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How to attract a crowd to your event in 3 weeks or less and impress your boss forever?

Eventory

Reading Time: 18 minutes Deadline is approaching. You need to find a brilliant idea to make your event happen with a full list of attendees. How to attract a crowd to your event in 3 weeks or less? It is not only about a single success of an event but about your position and boss’s appreciation. We have gathered the best ways to promote an event and reach the right target group.

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5 Serious Event Organizing Mistakes to Avoid

Brown Paper Tickets

Think you have a great idea for an event, but you’re not sure how to execute it? Or maybe you’re overwhelmed by all the things that could go wrong (but won’t), but could? Whether it’s your first event or your hundredth, you’ll want to avoid these 5 major event planning mistakes: 1. Procrastination. “Today is a bit cloudy… hmm? I heard it will be sunny tomorrow.

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You’re Paying Too Much Interest On Your Conference Organizational Debt

Velvet Chainsaw

Most organizations pay for it without knowing it. What is it? Conference organizational debt. Your conference organizational debt includes the static roles, traditional structures, outdated models, long-established practices, antiquated procedures and legacy policies that prevent your organization from adapting to evolving markets, technology and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.

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How This Event Gave Dogs Their Best Day Ever

BizBash

More than 1,400 pups and their humans convened for a morning of food, fun, and photo ops at Brookfield Place on.

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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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Your 7 Step Plan to get Management Buy-In for Your Event Ideas

Boomset

Photo by rawpixel on Unsplash Have you been tasked with organizing an event for your company? And have you forged ahead, full of enthusiasm, and succeeded in coming up with the most brilliant idea, only to be met with skepticism from your superiors? While it can sometimes be hard for executives who aren’t quite as invested as you are or simply don’t have the creative vision to see the value of your fabulous event concept, you need to learn how to ‘sell’ your event idea to your manager(s).

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Steps To Minimize And Prevent Your Conference Organizational Debt

Velvet Chainsaw

To be successful in the 21st Century, we have to become comfortable with ambiguity and contradiction. We must learn to reframe our questions and rise above conventional mental models. We have to embrace experimentation and try new things. We have to adopt strategies that encourage us to abandon ingrained, comfortable ideas and employ new ones that may feel unfamiliar.

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How to help meeting design clients figure out what they really want and need

Conferences that Work

Great — a client who doesn’t know what they want! Recently, a client asked for help designing a new conference. Thirty minutes of discussion with three stakeholders revealed they hadn’t yet settled on the event’s specific purpose, scope, and format. From my perspective this is actually a great problem to have. Why? Because most clients engage me after they are committed to programs and logistics that are not optimum for what they’re trying to accomplish!

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How to Design an Event App that Matches Your Event Brand

Eventmobi

So you’ve decided to invest in event app technology at your next event and are excited that you get to check off one more thing from your endless list of to-do’s leading up to your event. But as time ticks on and your event gets nearer, you realize, ’Wait…now I actually need to build my app!’ And then panic sets in. Have no fear – your friendly EventMobi Support Team is here!

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Event Marketing Plan: Checklist

GEVME

If no one heard about your event, it never really happened. Event marketing is your lifesaver when you need to explain to the world why you haven’t been getting a good night’s sleep for the last few months. But it’s obviously not the only reason you should fall in love with event marketing. A strong event promotion strategy will help you drive event registrations, establish brand recognition, and build a contact base.

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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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QuickMobile: The Security-focused Event App [Review]

EventMB

QuickMobile by Cvent is an event app with 50 configurable features and enterprise-grade security. Here is our review. QuickMobile: What Is It? QuickMobile offers feature-rich, fully-branded event apps for meetings, conferences, and exhibitions. The event apps are built on a highly secure, enterprise-grade platform that aligns with any corporate mobile strategy.

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BizBash C.E.O. David Adler: How This New Experiential Economy Conference Practiced 'Intentional Humanism'

BizBash

David Adler (@DavidAdler) is the C.E.O. and founder of BizBash. Remember when the iPhone turned us all into story-tellers and revolutionized.

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7 Event Content Marketing Campaigns that Created a Buzz

Eventbrite UK

With our increasingly hectic lives, winning attendees means winning hearts and minds – that’s why telling a story is becoming a bigger focus for savvy event marketers. In Eventbrite’s 2018 Pulse Report, we discovered that organisers’ aspirations have changed from simply hosting events, to creating on-going narratives. One-third of those we surveyed said the key […].

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More Love for Virtual Attendance at Events

Endless Events

Tech continues to play a more significant role in events, from both a planning and experiential perspective. Excitingly, virtual attendance at events is not only possible but is now becoming a serious contender in the event world. We’ve reached the point of experiencing an event without actually having to be there in person. But, it’s not just for the VR-buffs.

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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 Start an Event Blog

Event Planning BluePrint

Ever considered writing a blog for your event business? This is a question I get a lot from members of our community. So, in today’s training video, I walk you step-by-step to start an event blog in very little time. You’ll learn simple, actionable steps that you can start using today – because between the lingo, platform options and topic choices, writing a blog can be overwhelming at the beginning.

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See Where HBO Is Going for Summer Vacation

BizBash

With a pop-up community space opening today through August 19, HBO is bringing seven weeks of L.G.B.T.Q.+ cultural programming to.

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10 Fab, Fun and Fearless UK Pride Events

Eventbrite UK

Summertime is Pride time. Rainbow colours will be on display up and down the country during July and August with around 150 Prides taking place in 2018 – including London’s iconic Pride parade on July 7. Around these official parades and marches, there will be a host of other events, from comedy and drag shows to sports and […]. The post 10 Fab, Fun and Fearless UK Pride Events appeared first on Eventbrite UK Blog.

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Try Out New Trade Show Booth Ideas

Endless Events

People get tired of the same old trade show booth ideas, especially if you’re in a somewhat sleepy industry. Why not grab some ideas from other conferences like E3? The exhibitors in these shows don’t just innovate in their products; they also introduce new concepts in their marketing via their booths. But don’t innovate just for the sake of audience engagement.

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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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7 Tips for a Successful Crisis Management Meeting

SmartMeetings

Crisis management planning is like life insurance; nobody wants it, but everyone needs it. Business owners must budget for risk management even when there is no sign of trouble ahead. Planning for hypothetical events understandably seems like a waste of resources. But, like a life insurance policy, not having one is far more costly. Drafting an effective plan requires you address three main priorities when organizing your initial meeting: Who is coming.

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7 Tips to Get the Best Out of Your Teambuilding Activity Provider

BizBash

Whew! You've chosen a stellar company to provide a teambuilding activity designed to bring out the best in your colleagues.

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18 ways you can make a GREAT Online Registration Form for your Conference

Event Rebels

Have you ever had an online registration form that was both inflexible and unattractive? An inflexible registration form is one that does not allow you to control what fees and questions a registrant receives based on how they answered other questions on the form. An unattractive form is, well, ugly – such as a cheap looking invitation. If your online registration form has either of these qualities, you are diminishing the brand of your event and your organization.

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#MeToo Movement and Its Impact on Events – #EventIcons Episode – 120

Endless Events

The #Metoo movement is an international movement against sexual harassment and assault. It has empowered people throughout the world and given a voice to the voiceless. As long as you haven’t been under a rock you have seen the movement gaining power in Hollywood and beyond. It is not a trend or a fad. It’s not new, it’s real and here to stay. It also doesn’t only affect women, men and women alike need to be apart of this and work together to end sexual harassment and assault.

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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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Factors That Influence Purchasing Decisions for Catering Customers

Caterease

It's important to understand why and how your customers are coming to you to purchase your catering services. Without it, you are missing a huge volume of factors that come into making a sale. Mostly every aspect of your catering business could hinder whether someone decides to hire your company to cater their event. Even. The post Factors That Influence Purchasing Decisions for Catering Customers appeared first on Caterease.

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Guest Column: 6 Key Ways to Support Media at Events

BizBash

Matheson Sharp is a coordinator at Scott Circle Communications (@scottcircle), a Washington, D.C.-based public relations firm working with mission-driven clients. Planning.

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Should I Build my Own Event App or Subscribe to a SaaS?

Meeting Application

At first, the question may seem like a no-brainer – of course you should develop your own app, right? Well, not so fast. There’s a number of factors of significant weight you’ll have to consider before moving ahead with any of the options. You’re making an investment either way, that will have a strong bearing on how successful your undertaking is.

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How Did This Conference Earn a 100 Percent Approval Rating?

PCMA Convene

Lisa VanRosendale, senior vice president of client development for the brand experience agency FreemanXP, was one of PCMA’s Event Designer of the Year finalists. Which might be surprising, considering that she “killed off” the attendees at the conference that earned her the nomination. Lisa VanRosendale. Not literally, of course, but in a demonstration that would snap the 2017 Siebel Scholars Conference attendees awake as the event — which addressed cyber security — got underway in Washington, D

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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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5 Ways to Deal with a Chronic Illness While Achieving a Successful Career

SmartMeetings

Having a chronic illness while pursuing a career can be difficult to navigate. Every chronic illness manifests itself differently, and learning how to balance health with a full-time job takes time, effort, and trial and error. While it may feel impossible at first, juggling the two can be achieved. Here are five ways that prioritizing your health can lead to success in your career. 1.

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Macy’s Brings 4th of July Celebration to Life Across the United States with Virtual Reality

BizBash

Known for its spectacular Fourth of July fireworks display in New York City since 1976, Macy’s brought more than just.

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10 Event Website Examples You Must Check Out for Inspiration

Hubilo Blog

Your event website works as the online representative for your event. Not only is it the official point of contact for you and your attendees, it is also a reflection of what your event is all about and the ideologies guiding it. In the most basic sense, event websites work as a deal-maker or a total deal-breaker. Think of it this way. A person from your target audience heard about your event and seems interested.

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