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6 Easy Steps to Create a Memorable Event Experience

Eventmobi

The challenge to keep attendees engaged at your events has never been greater. Decreasing attention spans, intensified vendor competition, and heightened attendee demands to be wowed are putting the pressure on event planners. In order to make sure your events are educational, meaningful, motivational, interesting, and above all, on budget. Which leads us to event experience design – the event planner’s new best friend.

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Event Heroes: How to Create a Blockbuster Conference

Bizzabo

Each month we interview an events professional who is breaking the mold. This month we spoke with Stephanie Hannah, the Director of Strategic Marketing at Trace3, about growing an event, running an awards show, and delivering a blockbuster conference experience. IT teams are what keep a business running, but they don’trace always get the recognition that they deserve.

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Small Meetings: F&B Insights from a Supplier

Smart Meetings

Food and beverage costs are increasingly taking a bigger slice of the meeting budget. Patrick Berwald, vice president of food and beverage for Benchmark Global Hospitality , offered some, ahem, food for thought about F&B for small meetings. What are some of the reasons for the increase in F&B cost? Cost of product and changes in commodity pricing have impacted food pricing.

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Lyft Presents Its Vision for the Self-Driving Car With Panel Event

BizBash

It’s no secret that Lyft has been making strides to position itself as a serious contender in the self-driving car.

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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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Take a Page Out of Jeff Bezos’ Meetings Book

Smart Meetings

Jeff Bezos of Amazon banned the PowerPoint. It’s a bold move, especially when it is the standard. But going through photos, graphs and data can be, well…boring. Meetings are difficult enough, let alone meetings that revolve around clicking slide after slide. Consider pulling a Bezos, or at the least, incorporating something unique to keep morale and spirits high. 1.

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Event Stories: Sharing Knowledge, Creating Community [Mobile Trends Conference]

Meeting Application

Mobile Trends Conference is the biggest conference about trends in marketing, software, design, and management in the mobile industry in Central and Eastern Europe. Speakers share their knowledge in various topics, mostly about mobile techniques and technology. The person behind the event is Robert Rachwa?. For over 7 years now, he has been running a company specializing in developing dedicated mobile sites, responsive sites, and web apps.

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August 30, 2018: Guillermo del Toro Calls For More Women Directors at Venice Film Festival, Snapchat Will Participate in Its First NewFront, Campsites Are Providing Alternative Wedding Venues

BizBash

1. GUILLERMO DEL TORO CALLS FOR MORE WOMEN DIRECTORS AT VENICE FILM FESTIVAL: Film director Guillermo del Toro, who is.

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Troxy reborn as the world’s biggest mobile-only venue

Event Industry News

Troxy has joined forces with DICE to become the world’s biggest mobile-only, and now tout-proof venue. The move to digital will put fans first by implementing DICE’s mobile-only tickets to stop reselling, as well as selling tickets through the night and allowing refunds up to moments before an event starts. The secondary ticketing market continues to be a nightmare for music fans, and this partnership ensures that touts are locked out of Troxy for good.

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A Sneak Peek Inside the HPE EBC with Esteban Obando

CXApp Blog - Events

The award-winning HPE Executive Briefing Center in Palo Alto creates a high-touch space for senior HPE executives and IT professionals to connect and collaborate with customers worldwide. Unique features inside the EBC highlight digitization using Aruba Networks and Meridian apps technology. The executive briefing team at HPE leverages the CXApp platform to connect with customers before, during, and after their in-person visit.

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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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Expo Floors at Farnborough International Airshow (FIA) 2018

Event Industry News

Appointed official platform contractor to Farnborough International Airshow (FIA) in 2014, Walsall-based Expo-Floors supplies the event with more than 19,000sq m of raised flooring. . Nearly two thirds of that provision, 12,000sq m, is Expo-Floors’ Eco-Elevate, a system developed specifically to become the most flexible and user focused system in the Industry.

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How to Write Great Content for Twitter

Evvnt

If you are hoping to develop your events or venue’s online presence, knowing how to effectively write content for Twitter is a key skill. Admittedly, when you first start out writing tweets, creating a message in only 140 characters can seem quite limiting. However, the hidden benefit of this restriction is the fact that it forces businesses to come up with engaging and concise insights to the company.

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Conference agenda of 2nd Event Safety & Security Summit (E3S) revealed

Event Industry News

The conference agenda of the 2nd Event Safety & Security Summit (E3S) has been announced, more than doubling the number of discussion topics and presentations from its inaugural edition last year. The invitation-only event takes place on 30 October at the Congress Centre in Central London with over 400 delegates expected to attend. The one-day meeting brings together leading international venue, festival, touring, sport and security professionals.

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Return from Colorado in Some Western Duds

Smart Meetings

Boulder, Colorado and Denver may be the “New West.” But there’s still a lot of the Old West, there, too, and a lot of places where you can pick up some real Western duds, pardner. Here are some particularly good ones. Boulder. A post shared by Red Wing Heritage (@redwingheritage) on Mar 3, 2018 at 7:00am PST. Red Wing Shoes. Specializes in western boots, custom-crafted. 2707 Arapahoe Ave.

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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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How to Measure and Prove Event ROI

Cvent: Event Marketing

Live events are a proven tactic to capture the expressed interests of event attendees. At Cvent CONNECT, Cvent’s Mike Dietrich and PwC’s Kevin Borwick outlined the data needed to prove event ROI and driver smarter business decisions. Event Measurement is Elusive. Many companies understand how to measure the performance of their digital channels. Gauging the impact of live events is more challenging.

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How to pick the worst ways to promote an event?

Eventory

There is a question that every event organizer need to ask at least once during the career. What are the ways to promote an event? To successfully give your event proper hype you need to think through various aspects and cover a lot of ways of promotion. While it’s good to have an idea on how to promote your event learning from the best, there’s no better way to avoid marketing blunders than by learning from the others’ mistakes.

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Upcoming Webinar: How to Advance Your Event Management Skills

Cvent: Event Marketing

Cvent tools are designed to help you create better, smarter events. The Cvent platform you already use is filled with functionalities you may not even realize you have. Check out our free webinar for a sneak peak at some of these great features! Negotiate Better with the Cvent Supplier Network. Account Manager Danielle Galloway loves helping clients leverage the power of the Cvent Supplier Network to find great venues, track spending, and negotiate more effectively.

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How to Negotiate Hotel Blocks

Endless Events

Arranging a hotel block and finalizing the contract is one of the most important parts of planning an event. It can also be one of the most overwhelming and confusing processes. There’s hotel jargon, legal terms, and the idea of facing off against someone over the negotiating table. We’re here to walk you through the basics of negotiating hotel blocks.

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Download Now: 2022 Virtual + Hybrid Event Platform RFP Template - Enterprise Edition

Download 200+ new RFP questions for hybrid and virtual event technology success. After 10,000 downloads, the SpotMe Virtual + Hybrid Event Platform RFP Template is the ultimate procurement tool for event technology. This template is ideal for companies looking for a vendor to fulfill their specific virtual + hybrid event platform needs and requirements!

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Short Lead Times?-?A Handbook for Event Planners

Hubilo Blog

Short lead times for event planners, is an opinionated topic. While some event planners and event professionals view this as an opportunity, others view it as a planning risk and a rushed task. . Every topic in the meetings industry have opinions, one contradicting the viewpoint of the other. Let’s hear it from the event professionals, and then discuss the pros and cons of both the angles.

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Smart Meeting East National Meets in Lap of Luxury

Smart Meetings

The Breakers in Palm Beach, Florida. Along Billionaires Row, some of the world’s richest own colossal mansions in Palm Beach, Florida. At Smart Meeting East National, we met where the creme de la creme vacation at the majestic The Breakers resort Aug. 26–28. The historic oceanfront property burned down twice before the current structure was built to last in 1926.

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How to segment event attendees

GEVME

A few years ago, the owners of a flash sale site, Doggyloot , discovered that there is a correlation between the type of dog and the purchasing behaviour of its owner. To test their theory, Doggyloot decided to start segmenting their existing clients based on the age and size of the dogs that they owned. They asked people to fill in a quick survey, asking them about their dogs’ birthdays and sizes.

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Guide to the Five Types of Survey Questions

Cvent: Event Marketing

Have you ever sat down to create a survey and realized that every word you use matters? Seriously, your words, question order, and answers shape how each person takes that survey. If you don’t pick carefully, you could create either a biased or meaningless survey. The worst thing you could do is spend time creating a survey you can’t even use the results from.

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The Ultimate Guide to Hosting Hybrid Events For Your Association

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.