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How to Create an Immersive Attraction Experience with Local Artists

Picatic by Eventbrite

An immersive experience engages visitors in new and creative ways. Rather than simply offering an art installation, an immersive art experience taps into the senses and evokes emotions while exhibiting works that educate and inform. Attendees step into large spaces that showcase art with light and sound accompaniment and interactive features, allowing them to view […].

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Improve meeting session learning with this simple tip!

Conferences that Work

Want a simple way to improve meeting session learning? Provide a shared Google doc where all participants can take notes, ask questions, and get answers! Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post Improve meeting session learning with this simple tip! appeared first on Conferences That Work. No related posts.

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3 Event Contract Trends in 2022

EventMB

If you thought event contracts were tricky before the pandemic, buckle up for even more complications. Force majeure Flexibility. In 2020, executing the force majeure clause in a contract was fairly straightforward. The government had declared a lockdown due to the Covid pandemic, so there was no question that the following elements of force majeure existed: It wasn’t possible to hold in-person meetings or events as it was illegal due to the lockdown.

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Micro-Credentials for Corporate Training Programs

Attendease

As a corporate training professional, it’s your job to create learning experiences that not only improve your employees’ effectiveness but also that interest those employees and encourage retention over time. In recent years, it has become clear that to achieve this, corporations need to deliver high-value content in accessible and easily digestible bites.

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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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5 Ways to Make Your Community Theater Event a Hit

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Community theater gives local audiences a connection to the performing arts that they might not have access to otherwise. A lot goes into a great show — so all the moving parts can seem like a challenge to manage on a tight community production budget. We’ve come up with a few ideas for planning a […].

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Event Data Is a Goldmine, But Planners Can’t Do It Alone

EventMB

With many parts of the world experiencing the worst inflation we’ve seen in decades, events are getting more expensive to host. This makes it all that much more crucial to get the most ROI possible out of each event, and there is one key factor that can help planners hit the mark: data. Event analytics are especially valuable because they provide real-time audience behavioral data, which marketers pay millions for.

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Micro-Credentials for Corporate Training Programs

Attendease

As a corporate training professional, it’s your job to create learning experiences that not only improve your employees’ effectiveness but also that interest those employees and encourage retention over time. In recent years, it has become clear that to achieve this, corporations need to deliver high-value content in accessible and easily digestible bites.

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How to Create an Immersive Attraction Experience With Local Artists

Picatic by Eventbrite

An immersive experience engages visitors in new and creative ways. Rather than simply offering an art installation, an immersive art experience taps into the senses and evokes emotions while exhibiting works that educate and inform. Attendees step into large spaces that showcase art with light and sound accompaniment and interactive features, allowing them to view […].

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What are hybrid events and why are they the future of event marketing?

SpotMe Blog

During the height of the pandemic, in-person events shifted to virtual meetings. But now, the event landscape is changing again to hybrid events. . A hybrid event is designed to blend the virtual experience with an in-person experience. It gives event planners a way to increase engagement and expand the event’s reach through networking opportunities, Q&A sessions, on-demand content, and more.

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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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Event Tech Hit by the Perfect Storm

EventMB

It’s tough to work in event tech right now, especially compared to the all-time highs of 2020 and 2021. At the peak of virtual events some experts predicted a shift towards and permanently overtaking in-person events. At the same time, venues, destinations and in-person event service providers were struggling to see any path ahead. Today, the narrative around event tech has changed.

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Jack Hayes reveals how Covid-19 has shaped the keynote speaking industry

Event Industry News

Jack Hayes , a director at Champions Speakers , reveals in this exciting guest post how the Covid-19 pandemic has shaped the speaking industry into the booming business we see today. As the co-owner of an events and speaking business, the Covid-19 pandemic forced me and my team to rethink everything we knew about our industry. Many of our pre-booked events were unfortunately postponed or worse cancelled, and the speakers on our roster made the transition to virtual events.

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5 Ways to Make Your Community Theater Event a Hit

Picatic by Eventbrite

Community theater gives local audiences a connection to the performing arts that they might not have access to otherwise. A lot goes into a great show — so all the moving parts can seem like a challenge to manage on a tight community production budget. We’ve come up with a few ideas for planning a […]. The post 5 Ways to Make Your Community Theater Event a Hit appeared first on Eventbrite Blog.

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How to Honor Native American Tribes on the Fourth

Smart Meetings

When most Americans think of the Fourth of July, they fantasize about family barbecues, community fireworks and local parades. It’s a time to enjoy the summer weather and celebrate veterans for their service. However, for millions of Native Americans alive today, the day carries a reminder of how their ancestors were gravely mistreated by European colonizers.

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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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Podcast: Collaboration and Advocacy

EventMB

In this episode of the Event Manager Podcast by Skift Meetings, we are joined by Amy Calvert, CEO of the Events Industry Council (EIC) to discuss advocating for the event industry in the wider business community. Like many event professionals, Calvert didn’t set out to join this industry, instead studying English Literature and Fine Arts at university.

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Five F&B Sampling Tactics Worth a Taste-Test

Event Marketer

From restaurants to CPG brands, F&B marketing organizations aiming to drive trial and awareness have continuously relied on in-person experiences to get “cans in hands” and prove that “tasting is believing” (insert your favorite trope here.) But traditional sampling tactics need a little extra oomph these days (and sometimes a little extra “ugh” ) to make a splash.

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The must-have features you need on your event mobile app.

Expo Pass

Events are all about meeting face-to-face again – talking, chatting, hanging out, and maybe even ignoring our phones for a little while, if we’re lucky. So what’s the deal with an event mobile app? Are they really that important? And what should an event app actually do? Well, we’ll say this: the right event app can make almost every part of your already amazing event – even better.

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The Raw Story Behind Kate Patay’s Move to Join Terramar

Smart Meetings

Kate Patay, Smart Meetings Smart Style Ambassador and the woman behind the eponymous Patay Consulting for the last five years, recently announced that she is taking a role as director of engagement with Terramar US , a DMC Network Company. Here in her own words is the story behind the decision to shed the event boss mantle and join a team again. Talk about the decision to go back to working for a company.

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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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Hot Tech Conference Collision Defies Odds, Draws 35,000 to Toronto

EventMB

More than 35,000 attendees from 130 countries involved in the global tech ecosystem gathered in Toronto at the Enercare Centre for Collision , a Web Summit event. This year’s ticket count is a significant jump from the 25,711 who attended the last in-person Collision, also in Toronto, in 2019. These numbers buck the trend across the industry for deflated in-person event numbers post-pandemic.

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Gas Prices Prompt IRS Mileage Adjustment

MeetingsNet

Starting Friday, traveling by car to business meetings and conferences will get a bit more affordable. With average retail gas prices in the U.S. soaring from an average of $3.24 per gallon in January to $5.10 in recent weeks, the cost of sending drive-in attendees to regional meetings and conferences is way up. But there’s a minor of reprieve coming Friday.

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NÜTRL Vodka Seltzer’s Mock Graduation Helps Consumers ‘Upgrade’ to the Next Stage of Adulthood

Event Marketer

Comedian and “SNL” star Chris Redd delivered a mock commencement speech centered on upgrading to life’s next stage. There were no diplomas, no tassels, no mobs of parents snapping pictures, but at NÜTRL Vodka Seltzer’s “graduation” event on June 7, there was plenty of pomp and circumstance. On the heels of its U.S. launch earlier this year, the Anheuser-Busch brand aimed to drive awareness among post-college consumers and kick off the summer with its broader “upgrade your seltz

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TWT: Airlines Get ‘Berned,’ Biz Travel Stats Spike

Smart Meetings

Editor’s note : This Week in Travel (TWT) is your essential guide to smoothing the road from here to there for your attendees and yourself. Bernie Sanders Demands Airline Accountability, Airlines Blame FAA. As the news fills with stories of canceled and delayed flights, the airline industry lobbying group Airlines for America (A4A) President and CEO Nicholas Calio wrote to Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on June 24 to complain that “not every air traffic variable is withi

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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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New Features: New Advanced Event Editor and Recurring Events Manager

Event Smart

We’ve been working on these features for a long time, and in fact we’ve re-written these features twice. That’s a long story and now’s not the time to go into that. But right now, we’re happy to announce that we a NEW Advanced Event Editor is now available which offers a few neat features and […].

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4 Design Options That Can Amplify Conference Content

PCMA Convene

In-person meetings include high-value networking options, but planners should consider a digital post-event experience to add even more value. Based on our research, we estimate that there’s an even split between conference owners who are including synchronous or asynchronous hybrid options and those who aren’t. The half pursuing hybrid knows that they can’t just go back to what worked in 2019 despite the return of in-person events.

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The Best Tools To Grow Your Event Planning Business

QC Event School

If you’re looking to start or grow a business as an event planner, you’re in luck! There are a number of great tools out there that can help you do just that. In this article, we’ll discuss 25 of the best tools to grow your event planning business and find success in this exciting industry. In particular, we’ll look at software tools, business tools, and on-the-job supplies that’ll help you reach your goals.

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10 Important Technology Questions to Ask in Your Next RFP

Smart Meetings

The process for creating a request for proposal (RFP) has wildly changed now that virtual and hybrid events are regularly in our repertoire. While we’re excited to welcome back face-to-face events, we know that attendees and companies require flexibility. This means virtual and hybrid events aren’t going away anytime soon. So, we must continue to be laser-focused on creating RFPs that will truly meet our needs and set us up for success.

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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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Tina and Will’s Intimate Rustic Outdoor Wedding at Willow Springs Winery

EventSource

Tina and Will’s big day is the ultimate in rustic sophistication! The couple tied the knot in a gorgeous outdoor wedding at Willow Springs Winery. Between a dreamy ceremony and outdoor intimate dinner, tons of greenery, and an ethereal bridal gown from Blu Ivory Bridal , every detail of Tina and Will’s wedding is full of chic organic elegance!

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Scotland secures World Energy Council’s Energy Trilemma Summit and 2022 Executive Assembly

Event Industry News

For the first time, Scotland will host the World Energy Council’s Energy Trilemma Summit and 2022 Executive Assembly. The events take place on 12 and 13 October at Aberdeen’s P&J Live. The World Energy Council’s Energy Trilemma Summit and 2022 Executive Assembly, which is themed ‘Transformational solutions in turbulent times’, will be attended by representatives from the world’s energy community who will discuss practical actions to accelerate clean and just energy transitions in all global

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The 10 Must-Have Skills Every Florist Needs

QC Event School

If you’re thinking of becoming a florist, you’ll need to make sure you have the right skills first. This article will break down the 10 must-have skills every florist needs to be successful and run their own floral design business. These skills aren’t just about flower arranging – they also cover business knowledge, customer service and more.