Lauren Bateman reflects on trade-offs between hosting guitar-focused events and business/coaching events. She notes physical constraints of guitar setup limited a recent ballroom event to ~60 attendees, whereas a business event could accommodate ~100–120; she expresses a desire to pivot toward more intimate business coaching sessions while making guitar events smaller and more intimate.
So what's the trade off of guitar versus business? I just did an event recently, and the max number of people that we could have in the room for this ballroom that we rented was 60 people. Because with the guitar, the guitar is about three feet wide, and then you need room beyond that, so we can fit 60 people. But if I had done more of a business event or business coaching, we could have maybe done 100 or 120 people in that ballroom. So this is the reason why I'm like, okay, I want to start pivoting more into the business scene, change the way I do guitar and events and make them more intimate, because I love helping people on a more intimate level.
