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How Bar Crawl Unlimited Sold 10k Tickets in 2 Months

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It’s every event creator’s vision: put together an event plan so irresistible you sell zillions of tickets right off the bat. Unfortunately, that fantasy does not often play out in reality. A lot of events start with a slow burn, and they may or may not eventually reach critical mass. For the event company Bar […].

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4 Ways IMEX America Designs an Event Experience to Attract More Exhibitors

Eventmobi

This year’s IMEX America was held at Sands Expo and Convention Center in Las Vegas, from Sept. 10th-12th. As the cornerstone event for this industry, it drew an estimated 14,000 attendees and generated an economic impact of more than $20 million, according to show officials. Having been held in Las Vegas for the past nine years, IMEX America has grown immensely over the past near-decade.

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Driving team building and networking through interactive event technology

Event Industry News

Creating human connections. During all our years designing and deploying event technology for events, one thread remains a constant – that technology adds the most value when it succeeds in actively facilitating human connection and communication. Networking and team-building are more often than not a key desired outcome of an event, and we work closely with our clients to create innovative, impactful ways of encouraging and enabling this through event technology.

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A Great Wedding Planning Debate: Open Bar vs. Cash Bar

EventSource

A crucial aspect of planning your wedding is deciding whether to have an open bar or a cash bar. Many wedding experts will tell you that, asking guests to pay for their drinks is a massive faux pas, however, depending on your circumstances, a cash bar can be a good solution. Open Bar. Pro: It keeps your guests happy: Chances are a few of your guests are already anticipating letting loose at your wedding.

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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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5 Different Ways to Describe Your Event

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After putting pen to paper (or cursor to Google Doc) and crafting a stellar event description, you’re in a strong place to kick off promotions for your event. Now comes the fun part: versioning out your copy to suit each channel you’ll be using to advertise your event. That’s because you can’t just copy and […].

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Emmys 2019: Design and Production Highlights From the Week's Most Glamorous Parties

BizBash

In a year of transition, HBO, Amazon, Disney, Netflix, the Television Academy, and other heavy-hitters continued to host design-heavy bashes surrounding the award show. Here's a peek inside.

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15 Outdoor Activities Your Guests Will Enjoy

eventplanner

It’s summertime, and keeping your attendees enclosed in the venue spaces all day long may not be such a good idea. People want to enjoy the sun, fresh air, and green grass.

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Fear Is Healthier Than Ego: The Right Steps To Ensure Event Safety

Endless Events

It’s time for round two of our partnership with MPI , and this time around, it’s all about event safety! As you already know, in the upcoming weeks, we’ll be putting some extra content out there. Endless Events got together with MPI at IMEX America 2019. And the result was an iconic batch of interviews, featuring some of the hottest topics in the industry.

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Seven Telltale Signs That a Conference is a Scam

PCMA Convene

While the subjective nature of scientific quality makes it difficult to label a low-quality event predatory, there are some telltale warning signs. (Photo Credit Adobe Stock). If some conferences pure scams, why can’t their organizers be prosecuted or sued? The problem is not that simple, International Congress and Convention Association’s CEO Senthil Gopinath said.

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Relevance, Reach, Revenue: 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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The skills needed to be an event manager in 2020 and beyond!

Gallus Events

The Event Manager role continues to be one of the most stressful and one of the most dynamic roles in the world. So what skills should event managers across the globe be focusing on as we get set to move into a new decade? The skills needed to be an event manager in 2020 and beyond! Before we gaze into the future, I would suggest that you take a few minutes to see what skills you should have at this point in time.

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The 15 Biggest Fintech Conferences

GEVME

The sphere of fintech technologies is developing at a surprisingly rapid pace. Every year, a huge number of international professional conferences are held throughout the world, where very important issues are discussed. Let’s check out the top fintech events for the upcoming year! Opportunities that open up at fintech conferences. Visiting events related to the financial sector provides a bright and useful perspective for any business as it sets a vector for further development in the industry.

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Are You Leveraging the Most Powerful—and Overlooked—Resources in Events?

SmartMeetings

5 tips on tapping CVBs for the assist from Destinations International CEO Don Welsh. Editor’s Note: In a world where planners are facing increasing demands and shrinking budgets, Smart Meetings asked Don Welsh, president and CEO of Destinations International, how his members can help event professionals in the planning and execution of their events around the world.

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When Conferences Lie

PCMA Convene

Is there a solution for putting an end to fake and predatory conferences? (Cover Illustration by Ollanski). Be a speaker. Serve on the organizing committee. Present your abstract. Sounds like traditional association conferences’ calls for subject matter experts. But it’s also how fake and predatory events reach out to students, academics, and professionals across a swath of industries.

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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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How to Organize an Awards Ceremony

Eventtia

Whether you are planning an award ceremony to thank your employees for their hard work or you are looking to recognize professionals in your industry for their success, these festivities are a great opportunity to gather everyone together to say thanks. In this article we will highlight how to plan a show-stopping awards ceremony.

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5 Steps to Secure Sponsorship for Your Next Event

InitLive

One of the most crucial aspects of planning a major event is securing sponsorship. Sponsors collaborate with you, spread awareness of your event through their own social reach, help raise money, and get your message out there. It's a big role to fill and you need to make sure you find the right sponsors whose goals match your own. How do you do that?

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20 Useful Resources for Building Accessible Events

Tito Blog | An Event Blog for Organisers

Going to events isn’t as easy for some people as it is for others. Accessibility at conferences and events is something that’s finally getting some extremely deserved attention, but it can be hard to know what to implement first, and what’s feasible and applicable for your attendees’ needs. We’ve put together some resources for organisers so they might get some insight here to guide them towards building accessible events.

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4 Reasons Why Your Event Description Is Hurting Attendance

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When you’ve spent hours crafting an event description, it sucks when your words don’t attract the ticket sales you hoped they would. And with so many other promotional and planning tasks piling up on your plate, finding time to go back and edit what you wrote can be hard. But your event description is often […].

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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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Event Planners’ Struggle Grows to Balance Tight Security With a Welcoming Environment

Skift

Attendees clapping at a TED conference in 2015. TED Conference / Flickr Skift Take: Preparing for risks can be overwhelming — but it shouldn't feel that way for an attendee. — Isaac Carey Read the Complete Story On Skift.

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5 Awesome [and budget friendly] Honeymoon Locations in Canada

EventSource

Let’s face it– weddings are expensive, and to top it off, you then have to pay for a honeymoon! Many couples often feel pressured to spend a crazy amount on their honeymoon and because of this, end up not enjoying it nearly half as much as they should. When planning your honeymoon, make sure you and your new spouse decide on a budget together, that way there are no surprises when you actually have to pay for it!

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6 Ways to Boost Brand Awareness for your Event

EventMB

This is a sponsored post from Blip. More information about Event Manager Blog’s sponsored posts. If you own or operate as a business, you are already aware of the importance of your brand. You might have even spent hours agonizing over the perfect logo, tagline or color palette. Your brand encompasses everything you are and […]. The post 6 Ways to Boost Brand Awareness for your Event by Blip appeared first on [link].

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Introducing Add-Ons: A New Way to Make More on your Events

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Put yourself in your attendees’ shoes. It’s Thursday night and you’re looking for something to do this weekend. You find a local food festival that looks interesting, but you know parking might be challenging and the drink lines at these events can be way too long. While you’re checking out the Eventbrite listing page, you […].

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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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10 Customer Training Event Ideas

GEVME

Business and marketing trainers often give small and medium-sized business owners one recommendation: In order to attract new customers, you need to educate them and offer them something free, something they find difficult to refuse. Initially, customer training events are some of the best places to start. What is a customer training event? A customer training event is exactly what it sounds like: an event that trains customers to use a company’s products and services.

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Natasia and James’ Pretty-in-Pink Wedding at Canoe

EventSource

If you’re looking for a wedding that defines city chic, then look no further than Natasia and James’ big beautiful day. Planned by the talented team over at Extra Events , the couple’s wedding had VIP stamped on it from start to finish. The stylish Canoe Restaurant & Bar offered the perfect modern look while luxe details and bold florals emanated an all-inclusive vibe that truly made their guests feel like they were apart of something special — which they were!

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Cvent Social Tables [Review]

EventMB

Cvent Social Tables is a tool that allows planners to create and edit digital diagrams of their event floor plans, with the option to incorporate attendee details into seating plans. Here is our review. What Is It? Social Tables allows planners to design event layouts and floorplans using a WYSIWYG (‘what you see is […]. The post Cvent Social Tables [Review] by EventMB Studio Team appeared first on [link].

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Eventbrite + YouTube partnership hits first international stop with expansion into Canada

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Since launching in the U.S. in October last year, Eventbrite’s integration with YouTube has, quite literally, brought artists and fans together at shows created by our awesome independent venue, promoter and festival clients all around the country. And now we’re excited to extend the power of artist discovery on YouTube to our music clients in […].

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Campaigns that Click: Practical Personalization Strategies to Boost ROI

Speaker: Jennifer Hodroge, Omni-Channel Strategic Leader, Forrester CX Certified

Marketers know that personalization is the key to engagement—but with limited budgets and time, how do you prioritize what, where, and how to personalize? Aligning your content, campaigns, and buyer experiences requires a deep understanding of customer needs. In this new webinar with expert Jennifer Hodroge, we’ll explore how to leverage insights and customer journey mapping to build personalization strategies that deliver real impact.

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New Revenue Streams from Events

GEVME

The block of event revenue streams or income streams includes the material profit that the company receives from each consumer segment. How can you find some new revenue streams? . Event revenue definition. The followin g event revenue definition is fairly simple. Event revenue means revenue generated in connection with events. If customers are the heart of any business model, then revenue streams are that heart’s arteries.

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A Fall Wedding Fair Open House at the Mississauga Convention Centre

EventSource

With Autumn upon us this past weekend, the changing of seasons signaled another wave of newly engaged couples being welcomed into the luxurious Mississauga Convention Centre for their 2019 wedding fair open house. This is impressively their 21st year in operation, first opening their doors in 1999 and maintaining a steady popularity ever since. While this is not my first time covering this event, it was refreshing to be reminded of the many reasons this multi-faceted event venue with 6 separate

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A healthy organization contains active cultures

Conferences that Work

“ Contains active cultures.” How often have you read this on the sides of yogurt containers? Well, healthy organizations contain active cultures too. Active cultures — not just for yogurt any more. Just as there are hundreds of different strains of probiotic cultures , there are many ways to think about organizational culture. For example, you might focus on descriptive approaches: an organization’s core beliefs, attitudes, and assumptions about “what is” and ̶