Event Industry News

AUGUST 9, 2021

Huddle Agency, tech focused meetings and events agency, announced that it has appointed Hayley Contegiacomo as chie technology officer. In this new role, Hayley will be responsible for leading the development of Huddle Agency’s technology focused suite of services for planning corporate meetings and events. .

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PCMA Convene

MAY 31, 2017

Need validation that the business of planning events can be nerve-wracking? Check out careercast.com’s 2017 most-stressful jobs list, on which you’ll find event coordinators occupy the fifth spot, right after police officers and before newspaper reporters. How well are meeting professionals compensated for this agita?

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PCMA Convene

MAY 31, 2017

Need validation that the business of planning events can be nerve-wracking? Check out careercast.com’s 2017 most-stressful jobs list, on which you’ll find event coordinators occupy the fifth spot, right after police officers and before newspaper reporters. How well are meeting professionals compensated for this agita?

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2017 Education 2016 Corporate Meetings 74

Planning Pod

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Which made us think that this is a question that almost everyone considering venue event management software asks at some point during their fact-finding and buying process. Then we will look at the key features and benefits of our venue software peers to which we most frequently get compared: Tripleseat, Event Temple and EventPro.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 31, 2016

And if you s tack Convene ’s 2016 Annual Salary Survey results against average meeting planner salaries on online career sites, you’ll find our survey respondents, on average, are in a better place, compensation-wise. According to our survey results this year, the overall average salary for meeting professionals is $80,505.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Remarkably, some metrics in 15 key areas have held steady during the past decade — for example, meetings and conventions have consistently contributed to around one-third of their organizations’ total annual revenues — regardless of the economy. 28 percent expect to plan more meetings in 2017; only 3 percent expect to plan fewer meetings.

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