Fri.Nov 22, 2019

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How to Create a Successful Annual Event Budget in 3 Steps

Eventtia

Is your annual event budget getting the better of you? With these 3 steps, we show you how to maximize your budget and make sure that you’ll get buy-in from key stakeholders in your organization.

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CCPA for the Events Industry - Everything you need to know

Attendease

It doesn’t seem long ago when marketers were scrambling all over the place trying to learn how to be compliant to one of the most significant privacy and compliance changes in the past twenty years. If you are thinking GDPR, you are right. We all made it , after a lot of studying, consulting with lawyers, updating our websites, and changing how we collect data and how we communicate with our contacts.

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Prepping Industry Speakers Using Video Conferencing

PCMA Convene

Author Ritu Bhasin presents a session at PCMA EduCon 2019. Bhasin and PCMA’s education team members did session development meetings via video conferencing. (Jacob Slaton Photography). What would you do differently if your job performance and compensation were evaluated based on overall session attendance and industry presenter ratings at your annual conference?

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These Entrepreneurs Are Energizing Downtown Phoenix — and Capturing the Attention of Meeting Planners

Skift

Skift Take: Entrepreneurs are opening dynamic businesses across Phoenix, generating additional momentum for the meeting-friendly destination. As event professionals look for more interesting cities and venues that embrace diversity, they’ll no doubt give fast-developing Greater Phoenix a closer look. — Read the Complete Story On Skift.

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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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Bournemouth Christmas market returns with two-storey Alpine Lodge Bar

Event Industry News

Bournemouth’s Christmas Market, owned by Seventa Events, returns for its third year alongside the custom built two-storey ‘Alpine Lodge Bar’, provided and installed by sister company, Innovative Hire. Having won the market contract in 2017, the events agency set about updating and re-theming the festivities to bring something new to Bournemouth residents and to attract crowds from further afield.

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Shoptalk’s All-Women Speaker Lineup Is Bold. Is It Fair?

PCMA Convene

Jill Ramsey, EVP and chief product and digital revenue officer at Macy’s, gives her keynote at the 2019 ShopTalk conference. ShopTalk made headlines when it announced its 2020 conference would feature an all-women lineup of speakers. (Courtesy ShopTalk). Shoptalk, the retail conference, made news this month when it announced that its next conference, to be held in Las Vegas in March 2020, would feature an all-women speaker lineup, including both track sessions and main stage keynotes.

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Know Your Rights: Contracting for AV Service

MeetingsNet

Today’s cybercriminal only needs one piece of information to wreak havoc with meeting planners - an email password. Brought to you by: Feeling pressured to use the “in-house” AV company at a hotel? Ever been hit with fees for using an outside partner after you have signed a contract? Not sure how to contract for WiFi service? There are many in-house audio-visual organizations throughout the country that have a very good reputation for being fair in contract negotiations with their clients.

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5 Tips to Rock Your Family Portraits on Your Wedding Day

EventSource

In general, when people hear ‘family portraits’– they groan. Family portraits can be boring and can also be point of stress on your wedding day. Here are 5 tips for making sure your whole wedding day isn’t spent doing family portraits and you can get back to more important things… like cake! 1. Ask your photographer for guidance : Most photographers have taken enough family portraits to know what is realistic to shoot in a given time period.

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West Midlands Growth Company appoints 2 new chairs following successful year

Event Industry News

The West Midlands Growth Company (WMGC) – which is responsible for attracting more visitors, investment, businesses and events to the region – has announced two appointments from the private sector to boost its promotional activity. Fiona Allan, artistic director and chief executive of Birmingham Hippodrome, has become chair for the Regional Board for Tourism.

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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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Recession-Proofing Your Job: Do You Know Your VORP?

Event Leadership Institute

READ TIME: 5 minutes. We’re currently in the longest economic expansion since World War II, 125 months specifically, as I write this. It’s not a matter of “if” we’ll head into a recession; it’s a question of when, for how long, and how bad. The last recession ended in July 2009, well over ten years ago. We are more than due. This looming economic threat is the impetus for a webinar I gave recently for FICP (Financial & Insurance Conference Planners) titled Recession-Proofin

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IBTM World Focuses on Innovation in Events

MeetingsNet

The Barcelona-based show recognized six new meeting tools that might solve your collaboration, translation, or content-management challenges. Entrepreneurism in events was a highlighted theme at the 2019 IBTM World show in Barcelona, Spain, in mid-November. This year’s event introduced a new zone to the show floor, called IBTM Accelerate. Designed to attract and nurture entrepreneurial talent, the zone incorporated exhibitors and education sessions to give attendees the opportunity to learn from

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3 Ways to Make your Holiday Experiential Event Memorable!

Tigris Events

[…]. The post 3 Ways to Make your Holiday Experiential Event Memorable! appeared first on Leading the Canadian Industry in Dynamic Event Staffing & Experiential Marketing.

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AEG Global Partnerships announces American Express as presenting partner for BST Hyde Park 2020

Event Industry News

AEG, a sports and live entertainment company, today announced that American Express will be the new presenting partner for AEG’s leading European festival, BST Hyde Park. The new partnership with AEG, and brokered by AEG Global Partnerships, further cements the commitment of American Express to back Cardmembers at the key cultural moments that align with their passions.

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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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5 Tips to Make Your Meeting and Event Venue More Sustainable 

All Seated

Wondering how to make your meeting and event venues more sustainable? In this article, we dive into the topic and share 5 tips for making your meeting and event venue more sustainable. Sustainability. It’s a big buzz word in events and meetings, especially for venues and their implementation of “green” practices. But eco-expectations have shifted—not only for general consumers but for the event and meeting attendees too.

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Coldplay hits pause on tour over environmental concerns

Event Industry News

Lead singer of the British rock band, Chris Martin, has revealed that the band will not tour its new album due to the environmental impacts the concerts would have. He said: “We’re taking time over the next year or two to work out how our tour can not only be sustainable but how it can be actively beneficial.”. Though disappointing to fans, this announcement is not unusual for 2019 which also saw Extinction Rebellion protests shut parts of London down twice and climate activist, Greta Thunberg,

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Why We Like WCIT 2019: IT Leaders, Lightning Rounds, and Kim Kardashian

PCMA Convene

Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian (from left), Giphy founder Alex Chung, PicsArt co-founder Hovhannes Avoyan, and business woman and media personality Kim Kardashian West take part in the WCIT’s Marketplace of Ideas panel with facilitator Magdalena Yesil, founder of Broadway Angels. (Photos courtesy WCIT). Now in its 40th year, the World Congress on Information Technology (WCIT) gathers more than 2,000 tech CEOs and investors, policymakers, academics, and technologists from 70-plus countries to d

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