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Dealing with protesters at an event

Gallus Events

How would you cope with protesters or demonstrators at your event? The world is watching our events. Our conferences, exhibitions and dinners can be magnets for protesters and demonstrators. How to respond to a situation like this is something most event organisers have never even considered. But trust me, it can happen to you. In March environmental protesters occupied the National Museum of Scotland, the venue for the Annual Dinner for the Scottish Oil Club.

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How to Create Personalized Experiences Before, During and After an Event

Evenium

Amazon was an early pioneer. Now brands like Netflix, Stitch Fix, Spotify, Pandora, Coca-Cola, Starbucks and many others have embraced the idea to great success. Whether it’s quickly finding the right product in Amazon’s endless marketplace, discovering the next binge-worthy show or playlist, or sharing a custom Coke with a friend, of course, we’re talking about the trend of personalization.

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New on Attendease: Image Gallery & Carousel Content Blocks

Attendease

Using compelling images on your event website is a simple, effective way to make a statement. When people consider whether or not to attend an event they are thinking about the experience. What will I learn? Who will I meet? How will I benefit? Give your audience a sneak peek at what you have in store—snaps of the venue, pics from last year's bash, photos of breakouts or workshops, and of course a glimpse of the keynote speakers.

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5 Non-Work Events That Event Managers Get Stuck Planning

Picatic by Eventbrite

Event planning never seems to go away — even on your days off. You might shut off your work email, but somehow you always get roped into planning in your free time. The school bake sale, your friend’s baby shower, or the community walk-a-thon — you name it, you’ve (begrudgingly) planned it. Which of these events […]. The post 5 Non-Work Events That Event Managers Get Stuck Planning appeared first on Eventbrite US Blog.

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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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31 Best Ways to Sell Tickets for Your Event

EventMB

Want to sell more event tickets? Of course you do. Many of us can’t count on selling out at every event. We get that. We also understand how difficult it can be to stay abreast of best practices and new strategies. There are a lot of things involved. Here are just a few of the […]. The post 31 Best Ways to Sell Tickets for Your Event by EventMB Studio Team appeared first on [link].

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How to Market Your Venue to Aim at Corporate Event Planners

GEVME

Every event planner should know how to market an event venue to make it a success. Corporate event planners are a separate industry segment that seeks out top-notch enterprise venue solutions. . Key reasons to market your event venue. How should you market your event venue so that it unmistakably impacts and guarantees a positive response from your target audience?

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Technology And Events: Are We Falling Behind?

Endless Events

Over the course of this podcast, we’ve obviously focused immensely on technology and events. Everything from automation to facial recognition , and machine learning. You name it, we have done an episode on it. And we do this because we truly believe technology can no longer be ignored by the event industry. Because everywhere we look, and in everything we do in this life, technology plays a significant part.

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PCMA EduCon Los Angeles 2019

Gallus Events

PCMA EduCon took place in Los Angeles in June 2019 and I was lucky enough to be asked to mentor the attendees of PCMA’s Homeless Hackathon and to present a session on online events. . What a packed few days. PCMA continue to dedicate their efforts towards leading the event industry response to homelessness. Following the Social Justice panel session at Convening Leaders in January , PCMA decided to run a hackathon to look at, event industry based, solutions to the dire, global, homelessnes

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8 Floral-Pattern Furniture Items for Rent

BizBash

These linens, cushions, rugs, and more boast eye-popping floral patterns and shapes.

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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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10 Creative Charity Fundraising Event Ideas

GEVME

The fastest way to earn money for charity is to organise a charity event. However, the professional organisation of a charity fundraising campaign is a long process that requires a lot of detailed preparation. Let’s find out more about charity fundraising events. A bout charity fundraising events. Charity fundraising event ideas include parties, auctions, balls, dinners, and more as a means of soliciting donations to support various funds: children, animals, the environment, human rights, people

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Is inclusive Food the Future?

Event Industry News

Event organisers are looking to make food more inclusive at events, giving every delegate the chance to eat a good healthy and ethical meal, but without those with ‘specialist’ food requests feeling left out. That was one of the talking points at the recent Make Venues ‘Make Food’ focus group, which saw senior event professionals, from across the corporate and agency markets, convene to discuss the latest thinking around food at events.

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Planning Knowledge Sessions at Trade Shows the Right Way

Eventtia

If there was an event planning complexity scale, trade shows would be on the top. With multilayered logistics and countless aspects to consider, this type of event can easily classify as one of most difficult to plan and run.

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3 Big Steps to Build a Data-Fueled ABM Strategy

atEvent

Why is everyone talking about ABM? It’s because 87% of B2B marketers have agreed that ABM delivers a higher ROI than other marketing activities. Account-based marketing is everywhere, seemingly in any marketing publication you see right now, and the reason is that ABM is a highly effective marketing strategy, especially for B2B businesses. But this strategy is only as strong as the data you put into it.

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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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From a YP: Tips to Promote Your Event to Young Professionals

ePly

Planning an event is exciting and thinking about all your attendees is just as thrilling! But first you have to get them there. You generally want people from all ages to attend and one of the most elusive audiences can be young professionals (ages 23-29). This audience is growing in importance because they are your next industry leaders! But the question is… how do you get young professionals to WANT to attend your event?

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The View from The Shard launches breakfast meetings 300m above London.

Event Industry News

Event bookers can now take over levels 68, 69 & 72 of The View from The Shard exclusively for breakfast meetings, morning networking events and briefings. . Having previously focussed on exclusive evening events the venue has now, in its new commercial partnership with The AOK Events Group, opened its doors to morning events in-line with the growing demand for shorter, content driven meetings in interesting spaces.

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Trade Show Promotion Ideas that Will Boost Ticket Sales

Eventtia

Your trade show is just a few months away and you're knee-deep in the stages of planning your biggest or smallest event of the year. To make sure your event is a success, you will need a great marketing and promotional strategy to increase attendance and boost ticket sales. In this blog post, we highlight promotional ideas that you can use when planning your next trade show.

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Have You Traced Every Footstep in the Attendee Journey?

PCMA Convene

Greg Bogue speaks in early June at a PCMA Midwest Chapter event in Oakbrook, Illinois. At Educon, Bogue discussed how “journey mapping” helps event pros see their attendees’ complete experiences. Greg Bogue doesn’t believe anyone just “plans” meetings. At his PCMA Education Conference session, “Using Science to Confidently Design Experiences,” the chief experience architect at Maritz Global Events Inc. reminded the audience that they’re performing more significant work.

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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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The Buck Stops Here: The Life of a Strategic Events Manager

Maritz Global Events

If you’ve ever wondered who plans the events for an event management company, look no further. Let us introduce you to Dan Potter, Senior Strategic Events Manager at Maritz Global Events. Anyone who has attended one of our many strategic events has seen the magic that Dan has conjured alongside his equally talented peer, Karen Watson, Sr. Director Strategic Events.

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Guest blog: How video can influence an event

Event Industry News

By Neil Coombes, senior account manager, UKSV. Video content is used across all live events nowadays and is a feature UKSV utilise in almost all of our ceremonies, conferences and events. We create video for a range of uses, but it is especially successful at influencing attendees and getting the message of a live event across to the audience. Before even starting to produce video for an event, you should consider who the attendees are, what the message of the event is, and the format of the eve

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How to Use Conversion Pixel and Analyze the Attendee Acquisition Costs

Eventtia

What’s it like to plan an event while blindfolded? Unthinkable, you’d say. True. But what if I told you that this is how you’ve been planning events all this time?

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How to Get Media Coverage For an Event

Tito Blog | An Event Blog for Organisers

If you’re trying to get the word out, you need to drill into what the value of your event is. Especially if you’re going to be pitching to get media coverage for an event. That might sound simplistic and you may say, “that’s easy, people should attend my conference because they will learn insights from the world’s best marketers!”. Trust me when I say, every marketing conference says that.

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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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Sell Tickets on Your Website With Eventbrite’s Embedded Checkout

Eventbrite UK

We have all been there. We see a great event advertised online, check the dates, gather some friends to come along and then go about completing the ticket order online. But it becomes tedious – you can’t buy the tickets where they were advertised online, you get sent to another site, and get asked to […]. The post Sell Tickets on Your Website With Eventbrite’s Embedded Checkout appeared first on Eventbrite UK Blog.

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Don’t leave your event high and dry

Event Industry News

The UK’s leading alternative and emergency water supplier Water Direct, shares its unmatched experience of last-minute events support. It’s well known that event organisers are required to provide a suitable drinking water supply and are responsible for the quality of the water provided. It would be any event organisers worst nightmare come the day of an event, with people arriving, to suddenly find themselves facing a problem with the water supply….

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21 Event Bar Design Ideas to Impress Your Guests

eventplanner

Where does networking happen? Before the event or during the networking sessions? Or maybe it occurs randomly while people are changing rooms to attend different seminars or listen to different speakers? Yes, yes, and yes.

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Infusing Cultural Significance into Your Client’s Next Special Event

Special Events

With "authenticity" an event essential today, these two globe-trotting pros share how to incorporate culturally significant elements into your next event.

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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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How to become an effective event planner

Eventbrite UK

Want to launch your event management career and develop the skills required to be an effective event organiser? Here’s how to prepare for the life of an event planner. It’s regularly ranked as one of the most stressful jobs there is, but for many, being an event manager is a highly rewarding role. If you […]. The post How to become an effective event planner appeared first on Eventbrite UK Blog.

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Agency Spotlight: Unicorn Events

Event Industry News

This article is brought to you in association with Macroart. Agency Spotlight, the latest addition to the Event Industry News site, profiles the top of the pyramid, the design and creativity behind brand activations, experiences, exhibition USPs and the greater live event model. Sponsored by print specialist Macroart, these pages will profile agencies of all sizes, looking at how and why they started, with what ambition, key projects, relationships with the supply chain and a whole lot more besi

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Want to Transform Your Events Into a Powerful Lead Generator? Read on…

Hubilo Blog

Lead generation can be considered as the most efficient way to create enormous traffic, increase sales, and higher conversion rates. When you zero in your attention towards lead generation, it can prove to be a milestone for your brand. Generating leads can make even the most ordinary product appear appealing and extraordinary, while the one without any lead seems to be a loser because more leads mean more revenue, which in turn means more profit.