Smart Meetings

JUNE 15, 2024

At the annual user conference Cvent Connect for a record 4,000 attendees in San Antonio this week, the event technology company which was purchased by Blackstone last year announced new products and acquisitions designed to better meet the needs of meeting professionals, whether planning simple events or complex hybrid affairs.

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Endless Events

JUNE 6, 2018

Conference event apps are a must for any conference in today’s world. Adding conference event apps to your next event will create accessibility with content, notifications, feedback, and everything else you will need to communicate with your attendees. But how do you incorporate a conference event app? Let’s jump in.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

No wonder registrations soared off the charts. Know your audience. Conduct surveys, analyze behavioral data from past events, talk to registrants and read comments they post in chat. Make sure it stays true to audience needs. What if registrants are divided? You planned a spectacular event. Then along came Delta.

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

No – the magic of events lies in the overall experience your audience has. But he’s been to many conferences both as an attendee as well as a keynote speaker that he knows all about engagement and networking at events. While he is not in the events industry bubble, he nonetheless knows a lot about events and conferences.

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Registration Figures. Registration is a good indication of event quality and attendee demand. . Registration for an intimate gala will be lower than registration for a huge conference. Even so, tracking registration figures over time for similar types of events can help you gauge attendee interest. .

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Endless Events

OCTOBER 4, 2022

If you’re planning the biggest shindig of the year, you’re busy worrying about registrations, sponsors, and catering. For example, if the people you up-sell at your conference used to have a $200 average sale value, but now they’re spending $500, that means you have more money in your pocket — and that’s a good thing. Registrations.

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Endless Events

JUNE 15, 2018

Online Tools to Make Registration a Breeze. Forever gone are the days when event registration meant signing a sheet of paper. For any type of registration though, speed and ease of registration is a definite plus. Common tools like WordPress and MailChimp can now process registrations.

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

However, it does not focus on event management tools, registration , streaming software, or your average webinar platforms. A note to planners : Not the solution currently meant to manage onsite elements for your event, but offers the unique opportunity to incorporate Topia onsite at your event to connect the virtual audience. .

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Endless Events

APRIL 26, 2021

Yet the biggest events in the world didn’t use it for the registration. One gigantic Intel conference, for example.” That way, the in-person audience and the remote audience are using the same platform. For example, the registration platforms that didn’t feel the need to bolt on a video platform.

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Endless Events

MAY 5, 2022

As such, they’re the dominant audience at corporate events and conferences. The Benefits Of Event Technology For Audience Engagement. Audience engagement is one of the most talked-about pain points for event planners, especially when planning hybrid and virtual events. Communities offer year-round audience engagement.

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Endless Events

APRIL 10, 2020

What existing event technologies do you already have for registration and/or networking? Do you already have registration or networking tools? Options include password sent to registration database, user and password login, Google/Facebook single sign-on, and more. How do you want users to access the event?

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Endless Events

AUGUST 22, 2022

Will kicks off today’s topic by taking us back to Google’s 2022 IO conference. Using AR Can Improve the Speaker-Audience Relationship. How do you truly connect with virtual and in-person audiences ?” AR could remove those challenges while enhancing audience participation. AR Can Enhance Instant Translation.

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Endless Events

JUNE 15, 2022

Any event can be experiential: conferences, meetings, exhibitions, trade shows, and corporate events. By including your audience in your marketing efforts, your brand will connect with them in a much more effective way. When planning experiential events, you need to think about your specific target audience. social media wall).

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Endless Events

JULY 12, 2018

Using registration metrics. Shortly, we’ll be explaining how registration metrics and event ROI use quantitative means to determine if your event has been a success. For example, setting the number of new registrations you want to achieve from a particular email campaign. The main registration sources. Conducting surveys.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

While most meeting professionals ask about the need for accommodations on the registration form, DeWitt’s team screens every warrior to ensure the right facilities will be in place. “We Go Beyond the Requirements Bettyanne Sherrer, vice president and managing partner CanPlan Events & Conference Services Inc. Is it tabbable?

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Smart Meetings

MAY 17, 2021

Event planners, speakers and attendees all saw their calendars cleared out last March, returning slowly with virtual events and only now showing a glimmer of hope for the return of live conferences. One bad element can ruin an otherwise great experience at a conference and cause an attendee to reconsider returning the next year.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Although the conference moves around, he is limited in the number of places that can hold all of the activities, even though he has resorted to tenting parking lots and taking over alternative spaces. Even if it is a three- or six-month wait, attendees can use that time to book their hotel and flight instead of the other way around.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

In a Livestorm survey conducted in 2021 , 68 percent of respondents reported increased use of video conferencing in the past 12 months, in everything from internal meetings to conferences and tradeshows. Registration and/or attendance rates are declining. Post-event survey feedback. Tools for boosting online event engagement.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 4, 2024

Events, meetings and conferences today are supported by digital event platforms that make it possible for companies to seamlessly connect with people across the globe and deliver more engaging and immersive experiences than ever before. Here are some best practices for driving audience attendance in digital events.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

A company event , a festival, a conference? Start by thinking of your target audience. The better you know your audience the easier it will be to choose your marketing channels. . Open registration. Attendees should access registration forms easily, so make sure to make them pop! What type of an event is it?

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Endless Events

MARCH 8, 2018

According to meetgreen.com the typical conference waste attendee produces 1.89KG of waste per day, 1.16KG of that will go directly to a landfill. It also allows them to share your updates, event information and connect with others all over the world, building your audience and reach for your events while increasing engagement.

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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

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

I’m guessing you can upsell the conference in addition to the membership fee?”. You can drive registration but there’s also organic revenue that comes from proper engagement. They want to be able to broadcast their content to a wider audience.”. Will mentions upselling next. and even 6 million dollars for large organizations.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Not only do they talk about this particular event platform’s solutions, but they also nerd out about data analytics, virtual audience engagement strategies, and the ROI of virtual events. “We had this big conference plan, but we had to pull the plug on it. . ” Event Management Platform For Conferences.

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Convene by PCMA

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Registration forecasting for 2023 was the top challenge identified by Louisville Tourism’s Client Advisory Council members. The assessment included analysis of CAC members’ registration data, insights discovered about attendee behavior, and suggestions for how and when this information should be communicated.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 4, 2019

For many years, it involved brands shelling out dollars for exposure at conventions that catered to their target audiences. Now, with data and technology bringing advertisers closer to their audiences, brands expect to see clear and conclusive evidence that sponsorships yield sufficient return on investment.

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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. And speaking of social media, don’t overlook this now-old friend.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 17, 2021

She said, “This isn’t ideal, but, I have a captive audience of customers and suppliers that want to meet. The week of the conference happened to be an “off week” for the Padres. Main ticket windows used for registration area. Ballpark digital signage for conference logo and sponsor info.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

IMEX Group worked with pc/nametag to manage registration for the 12,000 attendees who descended on Las Vegas for IMEX America in October. Bizzabo’s Klik Experiential wearable integrates into the company’s registration, check-in and lead-retrieval data flow to capture behavioral data. For the Love of Lanyards. Attendee Benefits.

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Endless Events

JUNE 7, 2021

They cover all levels of staffing at hybrid events, beginning at basic customer support and tricks for higher audience engagement. Then, you need the people that are actually a part of your registration staff that need a higher level of customer service and knowing the agenda. Then, they move into discussing AV labor positions.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

You need people that work for the conference, right? But then you should also have five or 10 (depending how big your conferences is) people, who have no relationship whatsoever to your conference, and [you can] honor them with a title; give them a little bit of power and make [starting conversations] their job.”. “If

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Almost three decades later, SXSW is a household name among trade shows, conferences, and events. “My first job was opening the mail and entering the data from the registration forms. ” “We started doing online registration in the late nineties,” says Scott. What are your goals and who is your audience?

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Rather than having a regular conversation about event technology, Will and Brandt are sharing the contents of a session they led at the FICP Annual Conference in Phoenix, Arizona back in November 2021. Brandt and Will give the audience a one-hour rundown of event technology trends of 2022. You can do it at registration as well.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Hybrid events—whether they are conferences, expos or training courses—are meetings that can be accessed in person at a physical location, or remotely via an online platform. Make audience input easy. Consider the wants and needs of your audience and use your event platform to easily share accessible content that will truly excite them.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 9, 2024

Training should include both theoretical knowledge of crisis communication and practical exercises like drafting urgent statements and conducting mock press conferences to sharpen public speaking skills. Methods to Contact Guests When guests go through registration, are you collecting cell phone numbers and emergency contact information?

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 14, 2024

Beyond QR Codes Event production company Animatic Media announced a new product this week called Intelligent Content , designed to bring conference content to life. “With Intelligent Content, we aim to redefine how conferences and events engage their audience,” said Scott Frankel, CEO of Animatic Media.

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Endless Events

MAY 12, 2022

Deanna agrees but adds that many audiences are clamoring for the pre-pandemic events. “I planned a conference in 2020 that got canceled. This year, they’re using 75% of the agenda I made for that very same conference. ” But on the other hand, there are many events with low registration numbers.

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