Smart Meetings

MARCH 26, 2022

In a later panel, LaToya Williams, global account manager with Helms Briscoe, shared that clients are often sending out a Request for Information before a formal Request for Proposals to find out if the destination is addressing key issues such as inclusion before putting the city on a short list for serious consideration.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 18, 2024

Stephanie Turner Jamie Murdock, executive sales leadership culture creator with Maritz , tried to get to the bottom of the confusion over the broken Request for Proposals (RFP) process by asking what has changed about RFPs. Educating the executive team about the importance of booking early can be difficult without some hard lessons.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

See A Higher Meetings Education for more on the role of certifications and future-proofing your career. Are you the one constantly finding and fixing typos in proposals? Adding Education. The education section can be the most concise aspect of your resume. Utilize That Summary. First, answer the question: who are you?

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Meeting Proposal Certification Prospect 194

Endless Events

AUGUST 24, 2020

So they might have an online platform supplier speaking to them, submitting a proposal to them saying, we can do this. So they’re just being guided by what the supplier has put in the proposal. So I think a little bit of education is needed in terms of what works well and what doesn’t on virtual events”, he adds.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 23, 2022

“Take a step back, take a minute and realize that you didn’t just survive through the pandemic; you actually thrived, and awareness of your value and the value of what we all do is at an all-time high,” spoke Emily Scheiderer, director of education, sales and services at Destinations International, during last week’s Smart Chat Live!

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Proposal Tourism Tourism Regulations 264

Smart Meetings

JUNE 7, 2024

The annual commemorative date was established following a 1992 proposal by Canada’s International Centre for Ocean Development and the Ocean Institute of Canada at the Earth Summit – UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. What’s at Stake?

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Sustainability Banking Retail Planner 299

MeetingsNet

APRIL 17, 2023

Session proposals are now being accepted for the MeetingsNet track at CaterSource + The Special Event show happening February 12 to 15, 2024, in Austin, Texas. Strong proposals will include actionable takeaways for attendees, deep understanding of the meeting industry, and the promise of an engaging or inspiring delivery.

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Education Proposal Meeting Speakers 79

ADMEI

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

It provides content for social media campaigns, talking points for sales pitches, andcredibility boosters for proposals. Additionally, the ADMEI conference (where the awards gala takes place) provides unparalleled DMC education as well as networking opportunities with industry leaders and potential partners. day ADMEI conference.

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Marketing Marketing Destination Management Social Media 219

Conferences that Work

APRIL 9, 2018

I’ll illustrate with the area where I have most experience: providing education at these meetings. Our industry conferences are the obvious places to provide this education. My contributions to meeting education are Participate! Most of us have pretty much given up submitting sessions as a result.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 21, 2022

Inspired, uplifted or educated? The best planners will help you connect all the dots of your proposal to create a single, fused vision. But it’s important to have a desired outcome for your event’s branding: specifically, what the one or two key takeaways will be. How do you want people to feel about the event?

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Social Media Events Audience Proposal 264

Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Up until 2019, your live event audiovisual Request for Proposal (RFP) was straightforward. Is there continuing education tracking and does it track attendees’ path through the event? There wasn’t a need to include a virtual platform ; unless it was a rare occasion with a one-off request to include a broadcast element.

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Endless Events

JULY 17, 2020

From the ashes of in-person gatherings with thousands of attendees, David Adler proposes we build what is called the hub and spoke model. And everything from the entertainment to the educational content is streamed simultaneously to all of these venues as it would be to a typical virtual audience.

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Networking Remote Audience Events 279

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Rather than being disheartened by these challenges, we’ve chosen to initiate a dialogue and educate our clients. RFP and Event Planner Selection When seeking an event planner, providing a detailed and comprehensive Request for Proposal (RFP) is crucial. Our goal is to help you excel in your event planning endeavors.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 8, 2023

This year, sustainability was just as much about education and how-to’s as it was about why it’s important to be sustainable. In 2023, Smart Meetings released a stream of multimedia resources for planners to learn about sustainability in the world of events. We know sustainability is important.

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Social Tables

JANUARY 27, 2021

Wedding Merchants Business Academy November 8-10 | Las Vegas Convention Center | Las Vegas Wedding MBA brings together wedding professionals from around the world, as well as 180 exhibitors, and it features over 150 educational seminars. The 2020 conference was virtual, but it’s scheduled as an in-person event once again in 2021.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 9, 2023

Being mindful of the pitfalls of seemingly harmless technologies (ones that we’ve become helplessly dependent on) is a great start and helpful for educating attendees and demonstrating a concerted effort to combat climate change, but the big picture requires so much more—and let’s face it—it’s often difficult to know where to start.

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Convene by PCMA

JANUARY 13, 2025

Last fall, when students participated in an educational competition during the X-Culture International Business Symposium, they were tasked with coming up with ideas for a challenge that will sound all too familiar to event organizers: prove the economic, social and cultural impact a major event can bring to a city.

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Culture Sponsors Proposal Events 64

Travel Daily News

APRIL 9, 2023

MVCB is currently seeking proposals from the East Maui community with innovative, community-driven management projects to address tourism’s impacts at highly trafficked hotspot areas identified in the Maui Destination Management Action Plan (DMAP).

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Proposal Tourism Tourism Management 52

Smart Meetings

APRIL 22, 2024

Senator Gaylord Nelson proposed a nation-wide environmental teach-in, hiring activist Denis Hayes to serve as national coordinator. It’s a day to launch initiatives, personal and company-wide, that will stay, grow and flourish. History of Earth Day In April 1970, U.S. Archibald, senior business events manager at Visit Scotland.

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Sustainability Planner Meeting Proposal 246

Convene by PCMA

JULY 31, 2024

Along with Spark, Sumner also uses OpenAI’s ChatGPT to assist with such events-related tasks as writing session descriptions, production scripts, marketing emails, proposals, brainstorming, and more, she said. ON THE WEB For information on how to access free and for-fee Spark tools and online AI education, go to pcma.org/spark.

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Endless Events

JUNE 9, 2022

They need to change people’s minds and educate them. What’s been done in in-person sales should be converted to more of an education-first platform. Become more of an inbound salesperson by making yourself an educator first and creating some altruistic magnetism that brings people to you. ”

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Social Tables

MAY 14, 2019

While for an event where the purpose is to educate, a key measure of success will likely be how well content translates into attendee engagement. that requires spend, and include an educated prediction on how much it’s going to cost to carry it out well. In most cases, the details of the proposal aren’t set in stone.

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SEO Proposal Sponsors Events 141

Endless Events

MARCH 22, 2019

Welcome to the AV Audit where we dissect AV proposals every single month! With over 10 years in the events industry and producing thousands of events, we wanted to do a live that helps educate and empower planners by breaking down AV bids. On the flipside, an audio engineer is a highly educated and experienced technical position.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 6, 2020

I’ve felt compelled to do this work, not only because the school sits at the heart of rural Marlboro, Vermont , where I’ve lived since 1978, but also because I taught there for ten years (1983-1993) and have a deep affection for the College’s rare form of education. The spate of proposals continued. Ideas are welcome.

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Traveler's Q

JUNE 29, 2023

It’s also important to educate participants on what to do if they come into contact with any potentially harmful plants or animals. Providing this information to attendees can help prevent accidents or injuries. If they are aware that you have all of this covered, it will allow them to enjoy their experience more fully.

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Destination Management Management Travel Agent Transportation 246

Endless Events

MARCH 1, 2018

I propose that you take your life back and schedule free time for yourself instead. You can learn something for free from the Education channel of Youtube , or go the paid route and learn from professionals via Udemy or Lynda. Well yeah, that’s what most people do. Who can take days off when you’re packed with work every single day?

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Endless Events

JUNE 29, 2022

Then, you are handed over to a sales person and account executive who will build your proposal.” What companies need to do to improve pricing transparency, therefore, is to educate SDRs to know as much as possible.” Their job is to qualify you, to make sure you have budget authority and timing.

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Event Technology Technology Technology Events 194

Traveler's Q

MAY 23, 2024

Additionally, educating employees about policy reasons and benefits increases compliance and supports the company’s overall environmental goals. Submit a proposal , and let’s plan your next adventure with sustainability at its core. Ready to plan your sustainable travel experience? Contact Traveler’s Q today.

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Management Travel Travel Sustainability 130

Smart Meetings

APRIL 22, 2022

Emily Scheiderer is director of education, sales and services with Destinations International , the global trade association for convention and visitors bureaus (CVBs) and destination organizations. The post Business Events Industry Focus Is Shifting Back to the Future appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Events Communications Communications Regulations 279

Convene by PCMA

AUGUST 20, 2024

Let’s take, for example, an almost universal practice among research conferences: the peer-review process, the evaluation and appraisal of submitted research papers or presentation proposals by specialists in a particular field. Spend that money and time on better education for attendees.” Large, flashy evening events.

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Publishing Proposal Events Conference 111

Traveler's Q

JULY 25, 2024

Developing Cultural Intelligence Education: Invest in education and training to enhance your understanding of different cultures. Request a proposal now and let us help you plan your next global event. This can include attending cultural workshops, reading about cultural practices, and engaging with diverse communities.

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Culture Logistics Events Audience 130

Travel Daily Media

MARCH 20, 2023

We worked with partner agencies such as Thailand’s Department of Tourism, the Ministry of Tourism and Sports, MICE-related associations, and educational institutions to draft a professional standards proposal for 11 job roles – 1. Project Manager, 2. Production Manager, 3. Show Manager, 4. Event Coordinator, 5.

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Tourism Tourism Proposal Registration 98

MeetingsNet

OCTOBER 17, 2018

An IMEX educational session outlines the steps to leveraging and nurturing all potential sources of good ideas. Further, if all participants are briefed on why their creativity is needed—and encouraged to look for ideas all year long rather than when the event-design process begins—the planner ends up with more ideas to work with.

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Event Design Proposal Events Education 92

Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 30, 2023

ACM is the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society. Consequently the authors propose a new model: locally grouped unconferences , that prioritize informal connections and participant-driven content over formal presentations, challenging the hierarchical structure of conventional conferences.

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Conference Proposal Panel Promotion 113

Endless Events

AUGUST 9, 2019

Don’t shy away on saying that this is what you expect, you see what’s being presented, and you won’t accept anything less than what’s being proposed. Honest, clear communication always has to happen when you’re negotiating with an AV company and this transparency has to come from both sides.

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Proposal Contracts Contracts Vendor 184

Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

When a planner puts group wellness experiences into a proposal, Cliffe explained, the property will be able to specify who they work with and what space they can offer. Will that venue deliver on that objective, or not? … It’s about going down and checking that venue’s deliverables against your objectives.” You’re the event planner.

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The MICE Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2020

During the past months of the lockdown, Heidi has been actively promoting her destination and inspiring and educating fellow event professionals about Norway. If you visit those green start-ups, you get inspired and take all that knowledge and education with you back home.’. Storytelling is still a big thing, as well.

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Incentives Management Sustainability Healthcare 241