Smart Meetings

MAY 23, 2024

But in the breakout sessions, real talk from working meeting planners about how AI, global risks and economic shifts will impact programs in the near future drew standing-room-only crowds. She encouraged planners to think more widely about how they invite and welcome everyone.

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Endless Events

JUNE 20, 2023

Gen Z includes people born between 1997 and 2012. As the average age of B2B event attendees continues to decrease , event planners need to tweak their approaches to design Gen Z-friendly events that turn more heads. From an event planning perspective, this is a great way to boost ticket sales and reduce your cost per attendee.

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Maritz Global Events

DECEMBER 11, 2019

This is attendee churn. In the next few weeks, we’ll cover proactive ways to stop attendee churn in its tracks. How Attendee Churn is Calculated. The 550 attendees at this year’s conference don’t specify the number of new attendees. The even bigger question is: Why don’t your attendees come back?

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 4, 2023

Two weeks prior: Give homework to attendees. At the event: Task the event planner to keep everything and everyone on time. Start by thanking attendees for taking the time to attend the retreat. Working with an outside facilitator will bring new ideas that can be infused into the retreat. One week after: Send a follow-up email.

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Maritz Global Events

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Merely knowing what attendee churn is and why it happens isn’t enough. As we know, attendee churn is your event’s failure to retain guests year over year. Since attendee churn can take a drastic toll on your brand, event, and even budget, let’s focus on seven preventative methods to keep it at bay.

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

While the value of live events are uncontested, when it comes to spreading the word about live events to attract attendees, your brand has several digital options. With a limited marketing budget, how do you know the best way to digitally promote your event to attract the most attendees? I’m glad you asked.

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Convene by PCMA

JULY 21, 2023

Ken Holsinger, Freeman’s senior vice president for strategy, presents the EduCon 2023 session, “Attracting & Engaging Next-Generation Event Attendees.” However, they contribute to the new wave of Next Gen attendees identified in a Freeman report Convene wrote about a few months ago.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 2, 2022

At a time when many are reacting to changes in climate and attendee expectations, the golden state’s hospitality sector is leading the way to a future that will continue to welcome change-makers for decades to come. You may even inspire attendees to do better while you are at it. Sustainable Meeting.

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 18, 2018

I’ll bet that even today, if you asked attendees what they remembered about the event, most would immediately recall the There Was No Coffee moment. Experienced meeting planners know that every meeting has its share of unexpected surprises. Minimizing surprises like CoffeeGate is default behavior for meeting planners.

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MeetingsNet

JANUARY 20, 2023

For the 3,300 attendees of the Professional Convention Management Association’s Convening Leaders conference, held January 8 to 11 in Columbus, Ohio, the message could not have been more clear: The business world is not the same as it was when in-person meetings were last happening at full speed.

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The MICE Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Meg had helped me to launch and coordinate the Event Planners Talk hackathon in April 2020 and the Event Planners Talk Digital Festival in June 2020. In this interview with Meg we present elements that event planners can incorporate to generate a lasting impact for their events, no matter how small or large, live or virtual.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 13, 2022

At a time when many are reacting to changes in climate and attendee expectations, the golden state’s hospitality sector is leading the way to a future that will continue to welcome change-makers for decades to come. You may even inspire attendees to do better while you are at it. Sustainable Meeting.

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Maritz Global Events

DECEMBER 4, 2019

As a former meeting planner who has received Ohio MPI’s Planner of the Year award twice (2006 & 2012), she brings a unique perspective to these blog posts as an experience meeting planner and blogger in the industry. De-de Mulligan is the President and Chief Content Strategist for Mulligan Management Group.

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Convene by PCMA

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

On how event planners can zero in on their environmental initiatives at events: You can definitely look at your waste-management plan, your water and energy savings, your carbon footprint, and what legacy projects you can do — all of those things. The Women in Green Platform is now offered all over the U.S.

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Travel Daily Media

MAY 31, 2023

London Convention Bureau London is set for another blockbuster year of new openings in 2023, making it an even more attractive destination for event, meeting and incentive planners. This June the city will also host London Climate Action Week, with over 40,000 attendees.

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Convene by PCMA

MAY 27, 2022

I think sometimes as meeting planners we’re used to making everyone else look good and we have a really hard time putting ourselves on a pedestal and patting ourselves on the back, because our job is to make other people look good. freaking out because if attendees didn’t have the most up-to-date agenda they wouldn’t know what to do.

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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 12, 2016

significantly increase owner and attendee satisfaction and participation at your sessions and events. Your workshop was a breath of fresh air.” — Participant at Adrian’s 2012 EIBTM Participation Techniques Workshop. The attendees are still here talking to each other! I am so ashamed! I’m excited!

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Social Tables

MARCH 22, 2024

BLLA has spearheaded connectivity in the hospitality market since 2012, as the organization is dedicated to leadership and innovation in independent boutique hotel ownership. With more than 500 exhibitors, over 1,000 booths, and 6,000 expected attendees, this event is perfect for connecting with and learning from industry experts.

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Maritz Global Events

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Inherently, if a hacker takes your attendees’ credit card information, it may lead to unwanted charges, identity theft, or sale of their data on the dark web. As a former meeting planner who has received Ohio MPI’s Planner of the Year award twice (2006 & 2012), she brings a unique perspective to these blog posts.

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Convene by PCMA

MARCH 6, 2024

He also will develop new marketplace opportunities for IAEE’s annual meeting and strengthen industry relationships in partnership with IAEE’s sales, marketing, and membership teams, as well as develop attendee acquisition strategies. Jennifer Ramsey has joined Talley as a meeting planner.

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Eventtia

APRIL 12, 2023

Brella is an all-in-one solution offering a suite of tools for handling various aspects of event management: creating websites, managing registrations, attendee tracking, facilitating networking, and more. These features are delivered in a simple and intuitive interface, making it a favorite among many event planners.

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Maritz Global Events

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

33% sponsored an email blast to the attendee list. One of the challenges with multiple logos on printed signage or a banner is attendees consider it to be ‘logo soup.’. Record your breakout sessions and give attendees a sponsored card that will allow viewership of them for the next 12 months. 32% underwrote printed signage.

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Travel Daily Media

MARCH 19, 2012

Already on the world map thanks to events such as The Beijing Olympics and the Shanghai EXPO, these key gateway cities in China are very much on event planners radars. 2) How does Marriott engage with meeting planners, and what tools does it offer them? China, for example, as a developing market has huge potential.

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Eventtia

APRIL 12, 2023

Brella is an all-in-one solution offering a suite of tools for handling various aspects of event management: creating websites, managing registrations, attendee tracking, facilitating networking, and more. These features are delivered in a simple and intuitive interface, making it a favorite among many event planners.

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Bizzaboo

JANUARY 10, 2024

In 2012, the Seacrest Global Group acquired a majority stake in CIVIC, envisioning the continued growth of this world-class marketing services agency specializing in unique engagements across media, entertainment, technology, sports, and consumer brands. Meetings & Incentives Worldwide, Inc.

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Bizzaboo

DECEMBER 19, 2018

We provide cutting edge technology for field & event marketing teams while deploying dedicated event reps to drive targeted registrations and attendees for regional field marketing events. Broadstreet was launched in 2012 to help niche media organizations make the most of their ad sales efforts in an increasingly competitive online space.

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Endless Events

AUGUST 8, 2018

Today’s conference attendees expect more. Host your next conference in a location that offers attendees more than just a meeting space and a hotel bed. . Getting out to see a new city creates content attendees can share and adds a buzz to the conference. Consider your attendees. Planning a conference? Check out our.

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The MICE Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The city promotes public transport by offering free tickets to attendees who book their hotel stays through Stuttgart Marketing. For event planners, the museum offers major advantages for hosting events. The venue has all in house what event planners need, and with exclusive access to this museum it’s a one-of-a-kind experience.

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Convene by PCMA

APRIL 29, 2024

At a 2012 Ted Talk, Charlie Todd and Improv Everywhere planted a fake speaker whose PowerPoint presentation seemingly failed, with the multicolored “spinning ball of death” on screen instead of slides. What if conference attendees don’t want to participate? We do something called the Mp3 Experiment series that’s an annual event.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 15, 2025

For planners, its been a game changer. Smart Meetings recent white paper, The Evolution of Events AI, showed just how many planners are using AI and their perceptions of the value it adds to their work. Planners can too. There were around 500,000 in 2012. Plenty of environmental organizations use it for these purposes.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 27, 2025

Gen X (born between 1981 and 1996) and Z (born between 1996 and 2012) are already filling our ballrooms with Gen Alpha not far behind. How can we make the next generation of attendees feel comfortable, not to mention the entry of young workers helping us create meeting magic? Read More: What Does Success Look Like for Gen Z Planners?

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MeetingsNet

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Meeting planners face a growing stressor in an otherwise healthy industry. There is a lot of good news in this week’s release of the third edition of Development Counsellors International survey, A View from Meeting Planners: Winning Strategies in Destination Marketing. Global business travel spending has grown 5.8

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