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3 Ways Storytelling Can Make Your Event Experience Come to Life

EventMB

This is a sponsored post by Maritz Global Events. More information about Event Manager Blog’s sponsored posts. It’s no secret that event planners are experiencing more pressure than ever to apply the hottest marketing trends to their own industry. Taking a page from experiential marketing, event planners are expected to deliver an unforgettable experience.

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How to Craft a Great Follow-Up Email for Event Leads

atEvent

First impressions are indeed “everything” but to say that second impressions are “nothing” is short-sighted, to say the least. The quality of your post-event follow-up will determine whether or not you’re able to continue a productive line of communication and win accounts. To capitalize on all your hard work your post-event messaging should be consistent with the information you’ve made known to your leads before and during your event, but more importantly, you’ll want to write with purpose.

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How to Use Influencer Marketing to Promote Events

Brown Paper Tickets

Influencers. The term conjures images of chic people who post perfect selfies (ahem #sponsored), travel the world for free, and stay in world-class resort hotels. As a JOB. Influencer marketing, as trendy as it may sound, is a serious promotion tool and ideal for events. It is gaining ground as the most effective way to reach millennials and gen z, who distrust brands, don’t watch commercials, and are peer-driven.

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How to Write the Perfect Sponsorship Email

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Working your way to the decision maker at your target sponsor starts with a simple, well-worded email. The post How to Write the Perfect Sponsorship Email appeared first on Eventbrite US Blog.

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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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6 Event Highlights from ASAE Annual Meeting & Exposition 2019

Eventmobi

EventMobi attended this year’s 2019 ASAE Annual Meeting & Exposition in Columbus, Ohio. The event is where thousands of association professionals and industry partners gather to exchange time, resources, strategies, and solutions every year. Over the course of three days, attendees are equipped with a year’s worth of support in their daily responsibilities as leaders in the association industry.

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Prehistoric Party: How the Smithsonian Celebrated Its Renovated Fossil Hall

BizBash

Catering, projections, and decor brought guests at two major events into the age of the dinosaurs.

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5 Best Ways to Promote Your Event Through Eventbrite

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You’ve invested time, effort, and dollars into your event, and you’re confident attendees will have a blast. The only problem is your marketing budget is light. But if you don’t spend money promoting the event, how will you get the word out? Fortunately, there are plenty of ways to market your event for little to […]. The post 5 Best Ways to Promote Your Event Through Eventbrite appeared first on Eventbrite US Blog.

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Ideas to Help You Embrace a Wellness Culture at Events

GEVME

Creating a culture of wellness means fostering a workplace that encourages and promotes the well-being of your employees. That is why wellness events ideas are very important in the events planning community. What is a wellness culture? A culture of wellness means implementing ways for employees to be healthier in the workplace and helping them create healthy habits in both their personal and professional lives.

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Blip Digital Billboards [Review]

EventMB

Blip Billboards are digital billboards across the US for event and product advertisement. They let planners advertise their event in advance at chosen times and in chosen places without signing a contract or paying a minimum fee. In this review, we’ll go over how it works and what we liked or did not like about […]. The post Blip Digital Billboards [Review] by EventMB Studio Team appeared first on [link].

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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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See How Gucci, Chanel, and Louis Vuitton Do Pop-Ups

BizBash

The luxury fashion brands spoke to shoppers' decreased attention spans with limited-time retail experiences.

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Sell More Tickets in 1 Month: Your Week 4 Plan

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You don’t need to stare at a screen for hours a day to sell more tickets to your event. To help you reach your goals, we’ve put together a series of posts with the tips and tricks you need to upgrade your marketing — in just 15 minutes a day. This is the fourth post […]. The post Sell More Tickets in 1 Month: Your Week 4 Plan appeared first on Eventbrite US Blog.

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Five Event Trends You Should Know About

Eventbrite UK

Getting people to buy tickets and actually attend the event on the day can keep organisers tossing and turning in their sleep for weeks beforehand. We decided to ask around and find out what trends our organisers are seeing when it comes to securing registrations and ticket sales for their events. Don’t panic, last-minute sales […]. The post Five Event Trends You Should Know About appeared first on Eventbrite UK Blog.

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Top Catering Sales Strategies for Growing Your Catering Business

Planning Pod

Summary: Learn five catering sales strategies that will help you quickly and reliably grow your catering business and event group sales. It’s no secret that growing your catering business (whether it’s on-premise or off-premise catering) requires bringing in new customers and growing sales within your existing customer base. That part is not rocket science.

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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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Guest blog: Why event planners need to embrace technology to stay ahead

Event Industry News

By Paul Campbell, director, Purple Patch Group. Event planners now have a wide range of technology at their disposal. Those that ignore technology undergo great amounts of stress and time wastage as they plan their events. This results in ignorance or unwillingness to learn the process (even though we all want to go back to the times when everything was not so complicated!

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How to Protect Your Event Information from a Cybercrime

MeetingsNet

Today’s cybercriminal only needs one piece of information to wreak havoc with meeting planners - an email password. Brought to you by: Cybercrime. We hear about it in some way every day. It’s always at the forefront of current headline news, yet it hasn’t always been the hot topic that it is today. In my career as a Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, my work began decades ago - before anyone really knew what anything “cyber” meant.

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How to Make A Good Presentation in 10 Steps 

Endless Events

Do you know how to make a good presentation? It’s critical to the success of your event that presentations go well. It’s a common occurrence for presentations to fall flat. We’ve all been there, you’re at a conference, you’ve been waiting for months to hear a particular speaker. When the time finally comes, the speaker is just lackluster. You find yourself feeling let down, wishing you wouldn’t have wasted your time, or even worse wishing you didn’t go to the event!

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The Events Industry Has a Blind Spot When It Comes to Attendee Engagement

Skift

Participants at IATA's brainstorming event at Plug and Play, wearing their event badges. Plug and Play Skift Take: If you can't first measure engagement, then it's hard to improve it. Digital tracking devices are a good investment for planners and something to add to their toolbox, along with mobile apps and surveys. — Isaac Carey Read the Complete Story On Skift.

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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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Overlook These Event Essentials and Watch Your Food Fest Fail

Eventbrite UK

Your attendees come hungry. The options look delicious, the prices fair. But the clock ticks along and they’re still in line, stomachs rumbling. Soon enough, they’re filing out the exits, but this time…they’re hangry. The worst possible outcome for your food and drink event or festival is to leave your attendees dissatisfied and hungry. After […].

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Podcast: Are industry associations doing enough?

Event Industry News

On this week’s podcast, Event Industry News was joined by not one, but two guests to discuss whether trade associations are doing enough for the industry. Granting us time out of their days to talk to our journalist, James Dickson, was Nick Dugdale Moor, the regional manager for Europe at UFI, and Lou Kiwanuka, the MD at EventShaper. UFI is a global association for the exhibition industry with nearly 800 members that consists of international exhibition organisers, venues, national/regional asso

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Seating Layouts: How To Think Like A Stadium to Make Your General Sessions More Unique

Endless Events

You might want to get a chair because it’s time to go over seating layouts! So obviously, when it comes to your event, there’s a certain amount of thought put into sitting arrangements. But on this week’s Whiteboard Wednesday we wanted to bring you something different. Each planner is always aching to come up with something unique to make their event stand out.

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Does Getting a Real Job Mean Giving Up?

Event Planning BluePrint

Sometimes a comment comes from a member of our community that we know all our readers can relate to. That’s exactly how I felt about Cindy’s #1 frustration when it comes to her event planning business: Friends & Family who say things like you need to get a real job. Although Cindy is already a certified event planner and a member of our How to Be an Event Planner course , she’s hustling to set goals and get new clients.

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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 Write an Event Proposal

Eventbrite UK

Demonstrate you have the skills needed to organise a successful event by putting together a proposal that’s clear, concise and comprehensive. Here’s how to write an effective event proposal. Great attention to detail, highly organised and able to juggle multiple tasks – these are just some of the attributes of a successful event planner that […].

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What a Better Venue Layout Should Look Like

Eventtia

The latest research study from PCMA and Steelcase reveals how to design an optimal corporate event. In this blog post, we look at a few of the insights from the report that can help business leaders organize both small and large corporate events.

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Accessibility of Event Tech

Endless Events

It’s Monday, so you know it’s time to talk event tech! And today, we’re diving headfirst into the topic of accessibility of event tech. We know it’s all fun and games to go on and on about all the cool stuff out there. But what happens when we bring forth the issue of accessibility of event tech? It’s important to us here at Endless that we really get to the nitty and gritty of all things technology related in the industry.

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The future is visual part 3 – When do we share the visual content?

Event Industry News

In the third installment of The Future is Visual, our guest writer, Bogdan Maran of Visual Hive, explores the best times to release visual content to maximise exposure and engagement. In the past 40 years, we have lived through a series of technological revolutions that altered everything from how we engage with the world around us to the way our brains are hardwired.

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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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How Effective Editorial Content Creates Buzz for Your Live Shows

Eventbrite UK

Promoting events on social media follows a straightforward lifecycle: Launch your event, advertise tickets on-sale, launch an ad campaign, and push out a final boost about one week before your event kicks off. In between these stages, though, you need to contend with chunks of downtime. How do you maintain interest and create buzz? The […]. The post How Effective Editorial Content Creates Buzz for Your Live Shows appeared first on Eventbrite UK Blog.

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Marriott, IHG, Accor and Hilton Invest in Meetings Booking Platform

Skift

Attendees at business conference in 2019. QnA Summit / Flickr Skift Take: The hotel industry has had a tough time improving the painful process of selling event space and room blocks to meeting planners. Perhaps this deal is a sign the sector is finally ready to invest in meaningful change to help repair the ecosystem. — Andrew Sheivachman Read the Complete Story On Skift.

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REAL ID is Coming: How to Get Yours

SmartMeetings

I’m sorry to say that a trip to the DMV might be in your future. If you haven’t heard of REAL IDs or you haven’t gotten one yet, now is the time. In 2005 the REAL ID Act was passed by Congress on recommendations from the 9/11 Commission that the federal government should, “set standards for the issuance of sources of identification, such as driver licenses,” according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

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