MeetingsNet

APRIL 17, 2023

Whether your meetings specialty is event design, contract negotiations, operations management, sustainability, risk management, virtual events, speaker trends, food & beverage, or something else entirely, our call for speakers is seeking fresh voices to educate and spark new ideas for meetings and conventions.

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EventMB

JANUARY 18, 2024

Skift Take: Here’s a look at meeting planning trends that have passed and those that are being embraced with the arrival of a new year. Refugio Garcia Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings

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EventMB

AUGUST 4, 2022

Skift Take: New research shows that meeting planning is impacted by inflation and rising costs in ways few anticipated. Andrea Doyle Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings. As a result, obstacles abound, from unfilled job openings to supply chain issues yet to be resolved.

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EventMB

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Meeting planning has always been a pressure-cooker of a job, but the challenges of the pandemic may be creating a mental health crisis for many event professionals. Even before the pandemic, event planning was considered one of the world’s most […].

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EventMB

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Skift Take: So few people in the general public understand what meeting planners do. Why does meeting planning have such an identity crisis? Barbara Scofidio Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings We can’t even decide what to call ourselves.

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GEVME

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets planning, and we are more than thrilled that Taggbox Display has partnered with GEVME to create the perfect opportunity: a powerful Social Wall for virtual events. This opportunity is for event organisers who are planning to create engaging virtual events for their audience.

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Master the Event

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Site inspections are an important part of the corporate meeting planning industry. Corporate Meeting Planning – Site Inspections – Help… So work has begun on an annual conference, a couple of years down the road, with a short list of potential cities being considered.

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The Castle Group

AUGUST 23, 2022

With a few tools in your toolkit, seamless event planning is possible—and worth it. The post Top Challenges Facing the Meeting Planning Industry Right Now appeared first on The Castle Group. The value and ROI of making connections and building relationships through in-person events far outweigh the challenges.

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SpotMe Blog

MAY 17, 2023

Pharmaceutical meeting planning is a complex task often requiring months of detailed preparation and immense pressure to rigorously respect compliance regulations. Whether it’s a small investigator meeting, a medium-sized medical standalone, or a large congress. We are creating a pharma meeting planning checklist.

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EventMB

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Whether you are a school leaver, keen to enter the crazy and exciting world of event and meeting planning, switching from a different career path or looking for education and qualifications to increase your job prospects for promotions and advancement it can be overwhelming assessing all of the options.

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Master the Event

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Having been on the destination management side of meeting planning, I’ve seen a definite shift in the budgets that planners and their clients are allocating for events. A Budget Can Be a Challenge With meeting planning, planners are constantly being challenged to make the next event bigger and better than the last.

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MeetingsNet

APRIL 20, 2023

The integration of Bizly into Cvent’s system allows for more of an organization’s small-meeting data to land in one database, improving management’s visibility into overall meeting spend.

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Attendease

JUNE 20, 2023

When you’re working with outdated systems that don’t play nicely with other tools, planning and executing awesome events can feel like an uphill battle. Attendease provides foundational corporate event technology that takes the complexity and guesswork out of event and meeting planning.

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Attendease

DECEMBER 3, 2024

CHECK OUT : How to Bring Event Costs Down Using Corporate Meeting Planning Software Event Management Software Cost: Making Your Case to Stakeholders When pitching an event management platform to key stakeholders, take a strategic approach to build a strong business case.

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Attendease

JULY 5, 2024

This type of organization and task assignment is easily completed using corporate meeting planning solutions. Event planning software streamlines productivity and helps lower costs.

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Attendease

JULY 5, 2024

This type of organization and task assignment is easily completed using corporate meeting planning solutions. Event planning software streamlines productivity and helps lower costs.

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Eventinterface

MARCH 12, 2020

COVID-19 is impacting the event and meeting planning industry. The virus has meeting and event planners very nervous. Some say the effect may surpass the damages to the hospitality and meeting industry resulting from the September 11 attacks.

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Eventinterface

MARCH 12, 2020

COVID-19 is impacting the event and meeting planning industry. The virus has meeting and event planners very nervous. Some say the effect may surpass the damages to the hospitality and meeting industry resulting from the September 11 attacks.

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Eventinterface

JUNE 27, 2017

Please do us a little favor and share this post with others, for there’s a good chance that it will help them as they go about planning meetings and events. Top trends in meeting planning by trend expert Daniel Levine. RELATED PODCAST SHOWS.

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Special Events

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The 2020 CMI list profiles of the 25 largest independent meeting planning companies serving the corporate market in North America.

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Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Plan for future COVID-19 variants (and new pandemics). To date we’ve had several COVID-19 variants play havoc with our in-person meeting plans. Being able to say a property is compliant with current ventilation guidance is a great selling point, as the Javits Center illustrates.

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Eventinterface

OCTOBER 31, 2017

We’re ready to play our role in ensuring ETH is invaluable for anyone in the event and meeting planning industry,” shared Steve Arzoni, Founding Partner or Piitchr and EventTechHub. About EventTechHub.

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Endless Events

OCTOBER 5, 2021

With over 25 years of experience in meeting planning as well as public safety, Alan Kleinfeld from Arrive Management Group is the perfect person to talk to about the vast world of event safety. A Marriage Of Meeting Planning & Law Enforcement. Let’s meet today’s guest!

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Stova

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Are you in charge of planning your company's next conference session and aren't quite sure what you need to plan a lasting and memorable experience? With a recent shift to online meetings, planning engaging, productive and memorable breakout sessions is challenging for even the savviest, most experienced event organizers.

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Eventinterface

MARCH 31, 2018

I am chatting with Dave about disruption and innovation and how that may tie to the meeting and event planning industry. Listen to host Al Wynant and guest Dave Knox discuss the following: How does innovation and disruption fit into the event and meeting planning industry? When is a business or event ready for innovation?

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Eventinterface

MARCH 31, 2018

On this episode of Event TALK, I am speaking with John Di Lemme, high-end marketing consultant, strategic business coach and international speaker about extreme customer service, and how this applies to service provided by meeting and event professionals. How to audit customer service behaviors.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 28, 2020

If they have a live meeting planned in 2020, Colangelo said, they see that they must take it down — like a house, brick by brick. In fact, the biggest hindrance to association meeting planning right now is that “time is ticking away,” Colangelo said. What is the plan: Hit pause? Punt to fall?

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MeetingsNet

MARCH 31, 2023

A far greater reliance on technology has come to the meeting-planning task, producing a new role that many planners don’t realize has an actual name: event technologist. Although the Covid pandemic is firmly in the rear-view mirror, the waves it created across the business-events industry will be permanent.

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Eventinterface

MARCH 31, 2018

On this episode of Event TALK, I am speaking with John Di Lemme, high-end marketing consultant, strategic business coach and international speaker about extreme customer service, and how this applies to service provided by meeting and event professionals. How to audit customer service behaviors.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 8, 2020

He’s been speaking with four potential sites about hosting the two-day event, including the Dana Farber Center, another health-care facility, a hospital, and a small meeting venue. Each of those venues, he said, has told him they are “fine” with the meeting’s stipulations. They are trying really hard at it.

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MeetingsNet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

A sampling of how the leading independent planning companies execute every sort of event, from user conferences to exotic incentives. The 2020 CMI 25 list is out, with profiles of the 25 largest independent meeting planning companies serving the corporate market in North America. Gating level. anonymous user. DataTable subpages.

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MeetingsNet

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Currently vice president, corporate at MCI USA, her meetings and incentives career goes back decades. She’ll bring that experience to Catersource + The Special Event with her session on the blending of the meeting-planning and event-marketing roles.

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MeetingsNet

MAY 13, 2022

Meeting planning is a relationship business, so what does remote communication mean for the way planners get to know a supplier’s capabilities and develop trust that they’ll follow through?

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Velvet Chainsaw

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Your conference strategy should include a plan to inject fresh content or experiences each year as part of an ongoing improvement process. There are a million ways to make these improvement plans. Working with one of our clients, we devised a simple framework to help develop innovative plans for meaningful and lasting change.

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MeetingsNet

OCTOBER 30, 2023

At an educational session on wage inequality in the meeting-planning industry during the recent IMEX America show in Las Vegas, a standing-room only crowd heard tips and advice from veteran industry players about what planners need to do to receive an appropriate salary for their work.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

This isn’t to place blame at anyone’s feet; with the already chaotic nature of event planning—absent these four potentialities—it’s easy just to push these into the background, as there are simply more pressing matters at hand. And this goes beyond meeting planning. It’s a human issue.

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Eventinterface

MARCH 31, 2018

I am chatting with Dave about disruption and innovation and how that may tie to the meeting and event planning industry. Listen to host Al Wynant and guest Dave Knox discuss the following: How does innovation and disruption fit into the event and meeting planning industry? When is a business or event ready for innovation?

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