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Your Trade Show Attendees: What Do They Really, Really Want?

Velvet Chainsaw

In a groundbreaking study that encompasses survey results from both show organizers and their attendees, CEIR has gathered data from thousands to gauge key characteristics of repeat attendees—who they are and why they become loyal visitors to an exhibition. What Kinds of Shopping Motivate Attendees? And to actually close a sale on site?

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Competent logistics are the new meeting minimum

Conferences that Work

The deficiencies of meeting planning textbooks and education. In my opinion, meeting planner education is deficient. Planners could be educated so they can help their clients with meeting design. And good event design is about how a conference works. The traditional bread and butter of a meeting planner’s job.

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Back to School for Trade Show Organizers: Build In More Ways to Learn and Connect

Velvet Chainsaw

Trade show organizers who have re-imagined their expo floors into a solutions-based destination rather than one of a hard-sell shopping place are winning at delivering attendee value. In this column, we’ll focus on the preferences influencing education as a motivator (from Part One of the reports). The Learning Tree.

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Something is rotten in the state of meeting industry education

Conferences that Work

Over the last five years I’ve heard increasing concern from the meeting professionals community about the deterioration of the quality of our national industry conferences. I’ll illustrate with the area where I have most experience: providing education at these meetings.

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Trade Show Booths: 100 Best Ideas for 2022

EventMB

In this extensive guide to trade show booths, we provide ten creative examples in each of the following categories: 1 Trade show booth ideas for small budgets. Trade show booth ideas that attract visitors. Creative trade show booth ideas. Trade show booth ideas: 10×10.

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What Risk Factors Are Top of Mind for Association Event Organizers?

Velvet Chainsaw

We recently convened a roundtable of senior-level conference organizers to discuss risk tolerance and the forces that are shaping their 2021/22 event strategies and decisions. Three primary risk categories are emerging as organizations weigh their options for major conferences in 2021: Mitigating financial risk.

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Case Study: CSAE Achieves 90% Attendee Engagement Through Their Mobile Event App

Eventmobi

The organization provides tools, resources, and education to help association professionals and volunteers succeed. The CSAE Annual National Conference. CSAE holds their national conference in a different Canadian city every October. CSAE has used EventMobi’s app over the past two years for their annual national conference.