September, 2019

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Ask An Eventbrite Expert: 3 Strategies to Make More Revenue Upfront

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Growing your revenue is no easy feat. Beyond covering your basic expenses, if you plan to grow your event, you need to make sure that you are making enough to scale — without compromising quality and potentially losing future attendees. To help you make more revenue upfront, we turned to our Senior Customer Success Manager, […]. The post Ask An Eventbrite Expert: 3 Strategies to Make More Revenue Upfront appeared first on Eventbrite US Blog.

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Why switching to active learning is hard — and worth it

Conferences that Work

A September 2019 research study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences clearly illustrates why switching to active learning is hard — and worth it! Lecturing has been the core modality in our education systems for centuries. Sadly it still is, even though we know that active learning provides superior quantity, quality, accuracy, and retention of knowledge.

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3 Tips to Write Better Event Descriptions

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Your event description is often the first (and only) chance you get to grab potential attendee’s attention online. And thanks to modern consumer behavior, you have only 5.59 seconds to do it before they abandon your webpage and move on to the next thing. So how can you make the most of those five seconds […].

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The skills needed to be an event manager in 2020 and beyond!

Gallus Events

The Event Manager role continues to be one of the most stressful and one of the most dynamic roles in the world. So what skills should event managers across the globe be focusing on as we get set to move into a new decade? The skills needed to be an event manager in 2020 and beyond! Before we gaze into the future, I would suggest that you take a few minutes to see what skills you should have at this point in time.

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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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How to Profile Your Attendee Personas for Better Results

Eventtia

Knowing your audience is the main prerequisite for a thriving business. Buyer personas, ideal customers, and target groups are only few of the frameworks a company uses to profile potential prospects. In this article, we’ll discuss the ways in which you can define your attendee personas to achieve better results from your brand events.

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Are You Leveraging the Most Powerful—and Overlooked—Resources in Events?

SmartMeetings

5 tips on tapping CVBs for the assist from Destinations International CEO Don Welsh. Editor’s Note: In a world where planners are facing increasing demands and shrinking budgets, Smart Meetings asked Don Welsh, president and CEO of Destinations International, how his members can help event professionals in the planning and execution of their events around the world.

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When Conferences Lie

PCMA Convene

Is there a solution for putting an end to fake and predatory conferences? (Cover Illustration by Ollanski). Be a speaker. Serve on the organizing committee. Present your abstract. Sounds like traditional association conferences’ calls for subject matter experts. But it’s also how fake and predatory events reach out to students, academics, and professionals across a swath of industries.

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Searcys pilots new menu to reduce food waste across venues

Event Industry News

Market-leading events caterer and restaurateur Searcys is ensuring sustainability is at the heart of its business with the announcement of company-wide menu waste management targets across its venues. Catering for conferences, events and private parties, Searcys’ has introduced a new set of menu planning procedures, with the hope of reducing food and packaging waste by 20%.

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Five-Step Framework for Effective Collaborative Design

Velvet Chainsaw

Your conference strategy should include a plan to inject fresh content or experiences each year as part of an ongoing improvement process. There are a million ways to make these improvement plans. Some work and many don’t. Working with one of our clients, we devised a simple framework to help develop innovative plans for meaningful and lasting change.

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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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Ticketfly is Moving On Up to Eventbrite

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Your favorite Ticketfly shows, plus even more concerts, festivals, and music events are now on Eventbrite. Ticketfly events have moved to Eventbrite. There you’ll find all of your favorite Ticketfly shows, plus independent festivals like LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL and AFROPUNK, and iconic venues like PopGun Presents’ Elsewhere and The Echo. We’ve shared many good times […].

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You can’t make people change. But…

Conferences that Work

“You can’t make people change. But you can create an environment where they choose to.” —Seth Godin, Leadership. Change is hard. And you can’t make people change. However, meetings have tremendous potential to change lives. Attendees have something in common: a profession, a passion, a shared experience together. They are with people who, in some way, do what they do, speak the same language, and face the same challenges.

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Why your event MUST make a good first impression

Gallus Events

Our brain is wired to remember certain moments above others. This is why your event must make a good first impression. The start and the end of something, for some reason that goes back 100,000s of years, mean more to us than other parts of the same event. So much so that research how shown that if the experience of the attendees is poor at the start and at the end then the middle part becomes almost irrelevant.

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EventMB is now part of Skift!

EventMB

Today is a great day. I am very happy to announce that EventMB has been acquired by Skift. I started EventMB in 2007 from a desk in my apartment in Southern Italy. I was very excited from day one, but I would be lying if I said that I always knew it was going […]. The post EventMB is now part of Skift! by EventMB Studio Team appeared first on [link].

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Download Now: 2022 Virtual + Hybrid Event Platform RFP Template - Enterprise Edition

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!

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What It Took to Produce the San Francisco Symphony's Biggest Gala Yet

BizBash

For its 108th season, the symphony paid tribute to longtime conductor Michael Tilson Thomas with playful details and surprise and delight moments. Here's how producers Blueprint Studios pulled off the seven-hour affair.

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6 Simple Tricks for Increasing Your Event Ticket Sales

Eventbrite UK

Every event comes with its own set of challenges. But if you depend on event ticket sales to make a profit, it doesn’t matter whether you organise a national conference or a local wine tasting — you will always be looking for ways to sell more. So, if you’re looking to increase your ticket sales […]. The post 6 Simple Tricks for Increasing Your Event Ticket Sales appeared first on Eventbrite UK.

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Plan and Market a Killer Bar Crawl in 4 Steps

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Bar crawls are a nightlife staple. People love a night out on the town complete with tasty drinks. What they love even more is when they don’t have to plan out the details (especially after a few microbrews). However, any city worth its salt is bound to have bar crawls galore booked out every weekend. […]. The post Plan and Market a Killer Bar Crawl in 4 Steps appeared first on Eventbrite US Blog.

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How to Find the Perfect Event Venue: A 10-Step Guide

EventBank Insights

Whether for business or pleasure, events require careful planning, attention to detail and focus on the right priorities. Finding the right venue can make or break an event, so it’s important that you find the perfect venue to house your event. But how do you find the perfect event venue? The concept of the perfect event venue may currently seem out of reach and unrealistic, but with this 10-step guide, you are guaranteed to find the right venue for you.

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Dominate Your Local Market With These 4 Reputation Management Strategies

Speaker: Adam Dorfman, Lindsay Harrison, and Erin O'Brien

Did you know that 4 out of 5 consumers use local search and 88% use smartphones for those searches? With that in mind, I think it's safe to say your online presence is the silver bullet of your business. Think about the revenue you could be missing by not prioritizing local search optimization. Fortunately, there are a handful of steps you can take right now that will immediately impact your business's pace in local search, and we're happy to share them.

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Announcing Our Newest Acquisition: EventMB Is Now Part of the Skift Family

Skift

The leading online resource in the events industry, EventMB, is now part of Skift's growing family of travel media platforms. EvenMB/Skift Skift Take: Skift has been covering the business of meetings and events for the last three years, and now with EventMB as part of our family, we become the largest independent media source in the events industry as well. — Rafat Ali Read the Complete Story On Skift.

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6 Ways to Boost Brand Awareness for your Event

EventMB

This is a sponsored post from Blip. More information about Event Manager Blog’s sponsored posts. If you own or operate as a business, you are already aware of the importance of your brand. You might have even spent hours agonizing over the perfect logo, tagline or color palette. Your brand encompasses everything you are and […]. The post 6 Ways to Boost Brand Awareness for your Event by Blip appeared first on [link].

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Emmys 2019: Design and Production Highlights From the Week's Most Glamorous Parties

BizBash

In a year of transition, HBO, Amazon, Disney, Netflix, the Television Academy, and other heavy-hitters continued to host design-heavy bashes surrounding the award show. Here's a peek inside.

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Leading by Example: Oval Space Bans Single-Use Plastics

Eventbrite UK

Dominic Perez-Silva and Patrick Forrester don’t just organise events at Oval Space, they attend events at the venues and have done so since it all began in 2013. As a result, they’ve been uniquely placed to watch this previously rundown urban space grow into one of London’s most versatile venues. From hosting corporate functions and […]. The post Leading by Example: Oval Space Bans Single-Use Plastics appeared first on Eventbrite UK.

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5 Things Businesses Need to Know to Thrive in a Post-COVID World

People are itching to get back into the world. 54% of consumers say they plan to dine out at a restaurant at least once a week this year. As COVID-19 restrictions ease, the competition for their business is stronger than ever. Download this eBook today to learn how your restaurant can be prepared!

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5 Different Ways to Describe Your Event

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After putting pen to paper (or cursor to Google Doc) and crafting a stellar event description, you’re in a strong place to kick off promotions for your event. Now comes the fun part: versioning out your copy to suit each channel you’ll be using to advertise your event. That’s because you can’t just copy and […].

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How to Calculate If You’ll Make Money From an Event

Event Planning BluePrint

Does it feel like you’re doing everything right, but you struggle to make money from an event – or not enough money? You have clients and you’re gaining momentum. But it still doesn’t feel like you’re making monetary progress. You reach out to potential clients. Set up meetings. They hire you. Now it comes time to charge properly for your event services.

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Event Planners’ Struggle Grows to Balance Tight Security With a Welcoming Environment

Skift

Attendees clapping at a TED conference in 2015. TED Conference / Flickr Skift Take: Preparing for risks can be overwhelming — but it shouldn't feel that way for an attendee. — Isaac Carey Read the Complete Story On Skift.

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8 Benefits of Working with a CVB/DMO

EventMB

This is a sponsored post from Québec City Business Destination. More information about Event Manager Blog’s sponsored posts. Planning events outside your own town comes with a number of logistical and budgetary challenges. How can you know what the best venues are? The best local resources? Caterers? If you’re trying to stay green and under budget, […].

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A CHRO’s Perspective on Substance Use in the Workplace: Supportive Strategies to Help Your Workforce Thrive

Speaker: Smita Das, MD, PhD, MPH, Medical Director, Psychiatry and Naj Wright, MBA, C-Suite HR Executive

The last year and a half has been one of extreme stress and anxiety for the American Workforce. A 2021 New York University School of Global Public Health survey of 5,850 people who drink alcohol found that 29 percent have increased their drinking during the pandemic. Among people who have been experiencing depression (64% more likely) and anxiety (41% more likely), which have also become more prevalent over the last 18 months, the risk is even higher.

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18 Clever Ways to Render Logos at Events

BizBash

Eye-catching logo displays are not just a good way to please sponsors and brand execs—they can also double as event decor and a creative photo op.

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Talent to Tickets: Meet the Creator of Paper & Wood’s Craft Events

Eventbrite UK

This is the first part in our Talent to Tickets series, where we speak to DIY creators about how they turned their hobby into an event series. Head to one of Zack Mclaughlin’s workshops and you’ll find people bending wires, tracing shapes and cutting out pieces of paper. Concentration levels are high as delicate birds […]. The post Talent to Tickets: Meet the Creator of Paper & Wood’s Craft Events appeared first on Eventbrite UK.

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30 Unique and Instagram-Worthy Party Theme Ideas

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Creating an event with a strong visual theme that will inspire attendees to whip out their camera phones is a surefire way to spread like wildfire on Instagram. And with a strong social presence in your pocket, your event will enjoy reach that may have been impossible without the help of some killer photos and […]. The post 30 Unique and Instagram-Worthy Party Theme Ideas appeared first on Eventbrite US Blog.