Freelancers for events

Do you urgently need extra hands? Or are you looking for a professional who can help you quickly and who has specific knowledge or skills? Of course, you can also work with freelancers on specific assignments if someone from your permanent team goes on maternity leave, for example. You can also use a freelancer until you have the financial resources to hire someone permanently again or during the period in which you are selecting a permanent colleague. All are good reasons to hire a freelancer.

Why collaborate with freelancers at events?

It is often said that freelancers are the perfect addition to your regular event team! But why is that? We briefly list the main reasons for you.

The reason why you work with event freelancers is the flexibility it gives you. You can hire a freelancer for a single project or for a specific period of time. Do you have an unexpected increase of work? Use freelancers. Most freelancers like to choose their own hours and projects they like to work on.

An important second argument for hiring freelancers for events is the expertise of the person in question. Freelancers are real experts because their activities are specifically focused on their field, a specialism in which they have a great deal of interest, for example, organising events as an event organiser. Freelancers build up a lot of experience during different projects with different clients. Because they are temporarily with you, they have an external view of your activities, which provides innovative ideas (and a lot of added value for your company).

Freelancers are also versatile. They must be enterprising and have strong marketing and commercial skills to bring in new customers. They must be able to work accurately to keep their accounts in order and so on. There are, of course, also financial benefits to hiring freelancers. As a client, you only pay the freelancer for the hours worked or on completion of the agreed project. You do not have to pay your freelancer if he or she is ill and you do not have to take into account all the complicated legal rules that apply, for example, regarding dismissal.

Choosing an event freelancer, therefore, offers many interesting advantages, whether you are a large festival organiser or rather a flexible smaller company in the event sector. You can hire professional freelancers or self-employed persons directly or call on an agency that will find, select, and engage them for you.

In addition to freelancers, you can also use another form of employing staff at your event, namely employing staff through an employment agency. Employing interim staff is popular, both at small and large events.

Most common event freelancers

Entrepreneurs see freelancers as an added value to complement their team. Which event freelancers are working in the sector? We made a short list for you of freelancers and self-employed persons that you can hire.

Freelance stagehands are all-round employees who work backstage (behind the scenes) in theatres, filming, or television recordings but also for festivals. They are responsible for various tasks, such as the construction of the stage, operating the light and sound, placing the fencing or crush barriers, hanging the signage and so on. A freelance AV technician ensures that a production such as a pop concert, a dance festival, a theatre performance, or a TV recording is technically realised. The AV technician is responsible for the correct lighting, good images, and excellent sound. This means that he or she draws up and implements a technical plan. A freelance video technician or videographer specialises in making the images or displaying them.

Freelance event managers also often operate in our industry. A freelance event manager is available ad hoc to support you at an event. And that support can be very broad: from coming up with surprising event concepts to the complete coordination and production implementation of the event: in short, a jack of all trades, exactly what you need as an event organiser.

If you are organising an event, you also need someone to market 'your product' to your target group. A freelance marketer or marketing freelancer is the person who helps you with that. For example, he will set up, coordinate, and optimise marketing campaigns. There are more all-round marketing professionals in the market such as online marketer, copywriter, graphic designer, marketing analyst, traffic coordinator, content manager, and so on.

For example, you might also use reinforcement in your sales and hire a freelance salesperson, a freelance finance manager who helps you with your finances, a freelance IT specialist for your IT systems, a freelance business events developer, a freelance web and app development specialist, and so on.

Finding freelancers

Are you hiring a freelancer or self-employed person for an event that you are going to organise? How do you handle that? Don't look too long for solutions, but consult the list below from eventplanner.net. Are you specifically looking for (freelance) make-up artists, photographers, and hostesses? eventplanner.net has listed these popular event professions separately for you.

Are you an event or festival freelancer?

Are you active as a freelancer at events and festivals? In the event organisation as an event planner, for example? Or as an event manager in the organisation of an event. Are you still looking for interesting assignments and clients who hire freelancers? Then you have no time to lose. You can create a company profile via the button below. This puts you in view of thousands of event organisers who visit our site every day looking for professional event suppliers, as well as event freelancers. Good luck!