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How to Get Corporate Sponsorship for Your Charity Event

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Attracting corporate sponsorship for your event can significantly increase your fundraising ability. Many businesses have a corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiative that encourages them to get involved in their communities and to consider their business decisions’ social and environmental impacts. One common way to do that is by providing sponsorships for charity events.

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Meta Struggles to Gain Traction With Its Own Metaverse Meetings

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Skift Take: Even Meta is finding it hard to encourage employees to use VR for internal meetings. Still, as the technology improves and users gain familiarity, it may become that standard way people to meet, train, and collaborate online. — Julie Moline Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings.

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Making Up for Fewer Skilled Workers at Your Conference

Velvet Chainsaw

Throughout 2022, nearly every meeting service provider continues to be short-staffed and plagued by last-minute no-shows or insufficiently skilled workers. This is having a huge impact on event organizers and their teams during both planning and execution phases of events. More than ever, we need to be running several steps ahead — checking, double-checking, and even pitching in to ensure the attendee and exhibitor experience doesn’t suffer.

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Five ways explicit communication improves meetings

Conferences that Work

When we get together and talk there are sometimes things best left unsaid. But often, explicit communication — saying or writing what’s needed to guide or influence desired behavior — improves matters over staying silent or beating around the bush. Here are five examples of how explicit communication improves meetings. 1—Tell attendees how your meeting socials will be social!

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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 Run a Golf Charity Fundraiser

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Golf is in its heyday. According to Forbes, the number of rounds played in 2020 was up by 60 million, the largest increase in decades. Golf’s renewed popularity is a great reason to think about making your next fundraising event a charity golf tournament. This type of event can generate funds and, when carefully planned, become […].

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10 Client Appreciation Event Ideas Customers Love

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Whether you’re a part of a Fortune 500 company or are running a boutique hair salon out of your home, your business wouldn’t exist without clients. Showering clients with appreciation can help businesses, large and small, build a base of loyal customers, especially now, as we head into the holiday season. While some leaders choose gifts or special offers to recognize loyal customers, others host client appreciation events.

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Here’s Why Your Event Budget Needs to Increase in 2023

Endless Events

After a nearly two-year hiatus due to COVID-19, the events industry returned in all its glory this year. But just when we thought we had overcome the most difficult hurdles both as humans and as an industry, new external pressures waited around the corner. A war in Ukraine , an inflation surge, and supply chain issues will impact event budgets in 2023. .

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The Ultimate Guide to Hosting Charity Galas

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Planning a fundraising event for a charity or nonprofit organization is an exciting project that can ultimately benefit your cause, but it requires some extra steps. It’s important to think through how you’ll communicate your mission with attendees and connect them with the cause that their donations will benefit. You also need to carefully select […].

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Metaverse Meetings Still a Work in Progress

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Skift Take: Even Meta is finding it hard to encourage employees to use VR for internal meetings. Still, as the technology improves and users gain familiarity, it may become that standard way people to meet, train, and collaborate online. — Julie Moline Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings.

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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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The Event Tech Buyer’s Guide 2023

Event Industry News

The past year has seen the events industry, once again, start to flourish. In-person events are back but that doesn’t mean the end for virtual and hybrid, as many have seen first-hand their virtues when seeking to attract a wider and more global audience. Technology plays a key role in all aspects of events and this year of bounce-back and evolution is no exception.

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Lyana and Kazutaka’s Elegant Wedding at The Doctor’s House

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Lyana and Kazutaka’s union was meant to be. They grew up with each other’s best friends but didn’t meet until grade 11 at a party where they exchanged no more than three words to each other that night. However, they quickly became best friends and became a couple in 2011. Kazu finally popped the question in our home in June 2019 over a bag of Tostitos® and salsa.

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44 Christmas Fundraiser Ideas

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The Christmas season is a time of generosity, so appeal to festive event-goers with a chance to give back. You can start hosting Christmas events as soon as December hits, but keep in mind that people’s schedules get fuller as the holidays near. Read on to learn more about Christmas fundraiser ideas, from festive holiday […].

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Are Airport Hotels Still Popular for Meetings? 

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Skift Take: Despite the current chaos surrounding air travel, airport hotels are recovering from low pandemic occupancies at a faster pace than urban hotels. Thanks to changing work trends and an evolution in the amenities they offer, airport hotels and even airports are finding favor for certain types of meetings. — Maria Lenhart Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings.

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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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A Giant Leap for Womankind: Morgan Stanley Unveils a Spacesuit for Women in Times Square

Event Marketer

The conceptual Access I spacesuit was designed by a team of space experts, engineers and historians. Houston, we have a diversity problem. In 2019, the first all-female spacewalk was postponed because NASA didn’t have enough spacesuits to fit smaller statures. And out of the 240 astronauts who have conducted spacewalks, 17 have been women. It’s evident that the space industry, much like the financial services business, has some major glass ceilings to shatter.

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A City Within a City to Launch in SoCal

Smart Meetings

Although historically shadowed by its famous neighbor city of Los Angeles or seen only as the home of Disneyland, Anaheim is making literal and metaphorical groundbreaking moves to establish itself as a presence in Southern California. Construction begins in January 2023 to build ocV!BE. This “city within a city” will be a hub of entertainment, food and Southern California lifestyle and is expected to become the beating heart of Anaheim.

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10 Reasons Why Your Wedding Planning Business Isn’t Making Money

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Are you a professional wedding planner that’s finding it difficult to make money? Here’s the good news: you’re not alone. In fact, a number wedding planners struggle to turn a profit at some point in their career. There may be a number of reasons why your wedding planning business isn’t making money, but don’t worry – we’re going to help you figure out what’s going wrong and how to fix it!

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Informa Confident of Trade Show Business Growth

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Skift Take: Trade show business is booming, and could get even better should international shows resume in China in the near future. — Miguel Neves and Andrea Doyle Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings.

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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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Metaverse Events: 11 Tips to Create Unique Experiences Attendees Will Love

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“Metaverse” is the buzzword in events today. Fashion shows, tournaments, and concerts are banking on it. This year saw the inaugural Metaverse Fashion Week. Plus, the Australian Open held the first official tennis grand slam in the metaverse. Their goal was to be the “world’s most accessible and inclusive sports and entertainment event.”.

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How to Build a Risk Assessment Checklist

Smart Meetings

The definition of “risk” has grown beyond the traditional definitions of financial, operational, reputational and security issues meeting professionals checked off their list as they prepared to bring people together in days of old. While a live shooter may be what comes to mind first when considering worst-case scenarios, today’s planners also have to be on the lookout for a mistimed social media post or optics that are not aligned with the DEI or sustainability goals of the company.

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Envisioning Change Through ‘Uncomfortable Conversations’

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Uncomfortable Conversations participants found wearing the eye masks compelled them to listen to what the presenters — and their table mates — were saying. If there was one group Jaimé Bennett, PCMA’s regional director, EMEA, knew she wanted to have represented as active participants at Convening EMEA 2022, Sept. 28-30 in Vienna, Austria, it was representatives from the current class and alumni of PCMA’s 20 in Their Twenties, an annual program that recognizes global industry leaders early in the

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Hilton Report: Caring for Meeting Attendees Emerging Trend

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Skift Take: Hilton’s 2023 Emerging Trends Report focuses on a sense of caring, frictionless travel, more engaging experiences, and enhanced wellness offerings. — Andrea Doyle Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings.

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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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Creating agile venues of the future

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As the events market ramps back up to full speed, it’s worth asking an important question about use of space. Instead of just picking up where we left off, could we find a more suitable way to set up staging, technology and more in event venues? Looking at what our customers really want from their event spaces has shown us the need of creating more agile venues, with a focus on enhancing live experiences.

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Secrets for Engaging Platform-agnostic Association Meetings

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The good news is that the associations are returning to in-person events in great numbers. The challenge is designing events that speak to the needs of an audience that changed over the last three years. In an exclusive Smart Chat Live! Webinar session, Joanna Pineda, CEO and chief troublemaker of Matrix Group International , and Jennifer O’Grady, senior director of Design Studio of Maritz Global Events , tackled the Secrets for Engaging Platform-agnostic Association Meetings.

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The Ultimate Guide to Hosting Charity Galas

Eventbrite UK

Planning a fundraising event for a charity or nonprofit organisation is an exciting project that can ultimately benefit your cause. It’s important to think through how you’ll communicate your mission with attendees and connect them with the cause that their donations will benefit. You also need to carefully select your sponsors, vendors, and venue so […].

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The State of Event Tech

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Skift Take: Following the Covid-induced roller coaster ride of the last two-and-a-half years, event tech is in recovery mode. By most accounts the sector is over twice the size compared to before the Covid pandemic, but it is still coming to terms with the bubble it went through. — Miguel Neves Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings.

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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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Two Types of Team Building Takeaways

Best Corporate Events

During team building activities, participants experience challenges, camaraderie, recognition, and fun. But what do they take away? After the shared laughter and the high-fives, what do they bring back home and to the workplace from that experience? According to Roy Charette, a leader in the fields of team building and professional development training, and managing partner at Best Corporate Events, the specific takeaways are many, but fall into two main types.

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Smart Moves in New York, Panama City Beach and More

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Brigette Bienvenu. Bienvenu is market director of sales of sales and marketing for The Ritz-Carlton, South Beach and The Ritz-Carlton, Bal Harbour , both in Florida. Bienvenu previously worked at W Fort Lauderdale Hotel & Residences; before this, she was director of sales and marketing at W Hollywood & Residence in Los Angeles. She also spent nearly a decade working with Hilton Hotels & Resorts in marketing and sales roles.

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44 Christmas Fundraiser Ideas

Eventbrite UK

The Christmas season is a time of generosity, so appeal to festive event-goers with a chance to give back. You can start hosting Christmas events as soon as December hits, but keep in mind that people’s schedules get fuller as the holidays near.

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