Planning Pod

MAY 7, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has been upon us for 2 months and unfortunately the end is nowhere in sight. However, despite all the death, sickness, economic carnage, physical distancing, travel bans and massive life changes this has brought on us all, it’s refreshing to talk to so many business owners – including those of hard-hit restaurants and event venues – who still have a positive outlook for resetting their business when social distancing measures start to relax , bit-by-bit.

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EventMB

MAY 4, 2020

In the last few weeks, we've seen virtual events become more widespread as an alternative to live events, but trade shows and exhibitions haven't made a particularly smooth transition. Here's a look at why. Based on our timeline, live events are unlikely to be permissible into next year, and this is especially true of […]. The post Why Trade Shows Haven’t Had a Smooth Transition to Virtual by Victoria Copans appeared first on [link].

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Eventinterface

MAY 8, 2020

Are you having a hard time attracting customers to your e-commerce site ? Does it feel like your business often gets lost in a sea of competition? Are you looking for that hook - the one factor that gets people’s attention and brings them to your site? If you’ve answered yes to these questions, then it may be time to look into how events could, in fact, help to promote your e-commerce business.

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Velvet Chainsaw

MAY 8, 2020

PCMA is hosting a free webinar on Wednesday, May 13, at 2 pm ET , featuring Dave Lutz and Lisa Block of Velvet Chainsaw Consulting. Webinar description: Monetizing Your Virtual Conference When Competing with Free. Everyone and their brother is hosting webinars and virtual networking opportunities. Like this one, most are free. This topic is a burning issue and promises to be a more engaging experience than most.

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MAY 8, 2020

It’s day 41 in quarantine and I’m doing something I wasn’t sure I would ever do again, let alone while still sheltering-in-place in my studio apartment. I’m putting on makeup. A month ago, I agreed to participate in a tantra speed dating workshop online. And now, putting on mascara, picking out a flattering shirt, and […].

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EventMB

MAY 6, 2020

After months in lockdown, many will flock back to events. Will revenge attending save the event industry from the deepest crisis ever faced? A few weeks ago, Hermès, a luxury brand in fashion, reopened its flagship store in the southern region of Guangzhou, China. It managed to sell inventory for $2.7M, the highest ever […]. The post How Revenge Attending Could Help Events Bounce Back by Julius Solaris appeared first on [link].

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Velvet Chainsaw

MAY 6, 2020

This is not a typical story. The American Association of Suicidology’s annual meeting had been growing steadily in recent years. When their reimagined conference couldn’t take place in Portland, Ore., in late April, staff and volunteers went into overdrive to transition the physical meeting to a virtual one in a matter of days.They knew how critical it was to deliver much-needed content to their global community.

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MAY 7, 2020

The beloved Bay Area non-profit La Cocina has spent 15 years building a community of female food entrepreneurs, incubating about 125 businesses owned by immigrants and people of color and helping to launch 33 brick-and-mortar locations. In the past two months, however, those businesses, like many around the world, have been severely impacted by the […].

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Planning Pod

MAY 2, 2020

The growth of the Internet since the start of the 21st century has been immense, touching almost every part of our lives, from education to commerce to communications to entertainment. Similarly, it has also touched practically every aspect of how we plan and manage events and, in the last decade, how we produce and broadcast events. In the 2010s, virtual events (online only) and hybrid events (those that have both in-person and online audiences) have started to build steam due to both their con

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EventMB

MAY 7, 2020

As virtual meetings and conferences become more common, we can only assume that online trade shows are next. Although they're more complicated to transition online, there is existing tech to assist. Here are ten tools for organizing virtual trade shows. More and more major events are announcing online alternatives after canceling their in-person gatherings, […].

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Event Industry News

MAY 5, 2020

The Event Supplier and Services Association (ESSA) is asking its members and all event industry businesses to join a twitterstorm, today Tuesday May 5th, 2020, in an effort to increase the pressure on the chancellor and PM to specifically intervene on the event industry’s behalf during this crisis. Andrew Harrison, ESSA director, explained why a twitterstorm was chosen to add to the voices calling for event industry support, saying, “Whilst ESSA and its sister associations have been relentlessly

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MAY 5, 2020

CraftJam founder and CEO Nora Abousteit knows all about the special satisfaction that comes from making something with your own two hands. “When you’re crafting with all these different materials and using your fine motor skills, it sets something off in your brain,” says Abousteit. “It makes people feel a lot better.” This simple idea […].

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Endless Events

MAY 7, 2020

It’s time we talk about webinar fatigue. Because as the events industry makes its shift to virtual, this issue increases. Many people are home right now, and it’s not uncommon for some to attend several webinars a week. And some even go through several a day! So it’s no wonder attendees are starting to experience this phenomenon of webinar fatigue.

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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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EventMB

MAY 5, 2020

Virtual events are currently the only way to meet in groups larger than 10 across the world. While despised as the unlucky sibling of live events for over a decade, they are offering business continuity, substantial savings, and increasingly high revenue. And event owners are starting to notice. ‘There is nothing like face to […]. The post Is Virtual a Wake-Up Call For The Event Industry?

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Event Industry News

MAY 4, 2020

The Events Industry Forum, which brings together 26 trade and representative organisations from across the outdoor events industry, is keen to kick start public events as soon as it is considered safe to do so. We believe this will need to be on a phased basis as some events will be more flexible to social distancing than others. Any reduction in the need for social distancing would greatly help in making it feasible to restart events as this will be a key factor in deciding the viability of man

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MAY 6, 2020

Eventbrite leads effort, along with Airbnb, Etsy, Thumbtack and Upwork to ask Washington for additional financial relief for small businesses, sole proprietors and the self-employed Eventbrite’s community of event creators bring people together, while simultaneously driving small business growth and adding immeasurable value to the social and cultural fabric of their communities.

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Eventinterface

MAY 8, 2020

Are you having a hard time attracting customers to your e-commerce site ? Does it feel like your business often gets lost in a sea of competition? Are you looking for that hook - the one factor that gets people’s attention and brings them to your site? If you’ve answered yes to these questions, then it may be time to look into how events could, in fact, help to promote your e-commerce business.

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Endless Events

MAY 4, 2020

Today’s episode of Event Tech Podcast is all about how to bring broadcast quality to your virtual event. As of right now, everybody is busy doing a shift to remote work. And that means that event profs, in particular, are getting very acquainted with streaming and video calls. But in a world where we’re shifting to virtual events , that’s a good thing!

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Event Industry News

MAY 5, 2020

Concerts could be back in action in Spain as early as May following the government’s recently announced lockdown exit plan amid the coronavirus pandemic. The plan laid out by Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez this week (April 28) envisages the country reopening in four stages, starting now from phase zero which will last until May 11. Each phase is expected to last two weeks minimum with phase one — starting on May 11 — allowing “cultural events” to return with a maximum capacity of 30 people

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PCMA Convene

MAY 8, 2020

What could in-person meetings during the time of COVID-19 — meaning there is no vaccine or effective treatment yet available — look like? Bradley Metrock has a clear picture, and it involves a list of protocols — including that all participants signing a waiver that releases the event organizer from liability should anyone get sick, an initial COVID-19 test and then daily temperature checks, the wearing of masks, enforced social distancing, and the use of an on-site medical room for any attendee

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Eventinterface

MAY 4, 2020

In the wake of the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic, meeting and event professionals have had to turn on a dime, finding new ways to keep programs running and their attendees engaged. Planners have had to scramble to reimagine their events in record time. Here at Eventinterface we’ve developed three insights with a series of questions to help make the move from live events to virtual events easier for you.

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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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Endless Events

MAY 8, 2020

Creating your virtual event budget might feel like a complex task. Sure, you’re probably more than used to create budgets for in-person events. But how do you go about it in the scope of virtual events? Because things are quite different this time around, and many of the things you were used to will be completely absent. Simultaneously, new things that are inherent to virtual events will have to be accounted for.

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Event Industry News

MAY 7, 2020

With over 200 members, 100+ of which are Festivals, the AFO has been supporting its membership to help them get through this most difficult year. With the news mostly a bit bleak on the festival scene The Association’s team, based in Matlock, decided to start early in promoting its member festivals for what is hoped to be a bumper season in 2021. “The virus has certainly taken its toll in 2020” said Steve Heap Gen.

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SmartMeetings

MAY 7, 2020

How fluent are you in the language of audiovisual? It can be daunting for a host of reasons: the equipment, esoteric terminology, cost, lack of how-to knowledge. In the latest Smart Meetings Accelerator, “ Technically Speaking: How to Talk AV ,” Michael Granek, CSEP, president and chief operating officer of Event Leadership Institute, led a tour through the vivid and vital world of audiovisual.

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Eventinterface

MAY 4, 2020

In the wake of the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic, meeting and event professionals have had to turn on a dime, finding new ways to keep programs running and their attendees engaged. Planners have had to scramble to reimagine their events in record time. Here at Eventinterface we’ve developed three insights with a series of questions to help make the move from live events to virtual events easier for you.

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Stova

MAY 5, 2020

As you plan virtual and hybrid events, you may be wondering, “How can I give my sponsors and exhibitors exposure during my event and connect them with my audience?”. At first glance, creating value for sponsors in a virtual setting may seem intimidating. But fear not! Having a virtual event does not mean your sponsors and exhibitors will lose precious face time with your audience.

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Event Industry News

MAY 4, 2020

The National Outdoor Events Association (NOEA) is putting its support behind a cross industry effort to petition Members of Parliament for more government support. The #EventsForTheFuture initiative is looking for more urgent action to safeguard the future of businesses and livelihoods within the industry, during the Covid-19 outbreak. The #EventsForTheFuture initiative is a collaboration between the Association for British Theatre Technicians (ABTT), the Professional Lighting and Sound Associat

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Skift

MAY 2, 2020

The 2014 Formula 1 Shell Belgian Grand Prix. Formula 1 is looking to restart its season in a limited fashion. Marcel T / Flickr.com Skift Take: Testing will be the new normal although the costs for sporting events like Formula One could be high. — Dennis Schaal Read the Complete Story On Skift.

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