Sat.Apr 04, 2020 - Fri.Apr 10, 2020

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45 Questions To Ask Before Meeting With A Virtual Event Production Company

Endless Events

If you’re planning a virtual event, you’ll want to have a meeting with a virtual event production company ASAP. Because let’s face it – this is probably a brand new territory for you. So hiring the best in the field is a big step towards success. And we’re right there with you! Most planners are now scrambling to figure out how to replicate the in-person experience in a virtual environment.

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Measuring the ROI on Incentive Travel

Motivation Excellence

When measuring the effectiveness of their incentive travel program, many company leaders struggle with how to prove they have recouped their investment. Higher profits are usually the primary goal and the easiest to determine. However, quantifying other important outcomes, such as engagement and motivation of the entire team, is more elusive yet critical to gauging ROI.

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How to Rock Meeting and Event Planning from Home

Stova

Warning! If you are an event professional, right about now, you may be starting to feel like you are in an episode of the Twilight Zone. Daily news about a global pandemic.kids out of school and desperate for structure and stimulation.cats walking across your desk.babies crying and dogs barking while you are on a conference call…all while you struggle to do your job, run a household, and keep from going insane.

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30 Tips and Tricks for Hosting a Successful Online Event

Eventbrite

Virtual events have quickly become the norm — and for good reason. Not only can you host them from anywhere in the world, but they can save you money, increase engagement with your audience and potential customers, generate leads, build your brand, and help you establish yourself or your clients as industry leaders. What is […].

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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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Canceling An Event: What You Legally Have To Do

Endless Events

Canceling an event is never pleasant. However, considering the current state of things, it’s necessary. And while a lot of planners’ attention is focused on virtual events , a part is also concerned with cancellation. So, what do you have to do? Can you simply send out a mass email? And is that even advisable? Is there any way you can repurpose the costs of your in-person event?

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Rethinking Live Events: To Virtual or Not to Virtual?

Special Events

Veteran event pro Niki McKay urges the industry to seize the current COVID crisis to develop new approaches to events.

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Your Lockdown List to Learn More about Events

Eventtia

With two thirds of the world (that’s 2.6 billion of us) staying at home for the foreseeable future, it’s fair to say that we all need a few distractions to help us pass the time. Let us help. Below we have stockpiled some event-related suggestions for what to listen to, what to read, and what to watch.

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Keeping Your Virtual Event Attendees Engaged And Happy!

Endless Events

?? The Best of the Best: Engage From Afar: Virtual Audience Engagement – Keep Your Remote Attendees Happy! Virtual Event Possibilities: How Far Can You Go? Thank you all ??. In the past week, this newsletter has gained over a hundred new subscribers! So to those people, I want to say welcome to the family, but you might be a little confused about the message I’m about to share.

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How Event Pros Can Be Socially Supporting While Social Distancing

Special Events

Nine wedding pros share the ways they are supporting the bridal community while safely "social distancing.

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How I got here

Conferences that Work

How I got here? Schoolboy days. I have little memory of my earliest formal education though I suspect it has informed my entire life. My mother decided that I should attend London’s Chelsea Froebel School. For a couple of years she valiantly brought me to school via two buses and a train, went to work, and then picked me up to return home via the same interminable route.

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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 Run Your First Virtual Summit Like a Pro [Best Practices]

Eventtia

The events industry finds itself in an unprecedented scenario. With events being canceled or postponed, now is the time to go virtual and embrace online events as a solution that can get us much needed results in these difficult times.

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Zoom For Virtual Events: An Event Tech Podcast Review!

Endless Events

Zom For Virtual Events Review Zoom for virtual events: is it really your best option? This has been the question on many planners’ minds. And now that virtual events are set to be the norm in the industry , it’s more pertinent than ever. Because everyone knows Zoom. It’s been around for a while and many companies use it as their go-to conference platform.

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April 2020 NewsNet

FICP

Did you know? April Fools' Day has been celebrated on April 1 for centuries, but the origin of this prank-filled holiday remains a mystery. Some historians think the tradition came about.

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Discover the World from Home

Brownwell Incentive Travel

Although COVID-19 has put a halt on current travel plans, that doesn’t mean we have to press pause on staying engaged and excited to explore the world when we can. Travel is a powerful tool for bringing people together, and thanks to technology, we are still able to experience the world with our friends and colleagues even during these unprecedented times of social distancing.

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Stay Inspired with Event Design Ideas From This 'Mulan'-Theme Dinner

BizBash

Houston-based Event Sociétal designed a dark and moody event setting for a recent photo shoot.

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Dear Meetings: We Really Miss You

MeetingsNet

A new survey finds that conferences, conventions, and trade shows hold a place in the hearts of American businesspeople. While there’s really no good news for the meetings and events industry right now, a recent survey of American workers provides motivation for planners who are busy rescheduling and reshaping their in-person events for the future. In an April 3 survey of 1,000 Americans forced to stay at home during the coronavirus pandemic, 83 percent of respondents said they miss attending me