since 2019the managing director has produced events
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