Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Considering that 80-85% of our perception, learning and cognition is mediated through vision , one of the core components to impact audiences has always been color. The post How Color Can Be Your Next Secret Weapon to Earn Audience Engagement appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Advanced Travel and Tourism

AUGUST 12, 2021

After all, business is booked, so why focus on more? Being booked solid comes with clear reasons to celebrate, but it doesn’t mean planning goes out the window. Even if travelers aren’t immediately booking, they’re still thinking about what they’re going to do for spring or summer vacation.

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Dana Communications

MARCH 24, 2025

For hoteliers, resort owners and destinations, email marketing remains one of the most powerful and cost-effective tools to engage guests, boost bookings and build brand loyalty. Your message goes straight to your audience. For example: A past guest who booked a spa package receives an email highlighting your new wellness offerings.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 14, 2025

Stronger Recall: Print ads drive a remarkable 77% higher brand recall compared to digital, making it more likely your audience remembers your hotel when its time to book. This trust boosts your hotels reputation and builds customer confidence in making a booking. Additionally, print has longevity.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 17, 2025

” Booking is open now. An additional 250 rooms will be up for booking soon, with the islands Marriott Hotel breaking ground this year. Whether organizing incentive trips or off-site events, this alcohol-free approach could appeal to companies looking to cater to changing preferences and a health-conscious audience.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 4, 2025

Sign up for the monthly Behind the Bookings newsletter here The Importance of Data in Event Marketing When you track ROI, you can see which marketing efforts are working and which ones aren’t. Without proper measurement, it’s impossible to determine which marketing efforts drive bookings and which merely consume resources.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 15, 2025

Many have already booked all their 2025 trips and Californias blend of nature, culture and adventure offers multi-generational appeal. Destinations worldwide are fighting for this audience. billion people, including 100 million passport holders, the target audience in India is as much as 20 million people.

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Endless Events

JANUARY 12, 2018

PS: Create an engaging event this year by learning how to increase your audience engagement with our free webinar. Can we really cure audience inattention with cognitive enhancing drugs? Get Ready for the Top Meeting Trends in 2018. Meetings have always been more intimate affairs compared to events.

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Endless Events

MAY 20, 2022

When it comes to hybrid event budgets, let the audience and event goals be your guide. Is the majority of your audience in-person or virtual? After all, they need to hire more event staff, pay for a virtual event platform, and engage two audiences in two completely separate ways while ensuring they can also interact with one another.

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Endless Events

APRIL 6, 2018

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. Here Are the Meeting Booking Stats You Need to Know. The Lowdown on Event Tech Security.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 18, 2025

Understand Your Target Audience: Who Are Meeting & Event Planners? By partnering with travel-related newsletters, hotels can share promotional offers, highlight unique amenities, and encourage bookings. Remember, success in this industry is built on relationshipsnurture them, earn trust, and watch your bookings grow.

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

And I’m so grateful that my dad gave me the book How to Get Any Job with Any Major. Great book, I still recommend it to everybody.” ” And last but not least, virtual audience engagement. A formula that works really effectively is 20% pre-prepared content and 80% open-ended audience engagement.

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Endless Events

JANUARY 21, 2022

Depending on the venue and the size of in-person and virtual audiences , these experiences can take many forms. In our e-book, The Road To Hybrid: A Guide To Models, Method & Mindset , we’ve divided them into four groups, also known as hybrid event models , and considered their characteristics. And production matters!

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Endless Events

JUNE 5, 2020

After you took the time to learn about mistakes to avoid , how to engage your audience , and sponsorship deals , we want you to think about how to entertain attendees. Just imagine how much fun it would be to have your audience following a professional mixologist and attempt to make their own mojitos and margaritas. Do you hear that?

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Its worth noting, however, that this covers roundtrip flights and onboard meals onlyaccommodations must be booked upon arrival, though Scandinavian Airlines does provide hotel partner options. The overwhelming appeal is likely behind the doubling of cost for each traveler from 30,000 EuroBonus points in 2024 to 60,000 points this year.

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Endless Events

MARCH 29, 2021

How can we bridge the gap between the virtual and the in-person audience? But we are getting ahead of ourselves – tune in and learn what else our lovely hosts have to say about hybrid audience engagement and interactions between the two audiences. How can you recreate that for the virtual audience?

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 31, 2021

Scott Flynn, CEO of team building provider Best Corporate Events , says his company saw a surge in bookings for live events in June only to see interest pivot back to virtual events more recently. Now, in late August, Live events booking are surging again. We’re agnostic about the format,” he notes. It’s a win/win,” she says.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 21, 2021

While event organizers are getting good at planning in-person, hybrid and online events, booking the right speakers and keeping attendees engaged are still some of the biggest challenges. Speakers should also be diverse and reflect the audience’s makeup, keeping in mind that online events tend to attract an international audience.

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Endless Events

JANUARY 19, 2022

Can we solve the audience engagement challenge once and for all? Both a novice planner as well as a seasoned veteran will undoubtedly find some value in this e-book. We continue with trends for in-person events and dedicate a large portion of the e-book to hybrid events in 2022. Audience Engagement: Choose Your Own Adventure.

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Endless Events

AUGUST 23, 2019

If you want your audience to stay engaged it’s imperative your presentations don’t suck! Video content is a great way to capture your audience’s attention. With a good presentation, stories can captivate your audience and keep their attention like nothing else. This is not a good way to engage with the audience.

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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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Bizzaboo

JANUARY 6, 2025

Conference management is so much more than just booking a venue and sending out invitationsits a comprehensive process that covers every stage of planning, organizing, and executing a successful conference or large-scale event. Understanding the Dynamics of Conference Management What is Conference Management?

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Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Many meetings still focus on creating audiences rather than community. Here’s how Damon Kiesow , Knight Chair for Digital Editing and Producing at the Missouri School of Journalism , compares the concepts of community versus audience from a journalistic perspective. Audience scales. Audience is centralized for profit.

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Dana Communications

AUGUST 20, 2024

They connect with a local travel influencer known for giving their audience authentic reviews and experiences. Within a few short months, the hotel is booked to capacity from this collaboration. Who is their audience? You want to ensure their target audience is aligned with yours. What’s their reputation?

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Advanced Travel and Tourism

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Regarding new audiences, A/B testing informs the destination on finding the right ones. As we all learned the hard way during the pandemic, the flexibility to pivot marketing direction is critical. Mackinac Island: America’s Coolcation Destination.” Loyal, repeat visitors are a strong base for the destination.

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

2022 is in the books, folks. You only have to book one venue and deal with one set of dates. You only get to see your audience once a year and need to make an impression to move the needle. As a brand, it also gives you a place to gather information on your target audience. So, what can we expect in the new year?

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Dana Communications

AUGUST 22, 2023

An Engaging Bookings Booster Ok, so the destination is selected. Travelers aren’t booking a hotel solely on word of mouth or reviews anymore. Using AR technology in these ways can be a definite win-win – by giving the audience what they’re looking for and increasing bookings. Next up – where to stay.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 28, 2023

Jaki Baskow reflects on celebrity booking trends in the top convention city In the 45 years talent broker Jaki Baskow has been booking celebrities in Las Vegas under the Baskow Talent brand, a lot has changed. Another element of the business that gets Baskow going is the impact made on audiences from the events she orchestrates. “I

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Endless Events

JANUARY 21, 2020

How To Engage Your Audience – #EventIcons Episode 87. Audience Engagement 101: Guide to Planning Relevant Corporate Events. Are you excited to book the MC for your next event armed with this extra knowledge? Meeting Design Toolbox for Meeting Architects. And that’s a wrap on this week’s edition of #EventIcons!

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Calendar year 2024 is already forecasted to show a healthy increase in group rooms nationwide, largely due to the number of meetings that had been on the books in 2021, 2022 and 2023 that were postponed or re-scheduled into 2024. When they went hybrid, they increased their audience to 15,000.

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ADMEI

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Its about investing in success, building something memorable, something that resonates with your audience long after the event is over. Whether youre planning a high-stakes corporate event, a milestone celebration, or a brand-defining product launch, investing in a DMC is about more than just ensuring the logistics are handled.

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Endless Events

MAY 4, 2021

Virtual audience engagement is key for every virtual and hybrid event, and it’s even more decisive when it comes to fundraising. We had a program book just like you would at a normal event, thanking our sponsors and giving more information about the cause. We also had some branded materials from our nonprofit organizations.

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Advanced Travel and Tourism

JUNE 25, 2024

Officials encourage Americans to plan and book early for fall travel, keeping in mind that the days before and after Thanksgiving are historically among the nation’s busiest both on the roads and at U.S. The post Strong Domestic Summer & Fall Travel Outlook for 2024 appeared first on Advance Travel and Tourism.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Booking major venues and event entertainment is something that should be done as soon as possible. Other important vendors that need to be booked well ahead of your event include your AV team, entertainment, and speakers. Consider booking your AV team prior to your venue. Start by thinking of your target audience.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

One thing I’ve used is a no-book-in-advance, 15-minute session to meet with a subject matter expert at the event.”. Gaudini is also an advocate for shorter sessions and longer audience engagement periods. The speaker doesn’t know what the audience wants necessarily,” she said. Unless…” she continued.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Make audience input easy. During the registration process, ask people what they expect or want to get out of their attendance; allow audience members to submit questions to speakers in real-time using question boxes or chat functions; use feedback tools to capture audience input at various points during and after the event.

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Endless Events

MARCH 25, 2020

In the process, you’ll also want to define your target audience clearly, since this is a stepping stone for many aspects of planning and execution. Do you just want a speaker talking to the audience? Do you want the audience to engage? Here you’ll want to keep the audience in mind when choosing the entertainment.

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