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Four Business Travel Trends and Forecasts Impacting Events in 2024

Event Marketer

The good news for event marketers, however: Despite the year’s travel speed bumps and forecasts, many events and trade shows (CES 2024, included) are reporting they are back to pre-pandemic attendance levels. Corporate travel policies may start including air emissions tracking. degrees Celsius,” Reuters reported.

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The Story Behind the 2024 Smart Women in Meetings Awards

Smart Meetings

She brought top experts to the conversation to share secrets for negotiating, feeling more confident and building a network. She connected these go-getters so they could lift each other up.

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Event professionals embrace new community to uplift the industry

Event Industry News

Event Integrity is launching their Beta marketplace with a lead opportunity program and community in the Colorado market. The global event industry, not including weddings, has a market size of over $1.5 Topics have ranged from “Contracts and Negotiations” to “Making Sense of Marketing Data.”

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Take Care: How an Expert Communicates During a Pandemic

SmartMeetings

Now, multiply that risk by a factor of 19 when putting out blanket marketing emails to prospective attendees or presenting your budget to the executive team. When talking to marketing directors and CEOs, the best way to reset for the current economy is to ask for their expectations about budget , attendance, revenues, etc. Managing Up.

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Body Language Confidential

Connect Your Meetings

more easily and more often during interviews, networking events, sales meetings and negotiations. Her persuasion system landed her a lucrative product deal with Kevin Harrington, a Shark from ABC’s hit TV show Shark Tank, and took her on a wild ride to the big-time consumer markets of TV shopping channels, infomercials and beyond.

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Are You Vetting Your Speakers for Inappropriate Actions?

SmartMeetings

What to Negotiate. For that reason, Lauderbach suggests extra diligence in upfront negotiation. Will they share content to make marketing the event easier? Similarly, when a group brings a comedian to the stage , Lauterbach wants to know in advance what is coming. Does it need to be family friendly?

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Ticketbud Tidbits Episode 5 - CJ Alderton

TicketBud

CJ Alderton is a busy man - he runs Patrick Crossing, a church that takes place in a pub, and he also heads the annual Durango Celtic Festival in Durango, Colorado. We speak with him about what you need to do to get a strong festival going, how to scale it, and how to use word-of-mouth marketing. CJ: Well thank you for having me.