Attendease

JULY 9, 2024

Trade shows are a golden opportunity for companies to shine. With 84% of attendees holding buying power (according to Exhibitor Online), these events help exhibitors generate leads, drive sales, and put their solutions directly in front of their target audience. For hosts, a knockout trade show is an A+ marketing move.

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Prestige Events Magazine

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

IBTM has revealed human connection specialist and award-winning author, Simone Heng , will be a keynote speaker at its flagship IBTM World event. Simone is part of an electrifying line-up of speakers at the leading global trade show who will amplify the unparalleled power of events to offer personal experiences.

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GEVME

JULY 23, 2019

Do you know how to plan a trade show? Use our guide to trade show planning and achieve memorable exhibitions that are organised in a highly successful way. About trade shows & exhibitions. Trade shows are a time-honored tradition among business-to-business (B2B) marketers and event organisers.

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Eventmobi

JULY 26, 2022

The event is three days long and focuses primarily on educational topics that equip attendees with the skills to be leaders in the not-for-profit sector. The conference is a mix of speaker sessions, networking, exhibitor booths, and evening social events. The Challenge. ” — Rachel Lyon. ” — Rachel Lyon.

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Event Marketer

MARCH 3, 2025

Event marketers are more conscious than ever about excessive waste, and that has led to all-new thinking, and engagement strategies, around a quintessential event and trade show activity: the giveaway. With each question, winners earned a raffle ticket to enter to win a JBL Bluetooth speaker, neck massager or wine tote.

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Event Marketer

MARCH 18, 2024

Along our journey through the trade show floor, we spotted some big brand names with tech-driven exhibits and some smaller booth footprints with noteworthy, original ideas. The flashing cups are always such a hit that the Service Express team brings them to every trade show. Palo Alto Networks hosted live trivia at 3 p.m.

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Attendease

AUGUST 7, 2020

The shift from in-person road shows and trade shows to online programming has presented several challenges for event management professionals: Finding the right technology to support digital event management. Keeping attendees, speakers and sponsors engaged. Not all brand representatives are strong speakers.

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Event Marketer

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

The brand activated a multisensory pop-up that served as a launch event for its Live Teas, a collection of brews designed to inspire mindfulness and self-care. There, the brand played host to various events and workshops, including breathwork sessions, fireside chats, acoustic sets, tea meditation, sunset yoga and beyond.

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Eventmobi

JULY 13, 2023

Think back: what do you remember about the event speakers from your most recent event? Getting the right speakers for your event can make or break the success of your conference, trade show, or seminar. But finding the perfect speakers can sometimes feel like searching for a needle in a haystack!

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Event Marketer

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

As one of the shows oldest exhibitors, the brand has attended every CES since the first event in 1967. In addition to Mackie, a New Orleans native, who is passionate about the environmental impacts of climate change, other guest speakers included J.B.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 14, 2022

Predictions are that 40% of 2022 events are projected to happen online, there will be a 37% increase in companies’ virtual event spending, and 20% of trade shows will remain virtual. Understanding that data is a key component in reinventing the business model that’s right for your event.”.

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Attendease

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Whether you’ve gawked at the lineups outside an Apple Store for the newest iPhone the week after an Apple Event, stumbled upon a unique pop-up during your lunch break, or waded through the crowds around your local convention centre after an auto show, one thing is for certain: experiential marketing is more popular and more effective than ever.

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Attendease

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Taking advantage of event marketing is one of the winning ways to achieve this - ask Tim Cook and he'll tell you how Apple is able to generate so much anticipation and excitement for each new product release - followed by a boom in sales and sold out products. But you don't need to be Apple to rip the benefits of product launch events.

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 28, 2022

They assume that meetings will consist of sessions with speakers on a stage. A “creative” event design is one with a novel venue and/or decor and lighting and/or food and beverage. Consequently, planners restrict the entire focus of creative event design to novel visual and sensory elements. I have little competition.

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Velvet Chainsaw

APRIL 24, 2019

Your guidepost for event-technology decisions should be to put your customer’s experience before your staff efficiency. As the event-tech space continues to evolve with a number of mergers and acquisitions, I see four changes coming for larger annual conferences. #1. Which of these event tech predictions surprises you?

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Conferences that Work

JANUARY 18, 2021

Why people continue to speak for free at meeting industry conferences : Another issue of an occasional series— Dear Adrian — in which I answer questions about event design, elementary particle physics , solar hot water systems, and anything else I might conceivably know something about. My post Why don’t meeting conferences pay speakers?

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Endless Events

JUNE 26, 2020

The Best of the Best: Engaging Your Audience: Virtual Event Speakers – The Ultimate Hacks For Success. Anatomy Of Virtual Events: Virtual Breakout Rooms: Different Types & How They Work. ? Worried you might be missing something while planning your virtual event? Plus some Father’s Day content too!).

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Event Marketer

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

edition of Money 20/20, a fintech conference and trade show that took place in Las Vegas, Oct. 27-30, and turned a business event for the notoriously buttoned-down industry into a celebration of insight and connection. The post Field Report: How Money 20/20 is Banking on Disruption appeared first on Event Marketer.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

An increasing number of organizations are planning for in-person events and trade shows in a living-with-COVID environment. You need a place, which in this case is an exhibit or an event. One way to solidify a deeper connection is by staffing your booth or event with the right people, Velji added.

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Event Marketer

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Events are strategic, challenging, memorable, engaging, bold, exhilarating, and, most importantly, impactful. Indeed, events are everything , and at the 22 nd annual Experiential Marketing Summit, April 24-26, at the MGM Grand Las Vegas, we’ll explore why. Kerry Lamont, manager-shows and events at Bombardier told EM.

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GEVME

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Virtual events are great avenues for making connections, strengthening the brand, increasing company revenue or generating leads when it’s not always feasible to bring people together in the same space. Virtual Events Best Practices FAQs. What is a virtual event? What are the benefits of virtual events?

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SpotMe Blog

JULY 25, 2021

With the world heading back to some sense of normalcy, many companies are anxious to include in-person components to their virtual events again, and vice versa, to create a hybrid event experience. Read on to learn more about hybrid events, examples to get you inspired, and tips to help you transition from virtual to hybrid. .

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Smart Meetings

MAY 31, 2022

Editor’s Note : As part of Back Light, a series of articles sharing illuminating insider observations, we asked Geoffrey Wellen, chief customer care officer of 6Connex f or lessons learned from two years of virtual and hybrid events. One of the big benefits of hosting a hybrid or virtual trade show is that it’s easy to increase accessibility.

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Eventmobi

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Establishing an event budget is a crucial step during the planning phase, right after setting your goals and objectives. A budget is a detailed forecast of what will be happening financially at your event. It helps control your expenses and revenues, and measures the success of your meeting or event performance.

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Eventmobi

AUGUST 21, 2024

No matter what type of organization you work at, if you host events to further your goals, you probably know about corporate sponsorships. This type of help from businesses can provide crucial support in the following forms: Financial: The most widely-known type of sponsorship is a company donating money to fund an event.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 23, 2023

Learning tracks cover challenges that keep meeting professionals up at night When what is expected to be the largest crowd ever for an events industry trade show arrives at Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas in October for IMEX America 2023 , the focus will squarely be on connecting people in new, effective ways.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 29, 2023

How to kick up the empathy and excitement-quotient at events Smart Meetings Extraordinary Texas Event at Omni Barton Creek Resort & Spa in Austin brought leadership strategies, technology innovations, experiential gifting and fun F&B ideas from the award-winning magazine to life for three days and we are sharing the aha moments with you.

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GEVME

DECEMBER 19, 2019

If we look at trade shows (trade fairs or exhibitions, if you prefer) over the past decades, the reality is that not much has changed. Take a look at the following picture of a trade fair back in 1979: National Tire Dealers and Retreaders Association Conference & Trade Show 1979.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Smart Meetings walked the trade show floor asking people how they help put attendee humanity at the center of event agendas and found that caring for guests is something everyone is focusing on in 2023. Post-Covid, you can’t have people in meetings, meetings, meetings, throw them into the bar and then end the event.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 12, 2021

The free portal to monthly conversations, speakers, networking and some fun surprises is powered by Swapcard. We want to extend the content, conversation and the connections that happen at a physical show through the digital experience,” said Bauer. “We The change in mood in the U.S., It will be a moment of coming together,” she said.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 15, 2023

At the annual event, West Coast association professionals gather for an expansive tradeshow, business solution appointments, education programs and networking to close out the year with a festive twist. “Our Day two kicked off with a keynote speech from author and public speaker Lisa Braithwaite, M.A., 12 to Wednesday, Dec.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 19, 2021

Sean Wargo, AVIXA’S senior director of market intelligence, says of events: “We need to move away from this idea that there’s this calendared moment … it doesn’t make any sense. How has life changed at AVIXA with events moving online over the last year? It should just exist as content that has long tail.”

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Velvet Chainsaw

MARCH 6, 2017

Your real conference competition is not that event held six months after yours. We also strive to offer something for everyone at our event. We aggregate speaker proposals. You’ve succumbed to mediocrity because your event is perfect as far as logistics are concerned. Nor is your competitor time, money and resources.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 14, 2024

Augmented reality, 3D Visualization and AI add branding, logistics and meaning to programs Could event tech end up being a meeting professional’s best friend after all? Beyond QR Codes Event production company Animatic Media announced a new product this week called Intelligent Content , designed to bring conference content to life.

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Attendease

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Virtual events offer convenience, cost savings, flexibility, and far fewer overheads and logistics to manage. They are a great option for various types of events, from conferences and trade shows to networking sessions and webinars. The global virtual events sector was valued at roughly $78.53

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Hargrove sets an example for planning events that go off without a hitch through their government shutdown contingency plan After the venue booking, event design, attendee lists, emails, emails and more emails, your event is all ready to go—finally! Contingency plans are the answer to your prayers. 29 to Oct 1. 29 to Oct 1.

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GEVME

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Is it fair to say that physical events are going through an existential crisis? . Here’s what some people are saying: “ Trade shows are a waste of money.”. “We In fact, beyond business events, consumer events are seeing interesting growth as well. Trade show formats have not changed for decades, as I pointed out.

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