If you’re a live event professional looking to scale your business in 2025, Jumpstart Dallas should be on your radar. The workshop will be focused on Strategy and Management – the secret to your success in the new year. Held in Fort Worth, Texas on November 20-21, attendees will learn from keynote speakers, explore strategy workshops and attend a breakout strategy session, all while networking with their peers in the industry. 

Mertzcrew is happy to announce that we’ll be attending the event with a number of other supportive companies. While we’re there, we’ll be sharing valuable skills about properly contracting and scheduling AV freelancers, connecting with current clients and old friends, and making new connections!

Why Should Your Live Event Company Attend?

If you’re wondering why the leadership team and key stakeholders in your live event company should consider attending Jumpstart Dallas, we’ve got the answers.

Learn from Industry Experts and Professionals in the Live Event Industry

Jumpstart Dallas, a strategy workshop designed especially for live event companies, was created by Tom Stimson, the owner of The Stimson Group. He has worked with over 200 AV companies and organizations in his career, and we believe every stakeholder in the live event industry can learn something valuable from Tom.

Tom’s ability to come up with innovative solutions for our industry is unparalleled, and there’s seemingly no end to his reserve of creative thinking and ideas. We’re not part of his marketing team, but we’re happy to endorse him and recommend that AV companies with between $5m and $30m in revenue attend and learn from another successful workshop.

The focus of Jumpstart Dallas will be on prepping your business operations for success in 2025. If you want to get ahead before the new year, start by learning how to balance your work, rethink organizational roles, update your financial modeling, and much more.

A previous Jumpstart attendee said of the event: “It was re-energizing, and the content was engaging and practical all day.”

Network with Other Live Event Professionals

While there will be plenty of learning opportunities at Jumpstart Dallas, including business strategy workshops to help with goal setting and creating clear objectives for your company, we’d be remiss if we didn’t also mention the chance to network with other live event professionals.

Live event production is all about connection – with audiences and each other. One action step we can take to produce memorable events is to spend time meeting and learning from one another. A range of professionals from our industry will be in attendance, and we look forward to getting to know each participant.

You can register today for the event here and use code PROMOJUMP to get a 15% discount courtesy of Mertzcrew.

Get to Know the Mertzcrew Team at Jumpstart

One of the reasons we’re attending Jumpstart Dallas is to get to know you and your company. While we provide online demos, we’re always happiest when we get the chance to connect with people in person and help them understand how our service leads to success with contracting, scheduling, and paying AV freelancers for live events.

We provide a solution that can help with every aspect of crewing freelance AV professionals. This includes access to a pool of vetted resources and an array of tools to streamline contracting. As a result, you enjoy a process that’s more productive and seamless.

If you’re not already working with Mertzcrew, we’ll be happy to sit down with you to listen and learn about any pain points you’re experiencing within your business. While we understand there’s a lot of overlap and that many AV companies experience similar issues with crewing, we also know every business is unique. We’re always eager to learn, hear your ideas, and understand each specific goal.

Learning and listening can help us understand the challenges you face and let you know what we do to alleviate them. Our solutions are designed to offer personalized insight on how Mertzcrew can help you streamline your productions and save both time and money.

Upgrade Your Crewing Experience with Mertzcrew

Crewing live events can be a challenge without the proper approach. Even relatively small events require strategy development, careful planning, and the right tools.

Mertzcrew can help with the most difficult aspects of live event production. We give you access to our database of skilled freelancers in the places where your live events are being held. We also help you to create and track contracts; stay in compliance with venue requirements and local and state regulations; obtain and track insurance for your freelancers; and pay your freelancers in a timely manner.

Some of the benefits of working with Mertzcrew include the following.

Lower Risks

There are some risks inherent in any live event. These may include lack of compliance, miscommunications, and other challenges.

Mertzcrew can help you reduce your risks with strategic planning, including compliant contracts, up-to-date insurance for your freelancers, streamlined communication, and more.

Cut Costs

Producing live events means balancing a budget while delivering excellent results for your clients. That said, it’s important you’re using your resources wisely to avoid unnecessary expenses. 

With Mertzcrew, you can cut costs by streamlining the crewing and onboarding process for AV freelancers. We’ll help you save time and money with easy-to-create contracts and smooth scheduling for every event.

Streamline Operations

Every aspect of live event planning has the potential to take more time than you wish it would. Having the right tools is essential to avoid delays and keep everything running optimally.

Using Mertzcrew means that it’s possible to streamline everything related to working with skilled AV freelancers, from identifying people with the skills you need to paying them for a job well done.

Improve Efficiency in 2025

We can help you make your crewing process more efficient in 2025 and beyond. With our new Private Broadcasting feature, which you can use to provide selected freelancers with access to the jobs you post, you can hand-pick the right contractors for your job.

Listing a job via a Public Broadcast might mean you get applications from AV professionals who, while skilled, may not be suited for the job you’re hiring for. With Private Broadcasting, you can customize who can see your job listings using filters that include:

• Favorites
• Alumni (technicians you’ve worked with previously)
• Technical skills
• AV certifications
• Location
• Ratings

In other words, you can specify exactly what you need and ensure that only freelancers who meet your specifications will be able to apply for the role you’ve listed.

We’ll be happy to walk you through how Private Broadcasting can aid in your strategic planning process when we see you at Jumpstart Dallas!

Conclusion

Jumpstart Dallas is an event that we believe can be transformative for AV professionals and companies, helping them build on their success and move into every future initiative with confidence. We won’t have many more opportunities to learn from Tom Stimson, so we encourage everybody to attend if they can - before he retires.

Our thoughts about Tom’s value can best be summed up by another former Jumpstart attendee, who had this to say: “The networking, receptions, content, peer-to-peer time was all super valuable."

Even AV pros who have been in the industry for a long time can gain knowledge to improve their services by attending the strategy workshop and hearing what Tom has to say.

Be sure to attend Jumpstart Dallas on November 20th and 21st in Fort Worth, Texas. When you register, use code PROMOJUMP to get an extra 15% discount courtesy of Mertzcrew. Click here to reserve your spot!