Smart Meetings

APRIL 27, 2021

“Content can certainly be consumed at the same time, but the experience for each of those audience sets is going to need to be optimized for both,” Peltier says. Virtual attendees are not going to sit through long sessions; they’re going to want more bite-sized content with more dynamic production created for their screen viewership.

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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

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. You bring that in and you let the people who are online use that as well.

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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. What are 1-2 of your online moderating pro tips? Tools and techniques for engaging the audience. Prep/production calls. 20 mins: Breakouts (in groups of 4).

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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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Endless Events

MAY 16, 2022

After all, the world-famous exercise equipment company has managed to grow a strong community through its content delivery, social media presence, and audience engagement. They talk about the technology, production, content, diversity, and gamification aspects of Peloton. High Production Value.

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Endless Events

MARCH 2, 2022

Perhaps one of the biggest perks this paradigm shift brings along is continuous audience engagement – one of the most talked-about pain points for event planners. The pandemic normalized virtual events , improved their production quality, and sped up the adoption of event platforms. Best Community Model Practices.

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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

MARCH 17, 2020

Moving to a Virtual Event – How do I get it online? . Moving your event online will require several moving parts. The first steps are to look at your event and visualize what your ideal online event would look like. Will you need demos of products? Many people have attended online webinars or live streams.

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Endless Events

MARCH 15, 2021

The online experience could never replace that. They haven’t spent a lot of energy on online events until they had to. Now, all of a sudden, they’re putting a lot of energy into online events and that’s really the catalyst. “There’s still going to be a lot in the online world.

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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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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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Endless Events

JUNE 10, 2022

Survey Your Audience To Get Post-Event Feedback. It’s the fuel you’ll need to improve your future events, as well as a way to maintain a connection with your audience. The fastest and easiest way to survey your audience is during the event itself. Did we promote to the right audience for the event?

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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 a Launch Plan Leading Up to Your Big Event Treat your event like it’s the biggest product launch of the decade for your company. What’s the event goal?

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

As a production company, we get a lot of questions about virtual attendee engagement. 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. Gamification Wins.

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Endless Events

MARCH 24, 2022

We’ve outlined 77 event KPIs and divided them into eight major groups: general and attendee event KPIs , financial event KPIs , marketing KPIs , audience engagement KPIs , presenter KPIs , sponsorship and tradeshow KPIs , event networking KPIs , community KPIs. Event platforms have transformed how we measure audience engagement KPIs.

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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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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. I imagine having hype people, not only in the chat virtually, but also in-person to hype up the audience. You’re not going to show the same intro video for both audiences.”

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Endless Events

AUGUST 11, 2020

And since topics such as networking and production value have already been discussed, we figured it was time to bring some inspiration to the table. Customer lifecycle marketing, B2B2 and enterprise growth, product innovation…these are only some of the things one can expect to find at the Growth Marketing Conference.

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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

AUGUST 24, 2021

As the industry pivoted to virtual events, virtual audience engagement became one of the most talked-about challenges. And most importantly for this podcast, he is the founder and CEO of Shindig , a virtual conference, event, and meeting platform that has mastered the art of online engagement. We can achieve miracles online!

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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? Determine Your AV And Production Needs. These are all things to consider.

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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. Don’t pour your efforts into an excellent script only to neglect the production process! Make audience input easy. Don’t try to replicate in-person events.

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Endless Events

JUNE 15, 2022

Additionally, they are much more likely to spend money on experiences rather than products. The job of an experiential marketer is to make that experience unforgettable and enjoyable, prompting the customer to develop an emotional bond with the product or brand. Give them a chance to try your product or interact with it tangibly.

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Endless Events

OCTOBER 12, 2020

In this particular case, we’re not talking about engagement between attendees, but rather the complex relationship between the talking heads and the audience. In order to combat webinar fatigue, presenters and speakers alike must make a serious effort in order to establish a consistent, engaging dialogue with the audience.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 18, 2025

Understand Your Target Audience: Who Are Meeting & Event Planners? To stand out, clearly communicate what makes your product or service unique. Ask yourself: What makes my venue, service, or product indispensable to planners? Optimize Your Online Presence Most meeting planners begin their search for suppliers online.

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Endless Events

JUNE 1, 2021

Today, she shares with our audiences what she had learned. We take a look at our events and decide how we’re going to do strategy and partner with our product marketing team.” “We try to provide some sort of fun through the online as we did at in-person events.” It continues to be really popular.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Epic is in the middle of hosting a three-week concert series with some pretty big names and some advanced production. No event planner/production company is. The Ins & Outs Of Hybrid Audience Engagement. ?? At least Fortnite is guaranteed not to shut down due to Coronavirus outbreaks. ??. But, we want you to learn with us.

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Endless Events

MARCH 10, 2020

“Live webinars in addition to the summits where we do three hours of education, we now teach the majority of all of our certificate sessions online. So yeah, rehearsals are important” Production Value. How can we ensure a virtual audience stays engaged? The Timing. “Our speakers have fancy microphones.

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

More events with more events mean more food, room blocks, entertainment, production equipment, and travel – and those all cost extra money. Higher Event Production Costs & Standards. Event production costs, too, have increased since the pandemic. The Rise of Energy Costs . The Prices of Raw Materials.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 21, 2023

However, even the best business plans can fall flat if the production value isn’t there. Integrating an effective marketing strategy can lead to more engaging graphics, a better cultivated online experience, more consistent and better wording for copy, and stronger cohesion to the company’s brand.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Know your audience. Make sure it stays true to audience needs. If infections spike and you need to cancel your in-person event, you’ll still have valuable digital content to share with your audience. A good hybrid strategy also expands audience reach and event lifecycle. How do you keep virtual audiences engaged?

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Smart Meetings

MAY 20, 2022

While virtual technology helped preserve and grow the events industry throughout the pandemic, hybrid events have become a contentious issue among event leaders, especially as we “reincorporate in-person audiences in our meetings,” as Krueger describes where we are in the process. You know, the lights, the green screen, the whole nine yards.

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Dana Communications

MARCH 28, 2022

You can showcase different products, settings or experiences. Customers can familiarize themselves faster by listening to a brand demonstrate or share their product, and it also helps put themselves squarely in the shoes of the presenter. It’s Adaptable to Audiences. It’s Authentic. It’s Accessible.

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Convene by PCMA

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Meeting professionals who are looking to make their events more appealing to next-generation attendees might consider making a simple shift: Use words to describe your events that resonate with your target audiences. But “let’s look to the words that [audiences] want to use. Those will shift.

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The AV industry, whether that’s your in-house hotel AAV or even third-party production companies, is struggling to be fully staffed up as we start to reincorporate in-person audiences into our event strategies.” “When producing hybrid events , we want to treat the in-person and virtual audiences differently.

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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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