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Top Tips for Preparing Your Presenters

Velvet Chainsaw

Make the Most of Your Speaker Prep Calls. Let’s focus on the third bullet point above, speaker prep. Other than one-on-one coaching (which we’ll delve into in an upcoming blog), session-planning calls can be the most effective way to prepare speakers. Improving Your Speaker Portal. One Size Does Not Fit All.

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Five New Event Planning Trends to Watch in 2019

Attendease

The new year is well under way, and all of us in the event space are watching out for the new trends that’ll continue to influence our work throughout 2019. of respondents cited “shrinking budgets” as a concern in 2019 – the highest response rate out of any concern reported. Event Personalization. Adoption of Advanced Technology.

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6 Budget-Saving Tips for 2019: Maximize Your Event Budget, Not Your Spend

Eventmobi

Thankfully, with a few savvy budget-saving tips, you can run a successful, professional event with minimum event budget costs in 2019. Say there’s an international event speaker that will guarantee those registrations come rolling in. There’s no way you can afford the speaker fee, let alone their flight and hotel.

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8 Technologies That Will Make Events Stand Out in 2019

Attendease

Not only do I believe this trend fully materialized, I believe it continues to grow in importance today, in 2019. I’ll keep watching this one as we move into 2019, though I’m not as optimistic as I was in 2015. One other area where I’ve noticed increased interactivity recently is through the use of real-time speaker feedback gathering.

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2022 Conference Registration Pacing

Velvet Chainsaw

Use these five tips to develop a plan for optimizing registration for your major event in quarters 2, 3, and 4. Adjust your expectations to factor in changes applied from the previous two tips. Attendees will not be motivated to save $100 for registering early when you have the same cancellation policy as 2019.

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PCMA EduCon Los Angeles 2019

Gallus Events

PCMA EduCon took place in Los Angeles in June 2019 and I was lucky enough to be asked to mentor the attendees of PCMA’s Homeless Hackathon and to present a session on online events. . Slides from my session at PCMA EduCon 2019. So a few years ago I came up with ten simple tips. What a packed few days. Almost 800 attendees.

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Prepping Industry Speakers Using Video Conferencing

PCMA Convene

Author Ritu Bhasin presents a session at PCMA EduCon 2019. Let’s focus on speaker prep. Other than one-on-one coaching, session-planning calls can be the most effective way to prepare speakers. Yet all of these details can be provided on a speaker portal, via FAQs, emails, or instructional video. Not One Size Fits All.