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Author: Kevin Kosky - Hospitality Trainer

Kevin Kosky is a renowned Hospitality trainer. He is member of the Professional Speakers Australia and a certified trainer. Kevin is an expert on inbound phone skills, presentation skills and delivering sales presentations.

Recruiting The Best Events Person For Your Venue Team

April 2, 2026 Kevin Kosky - Hospitality Trainer
Recruiting

How To Recruit The Right Person for Your Function, Event & Wedding Venue Need To Recruit A New Team Member For Your Functions & Events Team? Want Someone Who Will Sell More Events Or Do More Event Coordination? Do You Want A Person Who Can Really Grow The Function & Event Sales? Recruiting The Right
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Save Money! – How to buy better and cut costs for your Hospitality Business

March 20, 2026 Kevin Kosky - Hospitality Trainer
Cut Costs and Buy Better

Buying Better – 11 Phrases to Cut Costs & Get a Better Deal The Survival of your venue relies on your ability to cut costs and control your core expenses – Rent, Wages, COGS, and other Expenses.  You may also need to manage your cash flow by accessing money from the Tax Man, Bank, Deposits,
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How to Build a Function & Event Venue Team – 6 Key Roles

February 3, 2026 Kevin Kosky - Hospitality Trainer
Roles in a Function Team

The Six Different Roles (Hats) Needed in a Great Venue Function & Events Team Would you like to make more Event & Function Sales? Need to work out the Roles in your event team and who does what? How you got the Right type of Person in the Right Role in your Events Team? Many
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Events Sales Statistics & KPIs for your Venue

February 1, 2026 Kevin Kosky - Hospitality Trainer
Event Venue KPIs

Knowing Your Hospitality KPIs & Numbers and improving your Financial Literacy Are sales a bit low and forward bookings a bit light? Not getting or converting enough event enquiries? Margins being squeezed by competitors? Poor KPIs? Well this blog can give you some comfort by showing you how to count and analyse your sales &
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How to Be a Better Event Sales Co-ordinator – Top Sales Tips

January 16, 2026 Kevin Kosky - Hospitality Trainer
Better Coordinator Sales Tips

10 EASY SALES TIPS for any Event Salesperson to make more Function, Event and Wedding Sales Your attitude and skills will always determine your success as a Function Sales Coordinator. You also need a few great techniques and sales tips. Here are 10 simple sales tips & techniques that can help you land more function,
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How to Increase Profit in Your Venue: Focus On Your Financials

January 16, 2026 Kevin Kosky - Hospitality Trainer
Venue Profit

Increase Profit in Your Hospitality Business by Knowing Your Financials and Numbers Are you working hard but not making enough money? Are your Food or Wage Costs too high or unknown? Are you having difficulty paying your Wages, Super, GST or Workcover Bills? Then you probably need to work on increasing your Profit & Sales
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How to Convert more Inbound Phone Enquiries into Bookings

January 16, 2026 Kevin Kosky - Hospitality Trainer
Inbound Phone Skills for Venues

How to Convert More Function Enquiries into Bookings with Better Inbound Phone Skills It takes a lot of money and effort to get the phone to ring with a potential new customer. The marketing cost for each inbound prospect call is around $100 to $200. Whether the prospect buys and how much they spend is
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Best Hospitality Business Brokers in Australia – the big list!

January 11, 2026 Kevin Kosky - Hospitality Trainer
Business Brokers

Who are the BEST Hospitality & Tourism Business Brokers in Melbourne & Australia? Are you thinking of Buying or Selling a Hospitality or Tourism Business? Perhaps you want to buy a Café, Restaurant or an Events Venue?  Here is a LIST of some of the best Business Brokers specialising in hospitality and tourism businesses &
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Terms & Conditions Checklist For Events – Your Venue RULES

January 3, 2026 Kevin Kosky - Hospitality Trainer
Venue Rules - Terms & Conditions

How to Reduce Risks at Your Venue – Set & Know Your RULES for Your Events & Functions Many new venue owners don’t have much experience and as a result do NOT have any guidelines or rules about booking and running the events & functions. Many evente are organised by friendly agreement and a handshake
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10 Biggest Venue Sales Challenges and How to FIX them

January 3, 2026 Kevin Kosky - Hospitality Trainer

Ten Most Common Function, Event & Wedding Sales Challenges and Ways to Overcome them Want to know the 10 Event Sales Issues preventing more sales? Keen to find out ways to grow your sales? Would you like to know how to FIX the sales issues? During our work growing Function & Event Sales with Clubs,
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