May, 2020

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Event Pricing: Attendees Paying What They Choose

Endless Events

What are the odds you’ve been thinking hard about event pricing? With all that is happening in the industry right now, we’re guessing they’re high. Because virtual events are now the norm. And figuring out how much you should charge your attendees is a challenge. With an in-person experience, it was easier. You had previous examples to draw from, and the numbers were a little more clear.

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Will Covid-19 kill Incentive Travel?

Pádraic Gilligan

by Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua & Chief Marketing Officer, SITE Will Covid-19 kill Incentive travel? Part of me loves the speculation, the permutations and combinations. The “if this, then that” logic that we indulge in on a daily basis. I’m referring, of course, to the endless chatter around what meetings 3.0 or incentives 3.0.

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The MICE Exchange, episode 3: Is it time to rethink geographic market segmentation in the events industry?

The MICE Blog

The corona crisis has brought the industry together in a way we could have never imagined before. In the current climate, there are no borders and limits to how we can connect and interact with the industry online. New online initiatives were born out of the crisis, such as the #eventprofstalk hackathon and #EventProfsTogetherAtHome , and this is just the beginning of a shift we’ll see growing in the coming years. .

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5 Ways You Can Adapt to post-COVID-19 Loyalty Marketing

Motivation Excellence

2020 began like every other year with experts making predictions about how the year ahead would play out. Experts looked into their crystal ball to explain how retail, tech, education, and other major economic areas would change because of disruptive transformations in the marketplace. Nobody, however, foresaw how COVID-19 would bring about unprecedented changes almost overnight.

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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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How to implement participant-driven breakouts in Zoom

Conferences that Work

Why implement participant-driven breakouts in Zoom? I’ve been designing and facilitating participant-driven and participation-rich in person meetings — aka peer conferences — for almost thirty years. Why? Because participants love these meetings ! Now the covid-19 pandemic has forced meetings online. Unfortunately, most online events are still using a traditional webinar/broadcast-style approach: presenters speaking for long periods, interspersed with chat-mediated Q&A.

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Presenter Tips and Tricks for Your Best Virtual Event

Stova

Do you want to learn how to be a successful presenter at a virtual event? Or, maybe, you are an event planner and you’d like to know how to train your virtual presenters to create the best virtual experience? If your answer to either of these questions is a resounding yes , you’re reading the right blog. We’ve done our homework and found the best of the best practices for presenting at your next virtual event. ( We’ve also included bonus training tips to help out all you event planners. ).

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Airline Reporting Corporation and IATA Billing and Settlement Plan: How they Work

AltexSoft Travel

BSP and ARC are two abbreviations that people coming to a travel agency business stumble across early on. Things are quite confusing here and nascent travel agents can easily get overwhelmed with understanding what’s IATA, how IATAN is different, why ARC number is the same as IATAN number… And a whole lot of other questions. In this article, we’ll figure out what BSP and ARC mean and — more importantly — why you should care, if you are a travel agent that wants to issue flight ticket

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How to Get Your Speakers to Say Yes to Your Online Event

Eventtia

Running an online event comes with a set of challenges. Apart from deciding the structure of your online event and the way you’ll organize the online sessions, you also have to “sell” the idea to your potential speakers.

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Defining Employee Engagement and Making a Case for Nurturing It

Motivation Excellence

What do we mean by “employee engagement”? Employee engagement means that employees are committed to their companies. Employee engagement isn’t the same as employee satisfaction. It also means that these employees are connected to their organizations. In today’s world, a business will fail if its employees are not engaged, but it will succeed if the employees are fully engaged at work.

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Schedule breaks during online meetings!

Conferences that Work

Providing downtime during any meeting is important , but it’s especially important to schedule breaks during online meetings. What happens if you don’t schedule breaks during online meetings. Some people have the attitude that attendees at online meetings are grown-ups and they should be given the freedom to take a break when they want and/or need to.

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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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How to Choose the Right Virtual Event Formats

Stova

You know the feeling.you're in the thick of planning an upcoming event and are trying to figure out what new engagement formats to use to excite your guests. But a wrench has been thrown into the mix: this event is virtual. Now, you have to think about what event formats are available, will they be engaging enough, will attendees participate in them?

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2020 Virtual Event Trends

Endless Events

Who would have known that 2020 would go down as one of the most influential years- if not the most influential year- for virtual events in history? Even as the highest-ranked event trends predictor in the industry, even we couldn’t guess this. We surveyed hundreds of #Eventprofs to weigh in on the hottest virtual event trends for 2020. Some of these trends match up nicely to our overall 2020 event trends we predicted , so you should see some cross over for how you can also apply these to y

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How The Event Industry Can #MeetWithConfidence

Special Events

DMC leader Marty MacKay outlines steps the event industry must take to ensure attendees will return to meetings.

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We’ll Meet Again: Liz Caruso of Liz King Events

MeetingsNet

Virus-sniffing dogs and GPS tracking could help attendees be more safe while planners refocus on creating meaningful events. Liz Caruso, CEO and Chief Event Specialist at Liz King Events and founder of TechsyTalk, a community for innovators in the events industry, shares her thoughts on how people will meet again, including some low-tech solutions. MeetingsNet: What changes do you think will happen to face-to-face events due to the pandemic?

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8 Incentive Ideas for Remote Workers

Motivation Excellence

The coronavirus restrictions have forced many businesses to make changes in their daily operations, and an increasing number of companies are turning to work-from-home options. Younger workers are especially eager to embrace this idea, and many actively look for companies that offer this incentive. Now, numerous companies are feeling the pressure to offer meaningful benefits that help them retain top workers in their fields.

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How to implement participant-driven breakouts in Zoom — Part 2

Conferences that Work

Part 1 of this series of posts gave an overview of what’s involved in implementing participant-driven breakouts in Zoom. Read it before diving into this post! In this post (Part 2) I’ll cover most of Step #1 of the previous post: preparing for The Three Questions using Zoom breakout rooms. If necessary, get familiar with Zoom, including breakout room functions, before proceeding.

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5 Easy Steps to Create Awesome Virtual Event Breakouts

Stova

The word’s out - virtual events are all of the rage. Your biggest questions have probably been answered: “What platform should I use?”, “How can we keep the feel of a live event?”, “How can I make this work for me?”. Now that those big hitter questions are out of the way, you are probably in the thick of planning the details surrounding every aspect of your event.

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If You Don?t Have A Virtual Event Budget? We Need To Fix That!

Endless Events

?? The Best of the Best: All About That Money, Honey: How To Create Your Virtual Event Budget: Calculator Included! Live Stream Dream Team: How To Live Stream Your Event. ? Need more help with your virtual event budget? We’ve got you covered. Here is our free virtual event budget calculator. A Virtual Concert On Mother’s Day ??. This Mother’s Day was a bit of a challenge.

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The Big News on ‘Micro Weddings’

Special Events

In the wake of the COVID crisis, wedding expert Emily Sullivan shares ways fellow planners can design successful "micro weddings.

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What’s the Hotel Experience of the Near Future?

MeetingsNet

Every hotel brand is making decisions on how to create a welcoming, comfortable, and productive experience that can be delivered safely. It won’t be easy. For business travelers, the “new normal” is coming closer to reality with each passing week. New York is talking about a large-scale reopening in June , while some conferences and shows originally set for September and October have announced their intention to go on as planned.

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How to Cope with the Crisis in the Travel Industry

AltexSoft Travel

This is a guest article by tech writer Ray Slater Berry. The crisis is hitting the travel industry hard, there’s no doubt about it. In fact, the global revenue for the travel and tourism industry is earning around 34.7 percent less than last year. With so many businesses struggling, pivoting or having to make tough decisions, now is the time that your next steps can determine how you come out of this crisis.

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How to implement participant-driven breakouts in Zoom — Part 3

Conferences that Work

Part 1 of this series of posts gave an overview of what’s involved in implementing participant-driven breakouts in Zoom. Part 2 explains how to prepare for The Three Questions using Zoom breakout rooms. Read them before diving into this post! In this post (Part 3) I’ll cover how to run The Three Questions using Zoom breakout rooms. Preparing staff to run The Three Questions in Zoom.

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Virtual Event Sponsors: 10 Ideas to Keep Them in the Spotlight

Stova

As you plan virtual and hybrid events, you may be wondering, “How can I give my sponsors and exhibitors exposure during my event and connect them with my audience?”. At first glance, creating value for sponsors in a virtual setting may seem intimidating. But fear not! Having a virtual event does not mean your sponsors and exhibitors will lose precious face time with your audience.

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The Events Industry & The Hub And Spoke Method Post-Pandemic

Endless Events

Recently, BizBash shared an article that proposed the hub and spoke method. Now, why does this make sense and what does it even mean? Let us paint a vivid picture for you: as a pandemic sweeps the world, the events industry suffers. But planners and profs alike are resourceful, which is why we’re seeing a huge spike in virtual events. And as days pass, there is only one certainty all of us can agree on.

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Event Pros: How Optimism May Be Encouraging Your Demise--the Stockdale Paradox

Special Events

Wedding pro and business consultant Kerry Lee Doehr shares the importance of mixing optimism with a reality check to stay in business.

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How to Make Big Decisions Better

MeetingsNet

A TED Talk veteran presents a four-step problem-solving process that ensures groups consider all internal and external factors to make the right decision. When a group of colleagues comes together to solve an organizational challenge, formidable obstacles lie ahead of them: Weighing the importance of various factors, taking in the varied perspectives of all participants, and coming to consensus—all in a limited time frame.

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Can Socially Distanced Pop-Ups Help Bring Back Live Events?

BizBash

A group of event pros recently created a design-forward take on drive-by graduation and prom celebrations. Their next challenge? Brand activations.

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Travel Booking Engines: Types, Functionality, and Integrations

AltexSoft Travel

A booking engine is the brains behind distributing travel products online. Without this software component, you can neither sell nor buy airline tickets or hotel reservations through the Internet. Trip-related companies employ different types of booking engines to run core processes instead of human personnel. Let’s explore what they actually can do and how their functions and tasks vary across travel businesses.

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What's the Difference Between Virtual Events and Webinars

Eventtia

For the best part of 3 decades, marketers across all types of business have been using webinars for a long list of reasons. So by now, it’s fair to say we should all be familiar with what they can offer. But suddenly, this has become a lot more blurred and that’s all thanks to the virtual event.

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Virtual Event Platform vs Virtual Event Production Company

Endless Events

Understandably, the advent of virtual events came to shake the very core of the industry. With countries shutting down and social distancing measures put in place, virtual experiences are the only choice planners have to stay afloat. this is not a bad thing, of course, – now more than ever, people have the need to feel connected. To share their stories.

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Ode to My Beloved Event Industry

Special Events

Special event professional Deborah Elias of Elias Events shares her ode to the event industry during the COVID crisis.

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New Zealand MICE gets a boost

Travel Daily Media

The post New Zealand MICE gets a boost appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Brand TD. The New Zealand business events and meetings industry has been given some good news today with the announcement that the sector has had with confirmation large events with separate groups of 100 can now go ahead. Conventions & Incentives New Zealand (CINZ) chief executive, Lisa Hopkins observed that the industry is welcoming NZ Government changes to Alert Level 2 which allow multiple groups of 100 peop

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Education Essentials: May 2020

FICP

Communication . [k uh -myoo-ni- key -sh uh n]. 1. the imparting or interchange of thoughts, opinions or information by speech, writing or signs. . 2. something imparted, interchanged or.

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Strategy Planning for Bringing Employees Back to Work

MTI Events

From retail stores and restaurants to digital marketing agencies and insurance firms, most businesses are going to face different challenges when it comes to bringing employees back to work once the lockdown restrictions have been eased.

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How to Monetize Your Online Events

Eventtia

Online events are great for increasing brand awareness and generating high-quality leads. But can they make you money? Absolutely. In the same way that you can capitalize on your face-to-face events and charge an attendance fee, you can easily capitalize on your online events. Furthermore, these online events can become a recurrent income resource.

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