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5 Reasons I’m Grateful for My Clients After 40+ Years of Consulting

Conferences that Work

Having spent seventeen years developing the why and how of peer conferences, you might reasonably expect that the book provided a somewhat definitive guide for peer conference rationale and design. Conferences That Work: Creating Events That People Love took four years to write. industry education ).

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Return on Events: New Metrics for Now — and Into the Future

PCMA Convene

Assembled by PCMA, Marriott International, the Long Beach Convention & Visitors Bureau, and the Corporate Event Marketing Association (CEMA), and led by the innovation strategy consultancy Fruition Co., Events Have a New Definition. Definitely.”. Are these things harder to measure than dollars-in, dollars-out?”

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Designing conferences to solve participants’ problems

Conferences that Work

For example, how can I: Unify my business’s unique branding and marketing needs? Since 2016, I’ve been participating in the annual, invitation-only Meeting Design Practicum conferences that have been held all over Europe. (That’s why we spend much more time and energy working on them than obvious problems.)

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The Five Best Online Training Courses for Online Events

Gallus Events

The Digital Event Fast Track course is definitely a good introduction course to online events. meeting design institute: Design interactive online and hybrid meetings, conferences and events. meeting design institute: Design interactive online and hybrid meetings, conferences and events.

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The Five Best Online Training Courses for Virtual Events

Gallus Events

The Digital Event Fast Track course is definitely a good introduction course to online events. Meeting Design Institute: Design interactive online and hybrid meetings, conferences and events. Meeting Design Institute: Design interactive online and hybrid meetings, conferences and events.

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Why Your Conference Should be Target-Audience Obsessed

Velvet Chainsaw

Peter Fader , professor of marketing at Wharton, and author of Customer Centricity: Focus on the Right Customers for Strategic Advantage , highlights customer lifetime value as a strategic lens for identifying your best customers. Over the past 18 months, we’ve carefully scrubbed and analyzed the attendance of 20 major conferences.

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networking at conferences structuring connections

Gallus Events

This is something very different from the networking that we casually think about: you know, the random meetings over coffee or picking up the delegate pack. So first, a definition of structured networking at conferences: “Using the environment, meeting design or technology to ensure that the right conversations happen”. .