BizBash

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Sorry, cats, but dogs have been the event industry’s favorite pet project lately.

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Eventbrite UK

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Getting people to leave their city or town for a destination event isn’t easy. On top of ticket costs, they need to pay for travel and hotels, which can add up quickly to a figure that not everyone is willing to pay (at least, at first glance). For some lucky festivals, on the other hand, […]. The post 5 Ways to Get Attendees to Travel to Your Festival appeared first on Eventbrite UK Blog.

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BizBash

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

With planning for corporate and office holiday parties under way, these new and recently renovated Toronto venues provide suitable options.

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MeetingsNet

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

For the sixth year running, event planning has been ranked as one of the most stressful jobs on Earth. Brought to you by: What would you guess are the five most stressful jobs in the world? I’d bet you can guess most of them: firefighter, military personnel, police officer, airline pilot. But the fifth most stressful job in the world might surprise you.

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BizBash

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Designer Linda Bergroth relied completely on eco-friendly materials when she created the space-within-a-space for Zero Waste Bistro, a pop-up installation.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

It’s important to have social media pages for your business. A $20 ad can bring in hundreds of likes and sharing photos—and hash-tagging correctly—can guide Instagram users to your photo to see what you’re all about. But an under-utilized, yet very necessary, social media network is LinkedIn. It’s the “professional” version of who you are and what you do, yet it’s often neglected and left un-updated.

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Event Industry News

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Partnership gives local arts and entertainment organisations more flexibility to evolve revenue models and manage their venues as an asset. Spektrix, the leading cloud-based box office software for arts and entertainment organisations, today announced a new feature that combines the streamlined benefits of Artifax event management with the ticketing, marketing and fundraising functionality Spektrix clients already enjoy.

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BizBash

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

New restaurants, bars, hotel event spaces, and more to consider for corporate holiday entertaining this season.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

An attendee experiences the power of virtual reality. Participants at Convening Leaders in Pittsburgh will see life from a different perspective via VR empathy machines. Virtual reality is transforming media, entertainment, and a range of other industries — including events. The technology will be employed at Convening Leaders in Pittsburgh to enable event organizers and suppliers to experience its power to change their perspectives.

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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

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

As the event industry grows at a rapid rate, implementing good working practices for event professionals can sometimes be challenging. This is especially true if no standard guide of good practices are available for you to follow or if you are just starting out in your journey into event organising. This first event in the series of Jenny Inc events coming to you next year is focussed on bringing together events professionals to gain a better understanding of good practices in this creative indu

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atEvent

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

You told us how we could improve atEvent Central and we got right to work to revamp our web platform to provide you a more streamlined and powerful experience.

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Event Industry News

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

SXSW GO, the official app of South by Southwest (SXSW) has been named “Best Event App” in partnership with Eventbase at the 2018 Event Technology Awards. Powered by Eventbase, SXSW GO is the must-have app for attendees at the massive SXSW event taking place in Austin, Texas in March every year. The 2018 event had over 8,000 sessions across 600 venues.

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ePly

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Looking to pick up some tips on how you can make your online event registration smooth sailing for your future attendees? We all know that one of the hardest parts in planning any event is getting your attendees in the door! Check out our quick list to see how you can make your online event registration system easy and seamless for any potential attendee.

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Event Industry News

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

The government has signalled its intention to agree a landmark Tourism Sector Deal for the UK tourism industry in a bid to attract more domestic and overseas visitors and help drive major economic growth. The UK events sector, which is worth more than £42.3bn a year to the economy, is set to play a major role in the delivery of the plan, that will focus on boosting productivity by better utilisation of existing capacities, extending the season and attracting more business visitors and event atte

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Ava DuVernay (far right) leads a Makers Conference discussion with panelists Tina Tchen (front from left), Natalie Portman, Melina Matsoukas, Nina Shaw (from center back) and Maha Dakhil. Jill Soloway and Rashida Jones are hidden. The MAKERS Conference, celebrating its fifth edition in 2019, is a three-day summit geared toward advancing and inspiring women in the workplace — “newsMAKERS, historyMAKERS, and changeMAKERS of tomorrow,” according to the event’s website.

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Event Industry News

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Eventist Group is delighted to announce its acquisition of luxury brand Zafferano. . This award-winning party and event caterer is renowned throughout London’s premium corporate, private event and wedding market. Zafferano boasts over forty of the capital’s landmark venues within its client portfolio, as well as producing elegant and aspirational private parties throughout the Greater London area.

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Cvent: Event Marketing

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

A hot topic right now is gamification and trade shows. It was inspired by a mobile video game app built by Hanley Wood for their annual conference and talk soon turned to what the key elements are of a successful trade show game. Whether it was for mobile or physical events, the consensus seemed to be that every game should start with a clear and well-defined strategy.

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Event Industry News

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Street Feast is excited to announce a new partnership with Stevie Parle’s popular pasta restaurant, Pastaio. A new outpost of Pastaio has launched at Giant Robot, Street Feast’s eating and drinking rooftopia in Canary Wharf, delivering the same much-loved menu of fresh homemade pasta as the original Soho site, as well as a few new and exclusive antipasti dishes.

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Meeting Tomorrow

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Event planners are given budgets to stay within and highly skilled or seasoned professionals do a great job adhering to those financial parameters. But those budgets all roll up to a larger organization number that is established through proven historical analysis and by evaluating revenue expected to come in and cost expected to go out. Not all planners have visibility into this so it can be difficult to motivate yourself to come up with strategies that will result in both the organization stay

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Event Industry News

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Just under 150 delegates attended the 2018 Annual NOEA Convention and Awards last week as the association posted record delegates for the day’s theme ‘It Could Never Happen to Me’. The convention itself included a series of high profile and personal speeches and panel discussions, built around a live scenario workshop. Industry legend Dick Tee, EnTEEtainment, bought to bare over 37 years-worth of experience as the opening keynote speaker for the day, in a speech that covered everything from adve

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Interviewing for a job can be a stressful process. There are cover letters to write, resumes to update, and answers to prepare. But while those are all important factors for landing the job, there’s another element experts say you should also focus on: your body language. According to a recent CareerBuilder survey , nearly half of employers know within the first five minutes of an interview if a candidate is a good or bad fit for the role, and body language can be a major factor in that decision

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Event Industry News

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

VisitBritain today welcomes a new Eurostar and Virgin Trains partnership to offer a united travel service for the meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions (MICE) market, to drive growth in international business events to the UK. The partnership, officially launched today at IBTM World in Barcelona, gives international event planners the freedom to book multi-stop journeys from mainland Europe to British destinations on the Eurostar and Virgin Trains networks through a ‘one-stop-shop’ b

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Converve

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

52% of trade fair, conference, and B2B event organisers consider B2B matchmaking to be a crucial success factor for their event. This was revealed by a survey that we recently published in a Converve white paper. The publisher m+a Verlag reached a similar conclusion in the run-up to this year’s trade fair symposium in Frankfurt: 49% of participants see a need to expand matchmaking services.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Attendees soak up a session at the American Institute of Architects’ annual convention at the Javits Center in New York City. The reinvented meeting included trips to the New School, Radio City Music Hall, and St. Patrick’s Cathedral. When the American Institute of Architects ( AIA ) set out to transform its annual convention, it wasn’t because attendance was down or revenues were waning.

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Converve

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

52% of trade fair, conference, and B2B event organisers consider B2B matchmaking to be a crucial success factor for their event. This was revealed by a survey that we recently published in a Converve white paper. The publisher m+a Verlag reached a similar conclusion in the run-up to this year’s trade fair symposium in Frankfurt: 49% of participants see a need to expand matchmaking services.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Fast Company. If you feel like your new boss or client isn’t taking you seriously, you should check that you’re getting these three things right. ( Fast Company ). Read More.

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Converve

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

52% der Veranstalter von Messen, Kongressen und B2B-Events halten B2B Matchmaking für einen entscheidenden Erfolgsfaktor ihrer Veranstaltungen. Das war das Ergebnis einer Umfrage, die wir kürzlich in einem Converve-Whitepaper veröffentlicht haben. Zu einem ähnlichen Ergebnis kam der m+a Verlag im Vorfeld der diesjährigen FAMA-Messefachtagung in Frankfurt: 49% der Teilnehmer sehen einen Bedarf nach einem Ausbau von Matchmaking-Services.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

travelpulse.com. Travelers are always looking for creative and money-saving ways to get to their airport, and bikes are slowly becoming a popular alternative answer. ( TravelPulse ). Read More.

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