Smart Meetings

MAY 1, 2023

Plan with confidence Toronto Is More Than a Meeting Place Toronto is North America’s fourth most populous city, making it Canada’s largest and most visited destination. The center is recognized as top-of-class by meeting and event organizers around the world and has hosted over 21,000 events during its four-decade history.

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Velvet Chainsaw

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

There has never been a more important rally call for the work we do: to design meetings to welcome and accept people as they are and consciously bake in opportunities to expose them to people not like them. To obtain true belonging, real connection and real empathy requires meeting real people in real spaces in real time.

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Velvet Chainsaw

MAY 28, 2019

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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Velvet Chainsaw

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Take a page from the Regulatory Affairs Professional Society’s (RAPS) playbook for their recent annual meeting in Philly. They scrubbed their attendance data and realized that 31% of their attendees were solo (the only person from their organization). No One Should Eat Alone.

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Velvet Chainsaw

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

A strategic look at your marketing spend, as well as what you spend on your attendee experience, can be telling. According to Convene ’s most recent Meetings Market Survey , on average 6 percent of a meeting’s direct expenses fall in the marketing/promotion category.

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Velvet Chainsaw

MAY 22, 2019

Yet conferences are lagging in meeting the needs of team learning. Doing business—especially buying and selling—has become more of a team sport. Overall, we are becoming flatter organizations. The concept of team collaboration is growing, particularly in progressive organizations. Planners know it exists, but are not designing for it.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JULY 10, 2017

The first heat map shows the percent of loyal attendees by region, who tend to go anywhere your meeting is being held. Heat Mapping — There are lots of ways to heat-map your audience. We often use a heat map that divides the country into six large regions. Next, we create three heat maps — one for each year — of the non-loyal attendees.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JULY 23, 2018

Content marketing has grown by leaps and bounds during the past five years. Unfortunately, too few event organizers fully embrace the long-tail, pull benefits of content marketing. Likewise, many conference professionals have no idea what embracing the long-tail, pull benefits of content marketing even means.

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Cvent: Event Marketing

OCTOBER 9, 2018

In today’s noisy and crowded marketplace, the top priority for event marketers is to stand out, capture attention and engage target audiences. When it comes to live events, audiences seek valued experiences and takeaways to help justify the time and cost they’ve invested in attending. The session will be held at 2:00 p.m.

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Eventory

JANUARY 29, 2019

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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Socio Events

MARCH 27, 2023

This can be done in a few different ways, including but not limited to: Introducing them on your event website Talking about them on social media Having branded virtual meeting and breakout rooms during the event On-screen sponsor placements 20. When reports can be automatically generated, it’s even better.

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Hubilo Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

If you’re interested in scheduling Bob to speak at your company meeting, conference or convention, please contact Kathy Tagenel at (775) 220-6995 or click here to email her. Brain is CEO of Brain Tracy International, a company that specializes in training and development of Business roles like sales and marketing and related organizations.

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Hubilo Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

If you’re interested in scheduling Bob to speak at your company meeting, conference or convention, please contact Kathy Tagenel at (775) 220-6995 or click here to email her. Brain is CEO of Brain Tracy International, a company that specializes in training and development of Business roles like sales and marketing and related organizations.

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Bizzabo

APRIL 18, 2019

Attendees will also get to take part in hands-on workshops and meet others in the industry. If you're in revenue ops, you'll want to attend Ramp19. Should you attend, you'll have ample opportunity to be encouraged by fellow SaaS professionals, learn from successful software entrepreneurs, and meet potential investors.

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Eventory

OCTOBER 9, 2018

This way, making sure that everything at the event is buttoned up and brings value, you can influence the way marketing managers see marketing conferences. To meet everyone’s expectations is one of the main challenges in event management. However, you can take care of the organizational aspects.

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Velvet Chainsaw

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

As conference education trumps the exhibit hall experience at many association meetings, or creeps into your trade show experience to create a solutions-driven, holistic experience for your attendees, upping your game with session titles, descriptions, and learning objectives has become more important than ever. You should too!

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