January, 2018

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How To Create Your Event Budget

Endless Events

If you’re planning an event, there’s one step that is essential to making that event happen: creating the event budget. Luckily, it’s a repeated action so you can easily create a basic framework for your budget, edit it along the way, and use tools that you probably already have to make it come together. It might seem daunting and finite to create an event budget, but as long as you make one that is realistic and builds in padding in case of emergency, you’ll be all set.

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18 Event Trends Poised to Shake Up Hospitality & Group Business in 2018

Social Tables

In the events world, you don’t have the luxury of living in yesteryear. Y ou need to see into the future and stay ahead of the event trends that will inevitably make or break your business. But don’t worry, you don’t need to rush out and buy a crystal ball to be on top of it. Using a combination of research and survey data, we’ve rounded up the 18 most important trends set to hit planners, hotels and venues in 2018.

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6 Events that Took the Brand Experience to a Different Level

Eventtia

“Seeing is believing, experiencing is remembering.” This is how Bob Priest-Heck, president at Freeman, entitled his article about designing the invisible. As he indicates, a flawless design of a brand experience is much more powerful than a company identity. Especially relevant is a Freeman report, which indicates that “As organizations search for a better way […].

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The 5Ws Event Marketing Plan (2018 edition): Strategies, Tactics and Trends Framework

BizBash

200+ tips, strategies, templates and tactics to win at event marketing in 2018. Your practical event marketing plan to quickly grow your event and sell more tickets. Why do you need it? Because you create great events. But marketing them is a tough challenge. After pouring your heart and soul into planning an event it can […]. The post The 5Ws Event Marketing Plan (2018 edition): Strategies, Tactics and Trends Framework by Julius Solaris appeared first on [link].

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COVID-19 Travel Consumer Sentiment Study

TravelBoom and sister agency, The Brandon Agency, release new consumer sentiment study on travel amidst the COVID-19 second wave

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Meetings Due Diligence in the Aftermath of a Disaster

MeetingsNet

Seven steps you need to take to safely decide whether or not to cancel when your meeting destination is hit by a hurricane or other devastating event. After the epically awful 2017 hurricane season wreaked destruction from Texas to Florida to Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, meeting professionals with future events booked in affected areas are grappling with a tough question: Should we stay or should we go?

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Have to Lead a New Type of Meeting? Consider a Meeting in a Box

MeetingPool

From time to time, you may feel challenged when you have to hold a particular meeting. Maybe you have to introduce certain concepts to your workers that you haven’t covered formally before or are faced with a client presentation on short notice. Regardless of the reason, pulling together all of the materials and information can […].

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How to Create an Event Planning Checklist That Leads to Flawless Execution

Social Tables

Coordinating an event involves layers upon layers of details from the pre-planning stage six months in advance to the day-of-event logistics. Keeping all of those details in your head will result in constant mental chaos and present unnerving stress on event day. To say the least, that’s counterproductive. Creating a customized event planning checklist will not only keep you on target with clear direction, it will also provide essential information to the event team, who can work in tandem

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How to Make Good Use of Event Marketing and Boost Your Brand

Eventtia

Like it or not, the attention economy is our new reality. The Facebook notifications, the newsfeed updates, and the tweets have been successfully hijacked our brains. The increased waves of information and visual stimuli are challenging our already fragmented attention span. Never before have we experienced such a degree of attention scarcity and focus deficit. […].

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Top 100 Innovation Articles of 2017

BizBash

Building upon the success of Braden Kelley's Blogging Innovation, we launched Innovation Excellence on August 1, 2011 and so 2017 was our sixth full year of operations. To celebrate we've pulled together the Top 100 Innovation Articles of 2017 from our archive of nearly 7,000 innovation-related articles from more than 400 contributing authors. Click the link if you missed.

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An Events Pro Finds the Future at CES

MeetingsNet

Autonomous Events? What tech developments from CES mean for event organizers. It's a bit ironic that the largest collection of digital technology is displayed in a traditional trade show setup at CES LINK [link] each year. Even as technology advances, robots become more human, and the most talked-about innovation is AI that can't be seen, it still takes a human touch to put together the right display to market these products.

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Evolution of the DMC:Renewing Business Relationships with Deeper Trust, Transparency & Understanding

The evolution of the DMC industry requires that it embark upon a renewed relationship with clients that is built upon transparency, trust, and understanding.

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Make Your 2018 Events More Productive with One-to-One Appointment Scheduling

MeetingPool

While most events feature numerous breakout sessions, speakers, and floor demos, ensuring attendees have the ability to connect with other professionals and suppliers for one-to-one meetings is becoming a must. People don’t come to events just to go from one session to the next without networking or meeting other business needs, and even those with […].

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Try New Event Ideas For 2018: Create a Roadshow, Book Underrated Venues, Create a Unique Event Experience

Endless Events

As we kick off 2018, we’re excited to discover a lot of new event ideas for 2018 to energize our event planning. More than the technology itself, it’s really great to finally see innovations in personalization and customization gearing up to be the central theme in this year’s events. On top of that, we encourage event professionals to really use data to make their events better this year.

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18 Event Trends Poised to Shake Up Hospitality & Group Business in 2018

Social Tables

In the events world, you don’t have the luxury of living in yesteryear. Y ou need to see into the future and stay ahead of the event trends that will inevitably make or break your business. But don’t worry, you don’t need to rush out and buy a crystal ball to be on top of it. Using a combination of research and survey data, we’ve rounded up the 18 most important trends set to hit planners, hotels and venues in 2018.

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Event Management Software versus Registration Platforms: How to Make the Right Decision

Eventtia

You’d think that one of the hardest experiences in life would be to train as a Navy SEAL. That’s probably true, but there are a lot of other equally challenging experiences out there. Being event management software developers for more than five years, we’ve discovered a struggle only a few can survive. The rest would […]. La entrada Event Management Software versus Registration Platforms: How to Make the Right Decision aparece primero en Eventtia | Event management software.

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4 surprise cloud computing trends for 2018

BizBash

First of all, I hate doing yearly predictions. Also, this is the time of year that every PR firm in the country asks me to read the cloud computing predictions of their clients, which are all pretty much wrong and self-serving. So, I’ve put together four cloud predictions for 2018 that you won’t see coming but that should help shape your cloud strategy for the new year. [ Learn all about the cloud at InfoWorld.

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3 Ways to Source Smarter in a Sellers’ Market

MeetingsNet

To successfully source in today’s tough climate, it pays to leverage the resources you already have. Let’s face it: This year will be tough for meeting planners. Not only are we in a seller’s market, but planners will also face tighter budgets, higher meeting costs, and less bandwidth. So, what happens when an unstoppable force (supplier price increases) meets an immovable object (meeting planning budgets)?

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3 Ways CrowdRiff Makes Blogging Easier for DMO Content Teams

Crowdriff

Did you know 80% of people are more likely to read your blog content if it’s paired with colorful visuals ? That’s one of the many reasons DMOs need to focus on engaging visuals as part of their content marketing strategy. But we all know that it’s not always easy to find interesting, relevant visuals – especially if you’re publishing a ton of niche blog content and need the right images to match.

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Free Event Planning Tools To Make Work Easier

Endless Events

Who doesn’t love a free event planning tool? One of the best free event planning tools an #eventprof can use are templates. You can avoid missing crucial event details, reduce the stress of recreating something from scratch, and hit the ground running from day one. Another excellent tool you need under your belt is a solid social media strategy.

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Our Most Popular Event Planning & Hospitality Blog Posts of the Year

Social Tables

Over the past year, we’ve explored new terrain, sent out surveys, researched, and then researched again — all in the name of bringing you the great blog posts that can help at every stage of your events. But which of those posts were the most helpful? We looked to the numbers to find the ten topics that were most important to you in 2017. Check out our ten most popular event planning and hospitality blog posts of the past year. 1.

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5 Types of Millennials that Will Kill Your Networking Events

Eventtia

Yesterday’s consumers of YouTube pranks and Instagrammable avocado toasts have become today’s executives, entrepreneurs, and high-qualified professionals. Their disruptive approaches are enabling the economy to spin the other way around, generating new value-exchange frameworks. Transforming the world into their playground, millennials are gradually building strong communities and businesses.

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Knowledge is power: knowledge program set to shake up AIME

Travel Daily Media

The post Knowledge is power: knowledge program set to shake up AIME appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily. Provocative and inspiring sessions by industry experts and thought leaders are at the core of the Asia-Pacific Incentives and Meetings Expo’s (AIME) highly anticipated Knowledge Program for 2018. The Knowledge Program takes an in-depth look at event technology, regional and global industry trends and forecasts, and case studies on techniques to enhance pop culture, destinat

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3 Ways to Make Your Contracts More Cyber-Secure

MeetingsNet

The company supplying the Internet connectivity must warrant that your group’s data will be safe, and take measures to ensure that it stays that way. No one wants to see a headline in the daily news that features their event’s name and the words “data breach,” but with today’s increasingly bold—and, unfortunately, clever—hackers, it could happen. Here are three ways you can, and should, be addressing cybersecurity in your supplier contracts, according to Joshua Grimes, Esq., a meetings industry

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CrowdRiff’s Perks vs. Benefits: Why We Value Family Before Foosball

Crowdriff

Today’s startup office has become synonymous with things such as catered lunches, nap rooms, and foosball tables. However, at CrowdRiff, we don’t have any of those things. Being a startup founder, there is a very real pressure to offer similarly flashy perks to your own team, to keep them happy but also to stay competitive in the talent pool.

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Create an Experience via Innovative Stage Design Ideas, and More

Endless Events

We all want our audiences to feel special when they come to our events. That’s why are always innovating and trying new stage design ideas, new tools, and new tech. This week, we have a few tips for making your trade show booth stand out and managing your social media better. You’ll also learn how to work better by opting out of meetings and opting into the right workspace.

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Our Most Popular Event Planning & Hospitality Blog Posts of the Year

Social Tables

Over the past year, we’ve explored new terrain, sent out surveys, researched, and then researched again — all in the name of bringing you the great blog posts that can help at every stage of your events. But which of those posts were the most helpful? We looked to the numbers to find the ten topics that were most important to you in 2017. Check out our ten most popular event planning and hospitality blog posts of the past year. 1.

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5 Errors That Will Sabotage Your Brokerage Events

Eventtia

The core elements of development and growth revolve around meaningful relationships and professional connections. People can’t launch new businesses or startup endeavors without building a strong networking foundation first. Although we are comfortably living in a digital era, face-to-face meetings, brokerage events, and networking dynamics remain a centerpiece of the event industry.

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Centara Hotels & Resorts new private partnership agreement signals strategic intent

Travel Daily Media

The post Centara Hotels & Resorts new private partnership agreement signals strategic intent appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily. Centara Hotels & Resorts have announced a long-term lease agreement for Centra by Centara Government Complex Hotel & Convention Centre Chaeng Watthana. Chairman of the board Suthikiati Chirativat signed the agreement for the 204-room hotel and conference property in the Thai government community 10 minutes from Bangkok’s Don Mueang Int

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Girl Scout Cookies and a Talking Stick: What It Takes to End a Government Shutdown

MeetingsNet

Senators brokered a deal to end the U.S. government shutdown by using an age-old meeting tool. When a bipartisan group of dozens of senators huddled in the office of Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, last week to hash out a deal to get the U.S. government running again, it could have gotten ugly. But Collins used the same tool people have been using for millennia to keep conversations orderly—a talking stick.

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The Saskatchewanderer: The Power of Using a Brand Ambassador to Tell Authentic Visual Stories

Crowdriff

The sparsely populated Canadian province of Saskatchewan may not be as renowned for big cities, skiing or ocean coastlines like its neighbors are. The prairie province is, however, two-thirds covered by boreal forest, home to almost 100,000 lakes and rivers, and has a long-standing farming and agriculture tradition, making it one of the largest playgrounds for hunters, campers, big game fishers, and agriculture enthusiasts.

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Looking Forward – 2018 Event Industry Trends- #EventIcons Episode 95

Endless Events

Happy New Year!! This week we are celebrating the new year and looking forward to 2018 event industry trends. In this episode, our hosts – Brandt Krueger, Alex Plaxen, Tahira Endean & Audrey Gallien are here to talk about what is trending in the event industry in 2018. We bet you do not want to miss this episode! Some topics they address in this episode include diversity, event safety, event apps, hybrid events and MUCH MORE!

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2018 Preview: Event Tech Predictions From Industry Experts

BizBash

BizBash asked event professionals known for their expertise and innovation in technology to identify the new or emerging technology that.

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How to Write a Unique Event Business Plan for Your Brand

Eventtia

Happy 2018! Now that it’s a new year, have you been thinking about how you’d like to up your marketing game this year? Let me ask you a few questions to help you get started. Do you base your marketing efforts on planning and running brand events? Do you usually set up an event business […]. La entrada How to Write a Unique Event Business Plan for Your Brand aparece primero en Eventtia | Event management software.

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New Amara Signature Shanghai location revealed

Travel Daily Media

The post New Amara Signature Shanghai location revealed appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily. Amara Hotels & Resorts has announced the upcoming opening of Amara Signature Shanghai in the historical Changshou Road commercial zone. Following the successful launches of Amara Singapore (main picture), Amara Sanctuary Resort Sentosa and Amara Bangkok, the Shanghai outpost is the first under the new luxury brand, Amara Signature.

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3 Ways To Design An Event That Delivers Better Results

MeetingsNet

No matter how many events you’ve planned and executed, you still need new sources of ideas and inspiration to keep things fresh. Discover how you can design experiences that will be irresistible and indispensable to your audience this year at XDP. Robert Anthony once said, “The best way to escape your problem is to solve it.” This year’s Xperience Design Project (XDP) event lets you do both.

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How DMOs Can Easily Spotlight More Local Businesses with CrowdRiff

Crowdriff

Think of your top three favorite spots in your destination. Maybe they include a great bakery or a music venue or a business that takes people on walking food tours. Many local businesses like these are at the heart of your local economy. But a lot of the time, they slip by unnoticed by travelers. It’s not that visitors don’t want to check out the best local businesses – it’s that they don’t know about them yet!

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