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Three great tools for blog post illustrations

Conferences that Work

For the last 13 years I’ve posted one or more blog posts each week. Every post includes at least one image — over 1,400 blog post illustrations to date. Some of them are my own photographs, screenshots, or public domain images. But the majority I create myself. I’ll never be a great graphic artist, but I enjoy visualizing and creating these visual reinforcements to my posts and am always looking for new tools that a novice like me can use successfully.

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The Psychology Behind Designing Your Event

EventMB

Skift Take: Science-backed tools can help planners create successful meetings. Victoria Matey, who specializes in event psychology, offers practical tips and applications that any event planner can use. — Andrea Doyle Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings.

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CSR Events for Businesses: 5 Effective Programs + FAQs

Attendease

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) includes business-driven charitable activities that associate your brand with beloved nonprofits changing the world while getting your name out in the community! If you’ve never worked with the nonprofit sector and are not sure what type of events to host, don’t worry. Incorporating CSR programs is certainly worth your while!

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How to Plan a Product Launch Event

Eventbrite UK

Use these tips to plan a memorable product launch event and put your product on track for increased sales.

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Unlock the Secrets of Event Marketing Masters

The greats learn from the greats. Set yourself and your team up for success with tried and tested strategies and insights from event marketing geniuses at Vanta, Partnership Leaders, Quantum Metric, Rocketlane, and Explori.

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Best Cities for Farm-to-table Dining

Smart Meetings

The farm-to-table culinary movement has been sweeping the nation and meeting professionals have been taking notice. With a mission to source produce locally, protein responsibly and a dedication to sustainability, farm-to-table focused menus are becoming increasingly popular. Want to include this fresh and green cuisine into your upcoming event? From the West Coast to the East Coast and everywhere in between, Smart Meetings has compiled a list of American cities that have embraced the farm-to-ta

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Five Tips for Using Social Media to Build a First-party Database

Event Marketer

Social media is fertile ground for collecting quality first-party data—owned insights to help brands navigate around cookies, reimagine integrated campaigns, personalize engagements, compete with e-commerce brands, and build actionable steps into the consumer journey along the path to purchase. “Not enough brands have put significant thought into the role social media plays within their entire marketing and sales ecosystem as it relates to audience insights,” says Jil Lohnes, VP at Salt XC.

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Our Learnings: Building an Event Community

Endless Events

Building an online community can take years of hard work. That’s why Endless Events’ very own Will Curran and Kyle Kosinski created the #EventProfs community. They’re on a mission to build and grow a community from the ground up so they can better understand what it takes to develop an event community. #Eventprofs is designed to put your knowledge on center stage.

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Lakefest appoints MetaFests to become first UK NFT-enabled festival

Event Industry News

Lakefest has partnered with MetaFests, to be the first UK festival to enhance the experience for all attendees with full scale NFT collectibles and technologies for 2023. The festival owners have appointed MetaFests to harness emerging NFT and blockchain opportunities for the festival, which celebrated its 10 th edition at Eastnor Castle on 11-14 August, 2022.

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Smart Woman Summit Launched Community of Support

Smart Meetings

When events women come together to celebrate each other, they do more than toast Veuve Clicquot (although there was plenty of that, too). They build networks. The 7th Smart Woman Summit at Grand Hyatt Nashville this week brought together leaders for a power day of education, networking and brainstorming. “We want you to leave empowered to take charge of your physical, emotional and financial lives,” explained Marin Bright, Smart Meetings founder and CEO.

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How to Get Speakers, Exhibitors, and Attendees to Promote Your Event With Video

In this best practices guide, you’ll learn how to tap into the cost-efficiencies of advocacy and word-of-mouth marketing with video. Examples include speakers providing a preview of their upcoming sessions, exhibitors creating “please stop by” invitations and attendees creating “looking forward to seeing you” introduction videos. Learn about best practices and programs created by leading companies and associations including ASIS, AUVSI, SuperZoo, National Restaurant Association, World of Concret

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CSR Events for Businesses: 5 Effective Programs + FAQs

Attendease

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) includes business-driven charitable activities that associate your brand with beloved nonprofits changing the world while getting your name out in the community! If you’ve never worked with the nonprofit sector and are not sure what type of events to host, don’t worry. Incorporating CSR programs is certainly worth your while!

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Happy 1 Year Anniversary ¨EventUp” Podcast

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The EventUp Podcast was created as a platform to showcase events industry leaders and event industry news. Thank you for the overwhelming support and look forward to many more fantastic podcast episodes to help uplift our community. EventUp formed out of our desire to help others gain insight into the current happenings within the events industry , but it truly blossomed into having guests from a multitude of industries such as events, public relations, marketing, tech, and entertainment.

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10 Best Ways to Sell Out Your Event

Picatic by Eventbrite

You’ve spent plenty of time planning your event. Now you want to sell out the experience so that it’s a success for your attendees and business. Once you understand how to get people to your event, you’ll be able to fill those seats or the whole space. Discover proven strategies and tips to help you […].

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The Evolution of Virtual Events

EventMB

Skift Take: This episode sees Merijn van Buuren, CEO at Event Mender, join to discuss the evolution of virtual events and online audiences. — Skift Meetings Studio Team Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings.

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Download Now: 2022 Virtual + Hybrid Event Platform RFP Template - Enterprise Edition

Download 200+ new RFP questions for hybrid and virtual event technology success. After 10,000 downloads, the SpotMe Virtual + Hybrid Event Platform RFP Template is the ultimate procurement tool for event technology. This template is ideal for companies looking for a vendor to fulfill their specific virtual + hybrid event platform needs and requirements!

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How to Convince Your Boss That it’s Time to Upgrade Your Event Management System

Attendease

We know how hard it is to get budget approved for new software, but it’s equally difficult to get buy in to switch into a completely different platform. Whether you have outgrown your current system, or feel like your current software is too clunky, considering a new solution may be the best path for you. But how do you get buy in from your team and/ or from your boss?

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10 Corporate Event Ideas Attendees Love

Social Tables

Looking for corporate event ideas that people actually get excited about? Banish boring and overdone corporate events with help from this blog post. We’ll teach you how to spice up any business gathering with the right decor, entertainment, and more. Corporate events get a bad rap. If the event is for internal teams, many attendees are obligated to go even if they don’t feel like it.

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Grow Your LinkedIn Marketing in Three Steps

Eventbrite UK

Home to more than 830 million professionals, LinkedIn is known as the “serious” social network. But it’s also become a serious player in social marketing. According to Sprout Social, LinkedIn marketing generates leads 277% more effectively than Facebook. But as any seasoned networker knows, heavy-handed schmoozing doesn’t make you many friends. No wonder the best […].

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How Use Team Building and Virtual Training to Equip Teams for Remote and Hybrid Work Environments

Best Corporate Events

Although COVID-19 is (hopefully) behind us, the pandemic will have long-term impacts on the working world. Having grown accustomed to, and comfortable with, working remotely, many employees are resisting a return to the office. Though managers would generally prefer to have everyone physically back in the workplace, given the tight labor market and projections for lower workforce growth over the coming decade, they can’t push too hard.

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Dominate Your Local Market With These 4 Reputation Management Strategies

Speaker: Adam Dorfman, Lindsay Harrison, and Erin O'Brien

Did you know that 4 out of 5 consumers use local search and 88% use smartphones for those searches? With that in mind, I think it's safe to say your online presence is the silver bullet of your business. Think about the revenue you could be missing by not prioritizing local search optimization. Fortunately, there are a handful of steps you can take right now that will immediately impact your business's pace in local search, and we're happy to share them.

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How to make events more sustainable – Dynamic Conferences & Events

Event Industry News

Public consciousness and accountability in corporate social responsibility fundamentally underpins the organisation of events. It’s not beginning to take precedence – we are already here. Therefore, event sustainability is one of the biggest concerns when it comes to the return of in-person events. Making in-person events sustainable is a powerful movement and one of the fastest growing trends among all stakeholders within the industry, with event planners playing an instrumental role in combati

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China Shutters Major Event 9 Hours Before Opening Due to Covid Outbreak?

EventMB

Shenzhen World Exhibition and Convention Center Skift Take: TCT Asia, a major trade show, was shut down by Shenzhen authorities nine hours before it was set to open due to Covid numbers in the city creeping up to 24. Navigating policies and enforcements like this is a challenge for show and event planners, but it’s a reality that’s here to stay. — Andrea Doyle Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings.

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How to host your best SKO ever in 2023.

Expo Pass

There’s no denying it, the 2023 sales year is probably going to start off with a bit of a rocky economy. It’s up, it’s down – we’re all rolling with it and pushing forward. Nothing new there! But for Sales Kick-Off (SKO) meeting planners, 2023 is a golden opportunity to roll out a bold vision for the future. We’re talking about an event that will energize everyone about the company’s new innovations.

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How To Monetize Your Events and Increase Your Revenue

Eventtia

Many organizations have been embracing events as an effective way to market their business and products/services. However, why let the opportunity of generating revenue from these events go to waste if we can do it while still effectively promoting our brand, product, service, or community? While many businesses understand that their events (both live and virtual) could be monetized, in practice, monetizing any event can be quite challenging if you don’t know where to start.

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B2B Events in 2023 - What You Need to Know

Get ahead of the curve and stay informed with Zuddl's industry report on the future of B2B events in 2023. Stay up-to-date on the latest trends and insights from leading experts in the field. Make informed decisions and stay ahead of the competition.

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New podcast ‘Anything is Possible’ is launched by female CEO of award-winning Make Events

Event Industry News

Holly Moore, CEO of the female founded, Manchester based full service events agency, Make Events, is set to launch a brand new podcast with an impressive lineup of familiar faces this August. . The Anything is Possible podcast will feature guests including Jacqueline Gold, Executive Chair of Ann Summers; Fred Done, founder of Betfred; The Founders of Barry’s Bootcamp UK; Joan MacDonald of ’Train with Joan’ and Madeleine St Clair, Founder of Kylie Minogue Wines, with more inspiring guests to be r

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China Shutters Major Event 9 Hours Before Opening Due to Covid Outbreak?

EventMB

Shenzhen World Exhibition and Convention Center Skift Take: TCT Asia, a major trade show, was shut down by Shenzhen authorities nine hours before it was set to open due to Covid numbers in the city creeping up to 24. Navigating policies and enforcements like this is a challenge for show and event planners, but it’s a reality that’s here to stay. — Andrea Doyle Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings.

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Could Gig Workers Solve Hotel Staffing Shortage?

Smart Meetings

The travel and tourism industry lost an estimated 62 million jobs globally during the pandemic according to Statista.com. While demand for hotel and restaurant workers came back relatively quickly once people started traveling and meeting again, job-seekers were more reluctant. As of July, headcount was still down a reported 44 million people. Some of the lag is in Asia-Pacific, however, Europe and North America have also struggled to lure housekeepers, convention managers and meeting planners b

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Food for Thought: 4 Association-Event F&B Recommendations

MeetingsNet

It’s a real trick to find a balance between satisfying attendees’ dietary needs and delighting them with local items and interesting presentation, all while minimizing an event’s carbon footprint. Here are 4 tips for planners. Meeting attendees are a fickle bunch, especially when it comes to what they eat and drink during their time on site. In a session held at the American Society of Association Executives’ Annual Meeting & Exposition in late August, John Hawley, executive director of asso

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5 Things Businesses Need to Know to Thrive in a Post-COVID World

People are itching to get back into the world. 54% of consumers say they plan to dine out at a restaurant at least once a week this year. As COVID-19 restrictions ease, the competition for their business is stronger than ever. Download this eBook today to learn how your restaurant can be prepared!

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Events back in full swing as organisers see record rise in investment

Event Industry News

Brand appetite for events has well and truly returned, according to AEG Global Partnerships, which has seen a sizeable increase in partnership investment across its live events portfolio. AEG Global Partnerships, which facilitates and manages partnerships at live events across the UK, has witnessed a huge uplift in demand with a 65 per cent increase in investment from 2019, before the pandemic began.

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Stacy and Elliott’s Charming Woodsy Wedding at Kortright

EventSource

Rustic, classy, and bohemian vibes are what Stacy and Elliot’s charming wedding was made of. Co-created by the brilliant team at Carmen Tan Events , the couple had the most dreamy, romantic day thanks to the natural beauty of a forest backdrop at Kortright Eventspace. Their day was complete with a traditional Chinese tea ceremony to create one unforgettable magical day.

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What Does a Party Planner Do?

QC Event School

What does a party planner do? This is a question that many people have, but don’t know where to find the answer. In this article, we will discuss what a party planner does on a day-to-day basis and how you can become one! What Does a Party Planner Do? The Answer! Party planners are responsible for the coordination and execution of events, parties, and other special occasions.