Smart Meetings

APRIL 10, 2023

Mentorships, transparency and white whales For meeting planners new to the industry, experience and connections are the glue that holds the universe together and ultimately provides the tools for current and future success. Everyone wants a meeting right now. We asked meeting planners whether they saw any value in their connection. “As

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Conferences that Work

JULY 11, 2022

It’s time to stop networking at meetings. No, I’m not saying we should only listen to lectures at meetings. This post was inspired when Victoria Matey shared the following thought about networking at meetings: Random thought. No related posts.

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Endless Events

APRIL 17, 2020

?? The Best of the Best: Ask Yourself: 45 Questions To Ask Before Meeting With A Virtual Event Production Company. Ask yourself these questions before your virtual event meeting! (13-minute Knowing the answers to these questions will help prepare you to have a more successful meeting! ? Articles and resources.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 4, 2025

Hotel sales directors face increasing pressure to demonstrate measurable returns on their marketing investments, particularly in the meetings and events sector. This article explores proven strategies for hotel sales directors to enhance their meeting and event marketing ROI. We appreciate your support.

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The MICE Blog

AUGUST 12, 2024

The recent renovation of InterContinental Berlin perfectly captures the new concept of ‘Luxury of Space’ for meetings and events. Located in Central Berlin, the hotel emphasises its commitment to providing expansive, state-of-the-art facilities for meetings and events. café is undergoing a major renovation as I write this article.

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 27, 2022

Want a simple way to improve meeting session learning? Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post Improve meeting session learning with this simple tip! Provide a shared Google doc where all participants can take notes, ask questions, and get answers! appeared first on Conferences That Work. No related posts.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Articles, surveys and webinars, oh my! In 2023, Smart Meetings released a stream of multimedia resources for planners to learn about sustainability in the world of events. Read on for a list of the best of Smart Meetings’ sustainability publications from the past year. We know sustainability is important. But where do you start?

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 28, 2022

My work at a pre-con is different from that of a typical meeting planner since I focus on the meeting’s design and facilitation. I’ve been convening meetings for decades, though, so I know a fair amount about meeting planning. The traditional bread and butter of a meeting planner’s job.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 22, 2024

As the importance of wellness offerings in meetings and events continues to rise, so does the expectation from attendees. By continuing to design meetings with purpose and intentionality, we can discover the many opportunities all around us to elevate wellness in meetings in a new and fresh way.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 17, 2021

How can meeting planners be part of the solution in the movement to defeat unconscious bias? See more : Hack Your Incentives: The Meeting in Your Attendee’s Head. It’s incumbent for meeting planners both to understand and to overcome unconscious bias. First, you need to know what it is.

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 10, 2020

Is it possible to routinely start online meetings on time? Think about the last three meetings you attended. Why don’t scheduled meetings start on time? The reason that almost no scheduled meetings (in-person or online ) start on time is that we provide one single time for meetings to both open and start.

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Conferences that Work

JANUARY 10, 2022

Most of the event industry and our clients continue to assume that if you can make the meeting bigger it’s a good thing. Online and hybrid meetings have seen less drastic reductions. One bright spot has been the normalization of online meetings for routine connection and collaboration. It ain’t necessarily so.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 18, 2022

I’ve been writing about hybrid meetings for a long time; my first post was in February 2010. The COVID19 pandemic created an explosion of interest in hybrid meetings, and the marketplace and event professionals are still defining what “hybrid” means. (No, Want to read my other posts on hybrid meetings?

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Endless Events

JULY 18, 2020

People are growing tired of Zoom meetings, and the thought of being together in-person is getting and more and more exciting after such a long break from social gatherings. Even tech companies are acknowledging that the typical way we meet virtually isn’t working. One of those things is taking a trip to Disney World.

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Endless Events

JANUARY 12, 2018

Get Ready for the Top Meeting Trends in 2018. Meetings have always been more intimate affairs compared to events. But with recent trends focusing more towards personalization and customization, meetings are definitely getting a big tech upgrade this year. One thing did catch our eye from the article though: smart drugs.

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Endless Events

JULY 24, 2020

Just because there are so many event planners and extroverted attendees that are itching to go back to in-person meetings, doesn’t mean that some attendees haven’t been absolutely in the virtual environment. That is the feeling of everyone meeting in person again. 10-minute read). Everything is shifting. Do you feel that?

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Additional articles and resources: Virtual Event Mistakes: 10 Things To Avoid Doing! Additional articles and resources: How Virtual Events Can Be Better Than Face To Face. Meet Chantel Megaffin! Additional articles and resources: Virtual Events For Lead Gen: A Powerful Tool You Should Use! CES 2021 Is Going Virtual!

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Luckily, Kristen Cooper wrote an article about the key things to keep in mind while negotiating AV prices. This article also includes tactical tips like how to prevent that dreaded extra invoice and how to watch out for underbidding on AV labor. ? Related articles and resources. Related articles and resources.

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Instead, our lovely hosts Thuy Diep, Will Curran, and Dustin Westling sat down to look over some of their favorite articles and discuss some events industry news, as well as world news. Virtual Meetings & Women. One of the first articles Will mentions is along the lines of virtual meetings posing barriers to women.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 14, 2025

Partner with Smart Meetings to develop a campaign that combines prints tactile magic with digitals cutting-edge power for measurable results. Whether its a glossy magazine ad or a well-designed direct mailer, print can elevate your marketing strategy and help your hotel stand out. Ready to get started? Lets create something memorable!

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 14, 2021

However, rental car companies can’t revive their inventory fast enough to meet demand due to those microchip shortages you’ve been hearing about. million fewer new cars being made this year, according to an article in SFGATE. Julie Hall, public relations manager for AAA, confirmed this in an email to Smart Meetings. “We

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Convene by PCMA

MARCH 25, 2025

In searching articles, it appears that no direct threats had been issued for demonstrations against Tesla at the show, she noted. I have not read and didn’t find the show’s prospectus and what it may say about canceled exhibitors.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

How can we provide new experiences at meetings? Providing new experiences at meetings can be as simple as this. This universal fear is the reason the meeting industry continues to struggle with incorporating new experiences into events. How to provide valuable new experiences at meetings. Not new F&B, decor, or glitz.

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Endless Events

AUGUST 14, 2020

So, rather than throw more information at you in this personalized section, I’d rather you have the choice of reading on in the articles below. We were so excited to write this article so we can show you what happens behind the scenes at one of these events! It’s a lot. And now, here’s The Weekly Soundcheck!

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Conferences that Work

JULY 25, 2022

Event professionals: it’s time to talk about COVID, duty of care, and the meeting industry. Yet the meeting industry seems to be abrogating its traditional responsibilities to keep attendees and staff safe. Actually, we should all have been talking about this for the last couple of years, but better late than never.

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Endless Events

OCTOBER 9, 2020

I dove headfirst into books and articles that taught me how to be a better manager and have learned a lot about myself and my team along the way. Additional articles and resources: Creating Year-Long Sponsorships & Establishing Partnerships. Meet John Pistotti! But we’ve all been through the wringer it feels like.

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Conferences that Work

MAY 15, 2023

It’s time for a “sound of silence” roundup of meetings industry pet peeves.

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The MICE Blog

MARCH 1, 2022

Wasser-Agenda 21 provides a platform for the stakeholders to meet and exchange about current and future water management challenges, aiming to provide solutions. Networking features, which allowed attendees to exchange direct messages with each other during the Zoom ‘meeting’ format.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 7, 2025

Contact Smart Meetings today to turn your email campaigns into powerhouse sales drivers. AI tools were used in the development of this article The post How Drip Email Campaigns Can Revolutionize Your Hotel Sales Strategy appeared first on Smart Meetings. Ready to see real results?

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Endless Events

JULY 31, 2020

Virtual components definitely have their time and place and can be super beneficial in the events community, but we can never disregard the importance of humans meetings together in-person. EIC has released a Meeting & Event Design Guide for the Covid-19 Era. This just goes to show that people are READY.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 22, 2024

In the Wired article, Wouters and Carroll demonstrate just how easy it was to open a Saflok keycard lock. This puts meeting planners and their attendees, who are often gathered together in the hundreds, if not thousands, at risk. appeared first on Smart Meetings. It starts off with doing your due diligence with the venue.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 22, 2024

Resources for green meetings; for today, and for the future Earth Day: it’s not just about spending extra time thinking about what we love about nature. Meetings and events, unfortunately, produce a lot of waste. Waste comes into nearly every aspect of a meeting and event you can think of. Where Do We Go from Here?

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Smart Meetings

JULY 26, 2021

See also : How to Increase Wellness Options in the Lives of Meeting Professionals. Self-Care for Meeting Professionals. Countless articles will tell you to make time for a massage or a spa day , giving us the idea that self-care means indulgence. Subjects of Self-care. What do I need more of right now? What do I need less of?

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Much like the steps being taken to ensure attendee safety, venues and convention centers across the US are stepping up to meet technical hybrid needs. Similarly, Northstar Meetings Group has called attention to the cases of Pittsburgh’s David L. Source: Northstar Meetings Group. What’s Happening Across The World.

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Endless Events

MAY 29, 2020

But in events, we have the power to diversify and meet people where they feel most comfortable. Articles and resources. 45 Questions To Ask Before Meeting With A Virtual Event Production Company. Articles and resources. We are living in an in-between world right now. And that’s why hybrid events will be the future.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 9, 2022

In writing this article, I aim to encourage you to take the state of your sleep seriously. You can read about this protocol in more detail in an article here. The post Sleeping Through the Holidaze appeared first on Smart Meetings. Increased risk of chronic diseases such as diabetes, breast cancer, heart disease and dementia.

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Endless Events

DECEMBER 13, 2018

They solve a problem that event and meeting planners have to deal with every day. Event planners and meeting planners crave to be in the know and want to be ahead of the curve on what is trendy and new. We publish a yearly article where we review the top trends we predict to come forward in the next year.

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