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How Much Should You Spend on Marketing Your Meeting?

PCMA Convene

They value experiences like food and beverage, speakers/entertainment, and learning environments with good audiovisual. Leadership often thinks the answer to their attendance problems is to earmark even more spend for attendance marketing. Spend in this category doesn’t contribute to the value proposition for attendees.

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PCMA’s 20 in Their Twenties Class of 2017

PCMA Convene

From hardhat site visits and transportation vendors, to food trucks and hiring entertainment, this event gave experience and exposure in something we had not done before. Senior Meetings Planner National Contract Management Association Ashburn, Virginia, USA. My favorite part of my job is being on site at our Annual Meeting.

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Convene Celebrates Our 30th Anniversary

PCMA Convene

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.

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