Smart Meetings

JUNE 27, 2022

As health and safety standards change with every new surge in Covid cases, many planners adopted virtual or hybrid platforms, but not all attendees have embraced the shift. Implement mask and social distancing policies that will put attendees at ease. Include small breakout sessions to let attendees connect with each other.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Most meeting professionals manage the needs of a small subset of attendees who require food, wheelchair access, sound, language or sensory accommodations. Most have multiple impairments, and that includes the audience and the speakers. Is it tabbable? Does it work with screen readers ? “A We can do better,” Sherrer said.

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Endless Events

MARCH 22, 2018

That’s why we’ve put together this list of creative ways to connect your attendees. Use technology to better connect your attendees. Let’s take a closer look at each of those: Event apps: Event apps are used to help increase attendee engagement and deliver a more personalized event experience.

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Endless Events

JUNE 10, 2022

The final step in the event management process is a follow-up meeting after the event to discuss the event’s overall ROI, attendee and sponsor feedback, and make the necessary readjustments to the overarching event strategy. Event professionals have to come to follow-up meetings after events well-prepared. Start planning.

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Endless Events

AUGUST 24, 2018

Some might even say they border on cheating, but they always capture attendees attention. Hopefully, it’ll also make your event sticky enough to turn event goers into customers and repeat attendees. It also includes a complete breakdown of how to prepare the perfect booth, while also giving tips for preparing for emergencies.

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Endless Events

MAY 1, 2020

Preparations for your event might be in full swing, but there are still virtual event concerns you must address! Attendees’ Bandwidth Ability. Because everyone involved in the experience – you, the attendees, the speakers, the entertainment – will be attending the event remotely. So, how can you solve this?

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Endless Events

JANUARY 25, 2021

How will the expectations from attendees evolve? In this chapter, you’ll learn about networking and engagement, how to cater to the virtual portion of a hybrid event, how to bridge the gap between audiences, what models you can adopt, along with many other aspects pertaining to hybrid events. Higher Expectations From Attendees.

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Endless Events

APRIL 10, 2020

The best thing you can do to start this journey off with the right foot is to be prepared. The number of attendees, sales, engagement, profit, new contacts – whatever is relevant to you and your organization. What will attendees accomplish by attending your event? Who are your attendee personas? Who are they?

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Endless Events

APRIL 1, 2022

Event sponsors are often crucial contributors to event budgets and therefore highly affect the overall attendee experience and the overall success of the event. Finding, pitching, and keeping event sponsors is not a gamble – it’s a process that event planners need to carefully prepare for. Think about your attendees.

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Endless Events

OCTOBER 29, 2021

In the past two years, we’ve covered nearly every aspect of planning virtual events and keeping virtual audiences entertained from the safety of their homes. A general rule of thumb when it comes to creative design for events is this: the more effort you put in, the more your attendees will praise the event.

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Endless Events

JUNE 6, 2018

You’re focused on providing engaging and interactive sessions for your attendees. You know that conference networking is important, but you’re not sure how to help your attendees make meaningful connections. And it should make you think long and hard about the ways you’re connecting your attendees. Don’t worry. You’re not alone.

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Endless Events

JUNE 16, 2021

Months and months of learning how to avoid webinar fatigue , how to keep the audience engaged, which platform would best suit your needs, and so on, can hardly be forgotten. They’ll find a small and unique venue and source a platform for remote attendees. Partners Who Pivot. State restrictions mean you have to go hybrid?

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

So, in face of data points like these, it’s only natural that several aspects of the industry are preparing for the upcoming shift. For starters, attendee safety will be at the forefront of event planning when it comes to the live portion of hybrid experiences. And this, of course, includes venues!

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Endless Events

APRIL 30, 2021

Now, venues also play a big part in promoting attendee safety and facilitating the technology necessary to engage the virtual audience. What content are your attendees consuming at your event? How will food preparation work? It’s no longer just about the experience taking place on-site. Why are they watching?

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Smart Meetings

MAY 31, 2022

For sure, there are a significant percentage of meeting attendees that can’t wait to participate in person; but organizers and planners found out during the first several months of 2022 that a sizable audience of previous attendees were more than happy to participate virtually. Preparation matters.

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Endless Events

MARCH 26, 2021

Delivering educational and relevant material to an actively engaged audience has never been as important as it is now. The age of digital and hybrid experiences got the wheels turning in everyone’s heads, and many still struggle with the matter of how to deliver the best virtual content to their attendees. Don’t Dump Away.

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Bizzaboo

DECEMBER 4, 2024

What do your attendees think about your event? What was the experience like for in-person versus virtual attendees at your hybrid event? In this post, we’ve compiled 51 must-ask event survey questions that you can paste directly into your post-event surveys to gain crucial insights into the attendee, sponsor, and employee experience.

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Endless Events

JUNE 1, 2020

Now that your attendees are no longer physically present, engagement becomes more important than ever, and an event app can go a long way in helping you out with this. And if you’re looking to promote your main sponsor, push notifications that remind attendees about sponsored sessions or offers is also a great way to do so!

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Endless Events

JUNE 19, 2020

So that means that both preparing your virtual event speakers and being the one who does the speaking entails quite a bit of preparation and a series of best practices that wouldn’t apply to in-person events. Your voice will play a huge role in keeping the audience engaged and coming back to you. 2 Prepare Your Background.

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Endless Events

JUNE 15, 2022

This is great news for event marketers and planners who can plan experiential events – events that aim to evoke positive emotions in attendees and resonate with their values. After all, what makes an incredible event is not the stage and the logistics, but the atmosphere and the positive emotional state of the attendees.

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Bizzaboo

JANUARY 6, 2025

Its about bringing all the moving parts together in a way that feels effortless to your attendees while ensuring nothing slips through the cracks behind the scenes. At its heart, its all about delivering a seamless experience that leaves attendees feeling engaged, valued, and eager to participate again.

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Endless Events

APRIL 6, 2018

The upside is convenience and providing quick support to attendees. Are you able to keep your audience’s private information secure before, during, and after the event? For many in the industry, connecting with audiences is something that happens only when an event is about to launch. The Lowdown on Event Tech Security.

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Endless Events

JULY 25, 2018

Planners want someone that enjoys their brand, loves to incorporate technology, is full of charisma, and knows how to work an audience. To really engage the audience you’ll need to find someone that appeals to them and can provide a unique feel to your event. They should have a mesmerizing charisma that keeps the attendees hooked.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 27, 2025

of vibrant, distinct meeting space at La Fonda on the Plaza attendees made brilliant connections and took part in an experience that both refreshed and inspired, heading home with elevated understanding and ideas of how to incorporate wellness into their own events, for all of their own attendees. Across the breathtaking 20,000+ sq.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Here are my top tips for maximizing attendee engagement and delivering an event that offers real value for all participants. Are you producing your own video and audio content to stream or share with hybrid event attendees? Think carefully about how every attendee can be supported to get the most out of the event.

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Endless Events

AUGUST 19, 2021

However, the odds are there will be a few bumps along the way, no matter how prepared you are. That way, you won’t lose what matters the most: the trust of your attendees. If you have an effective crisis communication plan and a COVID-compliance strategy , attendees will be much more forgiving.

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Endless Events

MAY 6, 2019

Event Live Streaming: The Audience. “In a sense, you’re creating a new audience, you have the in-person audience and the virtual audience”, says Brandt. So, it’s paramount you remember both these audiences and not just one of them. What does your remote audience look like?”

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

.” Another great core goal to measure event success is attendee satisfaction. ” Attendee retention , on the other hand, is more challenging. “When you think about attendee retention, you don’t always see that as a KPI metric for in-person events. . “You can use NPS or CSAT.

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Endless Events

MAY 28, 2021

And while many planners and attendees alike are more than ready to return to live events in full swing, there are a few things to consider. As easy as it is to get swept up in the joy of it all, managing attendee expectations is crucial to ensure a smooth transition back into live experiences. What is required from attendees?

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Read More : Make Hybrid Events Worth Every Dollar for Virtual Attendees All of it underscores a recognition that togetherness is an essential ingredient for success. Get to know your audience on a deeper level. Great leaders know their audience, whether its customers, partners, board members or team members.

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Endless Events

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Live streaming events is a great way to expand your reach and make your content and programming available to a new audience. There’s a lot of benefits to live streaming events, but truly successful live streamed events are more about audience engagement and less about technology. Do you want your remote audience to be able to network?

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Sessions should also serve to pique the attendees’ interests, not drown them. There should be options too, in the food & beverage section to enhance the attendee experience. Despite the trends in the industry, many event professionals still focus on keeping audiences entertained in order to keep them on track.

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Endless Events

MAY 18, 2020

You can create a podcast that features your audience, speakers, and sponsors as a new way to sell sponsorship slots and stay relevant. We break down each step of creating a podcast along the way so that you can use podcasting as a new revenue stream for events and offer even more value to your audience. A great solution? Don’t worry.

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Endless Events

JANUARY 27, 2023

I was fascinated and wanted to understand how hotels and destinations were preparing for the return of travel. One Thing the Industry can do Better: Educate Attendees One of the significant benefits of the nomadic lifestyle is constant exposure to other cultures. Her response: attendee education.

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Endless Events

MARCH 31, 2021

Attendees will likely be more mindful of personal space and ventilation, so provide options that allow you to sparse out the audience, as well as spaces where those warier of indoor rooms can feel at ease. Virtual attendees have been sitting on their couch all of 2020. They’ll thank you later!

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 5, 2022

A streaming option can serve larger, more geographically diverse and executive audiences, act as a flexible insurance policy in the event a new threat grounds attendees while providing valuable data about behavior. We are turning attendees into participants,” he said. You have to be ready for that.”.

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Endless Events

JULY 5, 2018

It creates a much more immersive and engaging experience for attendees. That’s because it’s more interesting visually and attendees get all the benefits of a virtual component attached to a physical event. They need to be comfortable looking straight into a camera, rather than at an in-person audience.

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