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New Year, Great Venues for Meeting Planners in 2023

Smart Meetings

Kicking off the New Year for some often means new resolutions. “New Year, New You!” But for meeting planners it may sound like, “New Year, New Venue!”. WalletHub recently released a study highlighting the best cities for New Year’s Eve celebrations based on entertainment and food, costs, safety and accessibility. A New Year in New York. Event attendees have a lot of options in-between event sessions, whether it is The Winter Village in Bryant Park which has a large winter market and an ice rink.

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Inclusion and Diversity: How to Ensure Your Event Has Both

Special Events

How to add DEI to your events

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Unique Goodie Bag Ideas in 2023 you Need to Know (That Don’t Suck)

Nunify

Be it a party, a formal event, or a spontaneous celebration, gift bags are a MUST HAVE. If you are looking for unique goodie bag ideas continue reading. Don’t give random pens and water bottles to your adult friends. It’s better to be unique and creative with your gifts. Your guests would already have plenty of those gifts that every event & party they attend give Give them something they will actually use or something that will remind them of the event.

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The Future of Group Bookings

EventMB

Skift Take: Groups360 are making group travel booking easier for consumers and the hotels. The company urges planners to embrace new technology that increases efficiency, frees up resources, and ensures a direct connection between hotels and clients. — Skift Meetings Studio Team Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings.

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Elevate Your Event Experience to the Next Level

In order to create a successful event, you must: Optimize Event Website and Registration Process Utilize Social Media Platforms Effectively Implement Targeted Email Campaigns Harness the Power of Video Content Benefit from a Mobile App Download now and learn how to simplify this process with Eventpedia.

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5 Ways to Practice Gratitude at Your Events

Special Events

Use gratitude to transform your events

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6 Reasons Why PaySimple Offers the Best Online Payment Processing for Events

Planning Pod

As an event professional in the modern world, integrated online payments are crucial to business success. If your business isn’t accepting payments from anywhere at any time, your growth is limited. With so many providers and payment gateways to evaluate – Stripe, Square, Authorize.net, etc – how do you identify key advantages? Planning Pod’s event management software can securely store your client’s bank account or credit card information and integrate online payments through a vari

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Skift Meetings’ Top News Stories of 2022

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Skift Take: Wrapping up an intense year filled with ups and downs, we share the most popular news stories published on Skift Meetings in 2022. — Skift Meetings Studio Team Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings.

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How to make the most of your pharma CRM to power your medical events

SpotMe Blog

Running medical events is no simple task. There are numerous legal frameworks, regulations, and compliance standards to adhere to. And pharma companies have to track and record every single little thing that happens. But did you know that you can orchestrate and manage so many aspects of your events using your pharma CRM? In this article, we’ll show you exactly how you can make excellent use of your pharma CRM to manage events from start to finish.

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Emily and Jared’s Intimate Wedding at The Doctors House

EventSource

Emily and Jared’s gorgeous wedding is a beautiful blend of vintage romance and timeless elegance. Their big day at the scenic The Doctor's House featured a soft pastel palette along with delicate details that will surely inspire you. Exquisitely planned by STORI Events , you’ll be obsessed with the hues, views, and blues of this delightful wedding.

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Unlock the Secrets of Event Marketing Masters

The greats learn from the greats. Set yourself and your team up for success with tried and tested strategies and insights from event marketing geniuses at Vanta, Partnership Leaders, Quantum Metric, Rocketlane, and Explori.

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How to Write an Event Proposal (with a Template and Tips)

QC Event School

As a professional event planner, you know that writing an event proposal is one of the most important steps in the planning process! After all, a well-written proposal can help you secure a client and get them excited about your proposed event. In this blog post, we will break down how to write an event proposal from start to finish. We’ll also provide useful tips for making your proposal stand out from the competition.

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Top Event Manager Podcast Episodes of 2022

EventMB

Skift Take: The Event Manager Podcast by Skift Meetings features leading meeting professionals sharing insights and strategies to succeed in the ever-evolving world of events. These were the most popular episodes of 2022. — Skift Meetings Studio Team Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings.

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Holiday Miracles: Pop-up Bars Bring Holiday Cheer

Smart Meetings

Have a holiday event filled with excitement and fun with pop-up bars serving festive cocktails. Miracle Pop-Up Bar and its spin-off company Sippin’ Santa have opened several pop-up bars in popular venues around the Bay Area in Northern California. Between the private event options of the venues and the playful spirit of Miracle Pop Up Bar and Sippin’ Santa, your holiday event will be something to celebrate.

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How to Plan a High School Reunion in Ten Easy Steps

Social Tables

In a busy, fast-paced world, many people find it challenging to stay in touch with close friends, see family regularly, and maintain older relationships. When was the last time you saw your old classmates or reconnected with your childhood friends? If you can’t remember the last time, you’re not alone, but it’s been too long. A high school reunion is a fantastic excuse for old friends, acquaintances, and classmates to get together, catch up, and reconnect.

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How to Get Speakers, Exhibitors, and Attendees to Promote Your Event With Video

In this best practices guide, you’ll learn how to tap into the cost-efficiencies of advocacy and word-of-mouth marketing with video. Examples include speakers providing a preview of their upcoming sessions, exhibitors creating “please stop by” invitations and attendees creating “looking forward to seeing you” introduction videos. Learn about best practices and programs created by leading companies and associations including ASIS, AUVSI, SuperZoo, National Restaurant Association, World of Concret

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How to Promote Your Event on Social Media in 2023

Eventtia

Event marketing, simply put, is about letting people know about the existence of the event you’re hosting, and convincing them so they’ll join the event. We can argue that marketing has become more complicated than ever before. In the past, if we had enough budget to advertise an event in the prime-time slot of a popular TV channel, we were basically guaranteed success.

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CMP Clock Hours, The Easy Way

EventMB

Skift Take: All of Skift Meetings' virtual summits, webinars and reports are pre-approved for continuing education clock hours (CEs), essential to certifying or recertifying as a Certified Meeting Professional (CMP). Best of all, they are all free of charge and available on demand. — Skift Meetings Studio Team Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings.

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Best of 2022: Travel

Smart Meetings

Travel recovery post-Covid has been a case of two steps forward one step back. Smart Meetings has been covering the airline and hotel industry closely this year, both in our weekly travel reports designed specifically for meeting planners and in our feature coverage. See some highlights below on the highs (and lows) of the travel scene in 2022. Fasten Your Seat Belts.

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Meet the Team: Daniel Dessauges, CEO and co-founder

zkipster

We started the year with a leadership team announcement and a message from Daniel Dessauges , our CEO and co-founder, outlining his vision for zkipster. We’re wrapping up the year with him too; taking a look back at the career path that helped to inspire zkipster and the journey he’s been on with the company. Daniel Dessauges was born and raised in Zürich, Switzerland, and speaks French, Swiss German and English.

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Download Now: 2022 Virtual + Hybrid Event Platform RFP Template - Enterprise Edition

Download 200+ new RFP questions for hybrid and virtual event technology success. After 10,000 downloads, the SpotMe Virtual + Hybrid Event Platform RFP Template is the ultimate procurement tool for event technology. This template is ideal for companies looking for a vendor to fulfill their specific virtual + hybrid event platform needs and requirements!

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Certified Accountants Congress Uses Holograms and Other Tech to Dazzle

Special Events

Europalco's use of tech to create an engaging show

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IMPACT XM Reflects on 2022, Celebrates Year of Innovation and Growth

Exhibitor Magazine

DAYTON, N.J. � Rounding out a year of incredible accomplishments and advancements, global experiential marketing agency Impact XM is celebrating its o.

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Feature alert ? From now on budget versions in event software

eventplanner

Just before the end-of-year festivities, you will receive a gift from our development team: the event planner event software now supports multiple versions of your event budget.

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Best of 2022: Food and Beverage

Smart Meetings

This year, hotel food and beverage departments as well as catering outlets and F&B in conference and exhibition centers struggled to catch up to post-Covid pent up demand as well as to what is now called “accommodation cuisine.” As meetings went back to in-person settings, health and safety stayed paramount. Bon Accommodation. Our May feature story on “accommodation cuisine” took many aspects of this new category into consideration: health, religious and allergen-related choices were all par

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Dominate Your Local Market With These 4 Reputation Management Strategies

Speaker: Adam Dorfman, Lindsay Harrison, and Erin O'Brien

Did you know that 4 out of 5 consumers use local search and 88% use smartphones for those searches? With that in mind, I think it's safe to say your online presence is the silver bullet of your business. Think about the revenue you could be missing by not prioritizing local search optimization. Fortunately, there are a handful of steps you can take right now that will immediately impact your business's pace in local search, and we're happy to share them.

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How To Design High-Converting Sponsorship Levels (+Template)

Nunify

Your sponsorship pitch is getting lost in the pool of thousands of requests. Your target sponsor is already overloaded, and if your pitch seems like the rest, you won’t get that sponsorship. But what if you present your offer clearly in a structured way with various options to the sponsors? This is possible by creating event sponsorship levels, which we will cover in this article.

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Skiddle Update: Optimise NYE listings, Remittance, Promoter Survey & Blog Spotlight

Skiddle

Welcome to Skiddle’s final Promoter Update of 2022, we hope you enjoyed the Christmas break. As the year draws to a close, we’ll be reminding you about last-minute New Year’s Eve listing checks and changes to our remittance schedule. Elsewhere, we’ll be giving you the chance to answer our Promoter Survey and our Blog Spotlight feature will return with tips on how to make your night run as smoothly as possible.

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How Much Wind Can a Pop-Up Canopy Tent Take?

Ins'Tent

Pop-up canopy tents are a great way to create shade and protection from elements for events, fairs, games, and festivals. However, they can often be bested by wind, and a windy day can ruin the convenience of some tents. Canopies in windy conditions can be prone to falling over or even flying away. Not every tent is built the same, and often don’t come with canopy tent wind ratings. .

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Prepare for GMID 2023: Resolve to Continue Advocating for Events

Smart Meetings

If 2022 was the year of scrambling to accommodate revenge meetings, travel industry leaders are hoping that in 2023, the industry will build on the mandate earned during the pandemic downtime and remind everyone that #MeetingsMatter. That is the theme for this year’s Global Meetings Industry Day (GMID) planned for March 30 by U.S. Travel Association.

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B2B Events in 2023 - What You Need to Know

Get ahead of the curve and stay informed with Zuddl's industry report on the future of B2B events in 2023. Stay up-to-date on the latest trends and insights from leading experts in the field. Make informed decisions and stay ahead of the competition.

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First-time exhibitors flock to ISE 2023

eventplanner

In a sign of the ever-growing and widening appeal of ISE, the 2023 show is set to welcome more than 900 exhibitors, including around 120 first-time exhibitors who will take up 3,630sqm of floorspace at the Fira.

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The Ultimate Guide For Offering A Winery Full Bar At Your Wedding

Milestone Events Group

We probably don’t need to tell you that a lot of steps go into planning a full bar service wedding. You could even say that you might need a drink after all that planning. Which is why we want to talk about the logistics for serving alcohol at your wedding. Will there be unlimited drinks? Are you going to offer a cash bar? It’s just our opinion, but we think it’s worth investing in and treating your guests to an open bar.

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Global Travelers Can Return to Hong Kong Restriction-Free as All Arrival Control Measures are Lifted

Exhibitor Magazine

The Hong Kong SAR Government announced the lifting of all mandatory PCR test requirements for inbound travelers upon arrival in Hong Kong, as well as.

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