Maritz Global Events

MARCH 21, 2019

When was the last time you added your event registration or housing site to your experience design checklist? If most meeting and event strategists are honest with themselves, they’ve probably not paid too much attention to how these sites really function. Is it registration? Post Authored by Aaron Dorsey, PMP, Sr.

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Maritz Global Events

APRIL 15, 2019

In this edition of the VIP Lounge Podcast, we discuss the pitfalls of simply launching your registration and housing sites without applying experience design principles. While it can be easy to create your event’s registration and housing sites and move on , it’s important to spend more time on these gateways to your event.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

It’s not just the attendee who saves some money, it’s also the event planner. Virtual event budgets typically don’t include travel costs and have lower registration costs. But rather than pocketing all that money, you should invest it into translation for events. Producing Engaging Global Events.

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Stova

JANUARY 17, 2023

Judy Vengari, project manager – events at BI Worldwide, says that they needed a platform that would be able to offer them the flexibility that they were looking for in terms of registration , website creation and reporting features. The look and feel is fully customizable which allows us to use client branding.”

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 17, 2021

Meanwhile, the 800-pound gorilla in the streaming meeting space, Zoom, announced this month that it is launching Zoom events, an all-in-one platform that will include a “build your own event hub,” ticketing and registration and a management dashboard for multi-day and multi-track conferences.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

She is co-chair of Events Industry Council’s Meeting and Event Design Group Covid-19 Business Recovery Task Force and now consults leading companies on their return to events approach. That includes the real possibility that audiovisual components, registration sites and mobile apps will not work as designed.

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Bizzaboo

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Just as there are many event goal types, there are many event KPIs you can use to measure success. To illustrate, here’s a list of some of the most popular event KPIs from a demand generation funnel perspective: Registrations. Here are a few examples: Registrations from target accounts. Event marketing software.

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Convene by PCMA

JANUARY 9, 2024

Quiet rooms are designed to foster the physical, emotional, and mental wellbeing of attendees and serve as a calming retreat to manage overstimulation or fatigue from the often busy event setting.

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Convene by PCMA

JANUARY 16, 2024

16, by the global events company: Attendance at in-person events, which has risen as the worst of the pandemic has receded, is expected to hold steady over the next 12 months. PCMA Convening Leaders 2024 registrants can watch the Jan. Barbara Palmer is deputy editor of Convene. Graphics from the Freeman report.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 30, 2021

With fewer than 11 weeks to go and counting, 3,000 hosted buyers have registered for the return of the largest annual industry event—outpacing projections. In fact, just one month after registration went live, hosted buyer demand was higher than at the same point in 2019.

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Maritz Global Events

JULY 3, 2019

Let us introduce you to Dan Potter, Senior Strategic Events Manager at Maritz Global Events. Anyone who has attended one of our many strategic events has seen the magic that Dan has conjured alongside his equally talented peer, Karen Watson, Sr. Director Strategic Events.

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Maritz Global Events

MAY 16, 2019

It could be as simple as adding small, yet thoughtful gestures for guests while they wait in registration lines: offering them a refreshment or a snack or having your leadership team greet everyone in line. So how does this look for your events? Entering: create a “pleasant wait” – refreshments while standing in line at registration.

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Endless Events

AUGUST 10, 2018

Personalization helps attendees have a unique experience when it comes to your events and tradeshow. It not only makes their event experience go much smoother, it also gives them a certain connection to it. Event personalization can be done through streamlined registration processes and the use of mobile apps throughout the event.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 10, 2019

“Doing good” may sound like a stretch when event managers are already turning themselves into pretzels dealing with so many other challenges, including navigating rising costs, managing risk and picking a registration technology platform— all topics covered in Convening Leaders sessions , by the way.

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Maritz Global Events

JUNE 4, 2019

As an event project manager, Vince is responsible for operations of registration, housing and other services. At that time, Vince never thought much about the meetings and events industry until he saw a wanted ad in the newspaper. Here he oversees the execution of registration, lead retrieval and housing onsite.

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Convene by PCMA

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

CRM data, registration data, lead data, meetings data, followed by attitudinal data.” Joe Federbush (right), president and chief strategist for EVOLIO Marketing, talks about how he and his client, Jon Wolff, global events manager for consumer electronics company Lenovo, put together a KPI playbook.

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Stova

MARCH 17, 2023

The Ultimate Guide to Developing an Event Strategy Learn how you can create and execute an effective global event strategy. This guide will show you how to put together an event strategic plan, streamline your event marketing process and be a best-in-class meetings and events team.

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Convene by PCMA

APRIL 21, 2024

29, in a session Federbush co-presented with Jon Wolff, global events manager, sales and services group, Lenovo, for around 30 participants. Organizers often provide total registration, he said, but it’s unclear if that total includes — or excludes — exhibitors. “We Federbush shared with Convene some of those highlights.

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Convene by PCMA

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Advances in AI also are fueling other event movements such as sustainability, the personalization of events, and gamification. It is super-charging mobile event apps too, improving attendee registration, data capture, venue booking, and overall event management.

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Maritz Global Events

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Continuously simplify and personalize the registration process. Provide a “one-stop shopping” registration form for each attendee. Regardless of their response, you owe it to your members to look at other meeting options. Once you have a report compiled, please share it. Ask what they’d like to do.

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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 18, 2023

But our industry still faces ongoing challenges, such as: high travel, F&B, and production costs; staffing shortages; tight client budgets; and the rise of last-minute event registrations. These pressures impact the demand for value-add independents like me.

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Maritz Global Events

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

” Scott and his team have been working to rollout facial recognition technology that will help event managers in a variety of innovative new ways, including onsite registration. While it may add a small step in the process, using facial recognition for registration is pretty simple. How It Works.

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All Conference Alert

MAY 4, 2023

One of the most significant characteristics that conference watchers and registrants look for in such websites is accuracy. This website provides data that meets the highest precision and correctness criteria while sharing information about future conferences and events.

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Travel Daily Media

MAY 11, 2018

High praise, indeed, for an inaugural event, which only adds to the success of the Get Global event that has seen ticket sales rocket for 2018 and fills the organisers with pride and positivity for the upcoming show.

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Maritz Global Events

JULY 18, 2019

What strategies are YOU utilizing to start growing your event attendance? Great Event Experiences Start with Your Registration and Housing Site. The post Hacks for Growing Your Event Attendance [Podcast] appeared first on Experient: Event Industry Blog. Latest Episodes of the VIP Lounge. Related Articles. .

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Maritz Global Events

JANUARY 24, 2019

Katherine Dutrow, CMP, the Director of Meeting Services at AAO, has had a lot on her plate with many of the global changes that affect meeting professionals, like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

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Maritz Global Events

JUNE 17, 2019

Great experience design is rooted in empathy,” according to Tim Simpson , brand & engagement strategist at Maritz Global Events (MGE). Event Design Comes Down to 4 Attendee Types. That leaves us to data gathered via registration, lead retrieval, behavioral analytics, and surveys to help us understand this “why.”.

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Maritz Global Events

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Let them ask other guests a series of uncomfortable questions that leave them feeling ignorant about the venue and event. . Greet each participant at various touchpoints – from the registration table to the beginning of each session. . Walk this way instead: Assign a mentor to each new guest.

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Maritz Global Events

JANUARY 8, 2020

” Event organizers have power during the registration process to acquire and store consent from every registrant. Now exhibitors are overwhelmed by the new legislation and are treating relationships with anonymity.” This includes getting their permission to be scanned by a lead retrieval device.

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Maritz Global Events

JANUARY 15, 2020

I caught this Pinkcast video on a flight to a conference, so as I entered the event venue, I was more attuned to eye contact, smiles, and warm welcomes, and I can tell you, mileage varied. Some who worked the registration desk were adept at applying the 10-5 rule – many others were not.

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The MICE Blog

MARCH 13, 2023

The Global Event Team at Siemens Healthineers is led by Eszter Mattiassich-Aszody, who brings a wealth of experience as Head of Global Events and is committed to elevating the team’s offerings to new heights. So, they turned to the in-house global event team.

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Maritz Global Events

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

One of the biggest obstacles in selling an event into the future is the possibility the attendee can’t make it. By offering refund insurance at a nominal rate, you can give each person peace of mind that they’ll receive their registration fee back in the case of an emergency. Provide an all-inclusive online shopping cart experience.

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Maritz Global Events

MARCH 3, 2020

Data protection is always on event planners’ minds. Event registration platforms and management software hold a goldmine of information: names, business titles, personal/business email addresses, phone numbers, travel itineraries and reservations and more. Data Protection.

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Maritz Global Events

JANUARY 21, 2020

You can also encourage the show organizer to add your question to their list of event registration questions, which will assist with your pre-show research. Be sure to study the event prospectus beforehand to understand who will be in attendance.

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Maritz Global Events

MARCH 5, 2019

When event guests arrive, how can you reduce or eliminate wait times? Shameless Plug: if speeding up registration is a challenge for your event, click here and we’ll help you with new ideas to earn more WOM around talkable speed. In a recent survey, customers rated speed 350 percent more important than politeness – WOW!

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Bizzaboo

JANUARY 10, 2024

Services include strategy, experience design, creative storytelling, animation, digital solutions, motion graphics, environmental design, fabrication, mixed reality activations, post-production editing, product prototyping, venue selection, guest registration, logistics management, and live, digital, and hybrid event production.

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Maritz Global Events

OCTOBER 2, 2019

How might we extract meaningful data clues to foster richer peer-to-peer encounters and increase event engagement? Let’s start with the registration data bucket, that might capture name, organization, title, location, etc. Alas, sorting the valuable from the worthless – “separating the wheat from the chaff” – can be tricky.

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