You look forward to getting business, attendees look forward to experiencing something interesting. Your events may have thousands coming in. But if you notice, it’s only the ones actively listening who are interested in what you have to offer. And what if you could get everyone to listen? Well, here are a few tips that will help you keep your audience engaged: 1. Celebrating Diverse Opinions: People don’t want to hear what they already know. When you choose your speakers, make sure they’re someone with a diverse viewpoint. Maybe someone from outside the industry. An interesting find says that 70% of attendees believe that contrary opinions are what lead to great ideas. 2. Don't Ignore Their Mindfulness: Sometimes you may want to provide so much value that you forget — to absorb that value, your attendees need to be mindful. 2-3 days of endless sessions, activities, taking notes, can leave people zoned out. Ensure you include enough breaks to give them a chance to reset. This is how they not just listen, but remember. 3. Personalize at a Deeper Level: You hear everyone talking about how ‘personalization’ is the hero today. But personalization is more than just your attendees’ names on their kitbag. Run surveys before the event, ask them what activities they would prefer, run polls on different speakers. The more choices you give them, the more they’re interested. 4. Use Technology to Provide Support: Wouldn’t it be great if there was someone just a message away who could assist any attendee at any time? Well, it’s 2025, and there is. Chatbots and other AI-assisted tools can provide real-time support and assist attendees with basic queries, making their time at your event stress-free. You attendees will only value your event if you value their time and convenience. You may give them tons of things to learn from. But additionally, you also need to maintain a space where learning isn’t so difficult.
DreamCraft Events and Entertainment
Entertainment
We craft events that leave an impact: 1. Annual Day Events 2. Brand Launch and Corporate Launch Events 3. Conferences
About us
Engaging the Head, Heart and Hand to create and deliver Events that have an Impact. That is the passion of Team Dreamcraft. Our expertise lies in conceptualizing and crafting: 1. Marketing and Promotional Events 2. Employee Engagement Initiatives 3. Annual Day Events 4. Conference Events 5. Product Launch Events We go beyond event logistics to create a complete event experience with our content and concept solutions and hospitality services.
- Website
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http://www.dreamcraft.co.in
External link for DreamCraft Events and Entertainment
- Industry
- Entertainment
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Bangalore and Chennai
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2007
- Specialties
- Conference Management, BTL Promotional Activities, Employee Engagement, Annual Day Events, Team Day Outs, Customer Engagement Events, Celebrity Shows, Product Launch, and MICE Events
Locations
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Primary
Bangalore and Chennai, IN
Employees at DreamCraft Events and Entertainment
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Rakesh J Shah
Community Manager | Connect with me – Building India’s Biggest Trainer, Coaches and Consultants Community
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Bhakti Sanghavi Talreja
Event Entrepreneur - Curator of Heroes Awards - Karnataka Warriors Owner - Wedding Planner
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Naveen Kumar
Operations at Dreamcraft Events and Entertainment
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Priyashree Niraj Sethia
Business Development Manager at Dreamcraft Events and Entertainment
Updates
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One thing that's never going to run dry of attention is Stories! Stories are primal to us humans. Right from our childhood, to sharing our experiences as we grow up, stories are a part of each and every one of our lives. And not just in 2025, but for many more years to come, storytelling is what can help you make your events engaging. If you’re looking to incorporate storytelling at your events, here’s 5 tips for you: 1. Structure your event like a story: Take your audience through a journey. Design your event flow in a way that you open strong, build that curiosity throughout, and finally close the loop with a memorable conclusion. 2. Humanize presentations: People connect with people. When you present anything at your event, make sure you include real world examples or case studies, because only then will your audience have their ears towards you. 3. Make technology your friend: With technology so advanced today, you can create a multi-sensory storytelling experience. The lights, the sound, and the overall ambience of your event should support your story/theme. 4. Let attendees share stories: Stories have that extra level of credibility when they come from attendees. Any opportunity you get, let attendees share their stories which relate to the theme of your event. 5. Don't give meaningless giveaways: If you give away things like pens and bottles, attendees only remember it as long as the items last. Giveaways at events should be related to the theme of your event and should be branded with messaging they’ll remember. So to make your events more than just a gathering, tell your audience a story they can't forget!
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You may be overspending without even knowing it! High budgets don’t make your event memorable; planning well while spending smart does. Here’s 5 ways you can save up on the costs of your events: 1. Reduce Printed Material: If your brand stands for sustainability, you can also save up on costs. Using QR codes, apps, and digital programs instead of other physical handouts, helps you support the environment as well as save those printing costs. 2. Food & Beverage: Events are incomplete without food. But especially if you're hosting large events, buffet-styled meals instead of plated ones, go way easier on your pockets. And make sure you confirm how many attendees are actually going to show up. Because no one appreciates wastage. 3. Choosing the Right Venue: Venues are the foundation of your event. And if you want to save up on costs while picking one, always opt for off-season dates and weekdays. Also, look for additional benefits like audio-visual equipment, bundled with the venue. 4. Digital Gifts: You’d surely want to make your attendees feel special. But doing it at the expense of your ROIs? Not a great idea. Instead of expensive physical gifts, you could give them something valuable like e-vouchers or gift cards. And in today’s age, you can never run out of digital options. 5. Hiring Experienced Event Planners: Last but not the least. The prices you get from your vendors may not be the cheapest. The relationship experienced event planners have with vendors, will surely get you better rates as well. It’s 'how' you use what you have and not 'how much' you use! Every penny you save by planning smart and being sustainable, can be put into other elements that can elevate your event! So don't just spend — spend smart!
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“Improvisation is key while planning an event.” But does it come at the cost of overspending? Overspending on events is pretty common, because you pour everything you have into it, trying to make it better as it unfolds. And let’s be honest, who wouldn’t want a successful event? However, if you get your Budgeting right, you can get your events right without having to overspend. And here’s 5 steps on how you can plan your budget: 1. Decide What You Want: Spending does not lead to a great event, spending well does. Picture what a successful outcome for you would look like and based on that, separate the optionals from the must-haves of your event. 2. List Your Expenses: Create a list of all your expenses. From decor, to vendors, to taxes. Everything! Researching previous events similar to yours can also help you come up with an estimated cost. 3. Create a Backup Fund: Last minute costs are something you can’t avoid. But what you can do is plan how much to spend last-minute. Create a contingency fund roughly 15-20% of your budget, to deal with any unexpected expenses. 4. Track Your budgets: Budgeting doesn’t end at the estimations. Tracking your expenses in real-time helps you stay on track and also identify any overspending, early. It’s easier if you use budgeting tools, or assign someone to take care of the tracking. 5. Review Your Budget: The budget you create would just be a version one. Once you review it, you’ll still find things that don't align with your event. All of those are wasted expenses you can cross out. You can’t anticipate everything that’s going to go down at your event, but you can surely be prepared for most of it. And it all starts with your budget!
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In today's ocean of virtual interactions, hosting an event could just be your band’s next shortcut to growth. We always talk about how attendees benefit from events, but what about the ones organizing it? How can you as a brand benefit from hosting events? We’ll tell you how in 5 points: 1. Head Start Any Launch: There’s no better way to launch a new product, initiative or partnership. At corporate events that you organize, you already have the attention of a good chunk of your audience, which gives any new launch a head start. 2. Find Out What Your Customers Want: Customers may be vague while filling your online feedback form, but when they interact in-person, they’ll leave hints about what they exactly want. Organizing physical events helps you understand them better through direct conversations. 3. Build Long-Lasting Customers: Your customers only stick long-term if you give them something to look forward to. You can turn events that you organize into a tradition; helping your customers not just remember your brand, but also have them eagerly waiting for the next big event. 4. Collect Social Proof: It’s a primal tendency for people to follow other people, and that’s what makes social proof so important for any brand. Physical events can be your goldmine of social proof — photos, videos and testimonials from attendees will add more credibility to your marketing activities. 5. Can’t host an event? There’s still an option: Last but not the least, if you’re not hosting the event, finding relevant ones which you could attend as Sponsors will also get your brand the visibility it needs. How people connect with your brand decides everything — from how much you sell to how passionately your existing customers advocate your brand. And with thousands of strategies for growing a brand today, events are the only place where you can deal with a crowd that’s already interested. So why miss out on what works? #CorporateEvents #EventPlanning #EventManagement #HRLeadership #CorporateEventSolutions #TeamBuildingEvents #EmployeeEngagement #MemorableEvents #EventImpact #NetworkingOpportunities
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Now this may sound strange, but injuries while planning an event are not that uncommon. If you’re not considering injuries while planning an event; climbing heights, the heavy lifting, and the large crowds could cost you the success of your event, or even worse, complications for your team members or attendees. And like they say, “Better safe than sorry.” Here’s 5 tips that will help you prevent injuries while planning your events: 1. Actively Manage Your Crowd: Lets start with your number one priority, your attendees. People are lost when they arrive at large events. Setting up barricades and designated entry/exit points with clear signage and assisting them with movement, stops them from wandering into zones where they could get injured. 2. Use Equipment for Heavy Lifting: Organizing events without equipment for lifting/moving would require superhuman strength, or would come at the expense of an injured team-member. Always have dollies or hand trucks that make transporting heavy equipment easier. 3. Don't Ignore Safety Equipment - Event planners are as prone to injuries as anyone on a construction site. So why skip safety? Gearing up with safety shoes, helmets, and other relevant equipment will help you prevent unnecessary injuries. 4. Maintain Hydration for Everyone - Do you know what’s the one thing that gets to everyone at large events? It’s the heat. The large crowds and exhaustive activities will demand an extra level of hydration. Make sure you place your water stalls in accessible places and remind everyone to stay hydrated from time to time 5. Keep Your Spaces Well-Lit - How many times have you tripped over something while planning your event? Keeping spaces like the backstage, which are usually dark, well-lit, will help everyone manuever dark spaces safely. Along with planning in a way that prevents injuries, you also need to be prepared to deal with them. A first-aid kit and some basic medical knowledge is the responsibility of every planner. And, can you really call an event successful if it comes at the cost of people?
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Delayed timelines with last minute errors are what attendees despise the most! No event can be perfect from start to finish, but what makes a professional event planner stand out is their ability to manage the errors without the audience even getting a whiff of it. If you're someone who dreads last minute issues that disrupt your timeline and leave your whole team confused, setting up these 5 things while planning your event makes dealing with last-minute mishaps easier: 1. A Fallback Budget: Last-minute issues come with last-minute costs. Having a fallback budget in place beforehand, to use in case of any emergencies saves your team from running all over the place searching for the right person to help them with funds. 2. Backup Resources: Sometimes, just having an extra cable could avoid the need of a technician. Always carry resources that make fixing things easier — tapes, backup batteries, extra cables, or whatever helps you with a quick-fix at your event. 3. Divided Zones: Dividing your event into zones and delegating responsibilities to team members respectively — registration, dining, main stage, etc., helps you make sure that the issues at one zone don’t bleed into the other. 4. Centralized Communication Channel: You can only fix things once you know what needs to be fixed. Having a central communication channel with a dedicated crisis manager will help you make sure that even the smallest issue is not overseen. 5. A Trained Team: Once your team finds an error, the last thing that should stop them from addressing it is waiting for approval. Train your team to deal with mishaps and also give them the authority to make decisions. This saves you what’s most previous in events — time. The key is not to host a perfect event but to host an event where the common mishaps of planning don't ruin the experience for your audience.
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What makes any event successful? It’s how well the time and resources you put into organizing it compliment each other. You can’t control the availability of resources, but what you can surely manage is time that you put into planning it. Because when it comes to events, every second counts! These 4 tips will help you manage your time in the planning stage better: 1. Timelines: Having everything laid out in a timeline beforehand — what needs to be completed and by when. Creating smaller milestones all the way up to the big day helps you keep all the contributors aligned and your planning organized. 2. Highly-Effective Teams: Behind every event that leaves a mark is a team where everyone shares the same passion and coordinates flawlessly. Be it your in-house team or outsourced planners, make sure the capabilities of the team match the scale of the event you’re looking to host. 3. Delegation: As a host, a common mistake is to try and oversee every single area. If you’re involved in everything from decor to food to attendee management, it’s only natural to oversee and miss a few things. Delegate the supervision of each activity to someone with the right expertise from your team. In events, the lesser you have on your plate, the more you can make out of it. 4. Buffer for Mishaps: Missed deadlines, speakers not working, engagement apps acting up? These are just a few of the countless mishaps seen at events. To save yourself time which could be used in improvising the event instead, make buffer time a part of your timeline, testing everything out before you kick the event off. Managing your time as a host by pre-planning your steps, having a team you can rely on while effectively delegating, and always having a plan B in place, helps you turn your event into an experience. An experience where your attendees are not left waiting, confused, or bored while you try to resolve an issue. An experience where their time feels valued, and where they're naturally engaged!
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From an office party to a birthday in the family, if you get these things right, the occasion’s a surefire! 1. A Theme That Achieves What You Want - Decide on an outcome you would like from the event and curate a theme that aligns with it. Everything else that is part of the occasion/event stems from this theme. 2. An Atmosphere to Match - The key is to have a complete budget breakdown and plan how everything goes from start to finish, almost like a movie script. Maintaining an atmosphere that keeps energy levels high and the participants engaged, is key when it comes to successful events. 3. A Highlight Everyone Will Remember - Help people remember your event with something memorable. An activity where attendees write down what they liked most about the event or a simple thank you note, may go a long way in people recalling the event. No event success is ever random and the ones that are thoroughly enjoyed by the attendees have meticulous planning behind the scenes… So the next time you want to organize a small event yourself, start with what you want from the event, from there move your focus to creating an atmosphere that people enjoy being a part of, and finally, don’t forget to give everyone something to remember!
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The most successful events always credit their success to modern technology. A good location and price is definitely a must-have for any venue, but in today’s world, there’s one thing you can’t ignore… That’s “Is the venue tech-ready?” Here are a few basic checks you can do to see if your selected venue is up-to-date with technology: 1. Are there movable partitions? Movable partitions, some even having sound insulation features make it really easy for you to reorganize and customize the layout according to what your event needs. 2. Are there projection mapping walls? If your entire branding revolves around visual impact, these specially designed walls help you project quality visuals on them with enhanced quality. 3. Are there digital signages? Apart from being customizable, digital signages help you update information in seconds and maintain a well-informed and coordinated crowd. 4. Are there built-in mics and speakers? For your attendees to be engaged throughout, they need to be able to listen and interact seamlessly no matter where they’re seated. Venues that have built-in speakers and mics across the entire span are more likely to get better engagement results. 5. Do they provide on-site tech support? If you want to deal with any technical mishaps efficiently, make sure you have someone from the venue provider on board. Their knowledge about the venue and its wiring and equipment will help you solve issues faster. You can buy or hire the best equipment, but at the end of the day, it all depends on if your venue supports it. Using modern tech makes everything easier. Right from your guests checking in to you collecting detailed after-event insights. So the next time you select a venue, the first thing to check would be its tech-friendliness! #EventTech #TechReadyVenues #EventManagement #CorporateEvents #ModernVenues #EventPlanningTips #VenueChecklist #TechFriendly #EventSuccess #DigitalSignage #ProjectionMapping #OnSiteTechSupport #SmartVenues #EventInnovation #VenueSelection #EventProfs