Endless Events
OCTOBER 17, 2018
Do you audit your AV budget? If not you might be overpaying, or not really getting the equipment best suited for your event. While auditing your AV budget sounds overwhelming, you need to do it! This will allow you to make sure you are getting exactly what you need and the most bang for your budget. In this episode of Whiteboard Wednesday, Will Curran will walk you through how to audit your AV budget.
Hubilo Blog
OCTOBER 17, 2018
A good event description is crucial to getting people out to your event. You need to give them a good reason why they should spend their money and time with you. It starts with getting their attention with a catchy title. You also need to know what your audience is interested in. Write a description that is organized, readable, and visual. Here are six tips to write an awesome event description. 1.
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ePly
OCTOBER 17, 2018
Thinking about reevaluating your event sponsorship program to spruce it up? Sponsors can add some amazing resources to your events that can take them to the next level (think more funds, advertising, and manpower). However, convincing companies to become sponsors can be another story. If you’re feeling unsure of where to start, let us help! Take a look at our checklist to see how you can make event sponsorship appealing again!
Velvet Chainsaw
OCTOBER 17, 2018
People don’t trust institutions today say sociologist Dr. Josh Packard. We don’t think institutions have our best interests in mind he says. We believe they serve the interests of the professionals who created and run them, and they serve the interests of perpetuating their own existence. Your association, annual conference, and governance are all institutions.
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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.
GEVME
OCTOBER 17, 2018
There are many reasons to hire a food truck for events. Business meetings, conferences, and presentations often take place over a long period of time. Sometimes they take a whole day or even more than one day. Often, guests and partners from other cities and countries are invited to the event. Whatever your particular case may be, food truck catering for events is a great idea.
Event Pro Update brings together the best content for event, conference, and meeting planning professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
EventMB
OCTOBER 17, 2018
Blerter is a communications and operations tool to help you deliver smoother, slicker and safer events. Here is our review. Blerter: What Is It? Blerter takes a new approach to event operations management to improve event delivery during the event build, live event and breakdown. Blerter is particularly useful for large, multi-day or outdoor […].
BizBash
OCTOBER 17, 2018
The 11th annual Food Network & Cooking Channel New York City Wine & Food Festival presented by Capital One delivered.
Event Industry News
OCTOBER 17, 2018
Co-founder Adam Parry has revealed a perfect line-up for the Festival and Future Stage at Event Tech Live. Focused on solutions to organisers’ typical pinch points in the field, topics over ETL’s two days include: Using Tech To Manage Risk, The Future of Event Ticketing, How Does Your Festival Sound, the cashless conundrum, Detecting Drone Threats and the sought after Robust Internet for Outdoor Events.
Eventbrite UK
OCTOBER 17, 2018
You have a healthy email list — but your bounce rates are high. Your database is full of outdated contact information or generic “info@” addresses. People aren’t opening your emails, or, if they are, they aren’t clicking through. In short: your email efforts aren’t driving any registrations for your B2B event. The LinkedIn marketing team […].
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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
MeetingsNet
OCTOBER 17, 2018
An IMEX educational session outlines the steps to leveraging and nurturing all potential sources of good ideas. In an inflatable meeting space on the edge of IMEX America's massive exhibit floor, James Morgan, a senior lecturer at England's University of Westminster, presented recent research that focuses on ways event planners can bring more creativity to sessions with educational objectives, and to those with entertainment objectives.
Event Industry News
OCTOBER 17, 2018
The Events Industry Council (EIC) announced today preliminary results of an unprecedented worldwide study on the economic significance of face-to-face business events. The Global Economic Significance of Business Events, conducted by Oxford Economics is the first-ever comprehensive study on the impact of business events. The research was made possible by a ground-breaking industry collaboration with the EIC in partnership with IMEX, Hilton, the MPI Foundation and the PCMA Education Foundation.
Smart Meetings
OCTOBER 17, 2018
Meeting coordinators and convention and visitors bureau representatives often enlist the services of limo companies to assist in transporting visitors to and from the airport and between activities on the itinerary. The fatal crash that tragically killed 20 people (driver, 17 passengers and two pedestrians) earlier this month in Upstate New York presents an opportune time to discuss questions that need to be asked when sourcing a livery service.
Eventory
OCTOBER 17, 2018
Summer’s finally over, trees are losing their leaves – it’s high time to forget about holidays and prepare for the scariest night in the year! With the Halloween around the corner, take a look at 15 spooky Halloween office party ideas to spice your office up! Perks of organizing ( Halloween) office party. Companies more and more often concentrate on the benefits of implementing event strategies to their marketing activities.
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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.
Event Industry News
OCTOBER 17, 2018
By Alex Nuttall is VP of Digital Strategy at Kindle Communications. . Tracking the effectiveness of live events has historically lived in a gray area. You can check the metrics of a post-event survey, read a review online, or see how many leads have come through, but none of these can fully measure efficacy without a clear picture of the live attendee experience.
Tito Blog | An Event Blog for Organisers
OCTOBER 17, 2018
When Maria approached me about writing a post on how I secured the speakers for Admission I looked at her blanky, “There’s no way I can get 500 words out of that.”. I thought, how can I write about something that feels very instinctive? We chatted about angles some more, which resulted in this piece. I hope that you get something from it. Feel free to reach out to me if you want me to expand on anything to do with hiring a speaker, or other event management advice.
Bizzabo
OCTOBER 17, 2018
Inspire your event strategy with these 25 creative event promotion ideas. Featuring competitions, retargeting, celebrity ambushes and more. Attendees are the whole reason for any event you put on. Ideally every event you plan will be successful at generating awareness and selling tickets and event registrations. But how do you promote your event in a creative way that stays within your allocated budget?
Event Industry News
OCTOBER 17, 2018
After taking Las Vegas by storm, Channing Tatum is bringing a brand new production of Magic Mike Live to London this autumn. Opening at the Hippodrome Casino, Leicester Square in November, full service technical production company Hawthorn has been chosen to supply lighting equipment to the production that’s got everyone talking. Conceived and co-directed by Tatum, Magic Mike Live is a large-scale, live production show based on the hit films Magic Mike and Magic Mike XXL.
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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!
Eventbase
OCTOBER 17, 2018
Diversity has become a buzzword in recent years as society highlights the inequalities between men and women. Why has diversity become so important, and why now? What does diversity mean to large enterprises and the way they conduct themselves as a brand, an employer, and an events host? Movements like #MeToo shed light on the prevalence of gender-based sexual assault and harassment, first within the entertainment industry and shortly thereafter in communities that affect us directly, the techno
Event Industry News
OCTOBER 17, 2018
Cvent, a market leader in meetings, events, and hospitality technology, today announced that it has acquired Social Tables, the leading event diagramming, seating, and collaboration platform. More than 5,000 organisations and hospitality brands, including Under Armour, Live Nation, Hyatt, The Venetian, ClubCorp, and Forbes, have utilised Social Tables to help them develop and plan nearly 4.5 million events.
Smart Meetings
OCTOBER 17, 2018
The largest IMEX America gathering yet was the stage for a steady flow of news announced by properties and destinations. In case you missed it, Smart Meetings was on the ground to keep you up to date. From American Express Meetings & Events : The 2019 Global Meetings and Events Forecast showed a continued incremental increase in spend (.08 percent) on global meetings.
Event Industry News
OCTOBER 17, 2018
EEF Venues is offering event organisers ‘smarter’ virtual tours across its three venues in Bristol, Leamington Spa and London. The Matterport 360-scan system and its award winning ‘dolls house’ viewing technology has already gone live at the group’s Woodland Grange and Engineers’ House venues, with Broadway House to follow later this month. The tours make it easier for bookers to see inside the group’s venues and to quickly identify suitable spaces for their events, and how best to utilise both
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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.
Smart Meetings
OCTOBER 17, 2018
Great Salt Lake City has emerged as a lively, diverse destination that offers plenty of attractive options to meeting groups. One of the best ways to experience its ethnic traditions is by attending one of the colorful, exciting annual festivals. Here are some of the best festivals for groups seeking an immersive adventure. Living Traditions Festival This event features three days of multiethnic fun, food and festivities every May.
Event Industry News
OCTOBER 17, 2018
Scotland’s largest events organiser, QD Events, has welcomed four new recruits to its base in Glasgow. Nikki Miller, Ali Atkinson, Emily Smith and Chloé Whyte have all joined the company over the past month in sales, marketing and business support positions. Nikki, formerly Head of Operations at Clarion Events, has filled the newly-created position of Director of Operation.
Evvnt
OCTOBER 17, 2018
With Halloween fast approaching, you can expect to see a rise in the number of cobwebbed windows, plastic skeletons and bed-sheet ghosts. However more than any other time of the year, this holiday requires you to think carefully about your audience and make sure your Halloween events and audience are a match. The post Matching Your Audience and Your Halloween Events appeared first on Evvnt.
Event Industry News
OCTOBER 17, 2018
Leading event management software (EMS) company Aventri has announced the acquisition of ITN International, the industry leader in NFC, mobile and cloud-based technology. With the acquisition of ITN, and its entire global team, Aventri will broaden its current onsite technology and service offerings, allowing the company to expand its global reach and the events that they support.
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Download "7 Exceptional Event Email Templates for Driving Attendee Engagement" eBook and write winning event emails right away! Relying on decades of social science research and cutting edge behavioral data, SpotMe shows you their science-based methods for creating wildly successful event-marketing email campaigns for almost any situation. SpotMe is the event management platform for B2B marketers.
Evvnt
OCTOBER 17, 2018
With Halloween fast approaching, you can expect to see a rise in the number of cobwebbed windows, plastic skeletons and bed-sheet ghosts. Halloween is a great way to drive footfall to your events or venue because so many people want to celebrate in full fancy dress. However more than any other time of the year, this holiday requires you to think carefully about your audience and make sure your Halloween events and audience are a match.
Event Industry News
OCTOBER 17, 2018
Gorilla Marketing & Events and Star Events are launching their latest development in event signage, the Rapid Deployment Tower, a self-contained and quickly assembled, sign system with a high wind rating of 56mph (25mps), at the Showman’s Show, Newbury on 17th & 18th of October. The Rapid Deployment Tower has been a joint development project between Gorilla and Star, which has been field tested during a major UK sporting event to great effect.
Cvent: Event Marketing
OCTOBER 17, 2018
Successful meeting and conventions start at Avenida Houston , the city’s newest epicenter for art, dining, entertainment, and fun. Avenida Houston is a $175 million initiative that included renovations of the George R. Brown Convention Center (GRB) and several developments around the area. Visitors will be inspired by the 97,000-square-foot pedestrian plaza and the many options for a world-class experience, including new restaurants, a 12-acre park, nightlife concepts, hotels, and dozens of publ
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