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Free Event Planning Tools To Make Work Easier

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Another excellent tool you need under your belt is a solid social media strategy. This makes having an active social media presence a non-negotiable these days. Your Complete Social Media Marketing Guidebook. This is an increase of over $50 billion from the first study in 2014.

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How To Prepare For A Career In Event Planning

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Add event professionals on LinkedIn and introduce yourself in the request to connect, Participate in online communities and social media groups for event profs , Find networking events or events for young professionals in the events industry, Make a personal connection with as many event planners and marketers as possible when working on events.

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Poaching: How You Can Prevent It

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Related : 6 Steps to Protect Your Social Media Data. In 2014, the Convention Industry Council conducted a survey of 622 event professionals, and found that 73.1 Poaching has negative consequences for the host hotels as well. Much like planners, their reputation is also at stake. What You Can Do.

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How Can We Protect Ourselves After the Marriott Data Breach?

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Are planners—and everyone else—who has booked at Starwood properties since 2014 taking a collective gulp or merely shrugging over the news from Marriott International that as many as 500 million guest records have been breached? Never use the same passwords for email and social media accounts, and certainly not for financial accounts.

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More Love for Virtual Attendance at Events

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A great example of this was the 2014 Convening Leaders events for PCMA. Increase social media monitoring. No doubt you already have someone on your team dedicated to managing the event’s social media accounts. You see, virtual attendance at events doesn’t have to be an all or nothing scenario.

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The Importance Of Feedback & Follow-Up Meeting After Events

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Social media. Here are some activities you can do to keep people in the loop: Share post-event content on social media. Editor’s Note: This blog post was originally published in March 2014 and has been updated for accuracy and comprehensiveness.

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Mastodon is the old Twitter

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I joined the social media platform Mastodon a year ago. Given recent turbulent social media trends, I’m glad I took the plunge. From my viewpoint, the platform’s popularity and usefulness reached a peak between 2014 – 2017. What do I mean by that? Since then, Twitter began a slow decline.