Master the Event

APRIL 7, 2022

Delegate The Daunting Task To Meeting Planners. For meeting planners outsourcing the planning and organizing of a big corporate event to convention organizers is a great way of avoiding stress and ensuring its success. Shop Around and Meet With Candidate Meeting Planners. After all, it is their bailiwick.

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SmartMeetings

APRIL 19, 2017

This industry runs on jargon, and since meeting planning requires everyone to work at a rapid click, it’s best to get acquainted with it yourself. Convention and Visitors Bureau , a local organization that can help meeting planners conduct venue and vendor selection at no cost. It’s considered the global “badge of excellence.”.

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Stova

MARCH 16, 2023

The Strategic Meetings Management Guide Successful strategic meetings management requires a wide array of skills and tools to help you meet stakeholders' expectations and reach your goals. Within this guide, you will receive the tools and knowledge to become a meeting strategist for your organization.

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Master the Event

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Today there always seems to be someone stating that they have they latest and greatest conference planning guide to help you do your meeting planning job. A CVB conference planning guide is generally neutral on where to stay, eat etc. All of the major hotel brands offer meeting assistance. Are they free?

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Master the Event

JANUARY 9, 2024

With a beautiful and somewhat busy summer in the rear view mirror; these days the name of the game is annual meetings, incentive programs and fall events and meetings. Our meeting of the minds professionals share their know-how, experience and savvy. Security, transportation, meeting space, oh my. Meeting new people.

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MeetingsNet

OCTOBER 29, 2019

A blueprint for quickly planning internal meetings that salvage employee trust and confidence. At Fisher Investments, chairman Ken Fisher cost his firm $3 billion in lost business in just two weeks after he used crude sexual references while addressing a financial-industry conference. Steps to Success.

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Master the Event

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

These local experts, commonly referred to as destination management companies or DMC’s, would assist the event planner in finding the perfect venue or suppliers. Event planning online has become a rapidly growing Internet community for meeting and event planners. Meetingplanner.com is another website for event planning online.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JUNE 29, 2016

Engaging – If a speaker doesn’t have a plan for chunking content and infusing audience participation, don’t hire them. As you evaluate speakers on this criteria, be sure to check references and video tape from the past 12 months. Don’t just view the highlight real. Ask for access to a full length, recent example. Optimizing ROI.

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SmartMeetings

JUNE 21, 2017

Meeting professionals are tasked with making sure the audio of presentations is clear , that there’s no feedback and that it is at a comfortable volume—but what about the attendees who live in silence? The child was ecstatic after meeting the characters because he didn’t know they would speak ‘his language,’” a rep for the group told KABC-TV.

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Master the Event

DECEMBER 12, 2023

We all know when you find a speaker that is the right fit for your event or meeting makes for some really good news. That just right speaker can help to set the mood and tone for any event or meeting. Hiring a speaker is an important step when event and meeting planning.

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SpotMe Blog

JUNE 13, 2023

That’s why we’ve created a list of examples of the top pharmaceutical meeting planning companies we have experience with. Pharma meeting planners are experts in social media marketing, email campaigns, media partnerships, and more to maximize HCP attendance and participation. It is not for commercial purposes.

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GEVME

AUGUST 15, 2019

Future meeting environments to increase event innovation. Let the sponsors choose the environments, provide you with the technical means and meeting environments, arrange zones for interacting with customers, or even offer something on their own. . Strategic meeting management is introducing more and more organisations into their work.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 1, 2018

According to recent Smart Meetings webinar host Kate Patay, however, social media has changed all of that. Referring specifically to fashion and the appearance of certain looks first on the runway at Fashion Week and then at the Emmys, she says, “There’s no longer that lag time. Kate Patay. We used to have a season in between.

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Endless Events

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The meeting room is private and dedicated to our most important stakeholders. Additionally, make sure you specify a communication plan or meeting plan. How often do you want to meet with your vendors? Speaker X, Speaker Y, and Speaker Z will conduct sessions in the Main Room, Room #2, and Room #3. Once a month?

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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Jeff Davidson of Breathing Space Institute gave Smart Meetings tips on what traits to look for in a speaker and how to negotiate a win-win once the speaker is secured. Fellow meeting planners may have recommendations for speakers that they have used in the past. And what can you do to secure them at an affordable price?

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Hubilo Blog

MARCH 7, 2022

So if you are an association working with healthcare workers, best to look for AMCs that meet or exceed expectations established by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education ( ACCME ). When shortlisting, look for AMCs that have proven experience with the specific community that you are serving or onboarding as members.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 3, 2019

Meetings held in these laid-back locales pair well with team building. Smart Meetings checked in with Nancy Light, vice president of Wine Institute , for some of the best group programs up and down the state. Often referred to as the wine country, Napa and Sonoma counties were made famous by besting the French in a 1976 blind tasting.

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SmartMeetings

MAY 25, 2017

11 questions from Alan Kleinfeld’s Smart Meetings financial and insurance webinar. In a world of heightened security awareness , Arrive Management Group’s Alan Kleinfeld found himself answering a lot of event planner questions during the Smart Meetings webinar on Security May 25. We hold a lot of our meetings internationally.

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SmartMeetings

APRIL 7, 2017

She referred to them as the “three P’s—people, planet, and profits.”. A good beginning for environmentally friendly meeting planners is to adopt paperless practices. This can be accomplished by booking meetings at hotels located near popular offsite locations or near public transportation. 4 Paperless Best Practices.

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Endless Events

APRIL 7, 2020

So there’s a strict force majeure principle out there” “Now, what we’ve done in the meetings industry is broaden that. There shouldn’t just be a cancellation if it’s impossible or illegal to have a meeting. But we’ve talked about, is it impractical to have a meeting?

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Corbin Ball

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

18 LINKS FOR MEETINGS, BUSINESS AND FUN. 18 LINKS FOR MEETINGS, BUSINESS AND FUN. Or helpful business or meeting planning links? 6 Meeting Industry-Related Sites: ebook from Julius Solaris: The Future of Event Marketing. Kapow: very interesting new "meeting experience" booking engine. QUOTES OF THE MONTH.

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Hubilo Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Often event planners find it difficult to find an easy reference list of keynote speakers or guest speakers for various industry segments. K V Shridhar aka “POPS” often referred to as the “Advertising Genius” is the Founder of HyperCollective. Christy Lamagna is the founder of and Master Strategist at Strategic Meetings & Events.

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Attendease

OCTOBER 9, 2023

They’re now commonplace for communicating with customers, prospects, and employees, making webinar interaction an important factor in meeting planning. Visual appeal generally refers to the design of your slides. Multimedia elements refer to images, gifs, videos, audio, and many other visual elements.

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Maritz Global Events

JUNE 27, 2019

For our purposes, we’ll refer to them as Conference A and Conference B). If wanted, I’m sure I could attend one event each week for the rest of my life and STILL not get to them all. Several years ago, I started attending two marketing conferences (sorry, I won’t mention any names; that’d be rude.

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Hubilo Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Often event planners find it difficult to find an easy reference list of keynote speakers or guest speakers for various industry segments. K V Shridhar aka “POPS” often referred to as the “Advertising Genius” is the Founder of HyperCollective. Christy Lamagna is the founder of and Master Strategist at Strategic Meetings & Events.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

When we invited event professionals to participate in this Annual Meetings Market Survey in November, the U.S. Only 34 percent of respondents (down from 43 percent in the 2016 survey and 50 percent in the 2015 survey) indicated that they will be holding meetings outside the United States in the future. percent in the 2016 survey.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 31, 2016

Bureau of Labor Statistics predicted a 10-percent increase in the number of meeting-and-event-planning jobs by 2024. Peggy Marilley, founder of Alexandria, Virginia–based Precision Meetings & Events, thinks working with students keeps her ahead of the curve. “At In 2014, the U.S. THE FUNDAMENTALS. Ogbeide, Ph.D.,

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SmartMeetings

JULY 31, 2020

Faced with a haze of uncertainty, the meeting planner has to make the “go” and “how to go” decisions, but the responsibility to do the right thing is shared by venue, community and guest alike. A Pandemic Plan. Many meeting planners are looking to someone else to tell them the right way to plan a successful and safe event.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Since then, the event has steadily built its legacy and sometimes is referred to as “the Super Bowl” of meetings industry events. How does IMEX America differ from other meetings industry events? He singles out a few lessons learned that apply to event planning in general. What do you hope 2018 IMEX America will achieve?

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Cvent: Event Marketing

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Recently, The Venetian partnered with Skift to produce an in-depth report titled “The Rise of Design Thinking in Meetings and Events.” In the event space, it’s a way of coalescing all the various components of a meeting plan to serve a set of business objectives. This piece summarizes some of the findings of that report.

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Endless Events

JANUARY 25, 2018

It will a serve as a reference when planning the event for years to come. Meeting spaces with all-inclusive packages with F&B, AV, wi-fi, and on-site support. Just like the name suggests, this column is where you’ll track the actual cost of the item. How To Research Event Budget Costs. Luxury hotels. Small breakout rooms.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Every year, when we compile the latest Meetings Market Survey results, we compare them to the previous year’s survey. Those disclaimers aside, Convene ’s annual Meetings Market Survey continues to be recognized as an important piece of benchmarking research in the meetings industry. In last year’s survey: +2.9 percent. ›

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