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Think Small, Win Big: How Hotels Can Lead the Small Meetings Revolution

Smart Meetings

Factors such as the rise of remote and hybrid work environments and tighter corporate budgets have driven this change. Increasingly, businesses are favoring cost-effective, smaller meetings over large-scale gatherings, allowing them to align spending with strategic goals.

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3 Ways Hospitality Can Win at Digital Marketing

Smart Meetings

Key Challenges for Meeting Planners: Budget constraints and cost-saving goals Finding venues or suppliers with flexible options Creating seamless, memorable attendee experiences Dependable communication and quick responses By understanding these pain points, your digital marketing efforts can address their needs front and center.

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Tips for Difficult Conversations from FICP22

Smart Meetings

In fact, if approached with thoughtfulness and preparation, those interactions could lead to the meeting professionals taking a rightful place as strategic advisors. It should be really obvious that we aren’t just order takers,” she said, putting the enhanced role of the corporate meeting professional in perspective. “We

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Life on Cruz Control: A Meeting Veteran’s Hope for the Future

Smart Meetings

Editor’s Note: As we celebrate the 2023 Meeting Professionals of the Year , we thought it fitting to go back to a 2020 Meeting Professionals of the Year winner, John Cruz, senior corporate meeting planner with BlueCross of North Carolina , for some perspective.

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5 Tips for Planning Franchise Conventions

Endless Events

In both instances, there’s a high chance that franchisees will walk away feeling talked at rather than communicated with. Pre-event communication, the event itself, post-event communications, and follow-up surveys should all be impactful. Sessions also often attempt to deliver too many messages at once. It just doesn’t work.

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Everything You Need To Know To Create Your Event Timeline

Endless Events

Knowing what is a priority will help you manage your time better and keep you from feeling overwhelmed. However, if you’re planning a corporate meeting, six months might be all you need. Create emergency & crisis communication plans. Meals – Communicate times with your catering staff!

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Deepfakes Can Harm Your Company’s Reputation

Gavel International

In 2019, criminals used AI-based software to impersonate a CEO’s voice, successfully convincing a managing director to transfer 220,000, roughly $240,000 (USD), to a fraudulent account( 1 ). Can you have a plan in place to clearly communicate to stakeholders the false nature of the deepfake and prove that it is not real?