Tue.Jun 04, 2019

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The Do’s and Don’ts of Event Catering: Ideas and Hacks to Try Now

Picatic by Eventbrite

Learn how to make sure your next food and drink event is unforgettable — and Instagrammable. The post The Do’s and Don’ts of Event Catering: Ideas and Hacks to Try Now appeared first on Eventbrite US Blog.

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Are Your Speakers Speaking to Speakers?

Velvet Chainsaw

I wonder about the future of peer review for conference abstracts. While it is a critical filter for high-quality journals, it is a very inefficient process for accelerating innovation and discovery at conferences. Many healthcare and STEM conference business models are heavily dependent on participants who are able to justify their attendance in part because their oral or poster abstract has been accepted.

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How to Improve your Event Sponsorship Offerings

GEVME

For many event managers, sponsors are a major source of income. They either make your event profitable or allow you to invest more in it. Searching for and finding sponsors for your event is the most important part of what we do. Why is event sponsorship crucial? S ponsorship often generates media coverage that may not have otherwise been available for your event.

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Guy Fieri's Walk of Fame Celebration Had Gold-Painted Dancers, a Performance From Foreigner, and Plenty of Burgers

BizBash

The Food Network threw an over-the-top celebration for the colorful chef to celebrate his induction into the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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Unlock the Secrets of Event Marketing Masters

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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Create Your Event Website Easier than Ever Before

Eventtia

If you don’t have the expertise or the necessary help, building an event website can be a real hassle. Fortunately, there are new tools you can use to create a beautiful page for your event in no time. Ready to upgrade? Then check out this article.

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Reframing How We Look at Events: Using the Right Metrics to Evaluate Performance

atEvent

Data is King, and events are the castle. Each event your company attends or sponsors has numerous touch points that provide you with valuable data waiting to be tracked and used to inform your strategy. According to The Freeman Data Benchmark Study , savvy marketers see the value in event data, with 89% of marketing leaders using customer collected data to make strategic decisions.

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Creative Problem-Solving and Innovation: The Life of an Event Project Manager

Maritz Global Events

If you described the role of an event project manager as “busy,” you may just win the award for Understatement of the Year. “Busy” doesn’t even scratch the surface. Now, if you were to say, “put more than a full day, working through lunch, back to back meetings and calls and forgot to use the restroom at a few points,” you might be getting closer to the mark.

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Email Tips From a Copywriting Pro for Event Profs

Connect Your Meetings

As anyone who’s ever sent a professional email knows all too well, figuring out what to say and how to say it is hard work. There’s a fine line between being assertive and being passive aggressive and finding that line can be a tricky feat. There’s nothing more tempting than throwing a “per my last email” when the person you’re corresponding with clearly ignored your last message or a “moving forward” when someone on your team screws something up,” but all those phrases do is ignite annoyance on

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Tappit bolsters European growth with two senior hires and festival partnership

Event Industry News

Tappit, a global cashless payment solution, has announced a partnership with the multi-award-winning grass-roots music festival, Leopallooza. The partnership will see Tappit’s cashless solutions rolled out to the festival’s 5,000 attendees and signifies the continued growth and success of Tappit’s UK base. . Now in its 13th year, Leopallooza will offer festival-goers a cashless experience with spending tied to their personal RFID wristband.

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How to Get Speakers, Exhibitors, and Attendees to Promote Your Event With Video

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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Top 25 Wedding Venues in New York

EventUp

Whether you’re looking for a posh event that exudes class and style or you’re hoping for a modest, intimate soiree, your wedding should be everything you imagined. For those looking for the best New York wedding venues , you’ll have lots to choose from this year. These perfect picks offer a little bit of everything, from massive halls to quaint-and-cozy spaces for your closest friends.

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OnePlan – The revolutionary event-planning tool

Event Industry News

Organising successful outdoor events requires detailed planning and collaboration with stakeholders. Often event sites are planned using screenshots from online maps and basic presentation tools. This leads to inaccuracies and a lack of coordinated planning. OnePlan is a game changing planning tool for the event industry. It supports event professionals to plan safer events by utilising intuitive space planning and measurement tools within a global mapping platform.

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Event Highlight: Launch of delicious. Bake Club

Floktu

Did you know that the joy of baking isn’t just reserved for the eating, but that the act of baking itself has been shown to make us happy? A recent study in the UK found that the principal emotion triggered by baking is happiness, producing a similar effect to mindfulness. Not only that, in Australia, research shows that people who bake are more likely to spend time together with family.

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Electric Fields festival cancelled after venue move

Event Industry News

The popular Scottish music festival has been called off just two months after festival bosses announced it was moving from southern Scotland to Glasgow. Organisers of the event announced in April that they were moving from Dumfries and Galloway to Glasgow city centre. The move was met with a backlash from hopeful festival-goers who demanded refunds and voiced their displeasure on social media.

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B2B Events in 2023 - What You Need to Know

Get ahead of the curve and stay informed with Zuddl's industry report on the future of B2B events in 2023. Stay up-to-date on the latest trends and insights from leading experts in the field. Make informed decisions and stay ahead of the competition.

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Sporting Federation – A Code For Sports Governance.

Lumi Global

The UK has achieved great things in a whole range of different sports in recent years, from having all four finalists in Europe’s premier football competitions, the Champions League and the Europa League, to a swathe of victories at cycling’s Tour de France, as well as in sports ranging from gymnastics to rowing to taekwondo.

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Safety And Security At Events – #EventIcons Episode 167

Endless Events

Today on a more serious note, we’re talking about physical safety and security at events. This is one of the most important topics to cover, and especially nowadays. There’s always so much to think about when you’re playing an event, right? It’s a rollercoaster, it seems like everything might go wrong, and there’s not enough room space in your brain to worry about every single detail.

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7 Key Considerations When Personalising Event Experiences

Eventsforce

In an era where people’s attention is rapidly declining, having the ability to offer people relevance is critical. So when the right event content is offered to the right attendee at the right time, chances are they will respond positively and more likely want to repeat the experience the next time round. Using personalisation to improve the way attendees engage with your events can have enormous benefits.

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