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Guest Blog: Top 5 tips for a successful road show

Event Industry News

We’ve just completed our EventCity tour – where we travelled across the country bringing a taste of the North’s largest, fully flexible blank canvas exhibition and multipurpose event venue to agents in cities across the UK from our home in TRAFFORDCITY, Manchester. It was a fantastic experience where we really got to know our clients and feedback suggests we got most of the people we met thinking about bringing their next event to us.

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10 Best Ideas of the Week: Odwalla's VW Juice Van, Liquid Nitrogen S'mores Sundaes, a Candy Bathtub Installation

BizBash

This week's roundup includes Odwalla's VW juice van in New York; liquid nitrogen s'mores sundaes at Thrillist's adult summer camp.

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Hawaii Hurricane Blows, But Doesn’t Ruin Paradise

Smart Meetings

An estimated 270,000 visitors are hunkered down in Hawaii at week’s end, experiencing or awaiting the onslaught of tempestuous seas, torrential rain and 110-mile-an-hour winds from Hurricane Lane. The rare tropical hurricane to brush this close to the Aloha State had weakened to a Category 2 storm Friday, but its slow progress—roughly 5 miles an hour—is expected to prolong the suffering.

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August 24, 2018: Aretha Franklin Funeral Will Be a Star-Studded Event With 19 Performers, Rihanna Will Close Out New York Fashion Week, Asia Argento Withdraws as Music Festival Curator Following Sexual Assault Accusations

BizBash

1. ARETHA FRANKLIN FUNERAL WILL BE A STAR-STUDDED EVENT WITH 19 PERFORMERS: The funeral of Aretha Franklin will be a.

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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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ETL Replay – The Brand Experience revolution is here: touch point by touch point

Event Industry News

Event Tech Live is Europe’s only show dedicated to event technology. Boasting a packed educational programme across five sector-specific stages, here you can catch up with content that you may have missed from last year’s event. rom the Brand and Buzz Stage at Event Tech Live, 9th November 2017. Speaker : Tim Manning – Co-Founder, Swarm. This footage has been kindly captured by our friends at First Sight Media – firstsight.media.

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PlayPass secures €1.9 million capital funding from Newion Investments

Event Industry News

PlayPass, a global market leader in RFID and cashless payment technology for the live events industry, has secured €1.9 million in its latest round of capital funding, Aug 2018. . Since being founded in 2012, the award winning company has expanded to deliver innovative solutions to more than 600 events, in 19 countries across five continents. With a client list including Live Nation, AEG Presents, IMG, Mojo Concerts, Ticketmaster and PayPal, It has securely processed over €50 million in paymen

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5 Strategies to Maintain Momentum in Your Capital Campaign

Regpack

A capital campaign can be both exciting and daunting for nonprofit organizations. On one hand, it signifies that your nonprofit is growing steadily and is ready to increase its impact. On the other hand, it also means that your nonprofit has to prepare to manage the biggest fundraising campaign your team may have ever seen. By nature a capital campaign has a larger fundraising goal and a longer timeline than your other campaigns.

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Bulldog Display

Event Industry News

We provide a reliable and friendly service in the production and delivery of exhibition stands and display units, developing our clients concept from design all the way through to production. We work with a diverse range of clients, including high street brands, supermarkets, independent retailers and marketing and experiential agencies. Our service offers a competitive price and a fast turnaround time, while maintaining the highest quality.

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Capture Attendees Attention With These Tips

Endless Events

What do breakout sessions, interactive displays, and giveaways have in common? These are all effective hacks event professionals use to boost engagement during events. Some might even say they border on cheating, but they always capture attendees attention. But whatever people think, these techniques work and they work well. Below, we rounded up a few articles that give you these and other tips that will make your event remarkable and sticky.

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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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Web Design: 5 Strategies to Encourage More Engagement

Regpack

So your nonprofit has a website, but it hasn’t been updated in forever and its only purpose at the moment is to direct visitors to your donation page. Or maybe you have a pretty good website, but for some reason web traffic is low. Don’t worry! We’re here to help. We’ve compiled some of the best practices that nonprofits around the world are using to revitalize their websites and drive visitor engagement sky-high.

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Marriott Thrives from Boston’s 3-2-1 Connect

Smart Meetings

The Westin Copley Place, Boston. When Marriott acquired Starwood in September 2016, it added 11 new brands—including Sheraton and Westin—that contained some of the leading hotels in the world. The purchase strengthened Marriott’s presence in many locations, and has been a total game-changer in some places, such as Boston. Marriott had a host of hotels in Boston even before the merger, but the acquisition of Starwood took its portfolio there to a new level, particularly since the addition of The

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