Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

After two years of not meeting, companies and audiences may have different goals and expectations so conferences that were previously produced as simple iterations on the previous years’ event must now be reinvented whole cloth. Read More : How to Plan Better Medical Meetings by the Numbers. By the Numbers. Jeff Calmus.

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Planning Pod

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

However, before you jump on the mobile conference app bandwagon, think about what you really need. There’s a lot of marketing hype out there, and although not all event apps are the same, you shouldn’t pay for features or add-ons that you don’t really need. Covers pre-, during and post-event attendee engagement.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

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. Here are four insights we’ve learned from analyzing the marketing-spend category: 1. Expos with a conference are more likely to be in the 12-percent range.

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SmartMeetings

AUGUST 2, 2021

A decade or so ago, despite brave event-planning souls paving the way, very few event apps were on the market—a handful, really. How could you replace a printed conference booklet? Medical meetings? Every couple of months, the number of event apps out in the world began to, ever so slightly, contract. Scientific?

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Less so the contracting, but more the sharing of ideas to make something work effectively in their space. Constantly meeting new people. Marketing, budgeting, problem-solving, traveling. Medical meeting industry is challenging! Meeting attendees that we have gotten to know over the years.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 3, 2017

What’s the best day you’ve had in the meetings industry so far? A few months before this announcement, I had a large conference where I pushed attendees further than they wanted to go by incorporating QR codes, iPads, and social media throughout the entire program. What’s the best day you’ve had in the meetings industry so far?

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

For decades, membership in PCMA had been a closed circle, limited to medical-meeting professionals. Outside of medical meetings, “those [organizations] that were going to have a meeting, instead of Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland [putting on a show], it was the new secretary in the department. Blow Up Your F&B.

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