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Attracting & Engaging High-Po’s

Velvet Chainsaw

If your industry was impacted by early retirements and career jumping during the pandemic, a multi-pronged, high-po strategy should yield the best results for succession planning for your participants organizations and sweeten the deal for them to attend your events. They will, however, likely need your help with initial funding.

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Toronto is a city of remixed visions, values, and creation.

Smart Meetings

There is much to explore, from big-ticket events, top attractions, award-winning restaurants, and Canada’s leading business sectors. The center is recognized as top-of-class by meeting and event organizers around the world and has hosted over 21,000 events during its four-decade history. appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Top Trends for Your Event’s Social Influencer Campaign

Velvet Chainsaw

The events community can learn a lot from the B2C social landscape as we navigate the ins and outs of best practices and trends for moving fence-sitters to paying registrants. We’ve culled those trends to identify five that are applicable to the B2B events industry. Top Five Trends in Social Influencing. Data rules.

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2022 Conference Registration Pacing

Velvet Chainsaw

As we come out of the pandemic, we need a different playbook to drive attendance and earlier commitment. Use these five tips to develop a plan for optimizing registration for your major event in quarters 2, 3, and 4. Budget realistically.

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Collaborate, experiment, and innovate in Toronto

Smart Meetings

Every year the MTCC reduces its environmental footprint by diverting 90 percent of event waste from landfills and decreasing energy consumption. . The entire facility has signed the Net Zero Carbon Events Pledge. Exhibition Place has also raked in numerous awards and accolades for its sustainability efforts.

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Your Conference Content Has Magnetic Pull

Velvet Chainsaw

Content marketing has grown by leaps and bounds during the past five years. Unfortunately, too few event organizers fully embrace the long-tail, pull benefits of content marketing. Likewise, many conference professionals have no idea what embracing the long-tail, pull benefits of content marketing even means.

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Do You Really Have Them at Hello? Rethinking Your First-Timer Strategy

Velvet Chainsaw

One of my biggest pet peeves is the way some conferences approach first-time attendees. Being intentional and having a plan for how you welcome someone who is experiencing your conference for the first time is not only the right thing to do, it’s also a smart attendee acquisition strategy.