GEVME

APRIL 9, 2018

When looking for new ways to engage employees, corporate event professionals experiment with multiple event formats. From fun incentive trips to spectacular galas, you can align the goals of an organisation with a huge variety of corporate meeting types. The statistic s reveal that corporate event planners will spend 22% more on product launches in 2018 than the previous year.

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Eventmobi

APRIL 9, 2018

When preparing for an event, a lot of attention is spent focusing on how to create an engaging experience during the actual event. What tends to only be considered until the very end of the planning process, if at all, is how to maximize attendee engagement before an event takes place. You don’t want all your weeks and months of hard work in designing an amazing event experience to have been in vain, so it’s crucial that you think about how to promote your event and get attendees excited before

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 9, 2018

Over the last five years I’ve heard increasing concern from the meeting professionals community about the deterioration of the quality of our national industry conferences. A recent thread on the MECO community (a great resource for meeting professionals since 2006) describes numerous recent basic logistical failings, and points to what I see as symptoms of fundamental problems with meeting industry associations at the national level.

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Eventinterface

APRIL 9, 2018

Get ready to reignite your creativity. Guest Robert Evans Wilson, Jr., award-winning writer and speaker shares his top tips and tools for meeting and event planners to be creative. Listen to host Al Wynant and guest Robert Wilson discuss the following: Overcoming creativity block. How to overcome conformity and ignite creativity. How to inspire diverse teams to be creative.

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The greats learn from the greats. Set yourself and your team up for success with tried and tested strategies and insights from event marketing geniuses at Vanta, Partnership Leaders, Quantum Metric, Rocketlane, and Explori.

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EventMB

APRIL 9, 2018

Join us for this webinar that will explore best-in-class sponsorship techniques, and teach you how to grow your sponsorship revenue amid shrinking budgets and increased competition. In this presentation we’ll examine the relationship between sponsors, properties, and the event guest; explore strategies to increase sponsorship sales, improve activations onsite and build repeat sponsorships year-over-year.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 9, 2018

In terms of jobs, the meetings and events industry creates more direct jobs than large manufacturing sectors such as automotive, chemicals, and food. The industry also employs more workers than the telecommunications sector or oil and gas. These are among the takeaways of “The Economic Significance of Meetings to the US Economy” report, which updates the 2009 report by the same name, from Oxford Economics, the Events Industry Council, and the Meetings Mean Business Coalition, released in Februar

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Connect Your Meetings

APRIL 9, 2018

Raise your hand if your friends or family member still have no idea what you do as a meeting and hospitality professional? Sure, some of my friends understand, but you all are industry professionals! And we have a holiday to prove it: Global Meetings Industry Day. Listening to my parents describe is sometimes comedic (trust me, they are good intentioned and very proud), but I quickly find myself stepping up on my advocate soapbox and beginning with “Actually, as a meeting professional, I manage

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 9, 2018

Photo Credit Adobe Stock. Why is April 10 Equal Pay Day? It’s not arbitrarily decided to earmark one day each year in April to spotlight the gender pay gap. The date reinforces a point: It takes women nearly four months longer to catch up to a man’s annual salary. Equal Pay Day began in 1996 in an effort to draw attention to the gender wage gap in the U.S., and in the 20-plus years since, the needle hasn’t moved much. .

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Plan Your Meetings

APRIL 9, 2018

Last minute event planning is a bad idea for so many reasons. It’s tougher to find venues. The client’s preferred venue will likely be booked. Clients will end up paying more for hotels, resorts and airfare. Planning at the last minute increases the likelihood of errors. In the rush to plan, important details may be overlooked. (CC) Faliq Idrus. The pressure that accompanies last-minute event planning and its twin, last-minute changes, contribute to making event planning one of the most stressfu

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In this best practices guide, you’ll learn how to tap into the cost-efficiencies of advocacy and word-of-mouth marketing with video. Examples include speakers providing a preview of their upcoming sessions, exhibitors creating “please stop by” invitations and attendees creating “looking forward to seeing you” introduction videos. Learn about best practices and programs created by leading companies and associations including ASIS, AUVSI, SuperZoo, National Restaurant Association, World of Concret

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Converve

APRIL 9, 2018

“New Work” is considered one of the megatrends marking the transformation of society from an industrial economy to one based on knowledge. The lines between one’s professional and personal life are becoming blurred. Many of those working in creative fields are becoming increasingly independent, whether they’re full-time employees working from home or freelancers working for themselves.

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Event Management Management Social Media Events 55

Eventbrite UK

APRIL 9, 2018

Exciting new research commissioned by Eventbrite looks at the millennial approach to event tourism. Check out the top stats. The post Millennial Event Tourism – The Stats appeared first on Eventbrite UK Blog.

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Converve

APRIL 9, 2018

“New Work” is considered one of the megatrends marking the transformation of society from an industrial economy to one based on knowledge. The lines between one’s professional and personal life are becoming blurred. Many of those working in creative fields are becoming increasingly independent, whether they’re full-time employees working from home or freelancers working for themselves.

Event Management 40

Event Management Management Social Media Events 40