Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Event organizers and destinations need these resources to help them align their efforts and maximize profitability and development for all. Many attendees shared that they intend to use the workbook to guide conversations with colleagues, extending its impact beyond the summit and influencing their organizations strategies moving forward.

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Endless Events

APRIL 8, 2022

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. What are the benefits of hosting the same event on two separate occasions? Event planners are moving towards the hybrid model because hybrid events have many benefits.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The Benefits of A Virtual Event Strategy. “A lot of people that I was getting on these phone calls with, they weren’t necessarily understanding that virtual event strategy has so many benefits. The first one is that it prepares you for meetings with stakeholders and with so many other people. .

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Badges included QR codes that were scanned as attendees accessed the show floor and education sessions, helping organizers understand what was popular based on actual behavior. Attendee Benefits. Organizer/Sponsor Benefits. Environmental Benefits. Some on-demand printing was available.

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Endless Events

JULY 6, 2020

It’s important that the event owners and members of the organization make it clear why their event will be magical and worth attending. This means better sponsorship opportunities, increased value for your organization, and networking opportunities all across the globe. Leverage Your Sponsors.

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Bizzaboo

DECEMBER 4, 2024

How about sponsors? In this post, we’ve compiled 51 must-ask event survey questions that you can paste directly into your post-event surveys to gain crucial insights into the attendee, sponsor, and employee experience. What do your attendees think about your event? Are they likely to support your event next year?

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Make sure you promote your event via the following: Organic and paid social media Email marketing Webinars Custom landing pages Influencer partnerships The tricky part is finding a balance between your company’s typical marketing content and your event promotions. Source Event Sponsors One of the biggest hurdles for event planners is cost.

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Techsytalk

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Finding a partner or a sponsor oftentimes isn’t easy. However, if you’re tight on cash, you need to try and look for sponsors or partners. Consider theme and purpose of your event and then look for organizations that might want to align themselves with your particular theme. Remember that both sides need to benefit from this.

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Endless Events

JULY 11, 2018

Finding sponsors for events can be difficult especially if you don’t have a core set of sponsors established. When businesses agree to sponsor your event they are wanting to increase their sales and build their brand. The example provided was set around food sponsors. What are your attendees interested in?

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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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Endless Events

AUGUST 10, 2021

“Event organizations spend a considerable amount of money investing in those events, from production to lighting and speakers. Some vendor organizers who are really savvy with their business discuss it, but on a whole, the events industry doesn’t recognize the value that event attendee data holds. Why are they doing that?

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Will this improve the quality of the event you’re organizing? Engaging with event sponsors. One way to drive engagement at your event, with the added benefit of getting your social media accounts buzzing is to gamify social media promotion. PURPOSE: Boost engagement with sponsors or exhibitors. But, does this really work?

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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. Many organizations plan one big in-person event or conference yearly and put all their efforts and budget into it. Planning Singular Annual Events.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 4, 2024

Catherine Chaulet “Meeting planners can actually appreciate the organizational strengths of the Olympic Games, seeing how everything is organized in a way that ensures security measures are in place,” says Catherine Chaulet, president and CEO of Global DMO Partners , based in Washington, D.C., The spectacle will last more than four hours.

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Endless Events

MAY 2, 2022

How do you keep an inbox organized with all that email? That way, you use the analytics of your event to benefit the attendee, not just tracking them for tracking’s sake.” ” A great benefit of push notifications is the ability to send sponsored push notifications,” adds Will.

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Endless Events

APRIL 22, 2022

It comes with a slew of benefits, including continuous audience engagement and endless branding opportunities. Event organizers have a lot on their plate as it is. A community manager needs to understand the organization’s purpose, social media marketing, content creation, and possess a wide array of soft, interpersonal skills.

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Endless Events

JUNE 15, 2022

The Benefits Of Experiential Event Marketing. The benefits of experiential event marketing highly resemble the benefits of event marketing itself. Highlight your sponsors in organic ways. Think of ways you can join forces with your sponsors and have the attendees interact with both your products at the same time.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Jack Macleod For the last 15-20 years, green meetings and organized gatherings aimed at minimizing negative impacts on the environment have been a concept, but in 2020, after the Covid-19 pandemic, they became a widespread topic in the events industry. Finally, implementing circularity can also benefit attendees.

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Dana Communications

AUGUST 8, 2023

By partnering with local charitable organizations, your property and its guests can experience the joy of giving back one vacation or spa treatment at a time. In this way, the act of pampering oneself benefits the greater community. And this makes everyone feel great.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

If that is the case for your attendees, here is a checklist of things to look for from a venue and the benefits of traveling this way. Ensure the caregivers work for licensed organizations. Read More : Take Me Out to the Ball Game Sponsor a talent show. For some, the solution may be to bring the family along.

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Endless Events

JUNE 6, 2018

A great app will also allow you to track your ROI and monetize sponsors. 97% of millennials own a smartphone leverage this to your benefit by creating a conference event app. How can you leverage your app to include sponsors? The Benefits of Conference Event Apps. What does everyone always have on them nowadays?

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

One final disclaimer before we dive in: this is not sponsored content ; no event platform paid to be featured on this list. As an organizer, you can toggle between light and dark mode and enable or disable randomized or table-like speed networking. . Always schedule a demo with your desired event platform before moving forward with it.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

I have always and always will advocate that that’s why we start with the destination organization…take a step back and think of this in the RFP in three very manageable buckets.” It can uplift individual attendees, sponsors and exhibitors, and even your CEOs and board members. To educate, look to post-event reporting.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

In the Multicultural Marketplace, DMO-sponsored booths suppliers who represent diversity and the community and are then assigned appointments with domestic and international buyers, press and social media influencers.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 27, 2018

Pillar Project regularly organizes fintech breakfast meetings in London. For large scale events, it’s worth connecting with commercial partners who are prepared to sponsor and promote the event to their customer base. He organizes a range of events, including corporate and business events, wine and food tastings in London and Houston.

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ADMEI

MARCH 20, 2024

This year’s conference successfully attracted the highest attendance that ADMEI has seen in years with nearly 250 in attendance , from sponsors and exhibitors to speakers and attendees, including 91 first-time attendees. How Attending Association Conferences Can Benefit DMC Professionals 1. Maximize your benefits.

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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! You’re bringing something to the table that has value, and people will benefit from that value”, he says. You’re doing yourself and your organization a disservice.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 22, 2024

Whether it’s with sponsors, host destinations, local businesses or other organizations, we leveraged these relationships to enhance the scope and reach of the event for the benefit of all,” she says.

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Endless Events

APRIL 23, 2021

Not to mention how much of an asset it can be for the organization internally! Email campaigns and Youtube are also great marketing avenues that would greatly benefit from the video content generated before and during your event. This becomes an increasingly more exciting concept with the advent of virtual and hybrid events.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The global professional organization officially launched 50 years ago in 1973 in that very city and has since grown to include more than 2,000 members, delivering research, education and networking. Carina Bauer, CEO of IMEX Group, which sponsored this year’s awards praised the international reach of the programs honored.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Additionally, MPI Foundation raised $400,000 through Caesars Entertainment-sponsored Rendezvous and a silent auction. Meeting Professionals International (MPI) powered Smart Monday and morning keynotes as part of a 20-year partnership that was formally extended through 2025. Read highlights from Day 1 and 2 of IMEX America 2022. .

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 5, 2022

After a slowdown from 2021, the use of streaming technology is steadily growing again, Alroy reported, citing a survey that found 68% of organizers plan to have a virtual component at their next in-person event. Virtual events must also combat distractions and unexpected technical issues to realize the benefits of scalability engagement.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Speakers want to present remotely, and attendees and sponsors are starting to drop off. What if travel policies change, and speakers, attendees and sponsors start to cancel? Maximize all benefits. Your organization can promote repackaged content to people who are likely to be interested but didn’t attend your event.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 11, 2023

Read More: State of Virtual Meeting Tools Attendees gather in an event space and meet sponsors, speakers and network with their community. The Many Benefits of Virtual Events Virtual events offer several benefits you just can’t get with in-person events.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Or you might be able to have a coffee sponsor next year. So if someone’s a stakeholder in your event and you can say, one of the things you get as a sponsor does not only do you get your name put under some banner that says gold sponsor or whatever nonsense our industry does all the time. ” Sponsors.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

a multimedia design and tech company, to map out best practices for putting the technology to work in the conference center, and he shared experiences developed alongside event organizers who understood the possibilities. Smart Meetings talked to Scott Schoeneberger, managing partner at Bluewater Technologies Group Inc.,

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

It’s no surprise why many large events require various large sponsors. Although it may seem like a hassle, paying $40 for a $1,000,000 policy will benefit you if your $100,000 set unexpectedly starts on fire. Because your event is organized by a team of professionals, however, each person will likely have their own opinion.

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