Eventbrite UK

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Facebook is an event creator’s superpower. With more than 550 million users engaging with Facebook Events each month, the platform holds huge opportunity to reach potential attendees. But if you’ve already created your event on Facebook and taken advantage of the free ways to promote your event, what’s next? It might be time to consider […]. The post Facebook Event Ads: How to Target Event-Goers to Drive Ticket Sales appeared first on Eventbrite UK.

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Maritz Global Events

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Post authored by De-de Mulligan, President, Chief Content Strategist, Mulligan Management Group. One of the most effective ways to ensure the long-term health of your event is to convert first-time guests into loyal, life-long fans. But you can’t do that until you see the event experience through their perspective. Imagine this scenario: you walk into the opening reception of a large conference, and quickly realize you don’t know a soul.

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Tito Blog | An Event Blog for Organisers

DECEMBER 4, 2019

I’ve always been skeptical of people who claim to be able to predict the future. That said, I’m a marketer, meaning I make a living by iterating on what past data has taught me, and how that’ll effect how people act going forward. And, as such, I might be a bit of a walking contradiction. When it comes to conferences, one type of soothsaying that our industry indulges in every year is predicting what trends are going to be big at our peer’s events.

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Endless Events

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Time for another exciting episode of Whiteboard Wednesdays – and this time, we’re talking production schedule and show flow. More precisely, we’ll be breaking down the differences between the two. Because you’re an event planner, there is paperwork flying towards you from every direction. And sometimes, it’s easy to get confused!

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Skift

DECEMBER 4, 2019

The trade show floor at the National Electrical Contractors Association's 2015 conference in San Francisco. National Electrical Contractors Association / Flickr Skift Take: Cameras may be the best all-in-one tool for events that currently exists. Beyond facial recognition and reading emotions, they can also provide extremely accurate real-time images of how attendees are moving around a venue. — Isaac Carey Read the Complete Story On Skift.

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Skift

DECEMBER 4, 2019

The trade show floor at IMEX America 2017, held in Las Vegas, Nevada. Toerisme Vlaanderen / Flickr Skift Take: Cameras don't always have to make people uncomfortable, especially if they're not being used for facial recognition. Deployed as a way to monitor the flow of attendees, they are a big improvement on common tracking methods, such as wristbands embedded with Wi-Fi devices. — Isaac Carey Read the Complete Story On Skift.

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eventplanner

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Co-hosting events is not a new concept. Think about a partnership you have with an industry brand or a media company, and imagine planning a conference together.

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Eventtia

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Your budget is the biggest indicator as to where your event is heading and ultimately how successful your event is going to be. This is why effectively allocating your budget can make or break any event. Now the big question is, how do you go about achieving this?

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ePly

DECEMBER 4, 2019

If you’re in the event space, you’ve probably come across or heard the term “swag”. And if you’re the one providing the swag, you probably ask yourself these two questions when planning: “Will the attendees use it?” “Is it budget-friendly?”.

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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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Special Events

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Tap into the rewarding world of corporate special events with these six solid strategies.

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eventplanner

DECEMBER 4, 2019

If you’re tired of providing conventional catering, yet you want to keep things simple, sushi is the way to go. Interesting enough, yet familiar for most attendees, sushi rolls are the perfect option for a tasty catering experience.

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Event Industry News

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Replacing meat-heavy menu choices with Earth-friendly, plant-based options can reduce the carbon footprint of a 500-person event (such as a conference or large wedding) by 10 tons of greenhouse gas equivalents, according to an analysis by the Center for Biological Diversity. The Center’s report, Catering to the Climate , evaluated the environmental impact of common event menus as well as plant-based alternatives.

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Event Leadership Institute

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Smarticle. READ TIME: 3 minutes. I can’t stand seeing those vertical or horizontal lines when slides are shown on screen. If I ask the a/v tech about it, they tell me “that’s the format the slides are in”. What’s the best way to avoid this? Understanding Aspect Ratios. This is one of the easiest problems to prevent, and one that most planners can avoid through simple advance communication.

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Hubilo Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Event planners have got one of the most challenging professions. When it comes to planning, talking or speaking about it makes you feel, it’s easy. But when you actually put yourself in someone else’s shoes, you realize it is tougher than you think. Planning a small or a large event, exhibition or conference takes an equal amount of dedication, hard work and time.

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MLeads

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Why should small businesses use CRM? When you start and your business is just coming on the market, you probably have a handful of customers and you may even know them personally. You do not need a system or tool to manage this information.

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Python Events

DECEMBER 4, 2019

For lovers of batting sports, cricket is one of the most popular and entertaining games to watch and play. The sport’s popularity is growing and highlighting the need for tailor-made cricket ticketing software. There are millions of cricket fans in countries around the world. Although a fair share of players and fans are from Europe, Australia and Asia, other continents around the world play the game including Africa, and the Americas.

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Event Industry News

DECEMBER 4, 2019

GL events UK has joined forces with St Basils, a Birmingham-based charity providing accommodation, support and engagement services to young homeless people and those at risk of becoming homeless. A cross-organisational team, representing every business unit within the Midlands-based GL events UK Group, participated in the Big Birmingham Sleepout, a rough-sleeping fundraising challenge organised by St Basils.

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Python Events

DECEMBER 4, 2019

For lovers of batting sports, cricket is one of the most popular and entertaining games to watch and play. The sport’s popularity is growing and highlighting the need for tailor-made cricket ticketing software. There are millions of cricket fans in countries around the world. Although a fair share of players and fans are from Europe, Australia and Asia, other continents around the world play the game including Africa, and the Americas.

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Event Industry News

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Owen Sullivan, formerly Gordon Ramsay’s executive chef at Maze, the Maze Grills, and the Savoy Grill, has taken over the kitchen at luxury event and bespoke contract caterer, Noble House Events and Kitchen. Born out of a love of bringing people together through spectacular food and drink, Noble House was founded in 2008 by Conrad Baker and Emma Noble-Baker.

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Eagle's Flight Corporate Events

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Sales meetings must be engaging if they are to provide value for your sales team and return on investment for the organization. In this video, Michelle Bennett, our VP of Inside Sales and Marketing, shares the impact of incorporating experiential activities into your sales meetings.

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Eventbase

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Gamification has been a hot topic in events for some time now. And for as long as attendees get a kick out of a leaderboard or thrills from a scavenger hunt, it will continue to be that way. In fact, gamification was worth $5.5 billion in 2018 and that figure is expected to grow by more than 30 percent in the next five years. Using event gamification helps make events more personalized, immersive, and memorable.

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For associations, the hybrid model is the future of the MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, and Exhibitions) industry. Hybrid events provide increased reach and scalability, improved engagement with association members, and insights from real-time analytics, making them an absolute necessity. This ready-to-use playbook presents a framework for event organizers embarking on the hybrid events journey.

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Event Industry News

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Following the acquisition of Event Genius, the appointment of the ex-Eventbrite music account director marks another strong step into the primary ticketing market. Festicket, the world’s largest platform for music festival experiences, is announcing the appointment of Ed Walsh as strategic commercial director. . Walsh joins Festicket after spending over two years as music account director at Eventbrite, where he developed the overarching music accounts strategy at the company, working closely al

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Meeting Tomorrow

DECEMBER 4, 2019

As someone who’s worked in some of the country’s largest hotels and sold AV for independent audio visual companies, I’ve just about seen it all when it comes to hotel contracts. That’s why I always share this list with my clients. On it are the things you should be sure are spelled out in every hotel contract before signing it. That way, when you’re ready to hire an AV company, you won’t be vulnerable to unexpected costs.

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Event Industry News

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Tarsus, the global B2B media group, has announced that it has completed the acquisition of Smarter Shows; the UK-based exhibition and conference organiser. The acquisition enables Tarsus to strengthen its position in the aerospace, automotive and manufacturing industry sectors whilst increasing its coverage of the related industry supply chains and opening up access to new verticals.

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SmartMeetings

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Are you ready to enter the age of experience? A new study from the global agency George P. Johnson Experience Marketing singled out the effective emerging practices smart planners used in the last year to produce transformational messaging. David Rich, senior vice president of client services for the company, drilled down on the trends that are motivating employees and consumers.

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Event Industry News

DECEMBER 4, 2019

The Meetings Industry Association (mia) has awarded AIM Gold accreditation to the conference and events venues at Manchester Metropolitan University. Gold is the highest rating in the mia’s AIM accreditation scheme, which audits venues and suppliers against a strict 50-point criteria, including quality of facilities, accessibility, legal compliance, customer service and best practice standards.

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Sendo

DECEMBER 4, 2019

As event planning services become more global each year, the concerns for the impact that events have on the environment continue to grow as well. Amassing a large group of people in a single location offers numerous opportunities for businesses, but at the same time, corporate event management companies need to be aware of the potential damage that such events have for the world and take steps into reducing their carbon footprint by as much as possible.

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Event Industry News

DECEMBER 4, 2019

VMS Live is to open a London office with a refocused business model and three significant appointments. Following the recent change in leadership in September 2019, VMS Live is undergoing a significant business realignment to create an improved customer focused service, with a new level of proactive marketing support for venues to drive ticket sales.

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