Event Marketer

JANUARY 17, 2025

It wasnt until Laura Nelson was invited to speak at a womens entrepreneurial conference on a wellness panel, that she realized she wasnt alone in her perception of alcohols role in events. The book is available free to download or purchase via Amazon. What did you want to accomplish with the book?

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Velvet Chainsaw

APRIL 5, 2022

We’ve seen improved pacing when an association offers worry-free booking with no strings. The post 2022 Conference Registration Pacing appeared first on Velvet Chainsaw. Attendees will not be motivated to save $100 for registering early when you have the same cancellation policy as 2019.

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 31, 2020

Please stop treating adults like children at your conferences. for Sessions , described in Chapter 26 of my book Event Crowdsourcing , is exactly what you’ll need for an in-person session. So, please stop treating adults like children at conferences. For an exception, see the end of this post.). Five minutes of Post It!

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Prestige Events Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Launched to increase meeting and event bookings across its extensive UK portfolio, the campaign incentivised booking agents with unique prizes, and results have exceeded expectations. These winners were recognised for their contribution to driving bookings throughout the campaign period.

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Conferences that Work

JANUARY 11, 2021

What makes attending conferences worthwhile? As I described in Conferences That Work , the two most common reasons for attending conferences are to learn useful things and make useful connections. But there are numerous other ways that conferences provide value to stakeholders. Complicated problems.

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Prestige Events Magazine

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

From conferences, awards shows, to immersive pop-ups, their collection of versatile venues is designed to inspire and bring people together. For bookings or more details, head to www.lastdays.london. East London is now home to Last Days , an exciting new venue collection group rethinking how we use underutilised spaces.

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Prestige Events Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Unique London events venue, Church House, Westminster , has had a record-breaking year for Christmas party bookings, with eight taking place this festive season and one already confirmed for Christmas 2025. With a noticeable increase in bookings this year, particularly from the U.S.,

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Prestige Events Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The Mercure Manchester Piccadilly Hotel has opened its eagerly awaited ‘Garden View’ room, now available for meeting and event bookings. Bathed in natural daylight, the space provides a vibrant and welcoming atmosphere ideal for conferences, exhibitions, breakfast awards, lunches, afternoon teas, and networking events.

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Prestige Events Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The outdoor event destination introduces a new end-of-year festivities offering for businesses Center Parcs Conferences & Events announces the launch of its first ever end-of-year festive event package for business clients – Festive Meetings in the Forest – available at both its Woburn Forest and Sherwood Forest venues.

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Prestige Events Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2024

year-on-year increase in revenue for September, October and November 2024, thanks to its live business meetings and events bookings being up by 11.68%. As such, the venue can now cater for up to 530 and is popular for a range of events from conferences and exhibitions to awards ceremonies, product launches and wine tastings.

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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Before 2020, I was designing and facilitating around a dozen in-person meetings and conferences a year. Though I love my work, it was nice to reduce the number of high-intensity workdays booked in 2023! The design I designed and facilitated a classic peer conference. 2023 in review I slowed down in 2023. And, you know what?

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Eventmobi

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

So for many event planners looking for the right tool to host a virtual conference, Zoom is the first thing that comes to mind. This means planners can easily connect their Zoom account with EventMobi to deliver a seamless and user-friendly experience to their virtual conference attendees. Already an EventMobi customer?

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Prestige Events Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

This self-contained venue can be booked alongside conferences at the Castle or Maiden’s Tower as an evening reception or breakout space during the day. Situated an hour from London, The Gatehouse includes a reception area, dining room and restrooms.

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Event Marketer

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The world of money is changing fast, and Money20/20 USA , the fintech trade show and conference that took place at the Venetian Expo in Las Vegas, Oct. Our theme this year is Human x Machine,” said Kathryn Frankson, global director-marketing, Money20/20.

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Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The other day, a client booked an hour with me to discuss how to make their conference better. Thinking about our conversation afterward, I realized that all my recommendations involved six fundamental processes that, when implemented well and appropriately, will make any conference better.

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Event Marketer

MARCH 19, 2025

70% reported difficulty demonstrating ROI for in-person conferences, summits and conventions 54% of U.S. 70% reported difficulty demonstrating ROI for in-person conferences, summits and conventions 54% of U.S. 70% reported difficulty demonstrating ROI for in-person conferences, summits and conventions 54% of U.S.-based

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Prestige Events Magazine

MAY 1, 2025

by Simon Hainsworth, Corporate Sporting Events When athletes or business people come together for a sporting or corporate event, theyre not just creating opportunities for people inside the stadium or conference hall to win.

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The MICE

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The Frankfurt Airport Marriott Hotel and Sheraton Frankfurt Airport Hotel & Conference Center represents the first dual-brand concept for Marriott International. Additionally, Frankfurt Airport Marriott Hotel and Sheraton Hotel & Conference Center stand out as large conference venues in Europe.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Getting lost in the sea of travel booking platforms? As airlines increasingly adopt New Distribution Capability (NDC) technology, Travelports solution ensures that planners and business travelers can efficiently compare and book the best options across multiple suppliers. Travelport and Chase are using AI to secure your attention.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Rereading a 2012 post by Jeff Jarvis , I was struck by the parallels between his take on news organizations’ responsibilities to their platforms and the responsibilities of conferences. ” —Jeff Jarvis At conferences, the “users” are primarily participants. Screw your users, screw yourself.”

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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Here’s an independent review of my conference design work, published as a case study in Chapter 25—Designing and Developing Content for Collaborative Business Events—of the book The Routledge Handbook of Business Events. Tip: The hardback version is expensive, the ebook is a quarter of the hardback cost.)

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Attendease

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Whether you’re organizing a corporate conference, a product launch, a holiday party, or a training seminar, this handy tool turns overwhelming project timelines into bite-sized, actionable steps. With countless moving parts, deadlines, and stakeholders to manage, where do you even begin? Today’s events are more complex than ever.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Do you need to find new monetary sources for conferences, conventions and trade shows? Give attendees a discount code on the last day of the conference that is only good for the next 30 days. Establishing the conference fee, contracting with the venue and locking the dates will require some effort. Create a zero-waste meeting.

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Prestige Events Magazine

APRIL 28, 2025

Congress Centre, which is based within the headquarters of The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has confirmed it will cease trading as a conference and events venue on 30 th June 2025. The TUC has also utilised its historically significant base for many flagship conferences, rallies and events.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 11, 2024

The strengthening meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions (MICE) sector has also made major economic contributions, with businesses worldwide investing more in corporate travel that builds relationships both within teams and extended networks. Take advantage of a 20% discount on the below select dates; flights must be booked by Oct.

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Prestige Events Magazine

MAY 7, 2024

Arena Racing Group (ARC), the UK’s largest racecourse group, boasting 21 venues and 16 premier racecourses nationwide, has launched ‘Step Into Summer’ – a Wellness-inspired experience at meetings and conferences this summer. For new bookings, each delegate will receive a complimentary racing ticket to enjoy the thrill of live racing.

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Prestige Events Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2024

As a versatile, hybrid venue, Exhibition combines corporate functionality with brand experiences and a dynamic cultural programme hosting 1,165 for conferences and 780 for dinners.

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 4, 2024

During a 1992 conference, I created the first of what I now call spectives. Spectives are popular and successful because, like peer conferences, they adapt beautifully to participants’ wants and needs. the 2015 PCMA Education Conference ) and small (e.g. the 2023 BizBash Leadership Summit ) conferences. A hat tip!

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Attendease

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The constant back-and-forth emails, the nagging worry about double-booked sessions, and that sinking feeling when you discover a scheduling conflict minutes before your event goes live… For many event professionals, these scenarios still represent their daily reality. Double-booking dilemmas Oops! Let’s explore!

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Event Marketer

APRIL 2, 2025

Breaking away from the usual conferences with a meetings and expo components, Shoptalk is part of the growing group of business events, think Money 20/20 and HLTH , that are rewriting the book on engagement, business facilitation, and the show floor experience. Heres our list of expo firsts.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 6, 2024

Long wait times and inflationary pressure linger at in-person-only medical meeting The arrival in Seattle of 11,631 attendees for the 2024 Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology ( ARVO ) conference in May was the culmination of a logistical struggle to return to bringing the world of eye doctors together at 2019 levels.

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Velvet Chainsaw

APRIL 13, 2020

While these numbers look dismal for hotels, similar forecasts would apply to AV companies, exhibit service contractors, DMOs, exhibitor and attendee participation, conference-organizer revenue, and nearly any other product or service you can link to the live events industry. Conference Go/No-Go Decisions in a Pandemic. Remove Barriers.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 7, 2025

However, for hotels considering bookings for 2028, he emphasized the importance of securing that future revenue now, ensuring they have committed business in place before the market shifts with the influx of new and upgraded properties. #2 Here, Smart Meetings brings you the key takeaways. #1

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Prestige Events Magazine

APRIL 23, 2025

To highlight Stress Awareness Month, Center Parcs Conferences & Events has revealed that work events held outdoors are better for employee wellbeing, productivity, and overall business performance, when compared to indoor events.

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Coterie Spark

MARCH 24, 2025

Are you ready to unlock the power of AI at your next conference? AI is reshaping the conference planning landscape, offering groundbreaking tools that engage attendees, streamline management, and maximize impact. Of course, its not always clear how to use artificial intelligence in conference planning.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 1, 2024

On Tuesday, March 26, 2024 , I sat down with Martin Duffy and Paul Nunesdea on LinkedIn Live for an hour’s deep dive conversation about peer conferences: the participant-driven, participation-rich events I’ve designed and facilitated for over thirty years. Peer Conferences Unveiled—The Transcript! Here it is—enjoy!

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 3, 2025

Aside from my first book , I havent written much about the effects of attendee status attendees’ “relative rank in a hierarchy of prestige” at events. Their status is publicly proclaimed on the pre-conference program, giving attendees no say in the decision. For more on how this works, check out this 2014 post.

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