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Renegotiating Live Event Agreements When All Parties Are Innocent Victims

Velvet Chainsaw

Room rates should be adjusted to keep attendees from booking outside the block. Look for hotels to run booking promotions and bring commissions back up to 10 percent. Also expect hotels to carefully review their practice of prepaying 50 percent of commissions to third parties at the time of booking.

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Conference Networking: How to Help Attendees Make Meaningful Connections

Endless Events

Conference planning is well underway. You’ve booked a keynote speaker that is sure to wow! You know that conference networking is important, but you’re not sure how to help your attendees make meaningful connections. Use technology to enhance your networking events. Don’t worry.

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Conference Networking: How to Help Attendees Make Meaningful Connections/ ?Edit

Endless Events

Conference planning is well underway. You’ve booked a keynote speaker that is sure to wow! You know that conference networking is important, but you’re not sure how to help your attendees make meaningful connections. Use technology to enhance your networking events. Don’t worry.

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Conversations, Collaboration and Chemistry

Velvet Chainsaw

So the quality of our conversations — especially those participants have with others at conferences and meetings — has a direct chemical impact on them, those around them, and therefore on the organizations they belong to. You want to strive for Level 3 at your conferences: Level 1 conversations are transactional in nature.

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22 Types of Networking Events You Can Organize in 2023

Eventmobi

For example, EventMobi ’s event app offers networking features like: Customizable Personal Profiles Group Discussions Appointment Booking Private 1:1 Chat Live Session Chat Interactive Activity Feed Moderation Engagement tracking and analytics Networking at conferences Networking is a staple at most industry conferences, which bring together attendees (..)

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Digital Innovation At Events – #EventIcons Episode 106

Endless Events

Friedman (Book). How Google Works, by Eric Schmidt & Jonathan Rosenberg (Book). Magic Words: The Science and Secrets Behind Seven Words That Motivate, Engage, and Influence, by Tim David (Book). Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist’s Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations, by Thomas L.

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Woman in Events: The Importance of Educational Events for Professional Development

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There is a reason professionals, especially executives, attend many conferences, networking events, and forums each year. If there weren’t gaps, there wouldn’t be thousands of leadership and professional development books. There wouldn’t be conferences and networking events. What’s their next step in career growth?

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