What I Learned From Bad Previous Jobs to Make TrivWorks a Success
Corporate team building event entertainment As I wrote about in another recent blog post, my path to finding a job I truly enjoy and excel at was anything but straight. I didn’t just land where I am today, producing team building and corporate entertainment trivia events. It was a long, arduous process, involving about a…
Read MoreHow TrivWorks Expanded from a Local Business to a National Brand
Corporate trivia event company First off, an apology is in order. It’s been over two weeks since I published my last blog post – which, if I am not mistaken, is a new record for the seven years I have been blogging. It’s not a milestone I am proud of, to be sure; it’s actually…
Read More“Training Magazine” Case Study: Using Team Trivia as a Conference Kickoff Activity
Conference entertainment ideas team trivia I was really dragging earlier this week. Not because of my 5:15am wake-up (which I do most weekday mornings), nor because one of my kids woke me up from a deep sleep two nights in a row (which they did). No, the reason I was tired was because I had…
Read MoreWhy I Will Never Again Go to a Restaurant on Valentine’s Day
Dinner entertainment ideas NYC This is a bit of a detour from my usual blog posting about producing corporate trivia nights, company event entertainment, employee team building activities and after dinner entertainment in New York City and beyond- however, seeing it’s Valentine’s Day I couldn’t help but jump in on a subject which I feel…
Read MoreWhat Does the WRONG TrivWorks Client Look Like?
Team building activities New York City I started this morning feeling great. Fresh off a break after a whopping nine corporate trivia events across the country last month, I decided to set my alarm for even earlier than my usual 5:15am wake-up, and hit the gym. Now, this is a bigger deal than it sounds.…
Read More2018 Off & Running – It’s a Busy Time at TrivWorks!
Team building trivia supplier It’s been almost two weeks since I last published a post here on my blog. Readers who follow me know that this is highly irregular; in fact, since I started blogging seven years ago, I can’t think of a single time I’ve gone this long without putting something up. Why haven’t…
Read MoreA Few Thoughts on Corporate Trivia Events and Smartphones
Trivia event corporate group Can you remember a time when we didn’t have smartphones? When people didn’t walk around with a pocket-sized portal to the information superhighway on their person? Honestly, I can’t either. And they’ve only been around for a decade! Since their introduction and subsequent ubiquity, those of us who host and produce…
Read MoreWhy WOULDN’T You Hire TrivWorks? Actually, Here Are Some Reasons
Corporate event game show 2018 will mark the ninth year of TrivWorks, as well as my twelfth year producing company team building, trivia for corporate events, and live professional game show hosting. From those humble beginnings when I was simply a pub quiz host in Manhattan looking to earn some extra money on the side,…
Read MoreHow to Be an Excellent Corporate Entertainment Vendor in 2018
Corporate event entertainment ideas 2018 It’s a new year, and we can’t have a new year without New Year’s Resolutions! As is the case for me every year, my resolution for 2018 is to be and even better corporate event entertainer, team building activity producer and company trivia party supplier than I was last year.…
Read MoreConfessions of a Trivia Company Founder: Finding Your Passion Takes Time
Corporate trivia event entertainer I’ve been up today since 4am. On most weekdays I set my alarm for 5:30am – which is insane, I know, but it allows me to get a couple of hours of work in before the wife and kids wake up – however, this morning I had a bad dream, and…
Read MoreTrivWorks Milestones: Looking Back to 2011 – And Ahead to 2018
Team trivia corporate events I’ve just reached a milestone of sorts. December 15th, 2011 was the last day I worked as an employee for somebody else. After six years of programming adult education events and classes at the 92nd Street Y, a New York City cultural and community center, I packed up my office, turned…
Read MoreHow to Become a TrivWorks Emcee
Corporate trivia hosts TrivWorks is just wrapping up a busy week of five corporate trivia events all across the country. As I write this, I’ve got one team headed to provide company holiday party entertainment in NYC, and another in Michigan to produce a separate party for a corporate group in Detroit. We had two…
Read MoreCompany Party Entertainment: Structured, or Social?
Company party entertainment NYC It’s the eternal question, isn’t it? Should the entertainment for a corporate party in New York City (or anywhere, really) be structured, or social? This is something I’ve observed clients and prospects wrestle with for over a decade, as well as pondered myself for the entire time I’ve been in the…
Read MoreThe Magic of the 1-2 Hour Corporate Trivia Event
Trivia corporate event Los Angeles Prior to starting TrivWorks, my entertainment and team building company specializing in corporate trivia events in Los Angeles, Southern California, NYC & nationwide, I spent a couple of years freelancing as a scavenger hunt writer. Now, scavenger hunts have been around for a long, long time, and are very well-established…
Read MoreThe 5 Elements of a Perfect Company Trivia Night
Company trivia night My wife and I have two small children, and as they get older they are becoming more and more aware of their surrounding – and beginning to question them. My five-year-old daughter recently came up to me while I was toiling away at my home office one night and asked, “Daddy, what’s…
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