About Tim Harris

Tim Harris is a BIG THINKER. No small ideas from this guy. From a music party going into its 27th year to an international music chart website to a local Boston business born out of a change in work status that made him examine a need in our new economy.

Hospitality Background

With over 30 years of experience in the restaurant/hospitality industry and more than 15 years of private function coordination and restaurant management Tim created an impressive business, connecting with over 15,000 people while booking events for multiple locations of a local Massachusetts restaurant company. Adept communications skills and knowing that quick response and a yes we can attitude make lasting impressions his 2 favorite comments from clients are “thanks for getting back to me so quickly” and “you have made this so easy”. All this mainly working from home before it was fashionable.

The Seed Of An Idea

Living between 2 major cities made Tim look at the prototype for a freelance business when the company wanted him to work out of one location and travel on the weekends. Be So EVENTurous starts with helping clients and restaurants connect, adds event vendors into the mix and completes the package by creating a network that helps small businesses thrive in our new economy and event planning to budget minded individuals and companies in a fun and affordable way.

Music In The Mix

All along the way, there was his passion for contemporary music of all kinds and his fascination with music charts from a young age. This started with an annual party of counting down the favorite songs of his friends and ended up with the processing of hundreds of personal music charts a week posted on the internet by like-minded music fans. In 1993 the resulting, Top Hits Online, was the first truly international chart, Ever! and is still produced weekly in collaboration with Alaska Jim at www.tophitsonline.com.

This lead lead to the formation of Tim’s first website, www.beyondradio.com, a site that took the premise of Billboard magazine’s charts and put the spin of personal charting into the mix. Beyond Radio, at it ‘s peak featured over 40 different weekly charts and focused on the music these charts were exposing that did not receive significant radio play, “Untapped Resources” as he called them.

As the responsibilities of life took over, and after a few attempts at taking the site to the mainstream, Tim quietly put the site on the back burner but has kept it going for 17 years now. Tim’s overall vision always included Beyond Radio, and most of the major decisions in his life revolved around keeping it going at some level.

Bringing It All Together

With both Be So EVENTurous and Beyond Radio, service, affordability and individual’s time constraints are major factors in the concepts. And with both the sky is the limit. Beyond Radio is already an international concept and while Be So EVENTurous is a Boston area business, the grand plan will have it going national. Both born of the mind of a BIG THINKER .

Achievements

I grew the private function business at a restaurant company from $200,000 at one location to $1.8 million at 3 locations over 9 years.

I was appointed to a capital expenditure project team for the company that lasted 4 months. I worked very closely with high level executives conducting inspections of 36 restaurants and compiling data on overall operational conditions of the premises and equipment. I created a guidebook that included information from these inspections, illustrating the need for upgrades. I worked very closely with head of facilities to implement guidelines.

I successfully developed the prototype for a freelance, from home function business, while with the company. Working with more than 2 dozen restaurants and venues in the Boston area and growing.

I started one of the first full service personal music chart websites on the internet, Beyond Radio

I helped create and still maintain, first international music chart on the internet, Top Hits Online.

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