Endless Events

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

If you read our last piece on why collaborative learning is the future of event-networking , you are already familiar with e180 as the creator of Braindate , an online platform and an in-person experience that helps participants at events meet for topic-driven, knowledge-sharing conversations called braindates. Since our founding, we have created collaborative learning experiences at iconic events around the world.

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Motivation Excellence

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

Pay-at-risk pay is also called variable pay ; the model connects employee pay to the financial health of the company, paying out more when the company is doing well and less when the company is struggling. Across the country, up to 90 percent of companies are using some form of pay-at-risk compensation plan. The intention is usually to offer an incentive: if employees work harder, the company does better, and everyone makes more money.

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Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Why would you want to share information, not hoard it? In today’s cutthroat business environment, isn’t exclusive knowledge synonymous with power — and the ability to make money? Well, if you’re a stock trader or house flipper, maybe. But I’m a consultant who has long subscribed to Jerry Weinberg’s Seventh Law of Marketing : “Give away your best ideas” and Credit Rule : “You’ll never accomplish anything if you care who gets the credit̶

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AltexSoft Travel

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Every industry has its own regulator – an authority that sets standards and improves the cooperation inside. The air travel industry is no exception. IATA stands for International Air Transport Association. Its main goal is to regulate distribution-related activities in airlines and commercial aviation such as fare calculations, revenue allocation, and baggage rules.

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

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Eventtia

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Ever feel like events are causing a big black hole in your marketing budget? Unable to trace all of your expenditures without seeing any ROI? No way of seeing where every dollar you spend is going?

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Stova

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

While you and your teammates are busy setting up, testing equipment and greeting vendors for your event, frequent and open communication is critical. During the event itself, communication only becomes more important. There are a bunch of apps out there designed to help you talk with your team while onsite (or between different sites). So many, in fact, that it's becoming difficult just to research them all!

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Motivation Excellence

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

What is Incentive Travel? Incentive travel is an important subset of the Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, and Exhibitions (MICE) industry. It is effectively a travel perk used to incentivize or motivate employees or partners. It is often tied to company goals or top performers. In this report from the University of Central Florida Rosen College of Hospitality Management , Goldblatt and Nelson define an incentive event as “a corporate sponsored meeting or trip to [ rewards and recognition

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Special Events

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

This social media expert discusses the fine line between being authentic and over-sharing for event professionals.

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AltexSoft Travel

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

One million dollars invested in airfare annually — not long ago this figure was cited as a benchmark for businesses to start seeking help from a travel management company or TMC. At lower levels of expenses, it was a vain hope to negotiate bargain prices, perks, and commissions from airlines. With high fees charged for the services and no significant discounts, TMCs couldn’t bring much value to a small or medium business.

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Maritz Global Events

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

In such a demanding industry, it’s important for meeting and event professionals to find new ways to destress and avoid burnout. It’s not a secret: event planning is a hard career. Event planning is consistently ranked at the top of the Most Stressful Jobs list, right behind active military, firefighters, pilots and police officers. With that kind of pressure, it’s important to find helpful ways to fight the urge to flame out.

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

Stova

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Booking the right speaker is critical to the success of your event. If you’re wondering where to begin when it comes to how to find a speaker or just looking for some new ideas, you’re in luck! We turned to our panel of experts and asked them: Have you seen any dynamic speakers recently you would recommend?

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Why is it important to design events with empathy? Actually, let’s not start there. Why is empathy important in general? And why should we, as event profs, pay any mind to it? Well, simply put, because we’re humans. Because we’re putting together experiences for people, and we want them to have an amazing experience. And this seems like something automatic, something we don’t have to think about because we just make it happen by default.

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Motivation Excellence

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

A tight job market in a healthy economy creates a dynamic that affects business owners and employees similarly, but both groups have different objectives. Each side hopes to get more out of the other. A middle ground does exist in employee reward and recognition programs though; it benefits small businesses through employee engagement , and employees who want more from their employers will choose to alter their work habits, attitudes and behaviors, ultimately elevating your business.

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Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Whenever I open a meeting I run a human spectrogram map, allowing participants to quickly discover everyone at the meeting who lives (or works) near them. This is one of the most useful things you can do for a group of people who don’t know each other — and it only takes a few minutes! Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post How to run a human spectrogram map appeared first on Conferences That Work.

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AltexSoft Travel

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

An average traveler starts researching before they even have a particular destination in mind. And it takes them about 15 weeks to make a final decision. Interestingly, in the era of flight aggregators and websites with massive hotel inventories, we still tend to trust our own instincts and dig for better and cheaper options. This also means that online travel platforms have an opportunity to affect the final decision if their proposition is very attractive.

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Eventtia

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Planning one event alone is never plain sailing. So imagine planning multiple events in a short space of time spread out in different cities or countries ??. Sounds daunting, right?

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Stova

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The event world is booming in North America. Last year, Las Vegas, New York, and Orlando, FL were the top three cities for which events were held. However, as 2020 takes off, planners are mixing it up — and getting more bang for their buck — in these 5 U.S. destination cities on the rise.

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Welcome to this week’s #EventIcons, where we’ll discuss the topic of diversity and inclusion in events. And if you’ve been following us for a while, you know this isn’t new. Because we find this to be such an important conversation, we’ve covered it a few times already. However, things like diversity and inclusion in events will always remain extremely important.

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Special Events

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Great catering salespeople share 12 essential traits--here are skills that anyone can develop.

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Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

What’s your most important life lesson that you wish you learned ten years earlier? Julie Zhou , VP of Product Design at Facebook, asked this question on Twitter last month. What’s your most important life lesson that you wish you learned ten years earlier? — Julie Zhuo (@joulee) January 7, 2020. Amongst the several hundred responses, one by Amanda Goetz , VP of Marketing at The Knot and Wedding Wire, struck me. “Better understand your inner child issues so that your subconscious becomes

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Eventbrite

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

As February, the month Carter G. Woodson established as Black History Month in 1926, comes to a close, we have been reflecting on how we can continue to honor and recognize black history makers throughout the year. These are just a few of the countless black creators bringing communities together through unique live experiences. We’re […].

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Eventtia

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

It should come as no shock that brands such as Salesforce, Apple, and Tesla are investing big in events ????. Every year we see these events, with their own dedicated followers, capture the headlines with product launches, speakers, and exclusive brand elements.

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Stova

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Event planning consistently ranks as one of the most challenging — and yes, sometimes most stressful — jobs. In large part, this comes from managing so many moving pieces and parties. We’ve all found ourselves in what can feel like a vicious cycle of solving one problem after the next. But many of these problems stem from common, easy-to-make-mistakes.

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Welcome to another episode of #EventIcons, and this time around we’re talking 2020 event tech trends! If you know Endless, you know we love talking about event tech. So much so, we have another podcast entirely dedicated to the topic. And we thought this would be a great opportunity to bring you a crossover episode. In recent past episodes, we covered several 202o trends in the industry, including marketing and design.

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Special Events

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

This social media pro gives tips to wedding professionals on turning their social media efforts into business leads.

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Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

“How old are you?” All of us have wondered about the age of someone we’ve met, but asking this question can be awkward, even during a one-to-one conversation. Making public the ages of hundreds of people in a meeting room — well, that’s even more awkward! Body voting (aka human spectrograms) can uncover this information in a few minutes , but because age can be a sensitive subject, I’ve always demurred requests to have participants line up by age at a meeting.

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Travel Daily Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

The post The effects of ITB Berlin 2020 cancellation appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily. It’s official! ITB Berlin 2020 is cancelled. In a post on the official Facebook page of ITB Berlin, organisers have announced that the event will not take place this year. ITB Berlin 2020 is cancelled.The ITB Berlin team deeply regrets the circumstances.

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Eventtia

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Every event needs to be educational, meaningful, and above all engaging. But the challenge of delivering this to your attendees has never been greater. Especially when you consider that attention spans are decreasing, competition is intensifying, and attendees are expecting more.

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Stova

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

If you’re an event planner, you need to understand Google. With the search engine giant accounting for over 85% of all global mobile search traffic and growing in reach every year, you need to be on Google's radar to get more visitors to your event. Whether you’re organizing a conference, launch or any other event, learning how to get on Google events can ensure your event gets seen by more people.

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

?? The Best of the Best: Negotiating Prices: How to Win at Negotiating AV Prices for Events. Questions Questions Questions: The Best Questions to Ask Your AV Company For An Amazing Event. AV Labor: How A Long Event Day Can Turn Into An Expensive Bill. ? Believe it or not, we actually made an entire webinar all about how to negotiate AV prices. Check it out!

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Special Events

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

This top event professional shares his toolbox to get distracted event guests engaged.

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Atlas Travel

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

By Jennifer Murphy. As a provider of recognition products and services, I am always very excited to read the Incentive Research Foundation’s Trends Report. The data comes from extensive surveys conducted in the marketplace across a large number of corporations practicing recognition within their own organizations. As such, The IRF 2020 Trends Report highlights key recognition practices that will affect organizations, their products and services, and the workforce in 2020.

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Travel Daily Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The post TD holds first-ever Thirsty Thursday in Manila appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily Media. Great Filipino street food, overflowing booze, and mingling with like-minded individuals best described the first-ever Thirsty Thursday in the Philippines held at the beautiful property of Hilton Manila last night. Hailing from the yuppies’ term Thirsty Thursday, it is a pseudo-holiday celebrated on Thursdays involving drinking alcohol and partying.

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Eventtia

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

We often hear the comparison that managing an event is like a juggling act, and no more is this accentuated than when you’re working with external event providers such as planning agencies, catering services, AC companies, the list goes on.

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Stova

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Libations have been a part of social gatherings for ages, and have certainly been a big to-do in event planning of all types. However, as we continue to shape this new millennium, it’s time to reconsider how we include a growing number of attendees who don’t consume alcohol. Read on for our thoughts on why mocktails and/or booze-free drinks are important, and how to serve them at your next event.

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