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Engaging an online event audience

Gallus Events

So you have managed to get a bunch of people to log on and watch your online event. You have done all the hard work and congratulations! But don’t celebrate too soon. Engaging an online event audience is not as easy as you think. In June this year we ran another online seminar for our client Practically Perfect PA. We attracted over 500 paying attendees.

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8 Steps to Kickoff & Create Buzz for Your Event Rebranding

EventMB

This is a sponsored post written by Kristen Carvalho, Director of Events and Content Marketing at Aventri. More information about Event Manager Blog’s sponsored posts. Why do events and organizations rebrand? Over time things become stale, you want to stay fresh with your business and event. Maybe you had a name that you wanted to shake or […].

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Last Minute Event Promotion Strategies

GEVME

Event organisation is synonymous with multitasking – and I challenge anyone to deny it. Even if you’re one of those people who can’t operate without checklists, you should still always be ready to change your event plan and take on hundreds of new challenges at the very last moment. The reason is that there are always things you just can’t control, from low conversion levels to poor engagement on social media.

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How to design for powerful connection and learning at large meetings

Conferences that Work

Although you’d never guess it from reading meeting industry trade journals, most meetings are small meetings , and this is a good thing if you want effective and relevant connection and learning to take place. Large meetings stroke owners’ and leaders’ egos, can supply impressive spectacle, are appropriate places to launch campaigns and mass announcements, and can be very profitable.

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Engage Better, Gift Smarter, Win Big: Events That Deliver ROI

Speaker: Hanan Polinovski, Events Manager and David Brown, Sr. Marketing & Events Lead

Are your events living up to expectations? Are you getting quality leads from your sponsorships? Have you ever wondered if that branded notebook actually makes an impact? Get ready to transform your event strategy! Join event marketing pros Hanan Polinovski from Printfection and David Brown from Bonusly for a fast-paced webinar about turning your event efforts into serious ROI.

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Challenging Our Conference Mental Models To Build Future Effective Events

Velvet Chainsaw

How do we think? And just as important, how and what do we think about our conferences and events? How do we understand our conference planning processes, its underlying assumptions, and our customers, partners, exhibitors, and stakeholders? How do we create knowledge about our conferences that serve as our cognitive maps and meaning structures during the planning and execution stages?

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5 Best Event Invitation Email Examples

GEVME

An event is a puzzle, and if you don’t manage to craft a strong event invitation email, you can lose one of its fundamental pieces. This is especially true if you’re new to the world of event planning; it is a challenge to understand how people will respond to your invite. What can really be helpful here is tapping into your own inbox. Check out other event invites that made you sign up for various things, and try to spot any similarities.

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Trend Spotted: Floral Installations In Cars

BizBash

One normally wouldn't associate flowers and cars as a go-to pairing for event design. But recently, event designers and florists.

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Six Conference Paradigms To Bust Immediately

Velvet Chainsaw

If there’s something strange in your conference-hood. Who you gonna call? (paradigm busters). If there’s something weird. And your event don’t look good. Who you gonna call? (paradigm busters). I ain’t afraid of no paradigm. I ain’t afraid of no paradigm. (Adapted from songwriter Ray Parker Jr. Ghostbusters lyrics.). Who You Gonna Call? Paradigm Busters.

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How To Plan A User Conference: The Event Organizers’ Guide To Successfully Launching A User Conference That Will Make Waves

EventMB

Want to give your customers the type of attention that strengthens relationships and increases loyalty? What about improving word of mouth marketing? Want a new source of revenue for your company? User conferences accomplish all of these, but only if you do them well and offer a stellar experience. We’ll show you how. In this […]. The post How To Plan A User Conference: The Event Organizers’ Guide To Successfully Launching A User Conference That Will Make Waves by EventMB Team appeared fi

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Prospect, Personalize, Profit: The New Way Sales & Marketing Teams Are Aligning with AI

Speaker: Kevin Burke, Founder & Managing Director at Digital One and AI & Automation Consultant

AI and automation are currently transforming the way sales and marketing teams operate. Generative AI crafts personalized outreach at scale, while conversational AI bots are engaging prospects in real time. Robotic process automation streamlines manual workflows by triggering tasks the moment a prospect takes a key action, and advanced AI analytics surface hidden patterns in the pipeline, improve forecasting, and help teams make data-driven decisions with confidence.

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4 Ways Technology Can Spruce Up Your Corporate Seminar

GEVME

When it comes to the world of corporate events, there are countless trends and ideas constantly emerging that one needs to understand and implement in their own event, from event ideas to cutting-edge technologies. However, the one thing that can set your corporate seminar apart is how seamless the entire execution of the event is for the attendees.

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Scarborough & Tweed Expands Made-in-U.S.A. Collection

BizBash

Scarborough & Tweed is celebrating summer by expanding its line of made-in-the-U.S.A. products. From bags to pens to drinkware, Scarborough.

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Conference Innovation Through Paradigm Busting

Velvet Chainsaw

A strong driving force lies just beneath what you do on a daily basis. It is the unspoken, unrecognized, and unquestioned assumptions that steer your thinking, decisions and actions. These views developed over time and through education, experiences and interactions with others. These mental models are deeply embedded in our conference planning and management practices.

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A killer post–event report for partners: what data it calls for?

Eventory

Reading Time: 6 minutes Bear in mind, that the event doesn’t end when the last visitors leave the venue. All leads require nurturing. And partners will be grateful for a thank you email with the detailed post-event report. The platforms for event organizers gather all kinds of data. What is important enough to be put in the post-event summary report ?

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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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The Anatomy of the Perfect Name Badge

Eventinterface

For more tips, read Top Tips for Great Event Name Badges.

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How to Measure Event Marketing Success

Endless Events

As an event prof, you probably have a good feel for if an event was successful or not. But, with the ability today to measure metrics and pinpoint specific results, it’s essential to be able to show how event marketing efforts were successful. After all, marketing is allocated a considerable portion of the budget, and we need to be able to show evidence that marketing investments are worth the money spent.

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Event Tech Tips for Corporate Event Planners

Core-apps

Event Tech Tips for Corporate Event Planners. “Forget talking about event technology, it’s time to take action!”. That was the rallying cry from our power-packed panel of event insiders on our recent webinar, “Event Tech Tips for Corporate Planners.”. Christy Lamagna , CEO and Master Strategist, Strategic Meetings & Events; Danalynne W. Menegus , Editor, Corporate Event News; Wayne Crawford, VP Sales, Core-apps; and Dahlia El Gazzar , Tech Evangelist + Idea Igniteur, DAHLIA+ Agency drew on t

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How to Increase Attendance at Your Events

Event Planning BluePrint

Events are great opportunities for small businesses to promote brand advocacy and increase employee morale. Whether your event planning duties focus on an intimate event attended by colleagues or a big blow out for the whole company, there are certain strategies you need to focus on to increase attendance at your next company event. Planning events comes down to asking the right questions and making knowledgeable decisions.

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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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3 Online Strategies to Boost Your Event Attendance

Eventinterface

Whatever kind of event you are hosting, you need people to attend. This is especially true when the event is open, meaning that you don’t need an invitation to attend, you just need to either buy a ticket or RSVP (depending on the type of event that you are hosting). To get people to attend your event, you first need to get the word out. You need people to know beforehand when, where, and what your event is about.

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Top Event Marketing Strategies For Increased Engagement

Meeting Application

Unless it’s some sort of a secret gathering, you probably want as many people to attend your event as possible. At the same time, you’d like to see them responsive and engaged, instead of just mindlessly wandering around the venue. There are certain steps you can take to boost the attendance and get people engrossed in your show. Here are top event marketing strategies for increased engagement.

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Events DC Has Created a New Convention and Entertainment District

BizBash

Any meeting planner knows that attendees come to experience a city as much as they do the conference. Rather than.

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Event Marketers: Brand Experience is your new Strategic Priority

MPG Event Marketing

In recent years, the remit of the conference or exhibition marketer has expanded – mostly to cover more strategically critical areas of an event’s value proposition. The marketer’s role is no longer limited to planning and delivering a pre-event campaign to get ‘bums on seats’. It extends to how customers experience the event itself – i.e. the ‘ brand experience ’, or more often called the ‘customer experience’.

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Making the Moment: The Art of Creating Events That Drive Results

Speaker: Aja Bradley Kemp, Founder & Chief Experience Officer at Conversate Collective

In a world where every brand is vying for attention, how do you make your events stand out? ✨ From creative swag strategies to immersive brand experiences, the key lies in fostering real connections that inspire action and leave a lasting impression. Whether you're planning a large-scale conference or an exclusive executive gathering, this session will explore how to elevate event engagement, strengthen brand perception, and maximize ROI.

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The Anatomy of the Perfect Name Badge

Eventinterface

For more tips, read Top Tips for Great Event Name Badges.

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How to boost attendance at free events

Event Industry News

If you’ve run a free-to-attend event before, you’ll probably understand the disappointment that comes when half of the people who said they’d come simply don’t turn up. Without the financial commitment, it’s far easier for attendees to give your event a miss than if they’d forked out some cash. Fear not, however: there are some great techniques to help boost attendance at free events that can reduce no-shows considerably.

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9 Out-of-the-Box Activities for Groups in Los Angeles

BizBash

From glow-in-the-dark golf outings to a Mayan-theme escape room to a space designed to be destroyed with a sledgehammer, here.

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Event Management Software Checklist

Hubilo Blog

Browsing the event industry news articles, I recently came across numerous technological trends being followed in the industry. A lot has changed in the recent past with the inception of tech in the events industry. New software has been created around the event planning and event management to ease the work of planners and organisers and to automate the entire event planning process.

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Relevance, Reach, Return: How to Turn Marketing Trends From Hype to High-Impact

Speaker: Alexa Acosta, Director of Growth Marketing & B2B Marketing Leader

Marketing is evolving at breakneck speed—new tools, AI-driven automation, and changing buyer behaviors are rewriting the playbook. With so many trends competing for attention, how do you cut through the noise and focus on what truly moves the needle? In this webinar, industry expert Alexa Acosta will break down the most impactful marketing trends shaping the industry today and how to turn them into real, revenue-generating strategies.

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Understanding Conference Sponsorship

Endless Events

Finding sponsors for events can be difficult especially if you don’t have a core set of sponsors established. With that being said, in order to build conference sponsorship, you have to first look at your brand’s purpose and the values of your company. What companies do you know of that can join your event and be of added value? What are your attendees interested in?

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Catering Industry Myths

Caterease

Catering is a fun and exciting industry to be in just like any other sector within the hospitality industry. It's an industry that is full of growth, but also a lot of misunderstanding that causes a lot of people to have a few misconceptions. There have been many myths regarding the catering industry. We debunked. The post Catering Industry Myths appeared first on Caterease.

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10 New Dallas/Fort Worth Venues for Summer Entertaining and Events

BizBash

Here's a look at new Dallas/Fort Worth eateries, drinking spots, hotels, conference areas, private rooms, and other spaces for all.