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Pumping New Life Into Associations’ Online Revenue Streams

PCMA Convene

Convene spoke with Reed in late February to learn how he and his team reengineered the annual meeting not as a short-term strategy but to make it a sustainable enterprise — and a more valuable experience for all participants — for the coming years. It’s been a big challenge to make physical trade shows succeed on online platforms.

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American Institute of Architects Convention Becomes Better by Design

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But, she added, the event was just maintaining itself, and “with an average age of 63, it wouldn’t be sustainable in the long term. This meant including apprentices and students, landscape architects, sustainability practitioners, and products and services at the outer edge of innovation to feed the commercial side of the expo.

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