Brown Paper Tickets

MARCH 30, 2018

When planning any event, start with the audience—who will be in the crowd? In the initial stages of festival planning, whether it’s food, music, art, or all of the above, determine your goal and start reaching out to groups or individuals you’d like to feature. Determine Your Festival’s Audience. Book Talent.

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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Here are some of the advantages of fake events over real ones. Don’t get me started on in-house production.) A final word If everything I’ve said still hasn’t convinced you to sit down at your computer, or even your phone, and start pumping out fake events, here’s one more point to bear in mind.

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MeetingPool

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Chatbots, or bots, are taking the tech world by storm, so it’s no surprise have begun to make their way into the event space. These programs, powered by artificial intelligence (AI), have the ability to communicate with users, mimicking natural speech while they answer questions and provide helpful information.

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IMG

APRIL 13, 2023

As we move into warmer days, many of our corporate clients have started their company retreat planning process, as part of their company culture and employee engagement strategies. WHAT OUR CLIENTS SAY Not sure how to start planning your company retreat?

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 11, 2024

Here’s what Elon did—and how to avoid ads completely. Although Twitter started showing the occasional “Promoted Tweet” in 2010, it wasn’t until around 2014 that ads became a regular feature of a user’s timeline. Here are the two ways they’ve recently got worse. Now searches include ads.

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Picatic by Eventbrite

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Here, we profile creators who’ve created a successful business during quarantine. An avid concert-goer, Rinaldo started following the Dave […]. 2020 has been a challenge, but some people have found success in the midst of a global pandemic.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 1, 2024

Here it is—enjoy! Paul Nunesdea : And hello, hello, dear viewers, this is a soft start of our third episode in 2024 of Talk to Your Meeting Doctors. He will be talking about his work in a few minutes, but it’s great to be here with you again. I don’t regret moving here at all. Martin, welcome!

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Attendease

JANUARY 11, 2024

Webinars have become more common in the past few years as more professionals and companies have started working remotely and maintaining flexible work arrangements. As such, it’s safe to say that virtual events are here to stay. Here’s What to Do Before, During, and After the Event appeared first on Attendease.

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Attendease

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

While the Attendease Event Platform has always supported both virtual and in-person events, we are now taking it a step further with the launch of Attendease’s new Virtual Studio: a truly integrated virtual event platform that supports planners in providing a seamless experience to attendees, from start to finish. How to get started.

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Attendease

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

You can get the full guide here. Here, you will find the latest industry updates, as well as best practices to run successful virtual experiences. It could also be a shiny certification on your resume since virtual events are here to stay. Get Started & Bookmark Your Favorite Event Planning Resources Today!

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Eventmobi

JANUARY 17, 2024

It replaces traditional paper-based methods with a digital solution, ensuring a fast, secure, and smooth start to any gathering or conference. Event check-in software helps you start on the right foot by ensuring a smooth, efficient, and welcoming start to your attendees’ journey.

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 10, 2020

Is it possible to routinely start online meetings on time? Raise your hand if all of them started on time. Why don’t scheduled meetings start on time? The reason that almost no scheduled meetings (in-person or online ) start on time is that we provide one single time for meetings to both open and start.

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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Here’s my initial Stooa review. How to start with Stooa. It’s easy to start working with Stooa. As you can see, you can specify a discussion topic, add a description, and schedule the fishbowl start and duration (up to four hours; though that would be cruel and unusual punishment). Starting your fishbowl.

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 30, 2020

I’m sharing what I’ve learned (so far) here. It’s important to define group agreements about participant behavior at the start. For well over a decade, I have been asking participants to agree to six agreements at the start of meetings. Here are mine for Zoom. Date and start/end time of meeting].

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Event Farm

JUNE 14, 2022

Last year in May, when in-person events started showing signs of life again (after being nonexistent with the pandemic), our team set out to check the pulse of our event community with a 2021 Back to In-Person Events Survey — leaving us with really helpful insights as we evaluated how event professionals were feeling about a comeback.

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The MICE

JANUARY 15, 2024

START Summit offers an innovative take on entrepreneurship conferences – entirely student-run it gives a fresh perspective on Europe’s startup landscape. The history of START Summit dates back to 1997 when it was established as START Global by students from the University of St. They initially organised the START Forum.

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The Planner's Lounge

APRIL 19, 2024

If you would like to be featured, download our questionnaire here and email your responses and photos to info@plannerslounge.com. I am a mom of 5 and an Army wife, so my days start early. I start something for dinner while they all start their nighttime routine. I got started while planning my own wedding.

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EventMB

JUNE 15, 2020

Here is a summary of how the top countries impacted by the Coronavirus are reopening events. As countries start to reopen their economy, the […]. Events are trying to reopen among the resurgence of cases especially in North America.

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EventMB

MAY 12, 2020

Here's how to leverage virtual event strategies once live events return. Although countries are now slowly starting to loosen lockdown measures, the […]. The post Hybrid Events Are the Immediate Future of the Event Industry by Victoria Copans appeared first on [link].

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EventMB

APRIL 23, 2020

Here's what that may look like and when we might expect the first attempts. As the peak of coronavirus infections starts to level off in many countries — […]. The post How Venues Are Preparing With Social Distancing Measures by Victoria Copans appeared first on [link].

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Planning Pod

JANUARY 2, 2024

Stay tuned for the next part, where we’ll discuss how to start problem-solving and strategizing with the results of your first brain dump. But here’s the silver lining … no matter your role in the events industry, brain dumping has undeniable benefits due to its flexibility. Set a timer and start writing!

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Eventscase Blog

APRIL 26, 2024

Here are some of its key components: 1. Here are some of the reasons why event scheduling is paramount in event planning: Efficiency Time is managed effectively, allowing for all planned activities to be executed without delays. Here’s a breakdown: 1. It plays a pivotal role in the success of any gathering.

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The Planner's Lounge

MARCH 29, 2024

If you would like to be featured, download our questionnaire here and email your responses and photos to info@plannerslounge.com. My day starts around 5 am. How did you get started in the industry? I started working for an event décor company and met a wedding planner who hired me to be her assistant at weddings.

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Event Marketer

APRIL 17, 2024

She started in mobile tours with Chobani more than 12 years ago, driving an F-350 with a 26-foot trailer around the country, and learned from the ground up everything from negotiating contracts to developing event partnerships and executing programs. Erin Taylor: How much hard work it is and what it takes to execute.

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Event Marketer

MARCH 28, 2024

But Wang’s closest partners through all of the events and projects on her plate are the people on her own team—one she’s built up since her start with HPE in 2015. She had yet to transition from HP to the newly split-off HPE, where she had the chance to start from scratch and establish a team. Let us know.

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SmartMeetings

MARCH 22, 2024

AD: Even if it’s a 10,000 person conference, you start to see similar faces. It’s not as easy for them to just walk into a room and start talking to people. This medium where we’re sitting here and talking now, through Zoom, WebEx, Teams, whatever it may be, gave us the opportunity to still connect.

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eventplanner

JANUARY 14, 2024

Download a template here as a starting point for your event. A script shows the events, appointments and tasks in chronological order in the context of your event.

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TicketBud

DECEMBER 1, 2023

But to ensure your event is on their radar, now is the time to make quick decisions on venues and vendors and start spreading the word about your event. When you’ve completed your account and organizational settings, click “Create New Event” to get started setting up your event registration page.

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ePly

APRIL 18, 2024

Relationships are made here, frequently resulting in collaborations, recommendations, and even job offers. Nic Kreger, CEM and an account manager at Tradeshow Logic, recently started getting more involved with his local chapter and says the best way to start is to “jump in!” Put yourself out there.

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Planning Pod

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Here you’ll find common pain points I’ve seen and how I’ve helped businesses get around them! Click here to get started. If you’re wasting a ton of steaks because your line cooks aren’t properly trained in cooking them, you know where to start. If not, this may uncover an opportunity to train your team.

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Event Age by Swapcard

JANUARY 19, 2022

Here you’ll learn what constitutes a smart event, how they work in real life, the importance of an all-in-one community platform, and get some helpful tips on how to run your own successful smart event. You’ll have all the info you need to start planning your own smart event in no time!

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Canadian Special Events

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

It likely comes as no surprise to read that as event professionals, we could and should be doing more to improve the sustainability of our events and do our part in tackling the climate crisis, but it can be hard to know where to start. Here is a great place to start: I’d like to see more sustainability-specific criteria in RFPs.

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Planning Pod

MARCH 28, 2024

With all of the different platforms available for experimentation, getting started is often the hardest part. Here are a few methods you can employ to find out what platforms your ideal customer uses: Website traffic analytics: Analyze who visits your website to understand their online behavior and platform preferences.

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TicketBud

JANUARY 16, 2024

But planning an unofficial SXSW showcase has to start early in order to secure spaces and vendors before they’re booked by other SXSW-related commitments. Here are some quick tips to get started: Determine the purpose, audience and goals of your event. Visit ticketbud.com to get started. Set a budget.

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Master the Event

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Consider an event or conference planning checklist as a starting point. You’ll start with a generic template. Download, or Print, Our Event Planning Checklist Here. Check out our party planning checklist page here. From there you’ll need to incorporate tasks that are unique to your conference or event.

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Special Events

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Let’s start off the new year with some positivity—here are 25 ways your special events colleagues are positioning 2022 for a healthy, prosperous, and fabulous fiscal year.

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TicketBud

DECEMBER 5, 2023

To get started, visit surveymonkey.com and click “Sign up free” and create an account. Select “start from scratch.” Need help getting started? Note that some templates may require a paid subscription, which start at $25/month. Here, you can craft and send an email with the SurveyMonkey link.

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