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The Best Event Planning Books Ever Written

Guidebook

The best event planning book recommendations as chosen by real event pros. Sure, you can get all your event and meeting planning information from the internet like most of us do these days. (We We gathered all of the web’s best event planning blogs.) But what about good, old-fashioned books?

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Event Trends for 2019–2020

GEVME

Even if your 2018 events made an incredible impression, in 2019–2020, you should learn how to make these experiences even more memorable and impressive. The most important goal remains to consider everything—absolutely all modern tips and tactics to improve your event with our current event trends. Engaging technology.

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5 Major Wellness Trends for Meeting Planners to Know Now

Smart Meetings

In panel discussions and in a release prior to the event, participants mentioned: Clean Beauty & Self-care : Healthy and natural ingredients; sustainable sourcing; plastic-free packaging, along with diversity and inclusivity in brand leadership and treatments, are more important than ever.

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5 Valuable Lessons Event Professionals Learned in 2019

Maritz Global Events

Experience design isn’t merely what your event content is about or how people consume it; it’s now a matter of layout, interior design, and finding the perfect mix of practicality and fashion. What does this look like? Guests want experiences that will enrich their lives. Creativity can present challenges.

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The Top 25 Event Management Twitter Users You Should Be Following

Capterra Event Management

Stefania ContiVecchi is the founder and CEO of EVENTagist , an event management and strategy firm. She offers innovative strategies for meeting and event planning. Kate Makulova is the the head of event marketing at SEMRush , a content/advertising analytics software. @contivecchi. Followers: 2,191. kate_makulova.

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The Top 10 Books Every Event Manager Should Read

Capterra Event Management

Event managers organize staff, decide on event management software , act as idea marketers, and bring guests together in a miraculous fashion. It is virtually impossible for any event manager to know everything about these responsibilities, therefore outside help is always welcome. Isn’t Facebook creepy that way?

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10 Tips for Limiting Event Attrition

Event Leadership Institute

Here are a few of our tried and true methods for increasing attendance and engagement while minimizing the event attrition rate. Have a plan. If you want to keep attrition to a minimum, you need to have a solid event plan in place. Be conscious when selecting the event date. one or two days ahead of the event.

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