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Monetizing Your Virtual Conference When Competing with Free

Velvet Chainsaw

The dynamics that we’re seeing impact conferences and their business models are very similar to the Freemium movement we experienced way back in 2009. As you select speakers or session leaders, you’ll want to get their commitment that the topic they are addressing at your conference hasn’t been presented elsewhere.

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Event innovation, Disney, and souvenirs

Conferences that Work

Having a new lineup every year of speakers at conferences, or different decor and F&B at special events is not enough. The JKWeddingDance , invented in 2009, became a fun and novel format for Western weddings, but such innovations are rare. Extending your event brand. Hey, if it were easy, everyone would be doing it.)

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Who Are the Most Popular Speakers and Why?

PCMA Convene

Research professor and author Brené Brown is one of the most-searched TED Talk speakers of all time, according to VBQ Speakers. One way of determining the speakers who have the broadest and most enduring appeal comes from a U.K.-based Why do viewers continue searching for these particular speakers? Randal Ford photo).

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Mike Dominguez’ Predictions for 2019

Smart Meetings

Since 2009, hotel room occupancy has increased steadily and is now breaking records with average occupancy at 65.5 Along with writable walls, chairs are raised a foot higher to put participants on an equal level with the speaker, increasing engagement. Transient Room Stays Rising Fastest. percent in the United States. “We

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Q&A: Inside Google’s New ‘Inclusive Event Design Guide’ for the Industry

Event Marketer

More Inclusive Strategies: How a New Era of Beauty Events is Being Defined by Fans, Not Brands Inside the Formula 1 Heineken Silver Las Vegas Grand Prix: Opportunities, Challenges and Brand Buzz The guidelines encourage community-building and diversity of speakers and content.

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Creating The Highly Energized And Engaged Conference Participant

Velvet Chainsaw

It’s more important than just scheduling speakers. 2009 ; Hidi & Baird, 1996 ; and Mitchell, 1993 ). Too often our conference programming fosters helpless patterns of attendee responses ( Dweck & Master, 2009 ). If they are sitting passively listening, their energy and engagement decreases. Schiefele, U.,

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The job you’ll be doing in the future hasn’t been invented yet

Conferences that Work

1992: I organize a conference where there are no expert speakers available (it’s a new field, there are no experts). I decide to write a book about it, and in… 2009: I self-publish Conferences That Work: Creating Events That People Love. IBM introduced the PC in 1981. Now it’s the most common way authors publish.)

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