Socio Events

AUGUST 4, 2022

In turn, event organizers can salvage their conference, safeguard investments, and put on an engaging show just as they promised. How do you plan a virtual conference? Planning an in-person conference is one thing, but pivoting to a virtual format is another entirely. Ready to go virtual?

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Velvet Chainsaw

MAY 3, 2017

Start by considering one or more of these conference big ideas. They are the conference planning road less traveled that harvests success! Big Conference Ideas On The Road Less Traveled Part 1. Here are the first five big conference ideas you should might embrace. Breeding Conference Dialogic Development.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JULY 18, 2018

It is creating a habit of regularly questioning every conference planning practice and programming component that we currently use. This includes asking the more obvious yet often elusive questions of “Why are we holding a conference? Who is our target market and our primary customer? What’s the purpose of our event?

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Velvet Chainsaw

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Too often when we think about conference growth or sustainability, we assume it means attracting next gen customers. Then we discuss how to plan, program and market to that specific age group. Eventually our planning discussions turn to generational differences. Shifting markets. Motivating different generations.

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Hubilo Blog

APRIL 3, 2018

Conference planning is a no easy job. Event planning overall, for that matter, is a stressful job. There is a wide range of conference planning tools in the market that make life much easier for conference planners juggling 10 tasks at a time. This is where the conference planning software comes in.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JANUARY 25, 2018

Too often conference and meeting professionals assume that their role is best suited to planning and executing the conference. They leave the big decisions about target customers, their needs and their aspirations to the organization’s leaders, the marketing department or even the education division.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JULY 5, 2018

Your conference organizational debt includes the static roles, traditional structures, outdated models, long-established practices, antiquated procedures and legacy policies that prevent your organization from adapting to evolving markets, technology and society. Why did we start this process or procedure? What’s its history?

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Velvet Chainsaw

APRIL 13, 2020

However, from past experience, any time that there has been a shift from a seller’s to a buyer’s market, those contracts signed during a seller’s market just flat out had to be updated. None of us can say that we’ve seen this movie before because it’s never been this global and severe and both parties are innocent victims.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Paid influencer marketing is spreading to the event industry, and I doubt that it’s an ethical practice. This is classic paid influencer marketing via social media, a marketing trend that has been rapidly growing since 2014. If you’re interested in more details I would love to chat with you; my phone number is __.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

But when COVID-19 began spreading in the United States, organizers knew the virus could derail their plans to hold the event at the JW Marriott Nashville in mid-August. “It Webinar topics included “Top 25 Market Performance Overview” and “U.S. One scenario planners were hoping they could pull off was a hybrid event. “We

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Velvet Chainsaw

JUNE 28, 2018

Organizational debt is all the processes, policies, procedures and workarounds that have been institutionalized during the conference planning and implementation phases over the years. Sometimes conference organizers make concessions to appease legacy presidents, committee members or owners of past planning initiatives.

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InitLive

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

With an excellent event team and a good strategy, you can plan and organize a successful conference for your organization. However, approaching conference planning with outdated methods can lead to a slow and exhausting planning process. Event Planning Automation. Event Promotion and Marketing.

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Eventmobi

MAY 23, 2024

Unfortunately, this model might not give you enough expertise to make your conference successful, as volunteers don’t always have the necessary skills. Sponsorship-Driven Management Many sponsors are happy with their name and logo on conference marketing materials. How much money can you spend on your conference?

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Velvet Chainsaw

JUNE 28, 2017

Although our attendees may not struggle with serious addictions like drug abuse, we can easily get sucked into conference experiences that are novel. And our conference planning teams want to out-do last year’s novelty and wow. Transformative Conferences Engage A Different Part of The Brain.

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Event Marketer

AUGUST 21, 2023

In this episode, we sit down with Jessica Blake, senior director-global strategic events at Confluent, to talk about “year-two” planning for the event, which takes place Sept. The post Podcast: Launch Stories—Creating an Event for an Industry appeared first on Event Marketer.

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Velvet Chainsaw

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

If you are, you need a conference intrapreneur! More than just one intrapreneur, you need a conference planning culture of intrapreneurship. Ultimately, you’ll want to develop a conference team of intrapreneurs. Ask yourself this: Do our conference planning teams have the willingness, capability and confidence to __?

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Velvet Chainsaw

JULY 13, 2016

What is the breakthrough you most want to see happen in your conference in the next year? What do you imagine could be possible if you were truly collaborating with your conference planning team, leadership and volunteers? You compare and contrast 20th century market-share with 21st Century mind-share mentality.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JULY 26, 2018

A future back planning approach uses a distinct method of defining a future state and working backwards. Then in reverse time-lapse fashion, conference planning teams set priorities and milestones for their next event. You start with the end in mind.

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InitLive

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

There is a lot of planning that goes into an in-person conference event. That's why it is so important to start your conference planning process well in advance. It is helpful to review your successes and shortcomings from your last conference and use that information to help inform your planning this time around.

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InitLive

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

To help prepare for your next conference we thought the time was right to take a step back and look at how we manage logistics at our next conference and ask ourselves is there a better way? Over the last 23 years, I have built my marketing career around the enterprise technology space working for companies like IBM and Mitel.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JUNE 13, 2018

Your conference purpose is about building sustainable conference value. When your conference purpose is properly aligned with your organization’s mission, strategy, business plans and target market, it will drive economic performance. Your conference purpose identifies its role in your customers’ ecosystem.

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Eventmobi

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In this comprehensive guide, we’ll walk you through how to plan a conference from A to Z. We’ll cover everything from budgeting and marketing to finding sponsors and speakers to reporting and analytics. What Does It Take to Plan a Conference? But how long does it take to plan a conference?

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Velvet Chainsaw

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Leadership and customers expect us to design, envision, implement and lead any conference changes. We are to help volunteers and staff review and revise the conference’s purpose, align conference goals with the organization’s strategy, refine our target market and adjust our budgets accordingly.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JANUARY 26, 2018

Once you’ve observed the conference through the lens of your target customer and gained insights from conference data, you can move to the next steps. These steps are critical for you and your conference planning teams to embrace, enlist and employ.

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InitLive

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Finalize the planning and execution committees and allocate their respective tasks. These are the crucial months in your conference planning process and if you can get the majority of the planning done during this period, then you will feel less stressed in the coming time. Choose your vendors to suit your needs.

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Eventinterface

JULY 12, 2017

She has won the International Live Events Association awards in Marketing Design in 2014,15 and 16 for her design suites for Baldwin & Lyons Race Weekend. How to implement hybrid event strategies for your meetings and conferences. Planning the audience experience and PR for your events. CONNECT WITH JULIA SPANGLER.

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

And, a majority of marketers agree. In fact, 83% of B2B marketers are heavily interested in events, and 80% of marketers believe events and event marketing are critical to their company’s success. It’s with good reason that 31% of marketers believe event marketing is the most effective marketing channel.

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Master the Event

APRIL 5, 2022

Conference Planning Seattle – So Much to See and Do…. Once inside Seattle’s styling neighborhoods you will discover unbelievable and delicious restaurants, fun and scrumptious farmers markets, noteworthy and extraordinary museums and outstanding and distinguished theaters and concert halls. A conference planners dream.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JULY 13, 2018

Paradigm: Our conference profits depend on what we plan and implement for our exhibitors/sponsors. Paradigm Busted: Our conference results depend on our target market customers—our paying attendees. Paradigm Busted: We achieve conference results and success by growing our target market’s discoveries.

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Velvet Chainsaw

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

When you adopt a strategic objective like that for your conference, it leaves room for creativity in achieving that desired outcome. Work closely with your local chapter or Destination Marketing Organization to identify two or three local worthy causes that you’d like to help. Here are some suggestions. Choose Your Charity.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JANUARY 24, 2018

Do you consider how these pieces fit together creating the conference experience from your target market customer’s perspective? Do you know what your conference target market customer wants? Owning The Conference Customer Experience. What do your conference customers want? And what do they want and need?

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Master the Event

DECEMBER 10, 2023

You don’t have to look very far to find a conference planning checklist. And when you Google the term, there certainly is no shortages of websites where you can get conference planning checklist ideas. Which started me thinking about which items would be considered crucial for a conference planning checklist.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JULY 17, 2024

Some components of planning an association annual meeting involve multiple departments and competing priorities. Membership wants one thing; publications, marketing, and chapter relations, another. Membership may own the creative design, while marketing is responsible for the creative design.

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Eventory

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Conferences, summits, meetups – marketing managers’ calendars are bursting at the seams with the mass of industry events. However, it’s hard to miss the impression that more and more often, marketing conferences are like a sad duty for the marketing managers.

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Master the Event

DECEMBER 12, 2023

A conference planning guide is designed to help walk you through the various steps required when planning an event. Finding the right conference planning guide can be a task in itself. However be careful as many of these planning guides are actually a marketing tool designed to pitch a sale to you.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JULY 10, 2017

Over the past 18 months, we’ve carefully scrubbed and analyzed the attendance of 20 major conferences. Peter Fader , professor of marketing at Wharton, and author of Customer Centricity: Focus on the Right Customers for Strategic Advantage , highlights customer lifetime value as a strategic lens for identifying your best customers.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JUNE 23, 2016

Smart conference professionals are skilled at articulating the value of their event’s networking and learning opportunities. They can discuss how their programming helps their target market achieve their business goals. 21st Century conference organizers must stop just scheduling speakers and assigning room sets.

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