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More Marketing Isn’t the Answer

Velvet Chainsaw

A strategic look at your marketing spend, as well as what you spend on your attendee experience, can be telling. According to Convene ’s most recent Meetings Market Survey , on average 6 percent of a meeting’s direct expenses fall in the marketing/promotion category. More or better marketing can’t fix this.

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What Meeting Planners Want: Understanding Their Needs & Pain Points

Smart Meetings

By aligning your marketing efforts with their needs, you can position your property or destination as their go-to choice. Unexpected cancellations, attendance fluctuations, and travel restrictions have made rigid contracts a dealbreaker. Reliable internet, A/V capabilities, and streaming options are non-negotiable.

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Top Trends for Your Event’s Social Influencer Campaign

Velvet Chainsaw

Influencer Marketing Hub , which specializes in producing content in the social media and influencer marketing industry, published its top 18 social influencer trends for 2022. That spawns more collaboration between brands and influencers in planning campaigns and a lot more interest in tracking the social media marketing metrics.

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3 Extreme Accessibility Experts Share Their Accommodation Mandates

Smart Meetings

Since her mother was traveling in the 1990s, laws have changed to require hotels to contract for ADA rooms, guaranteeing they will be available when the person arrives, rather than making it upon request. She built her career in her dream field of advertising, working for large national and international agencies.

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Sponsorship Needs to Be More Than Banners and Clings

Velvet Chainsaw

Sponsorship is the most powerful form of marketing. Problem is, when you dig into these resources, you find that they are more focused on print and digital advertising than true sponsorship. It’s not sponsorship but a worthwhile marketing micro-investment for driving booth traffic. Three Attributes of Effective Activation.

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Event Contracts: What to Watch in 2025

SmartMeetings

Contract tips to keep in mind A quarter century into the second millennium, there are several things that remain constant: humans need food, water and shelter to survive; the law of gravity is still in play; and event contracts are still a necessity between meeting professionals and hospitality venues.

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AI Amendments are Coming to Your Supplier Agreements: How to Prepare

Event Marketer

When the EU enacted the General Data Protection Regulation in 2018, it triggered a ripple effect of consumer privacy acts, like the California Consumer Privacy Act, that resulted in corporate event marketing clients adding data privacy amendments to agreements with their suppliers. And there is certainly added value in that.