Endless Events

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

On top of these impressive facts, they hold an annual trade show and conference with approximately 5000 store owners, 100-200 international partners, 150 different vendor companies and 2000 vendor staff. We consistently come up with fun and creative ideas, and we share those with our vendors. JudyRAnderson Click To Tweet.

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Sponsors Retail Vendor Trade Show 209

Bizzaboo

JANUARY 6, 2025

From selecting the right vendors to managing on-site operations, every detail plays a vital role in delivering a smooth and impactful conference. Heres what you need to focus on: Vendor Management: Select reliable vendors for catering, audiovisual equipment, and other conference management services, and establish clear communication channels.

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Conference Management Automation Social Media 105

Endless Events

OCTOBER 4, 2022

If you’re planning the biggest shindig of the year, you’re busy worrying about registrations, sponsors, and catering. The issue is that some costs, like labor or third-party vendors, are tricky to calculate. How much did you earn from sponsors ? As an event planner, you host events to get results. Sponsorship Revenue.

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Registration Sponsors Events Trade Show 317

Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 27, 2021

But with news of the Omicron variant changing day-to-day, conference organizers and sponsors are using the skills they’ve acquired in Covid times: flexibility and leveraging virtual options to replace some face-to-face experiences. As of Monday, CES is planning to go forward in Las Vegas, Jan. Meanwhile, Amazon has opted out entirely.

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Meeting Sponsors Travel Safety Retail 264

Eventbrite

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Coming up with unique thank you gift ideas can be daunting, but if you make the effort, it’ll leave your supporters feeling greatly appreciated. And if they remember their event experience fondly, they’re more likely to tell colleagues, fans, and other influencers how much they love working with you.

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Whether they’re exhibitors, sponsors, vendors, the B2B partners that are interested in these live events, how to better match them with the live event organizers and with the event properties” “The other piece of what we do is, we have a marketplace”, he continues. “We call it a sponsorship marketplace.

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Production Management B2B Meeting 282

Endless Events

APRIL 12, 2021

Those are different types of vendors,” says Brandt. “If you have vendors that are looking for targeting, online is great. “Being targeted and using the rest of your conference to help target and to help funnel toward those vendors is a huge thing.” You can qualify those leads before they even hit you.”

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Virtual Events Trade Show Vendor Events 317

Endless Events

JUNE 10, 2020

Virtual Trade Show Ideas: The Sponsor & Exhibitor Side. Also, think about what is the purpose for your sponsors and your exhibitors. Figure out how to do intimate sessions with, for example, the vendors. Or maybe better yet, one of your vendors is really good at social media marketing.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 17, 2021

The emcee should generally not be an executive, a vendor or anyone who is not a trained public speaker. Yet too often the speaker selection process is managed by the sales and marketing teams, and it usually identifies people in two major categories– sponsors and big corporate logos. The Best Speakers.

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Speakers Social Media Sponsors Communications 299

Endless Events

JULY 11, 2018

Finding sponsors for events can be difficult especially if you don’t have a core set of sponsors established. When businesses agree to sponsor your event they are wanting to increase their sales and build their brand. The example provided was set around food sponsors. What are your attendees interested in?

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Conference Sponsors Vendor Location 189

Endless Events

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

One final disclaimer before we dive in: this is not sponsored content ; no event platform paid to be featured on this list. A note to planners : The virtual booth offerings for exhibitors and sponsors are limited, but the built-in floorplan amplifies traffic to the onsite booths. Albert’s Aha! Building events since : 2015.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 7, 2019

Rounding out the top three challenges: working with a tighter budget and locking down sponsors. A year filled with data breaches has also increased awareness of data privacy, though only seven percent of respondents took attendees’ said privacy was a major consideration in choosing vendors.

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Social Media SEO Planner Media 256

Smart Meetings

MAY 31, 2022

How it impacts you: Automated back-end processes allow you to better manage speakers, sponsors, staff and meetings. Cvent: New Vendor Marketplace. What: A curated network of trusted vendors to support in-person, virtual and hybrid event requirements will be a core component of the Cvent Supplier Network.

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Convene by PCMA

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In a recent interview with Mary Beth Micucci, the Engagement Director at Beedance , we discussed how event producers can increase engagement for sponsors and exhibitors of virtual and hybrid events. Sponsors and exhibitors are typically most engaged with events that have an element of conversation that goes beyond sales pitches.

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Sponsors Vendor Audience Events 95

Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Catuogno explained that despite Zoom fatigue, he was going to make the experience festive and compelling by staging it in a virtual world with help from sponsor Allseated ’s exVo 3D tool. First, he secured the date with the wine vendor, who helped keep costs down by shipping boxes with miniature bottles.

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Meeting Rehearsal Sponsors Virtual Events 264

Smart Meetings

JUNE 21, 2023

They started having frank conversations with partners working on the next three years of events and vendors who had submitted RFPs, but had not been selected. “An Thanks to all the vendors, sponsors, student volunteers & speakers. Construction delays at America’s Center Convention Complex in St.

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Logistics Vendor Education Trade Show 314

Smart Meetings

JUNE 28, 2024

Don’t forget, you’ll need similar (and often separate) accommodations for your staff, vendors , volunteers, sponsors, media, security, talent and parade participants. Don’t forget, you’ll need similar (and often separate) accommodations for your staff, vendors , volunteers, sponsors, media, security, talent and parade participants.

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Sponsors Production Entertainment Sports 203

Endless Events

OCTOBER 24, 2018

So what I want to do is talk to you a little bit how you can save money when it comes to that hotel wifi and for your events and how you can get by making sure you’re getting exactly what you need for the right price and that you’re not forced, again, into any conversations where you have to choose one vendor just to save $30,000, right?

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Smart Meetings

MAY 31, 2022

It may be listening to a certain speaker, visiting a particular sponsor, connecting with colleagues, or attending a new product demo. Be sure to partner with sophisticated virtual meeting technology vendors that feature AI-based tools. Personalize the meeting as much as possible. Every individual attending a meeting has an agenda.

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Meeting Social Media Trade Show Technology 306

Endless Events

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

In every contract, an Audio Visual (AV) quote is the piece of a vendor agreement that has the dollars attached to it that breaks apart the projected cost of different materials. So, we recommend that all AV vendors make their quotes 100% inclusive of all of the costs so you, the client, can see the real cost of the event.

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Vendor Contracts Contracts Speakers 339

Endless Events

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Create a comprehensive event timeline for all planning aspects: operations, marketing, designers, and vendors. Secondly, make sure you gather feedback from attendees, sponsors, exhibitors, and other event stakeholders. Follow the SMART goals tool and decide your criteria for event success. Choose the best way to deliver your content.

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Event Marketing Marketing Marketing Events 347

Social Tables

JULY 31, 2018

This team will get deep into the details in order to plan every piece — from searching for venues to working with vendors and sponsors. At a granular level, their focus will be on confirming vendors (food and beverage, lighting, A/V), working closely with the venue, and creating a production schedule for the event. Sponsorship.

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Sponsors Logistics Vendor Events 149

Endless Events

MARCH 9, 2020

I, happily, if I get beat by them, I’m happy to admit that there are times where they are a great vendor. And the same way that I hope as well that any vendor would also want to keep my company in check. Before you leave, make sure you check out our new sponsor, Event Leadership Insitute.

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Vendor Contracts Contracts Website 271

Endless Events

AUGUST 10, 2021

Some vendor organizers who are really savvy with their business discuss it, but on a whole, the events industry doesn’t recognize the value that event attendee data holds. You’re giving up experience equity and many other equitable positions.” ” And let’s not forget about data equity!

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Platform Events Website Sponsors 317

Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

If it were sponsors that funded your event, then that’s potentially even worse because they wasted a lot of their own money for a venture that flopped. This badly erodes trust; do you think the same sponsors will trust you again for a future event? Need help with your event budget? Low Attendance or Conversion Rate.

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Networking Social Media Social Network Events 258

Endless Events

JULY 20, 2018

Then, you have to start scouting the venue, vendors, and speakers, with your eyes set on a specific date. You should approach sponsors at this early stage as well. Of course, there should also be a way for the sponsors and attendees to suggest how to create these engagement opportunities. But that’s just the first phase.

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Trade Show Remote Events Sponsors 219

Social Tables

APRIL 22, 2019

Here are some other ways this master planning guide can help: You can get on the same page with vendors and caterers well in advance. This will keep investors, sponsors, and partners happy throughout the entire process. Add vendor timelines. All in all, vendors can only work with the information you give them.

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Event Planning Vendor Events Sponsors 138

Traveler's Q

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

It can also provide a valuable opportunity for sponsors and partners to reach a wider audience, as well as generate post-event content. Use Event Technology to Engage Your Sponsors and Vendors Utilizing event technology can go a long way in engaging not just attendees, but also sponsors and vendors.

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Event Technology Technology Technology Social Media 130

Conferences that Work

APRIL 11, 2022

By “suppliers” I mean vendors of products or services, and sponsors. Often, vendors meet with practitioners at a tradeshow, and sponsors (who are usually vendors too) get opportunities to address practitioners. Suppliers explicitly identified as sponsors, of course, get to pitch a little.)

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Meeting Vendor Sponsors Attendee 118

Endless Events

APRIL 27, 2023

In-kind sponsorships are relationships where a business sponsors an event by providing free goods or services rather than a financial contribution. Mine is: that’s what I always try to do rather than give money as a sponsor,” says Will. On the flip side, Deanna has worked for organizations that always paid to be a sponsor.

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Sponsors Events Attendee Audience 177

Motivation Excellence

AUGUST 12, 2024

Vendor-sponsored dinners allow participants to have access to product managers, and vice versa. Whether you are putting together a program for employees, channel partners or favorite vendors, we can help you personalize the program so that every participant feels like the experience was made just for them!

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 30, 2023

The day involved a sponsor showcase; educational presentation by Kyle Jordan, director of meetings for Informs; and a networking reception. The PCMA Capital Chapter, which includes Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C., PCMA New England and MPI New England came together in Greater Boston at Encore Boston Harbor, A Wynn Resort.

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Panel Government Financial Services Education 245

Endless Events

MAY 10, 2018

From securing sponsors to organizing the AV and production needs, the planning process seems endless. Will the venue be somewhere your stakeholders, sponsors, and employees will be proud to go to? Are their restrictions on outside AV vendors? From the offset, you start to think of all the things that need organizing.

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Venue Conference Entertainment Audience 246

Motivation Excellence

AUGUST 12, 2024

Vendor-sponsored dinners allow participants to have access to product managers, and vice versa. Whether you are putting together a program for employees, channel partners or favorite vendors, we can help you personalize the program so that every participant feels like the experience was made just for them!

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Travel Travel Incentives Vendor 130

Bizzaboo

MARCH 19, 2024

These platforms provide native capabilities to engage and communicate with prospective attendees, registrants, and sponsors, manage logistics, deliver content, and enable attendees to engage with other participants.” Bizzabo has been named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Event Technology Platforms.

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Endless Events

JULY 26, 2018

One way of doing this (which we love) is to use vendors with shared values to create a thread that runs through the entire event, reinforcing the brand message. You must look for brand alignment when choosing event sponsors. Creates a robust network of like-minded vendors. Check out our blog on unique venues here.

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Speakers Audience Event Apps Events 185

Endless Events

JUNE 6, 2018

A great app will also allow you to track your ROI and monetize sponsors. How can you leverage your app to include sponsors? Their app includes tools that measure attendee engagement in real time, are set to build revenue and highlight sponsors, and most importantly, tools that keep your attendees informed during the event.

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Event Apps Conference Sponsors Audience 184