Socio Events

AUGUST 4, 2022

And if that’s what you’re looking for from your next event, you might want to consider planning a virtual conference. Your venue is booked, your speakers are prepped, and your schedule is ready to go, but then something goes wrong and you’re forced to cancel. What are the benefits of hosting a virtual conference?

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Velvet Chainsaw

JUNE 28, 2017

Now this trend is appearing in conferences across the globe. Conference organizers, planning teams, and event producers aim to top last year’s event with a bigger-name speaker, larger budgets, trendy technology and greater wows. Yet few remember the primary conference speaker or tweeted about that message.

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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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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

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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Guidebook

JUNE 19, 2018

You’ve been working on your event for 6+ months — you’ve put in countless hours getting the venue locked down, the schedule finalized, speakers scheduled, the production design perfect. The day comes around and you wait in anticipation for your keynote speaker to step on stage. A great keynote speaker doesn’t just speak, though.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JANUARY 19, 2018

The Tourist Conference Experience. When conferences view their customers as tourists, they plan and offer slick-professionally-produced OMG wow moments, marquee speakers and headline performers. These conferences aim to top previous year’s events. They don’t want to be shortchanged for their attendance.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JULY 27, 2018

Registration discounts, tourist attraction locations, newly remodeled venues, the latest, greatest whiz-bang technology innovations and a jammed-packed schedule of speakers can quickly fade from one year to another. Planning and offering a mundane, mediocre event just won’t cut it. Then you can make the common conference uncommon.

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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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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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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

JANUARY 18, 2018

Established, successful conferences have leadership that are usually adept at incrementally improving their event each year. They focus on securing better content and speakers. Or improving registration and marketing practices. Sure conference organizers have a tendency to follow the money.

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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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Eventmobi

JANUARY 10, 2024

However, with so many different event apps for conferences on the market, it can be tough to know which one is right for you! In this guide, we’ll walk you through everything you need to know about choosing the best conference app for your event—from locating the best event apps to key features to look for. Book demos.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JUNE 9, 2016

It is not related to the amount of time they sit in an education session or listen to a speaker. So start now by relabeling your conference attendees as active participants. Make sure your marketing materials state that they are active learners and not just attendees of lectures and consumers information.

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InitLive

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Over the last 23 years, I have built my marketing career around the enterprise technology space working for companies like IBM and Mitel. Not surprisingly conferences have played a big part in my responsibilities over the years. Make sure to check out - Mastering the Art of Conference Planning in 5 Easy Steps.

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Velvet Chainsaw

MARCH 22, 2017

Use pre-conference marketing tools to encourage participants to use metacognition for their own learning. Helping conference stakeholders engage in metacognition is the gift that keeps on givin g! Dump Legacy Speakers And Traditions. When was the last time you had a major change in your conference experience?

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InitLive

OCTOBER 24, 2019

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. Research and finalize your speakers. Choose the theme and decide the decor of the conference. Check-in with the speakers.

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Eventinterface

MARCH 23, 2017

Eventinterface has partnered with Tap To Speak to provide conference attendees with the technology to easily communicate in real time with speakers straight from our platform’s program and itinerary tool. Now apps are coming on the market to turn mobile devices into microphones, connecting attendees with speakers.

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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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EveryEventGuide

APRIL 2, 2019

Once you have a clear understanding of the conference’s theme, start planning the details. Here are some conference planning tips to make it epic. Once you know the date, you can plan all the other aspects. When you create a schedule for the conference, decide when appetizers, meals, and cocktails will be served.

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Hubilo Blog

APRIL 15, 2020

You do not need a great plan, but a good plan that gets done with optimal quality. Strategies must be developed around online registración, marketing, papers call-out and submission speakers line up, presentations, nominations, engagement, networking and experience. They’re your distinct audiences to target and serve.

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GEVME

JUNE 25, 2021

This will also influence the different activities in the event, the duration, type of guests, and the marketing strategy to promote the event to potential audiences. Following this, you create the marketing strategy and the means of registration. The best way to begin with virtual event planning is to create a checklist.

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GEVME

JUNE 25, 2021

This will also influence the different activities in the event, the duration, type of guests, and the marketing strategy to promote the event to potential audiences. Following this, you create the marketing strategy and the means of registration. The best way to begin with virtual event planning is to create a checklist.

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Eventinterface

JUNE 20, 2017

One piece of advice stood out most: planning event security is not a task that should be accomplished in isolation. Planning for security involves a wide variety of stakeholders, and they should be engaged at the beginning of the event or conference planning process. Is the event private of heavily marketed?

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Coterie Spark

JUNE 14, 2022

Everyone knows the power of marketing. And it is, of course, a crucial element of successful event and conference planning. . Done correctly, marketing has helped our clients exceed their goals related to attendee retention, bringing in new followers, and attracting speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Other important vendors that need to be booked well ahead of your event include your AV team, entertainment, and speakers. Begin event promotion and create marketing strategies. Promotion and marketing are a crucial part of having a successful event. Gather speaker biographies and confirm details. Three Months Out.

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InitLive

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Whether you’re a nonprofit event planner , association membership manager, event director, or convention planner, this guide will help you plan the most effective, engaging convention possible for your audience members. 11 Steps to Plan a Successful Convention. 5 Convention Planning Best Practices. What is a Convention?

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Velvet Chainsaw

JANUARY 30, 2017

They expect conferences that are authentic, connected, contextual, mobile, participatory, work-related and transparent. Savvy conference organizers meet these disruptions head-on. They know how to segment their target market with personalized messages that help them solve their problems. It Must Be A Physical Experience.

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Expo Logic

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Speakers are a vital component to any event - and can be one of the most difficult. Finding enough speakers to fill your agenda is one thing; finding the right speakers is another. So how do you find a new, robust pool of potential speakers who are engaging, knowledgeable, and available? About the Author.

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Expo Logic

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Speakers are a vital component to any event - and can be one of the most difficult. Finding enough speakers to fill your agenda is one thing; finding the right speakers is another. So how do you find a new, robust pool of potential speakers who are engaging, knowledgeable, and available? About the Author.

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Endless Events

AUGUST 23, 2019

We’ve all been there, you’re at a conference, you’ve been waiting for months to hear a particular speaker. When the time finally comes, the speaker is just lackluster. It also allows for the speaker to more easily read the crowd. Anytime there is a podium used the speaker tends to stick behind it.

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Coterie Spark

JULY 1, 2024

A commonly overlooked aspect of conference planning is your ability to include a philanthropic element. Now that you’ve narrowed down who to support, it’s time to decide what kinds of events you’d like to plan. Give up one of your sessions to a speaker from your charity.

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Expo Logic

DECEMBER 27, 2019

If you are planning an event that features keynote speakers, you want to provide the best possible experience. The better experience your guest speaker has, the more likely they will be to work with you again in the future. How to Find Your Next Event Speaker. Understand Your Speaker.

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Coterie Spark

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

These items serve two purposes: a practical one that shields your attendees from the elements, as well as a memorable keepsake that keeps your conference top of mind long after it wraps. Always be marketing. Wind is typically the most overlooked weather event in conference planning, but it’s also among the most treacherous.

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Endless Events

JANUARY 16, 2019

Video can be a unique and engaging way to build excitement and inform your audience about events, speakers and so much more! Today Will Curran will walk you through 4 types of video that all conferences need to create your best conference yet! ” Instead, have videos made for every single one of your speakers.

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SmartMeetings

APRIL 17, 2019

Conference planning is a complex and intense task, with a whole host of ways in which things can go wrong. It’s pretty likely that your focus will rest largely on the big things: booking venues, hiring staff, confirming speakers and attendees. Nora Mork is a business and marketing journalist at Ukwritings and Boomessays.

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