Velvet Chainsaw

JUNE 15, 2022

In my experience, most large conferences this year are realizing about 80 percent of their 2019 revenue performance. For some of the major annual meetings we’re tracking, sponsorship revenue has been a bright spot when compared to exhibit revenue performance. Which of these strategies are you currently using for sponsorship pricing?

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Eventmobi

JUNE 16, 2023

Where does your association drive revenue—and does it include a non dues revenue strategy? Integrating a non dues revenue strategy into your business plan will support your organization’s long-term growth and stability. Small staff Limited staffing can make it hard to start any new initiative—including a non dues revenue strategy.

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Eventmobi

JUNE 26, 2023

The best association member engagement strategies guide them to participate in the right programs and leave them feeling valued—which makes them significantly more likely to renew! Here are 24 association member engagement strategies to explore for your organization, plus 6 tips for how to increase member engagement. The solution?

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Velvet Chainsaw

MARCH 22, 2017

You can make your conference the purple cow of all conference experiences. By creating conference experiences that help your participants think smarter! This means designing conference experiences that go full frontal ! The Traditional Low Level Cognitive Conference. Most conference experiences are passive.

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Velvet Chainsaw

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

To paraphrase Hoffer, you can never get enough of conference fads, gimmicks and trends. Unless your a conference participant and we often have had enough!). They also want access to your conference budget. Evergreen conference practices that have promising results are often obscured by our obsession with fads and trends.

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Velvet Chainsaw

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

One of my biggest pet peeves is the way some conferences approach first-time attendees. Being intentional and having a plan for how you welcome someone who is experiencing your conference for the first time is not only the right thing to do, it’s also a smart attendee acquisition strategy. No One Should Eat Alone.

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Eventmobi

AUGUST 9, 2022

About Meeting Expectations. Meeting Expectations specializes in designing and executing strategies to achieve event and association management goals. For their annual ‘Spotlight on HR’ conference, the Meeting Expectations management team wanted to set a new record for member adoption and engagement on their Event App.

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MeetingsNet

JUNE 10, 2020

Setting conference fees is tricky. Event organizers everywhere are trying to figure out how to price virtual meetings that are converting from a face-to-face format, often with little or no online meeting history to go by and working in a compressed timeframe. Now that your event is virtual, the puzzle is more complex.

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Event Industry News

JANUARY 30, 2024

The Mercure Manchester Piccadilly hotel has announced a new vision, strategy and investment plan for the hotel that will revolutionise the hotel throughout 2024 and beyond. The strategy will see major investments across the hotel’s high-profile meetings and investment spaces, including its iconic International Suite.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 4, 2024

Events, meetings and conferences today are supported by digital event platforms that make it possible for companies to seamlessly connect with people across the globe and deliver more engaging and immersive experiences than ever before. Here are some best practices for driving audience attendance in digital events.

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Eventinterface

JUNE 27, 2017

She founded Minneapolis-based Hybrid Events Authority to share her hybrid meeting expertise with organizations and companies that would like to extend their content to audiences beyond the meeting room. She was named a Top 20 Changemaker, and has been the recipient of nearly a dozen awards from the meetings industry for her work.

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Velvet Chainsaw

AUGUST 3, 2022

With live conferences’ comeback, event organizers need to make complex decisions about how to incorporate digital product extensions into their business model. Based on our research, we estimate that there’s an even split between conference owners who are including synchronous or asynchronous hybrid options and those who aren’t.

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GEVME

JULY 28, 2021

With the advent of the pandemic, virtual conferences became a popular go-to option for many event organisers. Even while at the time of writing, some parts of the world are returning to normalcy, virtual events , particularly virtual conferences, are here to stay. What You Need to Know About Virtual Conferences.

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Velvet Chainsaw

AUGUST 18, 2021

Leading learning firm Tagoras has launched another round of its virtual conferences survey , the results of which will be compared to its last round, conducted near the beginning of the pandemic. The report helps to raise overall visibility for virtual conferences and the results will be freely shared in a new report.

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Eventinterface

AUGUST 15, 2017

On this episode of Event TALK we are speaking with Christy Lamagna, Founder and Chief Strategist of Strategic Meetings and Events. Our discussion focuses on the need for the planning industry, and meeting professionals to be more strategic to insure long-term success. RELATED SHOWS.

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SpotMe Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Organizing a medical conference that brings results can be stressful. That’s why we’ve compiled a list of the best medical conference apps to ensure you come away with actionable HCP insights and invaluable connections to drive your business forward. Want to jump straight to the list of the best medical conference apps?

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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Marketing strategies for driving successful digital events “No matter the format—virtual, in-office or on-site—digital is a standard part of all types of meetings and events from shareholder meetings to user conferences to product introductions.” You can subscribe to the magazine here.

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Velvet Chainsaw

MAY 22, 2019

Traditionally teams from organizations attend a conference with a divide-and-conquer game plan, as they split up and attend as many different sessions as they can. The challenge with that strategy is that it’s very unlikely any real change will occur when the one team member who experienced the learning returns to work.

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Eventmobi

JUNE 23, 2020

We asked Event Planners if they are planning to incorporate a hybrid strategy for events going forward, and if yes, to share their insights into how that will work. By using Livestreaming tools and collaborating with Virtual Event Providers, we are able to host small to large scale events, meetings, and conferences including weddings.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JULY 23, 2018

Likewise, many conference professionals have no idea what embracing the long-tail, pull benefits of content marketing even means. Most marketing and communications teams agree that content marketing serves as the foundation to their conference marketing strategy. A Poverty Of Conference Content Marketing Success.

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Velvet Chainsaw

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Here’s what has changed: I’m convinced that “something for everyone” programming — including basic content for the novice or intermediate practitioner — is no longer the right strategy for positioning your conference as a can’t-miss experience. How Conference Sessions Can Deliver on Wisdom. Take a Turn at Station Rotation.

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Eventinterface

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Setting registration or ticket prices for meetings and conferences can be a contentious process. It can become an emotional roller coaster and it usually lacks a strategy. What are actually the best strategies? It is a procedure not necessarily enjoyed by planners and committees. A-la-carte pricing or not?

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Endless Events

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Like any other marketing effort, events need a comprehensive event marketing strategy to get the best results. In this blog post, we explain what an event marketing strategy entails and explore various event marketing strategies, from the traditional singular annual events to the boundary-pushing community model. .

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Velvet Chainsaw

MAY 4, 2017

This list of conference big ideas just doesn’t belong to the traditional, average conference planning process. Nor are they for the meeting professional looking for the next trendy trend to implement. Big Conference Ideas On The Road Less Traveled Part 2. Forming Teams Of Conference Culture Mavens. Hat tips Paul J.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 16, 2023

Bizzabo Survey: While hybrid isn’t dead, community is the cornerstone B2B conferences are back and have no sign of slowing down anytime soon. At least, according to a recent survey from the event management technology company Bizzabo that showed in-person conferences are once again the darling for attendees and organizers alike.

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SevenEvents

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

In the world of corporate events, conferences hold a special place as they bring together industry professionals and potential clients under one roof. however, organising a successful conference goes beyond logistics and venue selection. however, organising a successful conference goes beyond logistics and venue selection.

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ePly

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In-person events and conferences are back. Events still have lots of moving parts, though, many of which could suck the air and energy out of a conference hall or convention center. Events still have lots of moving parts, though, many of which could suck the air and energy out of a conference hall or convention center.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 3, 2023

It didn’t always go by the name Leaders Conference. Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) is hosting its annual 2023 conference at Nashville’s Music City Center with a change in how it approaches the in-person event. So that’s kind of where we started the conversation, and then everything about the meeting spun off of that.”

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Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has devastated the in-person meeting industry. Though it took too long to recognize that COVID-19 spreads via air transmission , we finally have effective procedures (vaccine mandates, masking, air quality standards, and social distancing) to reduce infection risk at in-person meetings. It depends!

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EventMB

MAY 27, 2022

“We see intellectual capital engagement as a key to success for a meetings destination. The first edition of the report focused only on board members of international associations organizing meetings with 500 attendees or more. The post Conference Destinations Compete With Academic Firepower appeared first on Skift Meetings.

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Social Tables

JANUARY 14, 2022

Many hospitality conferences and conventions were virtual or hybrid events , while others were forced to cancel altogether. As a result, many industry professionals are wondering what to expect from the top hospitality conferences of 2022. Check out what 14 of the most popular hospitality conferences of 2022 have in store: 1.

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SpotMe Blog

MAY 17, 2022

Our guide to the best virtual conference platforms helps you pick the right virtual solution. So we created this guide to the best virtual conference platforms to help you. So we created this guide to the best virtual conference platforms to help you. Virtual conference platforms. What is a virtual conference?

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 16, 2023

based global urbanist Greg Clark, who spoke at the IMEX Policy Forum in Frankfurt in May, told Joint Meetings Industry Council’s The Iceberg platform. So if they have a challenge with cancer, they want to host oncology conferences. If they have a challenge with young people being homeless, they want to host conferences about housing.

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SmartMeetings

MARCH 22, 2024

In this installment of Meeting of the Minds, Smart Meetings was joined by Jaclyn Bernstein, president and owner of Empire Force Events, and Alexis Dick, an event planner at HARDI. Alexis Dick (left) and Jaclyn Bernstein (right) Smart Meetings: How important are business relationships and professional networks to your career?

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Event Industry News

JULY 16, 2020

IACC has today launched its ‘Critical Pathway to Re-opening’ guide, which shares in-depth strategies and advice on how to reopen venues safely, created specifically for venues hosting meetings, training courses and smaller conferences for up to 150 delegates.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Breaking down the company’s recent sustainability strategy International exhibition and convention center ExCel London is a carbon-neutral venue and an advocate for the path towards green meetings. Recently, the company debuted a comprehensive sustainability strategy. At over 100,000 sq.

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MeetingsNet

JUNE 16, 2020

To open the virtual version of the annual Pharma Forum conference aimed at medical-event planners, two general sessions on Monday, June 15, focused squarely on the elephant in the room: the modified cleaning and social-distancing protocols hotels will use once in-person meetings and events resume.

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