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7 Tips for Driving Attendee Engagement at Virtual Events

Smart Meetings

Seven key tactics event marketers can use to promote virtual networking opportunities include: Conference website: Even when prospective attendees are first exploring your conference agenda and speaker list, you want to make the networking opportunities clear on your event site. Adam Riggs is CEO of Frameable and Social Hour.

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How to Move a 2,000-Person Expo to an MLB Stadium in 3 Months

Smart Meetings

Since 2007, she has run her own sales and business coaching company, which helps sales teams, business leaders, and entrepreneurs improve their strategies for cultivating prospects, building stronger business relationships and closing deals. Since 2010, she has been vice president of global accounts at HPN Global.

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Modern Convention Centers Becoming a Dire Necessity

Smart Meetings

Louis Public Radio in May of 2017, when the prospect of a convention center upgrade seemed increasingly likely following a local election. “So, Louis’s renovations for years, often with the market gains of other cities lurking in the backdrop. We’ve lost ground,” Explore St. Louis President Kitty Ratcliffe told St.

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4 Ways to Lean Into Qualitative PR Measurements

DCI

The Barcelona Principles – a backbone of today’s PR since 2010 – lays out the need for setting goals and measuring outcomes. Instead, qualitative research – think focus groups and other human-based research – provides information and feedback that goes beyond the numbers. It gives us answers and insight that data alone cannot.

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The pathway from Starfish to Path DMC

Path Destination Management

Happily, the plan worked and by 2010 Starfish had grown by 1000% and quadrupled its staff, opened a head office in Bangkok and added a second regional team in Sangklaburi. Moreover I feel compelled to go through every detail with a prospective new supplier. Since then the business has gone from strength to strength.

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Nepal chases MICE market

Travel Daily Media

Prospective delegates will also be served by 31 airlines operating to Kathmandu from 24 cities. percent more than in 2010, and it has made good progress in 2012 with 377,043 arrivals January – August, up 16.3 The Nepal Tourism Board targets two million arrivals by 2020. In 2011, the country recorded 735,932 arrivals, which was 22.1

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Is Boise, ID, a Good Place to Live? 10 Pros and Cons to Help You Decide

Redfin

compared to the national average of 6%, make Boise an attractive place for those seeking career prospects. from the 7,005 people who lived there in 2010. The city is home to major employers in sectors such as technology, healthcare, education, and government. The booming job market and a lower-than-average unemployment rate of 3.6%