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CVBs and DMOs: A Hidden Resource for Meeting and Event Professionals

Eventsforce

As a meeting and event planner, do you ever feel a little stuck? Q: How should meeting and event professionals utilise CVBs and DMOs to enhance their planning capabilities? Q: How can meeting and event planners and CVBs and DMOs work together more effectively? Sounds great, doesn’t it? Cara Frank, Chief of Staff, Simpleview.

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If You Build It, Will Teams Come?

Velvet Chainsaw

Make it easy for teams to register and attend together and consider incentives to encourage it. Create activation areas and zones where teams can meet up onsite to debrief and process the learning and ideas they captured that day. We really like how Association for Talent Development promoted team learning at their annual meeting.

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Leveraging Team Learning at Conferences

Velvet Chainsaw

Yet conferences are lagging in meeting the needs of team learning. In part two of this post, we’ll look at how you can design for team learning and share some examples of conference organizers who are doing just that. Doing business—especially buying and selling—has become more of a team sport. The Science of Team Learning.

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Why Your Conference Should be Target-Audience Obsessed

Velvet Chainsaw

For example, at some conferences, 25–50 companies could represent 20 percent to 50 percent of total attendance. The first heat map shows the percent of loyal attendees by region, who tend to go anywhere your meeting is being held. Some companies will rotate the team members they send from year to year.

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TOP 25 best marketing conferences in Europe to attend in 2019

Eventory

Showing up at one of the best marketing conferences puts you right in the heart of the industry. You get the chance to meet fellow specialists, discuss the new trends and share experiences. There are many benefits of regular event attendance. Friends of Search is the meeting that focuses on online marketing and SEO areas.

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Why marketing managers secretly hate marketing conferences

Eventory

For example, they’d stress out over how to get from one place to another, look for the lectures they want to attend and, as a result, lose focus of what they initially came came for. Marketing conferences aren’t substantive for marketing managers. For example, you can organize an open poll through an event application.

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24 virtual event best practices for 2023

Socio Events

An event app with dedicated networking and community features is a great example of a valuable tool that’s both easy to use and accessible. We’ll talk about gamification in the next list item, but having a networking leaderboard is a great way to gamify professional connections and encourage people to participate.

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