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How Virtual Technology Can Future-proof Events

Smart Meetings

Keeping visual and audio recordings of events, or live streaming them, is a great way to offer alternative methods for viewing event content without having to create new, virtual-specific talks, panels or seminars, while ensuring ticket sales aren’t heavily impacted. Take Networking Online.

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How Virtual Technology Can Future-proof Events

Smart Meetings

Keeping visual and audio recordings of events, or live streaming them, is a great way to offer alternative methods for viewing event content without having to create new, virtual-specific talks, panels or seminars, while ensuring ticket sales aren’t heavily impacted. Take Networking Online.

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Why Attendees Aren’t Committing Early to Conferences

Smart Meetings

Overwhelming Choices The sheer volume of conferences, seminars, online learning videos, webinars, and podcasts available to professionals is staggering. Online polls for theming or event logistics. Remote work and flexible hours mean many professionals no longer need to be tied to a specific location.

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How to Secure Your Event in the Face of Rising Active Shooter Incidents

Smart Meetings

These include: Event type: Low energy events like business conferences or seminars aren’t likely to create risk. Herrera recommends using every available resource—he brings in local, state and federal officials to close any gaps in training and utilizes FEMA’s free online security training. Not every event is created equal.

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Virtual Event Pricing: Charging & Profiting

Endless Events

Instead of checking out virtual event pricing from other events, take a look at online course platforms. A great way to get a benchmark is to see how these online courses are priced. You can also throw a virtual goodie bag in there that includes something like a voucher for an online store selling something relevant to your audience.

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How to Write a Perfect Invitation Email for Your Virtual Event

Smart Meetings

In the case of multi-day conferences and seminars, your recipients will likely want to know more about the agenda before signing up. Aim to answer as many pressing questions as possible in as few sentences as you can to drive engagement. Attach the Virtual Event’s Agenda.

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More Women Participated in Virtual Than In-Person Events

Convene by PCMA

As conferences — in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) and economics fields —moved online during the pandemic, one silver lining was that far more women participated virtually than in person. and compared them with registration numbers from those same three conferences after they moved online in 2020.

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