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The Benefits of Running a CSR Event

Eventmobi

Corporations, bolstered by the many economic and feel-good benefits, have the incentive and the motivation to implement CSR programs and extend them through their conferences and events. At the end of the day, corporate event marketers realize that doing good is good business, but it also just feels good. What’s Next?

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Money Talks: Defining an Event Budget

TicketBud

It sounds like a nightmare, but that was the reality for DashCon 2014, an event where attendees paid witness to one of the most important lessons in event planning – don’t bust the budget. According to a recent Maritz Industry Trends Report , most meeting expenses are up over 20 percent since before the pandemic.

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5 Tips for a Better Experience with an Event Emcee

MeetingsNet

A professional emcee isn’t just for introducing speakers—it’s a role that can help with event marketing, audience experience, risk management, and more. If you’re organization is like most, its events could use some help from a professional emcee. Your emcee should already have your audience's full attention.

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Understanding Strategic Meetings Management

Cvent: Event Marketing

On average, meeting spend is calculated to be.5–1% If not, there is a huge opportunity within your company to uncover hidden meeting spend and implement a meetings program to increase visibility, reduce risk, automate business processes, and cut cost. Who Uses Strategic Meetings Management?

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Successful Event Planning Considerations: What Makes or Breaks an Event?

The Castle Group

What makes an event successful? To an attendee, a successful event means a seamless, inspiring, memorable, and/or value-added experience. To a meeting planner, a successful event means achieving these goals and more. At Castle, our role is to make events appear effortless. However, our job is anything but.

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The 33 skills meeting and event planners need to succeed

Plan Your Meetings

If you’re like many corporate meeting planners, planning meetings and events may only be part of your job and you learn as you go, without formal training. But if planning meetings and events are a passion of yours and you want to become a meeting professional, there are 33 skills you need to master.

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5 Next-Gen Technologies That Already Are Changing Meetings

PCMA Convene

Feeling overwhelmed by technology is a common sentiment expressed by meeting-professional respondents to Convene surveys, who say that they struggle with the fast pace of change, the latest tech tools and up-to-the-minute applications, and the shiniest new things. What about meeting organizers themselves? Artificial Intelligence.