Velvet Chainsaw

JANUARY 24, 2018

Who owns the overall experience that customers have at your conference? Who oversees and manages the conference customers’ journey? Is it you or someone else? Or perhaps no one is considering the holistic experience of your conference customer? Are you functioning as a scheduler and executor of the conference with a divide and conquer mentality where every leadership team hands you their planned component and you schedule the details?

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Quickmobile

JANUARY 24, 2018

Attendee experience is one of those industry terms that make sense to us internally—but might require a bit of explanation to anyone who isn’t in the events industry. Especially because it’s used so often. We like to talk about the New Attendee Experience , how this or that impacts attendee experience, and how to measure our event’s influence on attendee experience.

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EventMB

JANUARY 24, 2018

##abovethefold## Give your speakers a little something extra with some of these thoughtful gift ideas to show your appreciation. Don’t just give your speakers another paperweight, consider offering them something more meaningful that doesn’t have to cost a lot. Excellent speakers can be a big motivator to attracting attendees and those that work hard on […].

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Eventbrite UK

JANUARY 24, 2018

What better way to boost ticket sales than by giving attendees a glimpse of what they might be missing. Find out how to create pre-event FOMO! The post 5 Ways to Create Pre-Event Excitement appeared first on Eventbrite UK Blog.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 24, 2018

At Convening Leaders 2018 , Kelly Peacy, CAE, CMP, founder and CEO of Insight Event Strategy, and former senior vice president of education and events at PCMA, shared with student attendees five things she wished she had known when she was just starting out: 1. Be authentic — you do you: “If you are not authentic, people will see right through that.”. 2.

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Event Industry News

JANUARY 24, 2018

At the end of 2017, Taquilla.com has processed one million tickets for 25 million euros in gross sales. The event ticket search engine leader in Spain estimates that it has saved its visitors more than 4 million euros. Thus, the 100% Spanish-financed company closed the fiscal year with a positive balance in its growth, and reached two clear targets for 2018: to continue investing in technology development, and to promote culture.

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InitLive

JANUARY 24, 2018

And we're talking ' touch your toes ' flexibility! Events as a whole are widespread, unique, and each has different requirements of its professionals. In such a dynamic and complex industry, each new day requires different processes and workflows. The technological tools used need to suit every need, or at the very minimum, 90% of them. Is the tool you plan to use sufficient?

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Event Industry News

JANUARY 24, 2018

Live Union have moved to larger offices in Soho and recruited three new members of staff. Conor Harte has joined as Account Manager from advertising body the IPA, bringing particular experience managing content. Production Manager Katarina Poznickova bolsters the agency’s in-house production team and Anthony Henry joins as a graduate designer from Brighton University.

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SmartMeetings

JANUARY 24, 2018

For the third straight year, Delta SkyMiles is the best domestic frequent flyer program , WalletHub says. The personal-finance website ranked the 10 largest U.S. airlines based on 23 key metrics, ranging from the value of a point per mile to blackout dates for rewards flights. Other findings include the following. The average airline rewards program gives frequent flyers 12 percent off their airline spending.

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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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Event Industry News

JANUARY 24, 2018

Rita Ora, Grace Jones, Nile Rogers & Chic, Curtis Stigers and the Ronnie Scotts Big Band and the English National Opera will headline the Floating Stage at Henley Festival in July. Declaring their considerable hand earlier than ever, organisers revealed the stellar 2018 line-up at the festival launch yesterday evening. “You have to sell five sets of tickets, so the aim has always been to make each evening as different as possible,” Artistic Director, Stewart Collins, tells Event Industry Ne

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SmartMeetings

JANUARY 24, 2018

One of the oldest tricks in the event professional’s bag is booking a big-name speaker to get people in the seats. A little star power can be a powerful motivator for selling tickets or convincing people to stay until the last day of a conference. But they can bring baggage to the stage as well— in today’s #MeToo climate , it is more important than ever to find out what you don’t know.

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Event Industry News

JANUARY 24, 2018

International not for profit organisation A Greener Festival (AGF) have announced 34 winners of the Greener Festival Award and The Greener Event Awards from summer 2017. Festivals and events from 12 countries participated in the award in 2017. Applicants undergo a rigorous assessment, site visit and post event analysis of their events sustainability actions.

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Certain

JANUARY 24, 2018

From its inception, San Francisco has drawn an eclectic mix of risk-takers who together have helped shape its cultural landscape. Beginning with the gold rush, continuing through the Summer of Love, the 90s tech boom, and leading up to today, San Francisco has historically been a magnet for innovators, entrepreneurs, and those in search of… more. In the past decade, the city of San Francisco has become synonymous with the technology industry.

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Regpack

JANUARY 24, 2018

In addition to the 30+ registration templates already available to Regpack clients when creating a new project, we’ve just added 3 more templates to choose from. Regpack Project Managers built out these templates so you don’t have to! Their experience means they know exactly what foundation a project needs to get started quickly and easily.

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Certain

JANUARY 24, 2018

From its inception, San Francisco has drawn an eclectic mix of risk-takers who together have helped shape its cultural landscape. Beginning with the gold rush, continuing through the Summer of Love, the 90s tech boom, and leading up to today, San Francisco has historically been a magnet for innovators, entrepreneurs, and those in search of… more. In the past decade, the city of San Francisco has become synonymous with the technology industry.

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