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Designing Events For Introverts

Endless Events

Leanne is a self-proclaimed introvert and an icon of the events industry. In fact, she’s meeting planners’ go-to expert in Canadian hotel site selection, helping hotel sales connect better with planners. Events for introverts? Joining our incredible host Alex Plaxen is the wonderful Leanne Calderwood.

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Make Your Conference Memorable With Spiced-Up Keynotes, Engaging Design and Workshops

Endless Events

Tips for Growing Your Event Revenue. The cuts on hotel commissions are making site selection an inadequate revenue stream for many third-party planners. This is despite the steady increase in hotel bookings for business groups and events. Using VR for Event Planning. Click To Tweet.

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Bookmark These Top 30 Websites for Event Planners

Bizzaboo

Skift Meetings (formerly EventMB) Formerly known as EventMB, Skift Meetings was founded in 2007 as one of the first blogs for event professionals. Meetings Today Meetings Today offers monthly print and digital publications, industry news, blog posts, webinars, videos, podcasts, books, and educational resources for meeting and event planners.

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Benefits of Hiring a Professional Event Planner

Blue Spark Event Design

Professional planners hone their event skills over time and can bring years of experience and knowledge to help facilitate your event with ease. Contacting references and discussing the planner’s history with corporate event planning can help you decide if the client is a good fit for your event needs.

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Attendee Accessibility and Inclusion from the Venue Side

MeetingsNet

A new toolkit for employees at hotels, convention centers, and special-event venues can provide planners with deeper perspective on what to ask during site selection.

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Event Planner Challenges and Opportunities of the Next Decade

Maritz Global Events

Events’ Impact on the Environment. Today is all about going green and a circular economy approach to event planning is on the rise. Carbon neutrality, sustainable design, and eco/green themes are becoming the new event fad. With so many things to consider, site selection will challenge more and more and event planners.

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The Inc. 5000 List Gives Insight into Meeting and Event Trends

MeetingsNet

Silver Lining Design (#2,477) creates event environments and The SnapBar , a company that enables attendees to record and publish to social media video and photos at events, broke into the top 500 companies on the list by making it to #473 with almost a 1,000 percent growth rate over the last three years. 01_Anna Marie Events.jpg.

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