Endless Events

DECEMBER 20, 2022

To successfully recreate the in-person experience online, planners need to consider the following challenges. How to create serendipity and exciting spontaneity of in-person event experiences online? Your audience should understand that it’s a real event you’re planning, not just another webinar resembling a conference call. .

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Endless Events

APRIL 27, 2022

Events – be they virtual, hybrid, or in-person – are an integral step in building your online community. And what better way to get some ideas going than by looking at some amazing online community examples with great events? Girls in Marketing is an online community example, dedicated to e-learning for women in marketing.

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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Last week I immensely enjoyed participating in a two-hour Zoom brain trust on moderating online panels. So good, it should be shared with a wider audience. As you’d expect if you know these folks, the session was very well organized and facilitated. What are 1-2 of your online moderating pro tips? Who was there?

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 31, 2021

In June, organizations across America were excited about the return of in-person events, and the enticing potential of hybrid events. Community standards: Not only from place to place from organization to organization, different groups of employees have a different comfort level with the risk/reward calculation for live gatherings.

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Endless Events

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Organizations can entertain, educate, inspire, sell, or do all of the above simultaneously. Organizations use event marketing to: Promote the brand to a larger audience. Get data insights into their target audience. After the event, they put all their content online on demand. Increase their conversion rate.

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Endless Events

APRIL 8, 2022

What makes a hybrid event synchronous is that both hybrid audiences experience the same event, at the same time. But this is no easy feat; research shows that 46% of event organizers say that speakers struggle to simultaneously engage a virtual and in-person audience. Why asynchronous events? Each gets full, undivided attention.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 17, 2021

The answer is to understand both your in-person and virtual audiences while creating powerful experiences for both. Today’s successful hybrid events celebrate and amplify the offline physical event online. In this new era, event organizers must develop strategies for each audience. Tapping into The Differences.

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Social Tables

JUNE 8, 2022

Audience engagement plays a significant role in the success of any event. Whether in-person or online, event organizers want attendees to pay attention and participate. In fact, more than 80% of marketing professionals believe that audience engagement is a key indicator of an event’s success. Understand your audience.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 24, 2021

But chances are, online events are likely to stay even after the pandemic because of the many benefits they provide. For example, they allow you to reach a wider audience at a much lower cost. Luckily, there are other analytical tools event organizers can use to find out how well their event performed. Online Visits.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 8, 2022

Audiences will pay for quality content. Organizers can, should and will charge for virtual events, but they will need to be very high quality experiences.”. Approximately 80% of virtual events are free, according to the Evolution of Events Report. Your virtual audience will feel more engaged and seen if they have a dedicated emcee.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Thanks to this knack for adaptability, a surge in virtual events completely shifted the paradigm, and audiences were introduced to brand new ways to connect and experience the world. One of the most glaring hybrid event mistakes planners incur is ignoring the virtual audience (more on that later). Both audiences will thank you!

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Endless Events

JANUARY 19, 2021

“We’ve created online summits long before people were doing online events”, says Phil. So yeah everything we’re doing in 2021 is going to somehow be online. Content For Virtual Events: The Audience. When tackling the topic of content for virtual events, Phil circles it back to the audience.

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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? Beyond the data they provide, it’s also important to provide data security during the event itself when they access their accounts online. Online security is an important aspect of events.

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Convene by PCMA

DECEMBER 30, 2021

After a promising but brief return to in-person-only events in the spring, the Delta and Omicron variants forced many event organizers to renavigate a hybrid event landscape to engage both digital and physical audiences. Even as their hybrid events remain a work in progress, many organizers now see their long-tail potential.

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Because audiences are participating from home, it’s easy to get sidetracked by the dog or the mailman. A great way to keep your audience from tuning out during the event is to gamify some aspects of the experience. Particularly over the past few months, we all sort of bonded over the excitement of online shopping.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 23, 2022

Now we’re onto the next challenge: making the virtual event a great online experience. Cut the Quality and You’ll Cut Your audience. You need to invest in a platform that supports high-quality broadcast video, and you need skilled professionals who can design compelling content to keep your audience engaged.

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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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Smart Meetings

JUNE 28, 2021

In a world where TikTok reigns, audiences simply don’t have the interest or bandwidth to stick with you for your 60-minute state of the union address. Instead, your opportunity is to figure out how to use, and embed the right tools of engagement to keep your audience riveted, attentive, curious and ready for more. Jason Thomson.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 12, 2022

However, while some meeting professionals are itching to get back to in-person events, some organizations have grown quite fond of the reach and data-enabled by virtual meeting experiences­­. A dedicated online agenda, offering virtual participants features that wouldn’t be available to in-person attendees, can be elevated through a screen.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 15, 2022

Out of necessity, we mastered snazzy new ways to connect, play games, exercise, entertain, make lunch/dinner/drinks and build things through platforms online. Offering a hybrid format for your meetings and events may: Bring you more attendees, as well as greater community engagement between and with the virtual and in-person audiences.

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Endless Events

JUNE 10, 2022

In this blog post, we will explore why you need to have follow-up meetings, followed by what to do during those meetings and how to organize them to get the greatest impact. Survey Your Audience To Get Post-Event Feedback. The fastest and easiest way to survey your audience is during the event itself. Onsite polls.

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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

DECEMBER 9, 2022

But even in the hybrid setting, organizers need to be mindful of how they are engaging their attendees. One hill for event planners to climb during the pandemic was trying to engage online attendees in a way that avoided the FOMO (fear of missing out) of being a digital participant. Ultimately, exclusivity is key.

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Whether online or in-person, events are a great way to drive brand awareness, generate leads, and connect with customers. So let’s give your audience what they want. Create an Event Community Online communities are virtual spaces that bring like-minded people together. What made your audience fall in love with your brand?

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 16, 2021

One of the positives that came out of the last 18 months is the ability to reach a broader audience through livestreaming. Even as events are coming back and in-person audiences are gathering around the world, a virtual component will forever be a way to add value to your event and to your attendees.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 31, 2022

After an almost two-year hiatus, planners and event organizers who have moved ahead with physical-only events have been disappointed with attendance. Either way, meeting planners need to organize with both online and physical attendees in mind. Perhaps, with the pandemic easing, the industry is just learning this now.

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Advanced Travel and Tourism

JULY 7, 2021

According to a survey from Wyzowl , people are watching online videos for an average of 16 hours per week. We also know that people are twice as likely to share something online if it includes video. . Whether they know the brand well or not, most online users are drawn to video content more than other mediums. Chromecast.

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Endless Events

JUNE 29, 2020

Some of the primary upcoming concerns for event organizers will include re-organizing events with the limited timescale, adhering to strict safety guidelines to protect their guests and attendees, and discover solutions that potentially curb the spread of the virus. The second half of 2020, however, looks positive.

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

But money saved also means ROI lost: the champion of March 2020 does not deliver on audience engagement and valuable data insights – and these are essential for an event’s success. Enhanced virtual audience engagement. Virtual audience engagement remains one of the biggest pain points of event planners.

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Endless Events

APRIL 22, 2020

Keep reading and learn how you can go about deciding how much to charge for your virtual event – and how to drive extra revenue to your organization! Instead of checking out virtual event pricing from other events, take a look at online course platforms. And chances are, some of your audience fits in that bubble.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Significant corporate events take time and resources to plan, with organizers and attendees looking forward to achieving desired outcomes. NFTs represent art, videos, music and even real-word assets, bought and sold online, usually using crypto. First, create a synergy between the NFT and their audiences that aligns with their roadmap.

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Advanced Travel and Tourism

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Cisco predicts that over 82% of consumer online traffic will be in video form in 2022. The pandemic has continued to leave users skeptical of online platforms and flashy ads, so brands have had to get creative. There are chances to reach more diverse and engaged audiences.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 14, 2022

Predictions are that 40% of 2022 events are projected to happen online, there will be a 37% increase in companies’ virtual event spending, and 20% of trade shows will remain virtual. Organizers would expect that all of this translates into more opportunities for revenue. But the reality is that 80% of virtual attendance is free.

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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. That way, we could provide engagement in their home and provide an immersive experience when they were watching the event online.” Also, we delivered these gala-in-a-boxes to these house parties.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 6, 2022

Whether you are live streaming your event to a virtual audience or taping your event to provide attendees who did not attend in-person a chance to invest in the content. With the onset of the pandemic, organizers were forced to move quickly to online events and discovered they were reaching brand new audiences.

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Endless Events

AUGUST 5, 2019

“I did this just last week, an event here in the UK that I was speaking at, where the organizer didn’t have a Q&A software, but I wanted to use that to engage with the audience. So, you don’t have to dive in with both feet, you don’t have to dive in with a ton of money” Audience Engagement Technology.

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Endless Events

JUNE 15, 2022

By including your audience in your marketing efforts, your brand will connect with them in a much more effective way. Create a memorable hashtag and give your audience a chance to participate in an activity they will want to share on their profiles (ie. Highlight your sponsors in organic ways. social media wall).

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