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How Days Of The Week Affect Event AV Pricing – Whiteboard Wednesday

Endless Events

Can you ever learn enough about event AV pricing? For anyone out there planning an event, probably not! When you’re busy planning, your ultimate goal is always to deliver the best event you possibly can, at the best price you can find. Of course, you should always focus on getting the best value for money. And when it comes to event AV pricing, there are several tiny little things that can affect what your final bill looks like.

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Engage Your Audience with Video

Motivation Excellence

What’s Your Plan to Pump Up Engagement in 2019? We invite you to consider video. Companies’ sales and marketing departments are using video more and more to activate their message and engage employees, distributors and customers. Don’t leave video out of your marketing mix because, according to Forbes Magazine , video now accounts for up to 74% of all online traffic.

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Event Names: Tactics, Tools, and Ideas Worth Stealing

Social Tables

Events bring people together to enjoy new experiences. But in order to get attendees through the door, you’ll need to come up with a great name that grabs their attention and piques their interest. The right event name can solidify your event brand, convey your mission, and help fans (new and old) find you. Do you know how to choose an event name? Here are some highly effective ways to do so, along with some real world examples and ideas.

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Any questions? Rethinking traditional Q&A

Conferences that Work

How often have you heard “Any questions?” at the end of a conference session? Hands rise, and the presenter picks an audience member who asks a question. The presenter answers the question and picks another questioner. The process continues for a few minutes. Simple enough. We’ve been using this Q&A format for centuries. But can we improve it?

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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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Hire An AV Company for Your Next Event in 5 Simple Steps

Endless Events

Choosing the right AV company is crucial to the success of your event. Get it right and you have a team member, advocate, and advisor. Pick the wrong AV company and you could be left unexpected bills, glitches in your show, and a bad taste in your mouth. By following the simple steps below you will be well on your way to choosing the best AV company for your event.

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10 Questions to Ask on a Venue Site Tour

MeetingsNet

Before you head over to tour your event venue, bust out that legal pad and jot down these must ask questions. Brought to you by: Picture this: it’s the day of your event, and you need to move a large piece of equipment up to the space. You measured the dimensions and checked online to verify that the freight elevator was large enough to hold it. But there’s just one problem—the elevator itself is large enough, but the door to the elevator is not.

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Experiential Marketing Ideas to Enhance Your Next Corporate Event

Eventtia

As an event planner, one of your biggest goals is to provide an experience that attendees will remember. This article highlights how industry trends in experiential marketing can help plan your next event, trade show, or meeting.

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Crowd Mics: Turning Phones Into Mics For Events

Endless Events

Another Monday, another Event Tech Podcast, today we are telling the story of Crowd Mics for events! Everyone can relate to the annoyances of sound during a live event. Whether it’s the speaker, the audience, or the AV company, these little glitches affect everyone. Ultimately, they affect the success of an otherwise awesome event, and no one wants that.

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Making Magic at Meetings: A Guide

MeetingsNet

The headline isn't metaphorical—here's how to have a magician entertain guests without being corny, or cornering. Inventive performers strive to keep event organizers interested year after year through variety. But magic is not as widely respected as a performance art as most others partly because of how it is positioned, how it is used, and because many magicians have allowed their acts to become tired.

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The Ultimate Site Inspection Checklist & Guide for Planners

Social Tables

Site inspections are more than just deciding whether or not you like the space. Successful site inspections — the ones chock full of thoughtful questions and specific requests — require a site inspection checklist to make the meeting as fruitful as possible. With a proper site inspection checklist, you can thoroughly assess your event venue options to find the perfect fit for your audience and programs.

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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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Coachella 2019: See Inside the Biggest Parties and Brand Activations

BizBash

Here are some clever, eye-catching ways brands—including Instagram, American Express, BMW, and Yves Saint-Laurent—got themselves noticed during two jam-packed Coachella weekends.

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How To Plan An Event Without Visiting The Venue – #EventIcons Episode 161

Endless Events

On today’s #EventIcons, we’re taking a closer look at how to plan an event without visiting the venue using AR and VR in events. During a very recent episode of the Event Tech Podcast, Will Curran and Brandt Krueger already tackled a similar topic. However, it’s never quite enough! When considering all the unbelievable potential of AR and VR in events, endless (Endless?

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Las Vegas Can Make Events Eco-Friendly

MeetingsNet

Las Vegas has great eco-friendly venues, wellness-inspired activities and healthy dining options. Brought to you by: Business success — you may think it’s all about the bottom line, but savvy CEOs like those at Apple, Starbucks and IKEA know otherwise. Although profits play a big role, it’s also important for companies to be socially responsible by considering their impact on the environment, their local economy and their customers.

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Why the Over-50 Crowd Still Matters for Events

Maritz Global Events

Post authored by Donna Kastner, Founder of Retirepreneur. Have you noticed a demographic shift happening at professional conferences? You might not think the over-50 crowd still matters for events anymore. Oh… but they do. Quite a few event marketers are investing heavily to win over Millennials and Gen Z – and it makes sense. These early career professionals are our future.

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What is hospitality and tourism marketing?

Amara Marketing

Traveling is one of the most loved activities, and traveling trends are changing very rapidly. It is clear that today, we travel in a very different way than years ago. Back then it was a luxury just for a few. Nowadays, there are leisure trips for practically every pocket. The behavior of travelers is also changed, and destination marketers should understand and follow these changes in consumption habits in order to adapt their marketing strategies to the latest trends.

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“A lucrative opportunity for us to collaborate”: TCEB signs MOU with the Foreign Chamber Alliance

Travel Daily Media

The post “A lucrative opportunity for us to collaborate”: TCEB signs MOU with the Foreign Chamber Alliance appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily. Chiruit Isarangkun (centre) along with representatives from the FCA. The Thailand Convention & Exhibition Bureau (TCEB) announced a new agreement with the FCA (Foreign Chamber Alliance, representing Australia, Germany, USA and the UK), to push the development of the country’s MICE business in long haul markets at a pres

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21 Questions to Ask Online Registration and Ticketing Providers

MeetingsNet

Get more value for your next meeting or event. Brought to you by: The importance of registration and ticketing cannot be overstated. A cohesive and user-friendly ticketing/registration interface plays a vital role in the success of your event. If you are asking your attendees to register or purchase a ticket, it is important to make their data entry and/or purchase experience intuitive, efficient and mobile optimized.

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Experience Design and the Importance of Drinking Your ‘Own Champagne’

Maritz Global Events

Talking about how experience design transforms events is one thing. Actually applying those principles to your own event is even more challenging, but also more rewarding. Let’s face it: the term experience design is thrown around a lot. And not just within meeting and event circles; it’s a methodology adopted by other industries around the world.

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Top Designer Lynn Easton Shares Her All-Time Favorite Venues for Events

BizBash

The Virginia-based event designer and hospitality veteran discusses where she entertains out-of-town guests, finds her favorite meal, gets work done on the road, and more.

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The American tourists: profile, uniqueness and needs

PXCom Media

: 3 minutes After drawing the German tourists and the Chinese tourists portraits, PXCom deals now with the American tourists. These tourists have a unique profile, and different needs and behavior, but they are still looking for the best travel experience. So, without further ado, discover who are the American tourists and what they want. The American Tourists Profile.

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New Portal Provides Partnerships for Event Transportation, Staffing

MeetingsNet

Aventri is working with pre-screened partners to provide additional tools for meeting planners. Aventri, formerly eTouches, has announced a new partnership that can help meeting planners take one critical thing off their to-do lists. Uber for Business vouchers are now available on Aventri’s web-based tool so that attendees can arrange transportation at their convenience instead of depending on planners or group transportation.

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The Keys To Growing Your Non-Dues Revenue

MeetingsNet

Benefit-driven marketing programs can increase your nonprofit trade association's non-dues revenue and strengthen affiliate relationships. Brought to you by: Creating a balanced marketing program for industry providers is a valuable way to grow your nonprofit trade association and increase your non-dues revenue by way of advertising, sponsorships and exhibition marketing opportunities.

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10 Best Ideas of the Week: Adidas's Water Jetpack Entertainment, a Giant Godiva Iced Mocha, Rainbow Beauty Salon Vignettes

BizBash

Here's a look at 10 steal-worthy ideas we spotted this week.

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This Week in Los Angeles: a Choir of Satanic Nuns, a Balloon-Filled Kardashian Birthday, the Magic Castle's New Chef

BizBash

West Coast bureau chief Claire Hoffman covers the week's biggest event news.

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