Endless Events

JANUARY 25, 2021

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. Expectations from the audience will continuously grow as technology evolves.

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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! How can you be sure the audience will have the necessary speed and quality of WiFi? While this will depend on the tech-savviness of your audience, the answer is probably not. So, how can you solve this? Communicate!

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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. How will food preparation work? There’s a considerable portion of your audience attending remotely, be it from their homes or other spokes. Who’s moderating all of this? Technology.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Get to know your audience on a deeper level. Great leaders know their audience, whether its customers, partners, board members or team members. As leaders, it’s our job to ensure our teams feel motivated and prepared to achieve ambitious goals. Be prepared to interpret data and respond.

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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 short answer is – know your audience. You’re Here To Serve The Audience. Once the content comes in, your role is to serve the audience, never the other way around. The same goes here.

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Techsytalk

MAY 30, 2019

Not only is that not an entertaining way to share information, unfortunately, it can also be a great way to put an audience to sleep. All event planners know the importance of drawing the attention of an audience using compelling information. Overloading your audience is a sure way of losing them.

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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

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. As event professionals, we are responsible for the protection of our audience’s data.

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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. Do you think it’s important to provide this feature to your audience? They’re the ones who will have to keep a virtual audience engaged when there are so many other things they could be doing instead. Would this be of interest to you?

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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

AUGUST 19, 2021

However, the odds are there will be a few bumps along the way, no matter how prepared you are. Depending on the audience, you can present it in a humorous way to lighten up the mood. To sum up, the underlying message is to always be prepared. If you plan well enough, you may not even have anything go wrong!

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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. Account for accessibility.

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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. Conference Speaker Must-Haves. They Tell a Story. They are Tech-Savvy.

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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. But as we previously discussed , venues are already preparing for this through the GBAC Star Accreditation. And this, of course, includes venues!

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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. How to Prepare for an Interview.

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

” And last but not least, virtual audience engagement. But it’s so much easier for virtual events. “What is the most creative way you have seen a speaker or a facilitator integrating audience engagement? A formula that works really effectively is 20% pre-prepared content and 80% open-ended audience engagement.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 25, 2022

With the rise of digital marketing in the past two decades, new possibilities for targeting and target audience research have sprung. Unless you are one of the big names in a very specific niche, the chance that you have enough audience to fill up a room is slim. Priming—preparing the audience for what to expect.

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Endless Events

JANUARY 19, 2021

Content For Virtual Events: The Audience. When tackling the topic of content for virtual events, Phil circles it back to the audience. So the better you understand who that audience is, the more you’re going to succeed and the engagement will come as they sense that you understand where they sit” A Perfect Example.

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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. That way, they can prepare their content accordingly. social media wall).

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 28, 2023

But to mesmerize your audience with something they haven’t seen before, meeting planners should invest time developing a productive relationship with an AV partner. Read More : 10 Questions to Ask a Potential Event Vendor Your AV provider’s technicians will be interacting with your staff, your presenters and your audience.

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Despite the trends in the industry, many event professionals still focus on keeping audiences entertained in order to keep them on track. The real magic behind the process is how everything is prepared in advance, starting June of the year before. Preparation is everything in events. Click To Tweet.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Gaudini is also an advocate for shorter sessions and longer audience engagement periods. I have a 20/80 recommendation; I recommend speakers prepare 20 percent of the content, and leave the other 80 percent for peer-audience engagement— chat, Q&A, [etc.]—because Despite having gotten pushback from people, she said. “I

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

We’d started preparing for everybody having to work from home and a lot of those kinds of things. So from a backend organizational side, we’d prepare it a little bit. But when you’re doing a hybrid event, you’ve really got two audiences and somewhat two events. What does that mean for production?

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Advanced Travel and Tourism

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Audience Targeting Digital marketing offers a more targeted approach to reaching potential voters, allowing campaigns to tailor their messaging based on demographics, interests, and behaviors. Non-political advertisers can also benefit from this targeting ability, as they can refine their ads to reach specific audiences and demographics.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 11, 2025

As the exclusive media sponsor, Smart Meetings was there to hear how meeting professionals are adjusting to losing international attendance while preparing for higher prices. ” He concluded, “ Dont pause your engagement with international audiences right now. “ Some countries are removing barriers.

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Bizzaboo

JANUARY 6, 2025

Types of Conferences: A Diverse Landscape Conferences come in all shapes and sizes, each tailored to meet specific goals and engage a unique target audience. A thoughtful planning process is key to ensuring the event aligns with your goals and resonates with your target audience.

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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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ADMEI

MAY 15, 2024

Learning how to design a booth for an exhibition helps DMCs maximize their presence at trade shows and connect with the right audience. 4 Strategies to Elevate Your Trade Show Exhibition Booth ROI Prepare with your audience in mind. There are many benefits of trade shows for professionals in the meetings and events industry.

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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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Endless Events

APRIL 14, 2022

“It begs an important question for event profs: are you prepared for something like that to happen? He’s yelling from the audience and you can hear him clear as day. ” Always Be Prepared: Anything Can Happen. ” “Anything can happen anywhere with any audience,” says Dustin.

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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. If you’re worried about bridging the gap between audiences at a hybrid event, check out our best tips! Networking Spaces.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 21, 2025

Consider this: A planner arrives at your hotel for a site visit, and youve prepared a personalized gift waiting for them in their room. Real-World Examples of Effective Surprise Perks Hotels that successfully leverage surprise perks often think creatively about their audience.

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ADMEI

MAY 8, 2024

Learning how to design a booth for an exhibition helps DMCs maximize their presence at trade shows and connect with the right audience. 4 Strategies to Elevate Your Trade Show Exhibition Booth ROI Prepare with your audience in mind. There are many benefits of trade shows for professionals in the meetings and events industry.

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Convene by PCMA

JUNE 6, 2022

Simpson, alongside Megan Finnell, CMP, director, meetings & conferences, MGMA, offered an alternative way of designing better attendee experiences — one that relies on data — during “Accessing Your Blind Spots through Data insights: Tools to Uncover What Your Audience Really Wants,” at EduCon on Monday morning.

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Bizzaboo

DECEMBER 4, 2024

By the end of the piece, you’ll learn the questions you can ask using audience engagement software that will help you gather honest opinions from attendees, sponsors, exhibitors, and speakers — and how you can use that data to measure success, identify areas of improvement, and ultimately enhance your overall event strategy.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

After two years of not meeting, companies and audiences may have different goals and expectations so conferences that were previously produced as simple iterations on the previous years’ event must now be reinvented whole cloth. Those conversations don’t have to be adversarial, however. By the Numbers. Jeff Calmus.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 27, 2025

She went on to guide the audience through a few practices centered around three pillars: mind, body and breath. A former planner herself, she told the audience that she has been in their shoes, at their desks, doing the same work they do now; the self-care mindset she introduced to the audience is one tailored for them and the job they do.

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