Bizzaboo

AUGUST 3, 2023

These 20+ questions will help you choose the best software partner for your organization’s unique event needs. The pandemic accelerated the need for solutions to help event organizers plan, execute, and measure the success of virtual, in-person, and hybrid events. What are the weak points in your solution compared to the competition?

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ITA Group

MARCH 24, 2022

How to Evolve Partner Program Levels & Tiers. Can we ever move away from it? These questions float around in the minds of many channel leaders. The answers depend on how the partners use the program, focus the program on specific areas, structure the tiers, and utilize program tools to make effective changes.

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Bizzaboo

JANUARY 10, 2024

of event organizers believe that events are the most critical marketing channel for achieving business goals, and 75.9% Their full-service, channel-agnostic approach creates shared moments that resonate, turning fans into fanatics for leading brands like AB InBev, DP World, Marriott International, USAA, and Visa.

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Convene by PCMA

APRIL 20, 2022

In so doing, you will be able to center your content, community, and commercial engagement around audience priorities. Getting face to face with the right people is a primary benefit of the live channel, yet few organizations make connections an organizational priority — complete with goals, curation, and measurement.

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AltexSoft Travel

JULY 14, 2022

Summing up, we can say that today’s travelers no longer want to spend their vacation hopping on and off the sightseeing bus at the packaged group tour or chilling lazily next to the pool with a cocktail at the all-inclusive hotel without ever leaving the premises (well, we’ll be honest, some still do). What is experiential travel?

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ITA Group

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Channel Partner Solutions. Personalized Channel Partner Solutions Drive Loyalty, Revenue & Service. The best channel incentive programs identify and replicate their best partners. So, how do you improve channel partner engagement? Channel Partner Insights & Data.

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ITA Group

MARCH 11, 2021

[Audio Insight] Why Channel Partner Experience Matters & Where to Start. Thanks for tuning in to Audio Insights—you’re listening to: Why Channel Partner Experience Matters & Where to Start. today you’re listening to why partner experience matters and where to start. It’s just more than what you—the brand—plan for.

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ITA Group

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Best Practices for Hosting a Channel Partner Summit & Other Partner Events. Building relationships is the crux of all indirect channel efforts—whether it’s done through field and account managers, marketing efforts or channel program elements. What are you trying to achieve with your event?

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Convene by PCMA

JANUARY 8, 2024

What are some highlights from your term as chair that stand out to you? Reflecting on the past year as chair, my primary goal was to channel our efforts towards our key strategic pillars: audience-centric organization; educating, convening, and advocating; and financial and operational success.

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Brightspot Incentive Events

JANUARY 15, 2024

Not surprisingly, many predictions align, and our list here is split across segments of corporate meetings, incentive travel, channel incentives, and sales contests. To-Do: gather small teams to drive key initiatives Bleisure Pleases Millennials Please indulge my random ramblings for a moment. Bleisure or ombre; tomayto or tomahto.

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Brightspot Incentive Events

APRIL 20, 2023

Successful incentive programs can help cut through today’s cluttered channel ecosystem, helping to drive engagement and increase sales. Utilizing channel incentive management (CIM) software will help you find new ways to motivate employees and communicate with partners and sales representatives.

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Leonardo

OCTOBER 28, 2021

We were excited to attend and speak at HEDNA Miami, which was themed “ Together Again. Gathering with the hospitality industry’s leading minds reminded us what is important today, and what will be important in the future for distribution. . For many years, channels have relied on many sources for hotel data, media, and rates.

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Sojern

JANUARY 7, 2022

In our last blog, Preparing Your Data for the Cookieless World , we shared tips on what data you should collect, how you can collect it, and how to get it into a database. In this blog, we’ll look at how to activate data in a cookieless world. Again, a focus here would be social channels like Facebook and Instagram.

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Stova

MARCH 28, 2024

What’s the most effective way to anticipate the wants and needs of your audience? Event technology partners who specialize in registration and onsite services sometimes have a survey tool built into their platform. On the flip side, it can help determine if one of your marketing channels is underperforming.

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ITA Group

MAY 13, 2021

So, here we go. I’ll be succinct: We take an enterprise view, not just a singular problem view (although we can easily address point in time solutions to specific problems). A lot of what people perceive as problems are really outcomes. We are an engagement company. Great question.

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Leonardo

MAY 4, 2022

Recently our partner SiteMinder released their annual review of the top hotel booking revenue makers of the year. They analyzed the distribution channels that made the most revenue across 21 different regions. Booking.com takes the top spot in most markets, with direct channels following closely behind.

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ITA Group

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

How to Create Relevance & Personalization in Channel Partner Programs. If you could build a channel partner program in a perfect world—one where money was no object, resources were abundant and everyone got what they wanted—personalization would be woven into the very fabric of a program’s creation and purpose.

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Bizzaboo

OCTOBER 11, 2023

What is event technology? Look at what you are trying to achieve and find technology that supports your goals. What event KPIs will determine if your event was a success? Think about your event strategy and what you want attendees to take away from your event. Not sure what your goals are?

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Gavel International

JANUARY 1, 2024

It motivates them to become active participants on their team, as opposed to doing the bare minimum when a belief that making a concerted effort is futile. An open-minded culture positions each and every employee as a partner to leadership, instead of a subordinate. Of course, you do.

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One10 Marketing

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

IRF Trend: Increasing Importance of Incentives to Motivate Today’s Workforce One10 take: We agree, and we’re excited to see 53% of senior leaders consider incentive travel a “need to have” and 48% call it an “essential strategic differentiator.” We know the hospitality industry was hit hard in 2020, and some of the impact is our new normal.

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Leonardo

MAY 13, 2021

Keeping travel channels up to date has long been a pain point for hoteliers—now more than ever with limited resources and narrower margins. We partnered with HotelPORT to change how the hospitality industry solves those content management and distribution challenges. How do content verification solutions help hotel brands?

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ITA Group

MARCH 24, 2022

Channel Partner Incentive Platforms. A Single Partner Incentive Platform for All Audiences. Home-grown technology, inflexible SaaS solutions and stand-alone incentive programs are often clunky and difficult to drive engagement among different audiences. Engagement Hubs Design a Superior Partner Experience.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 2, 2022

And convention centers have gone deep green to make it easier for events to do good while doing business. Let’s look at the legacy of sustainable innovation, where it is going next and what it means for meeting professionals. You may even inspire attendees to do better while you are at it. A Green Legacy.

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Social Tables

APRIL 22, 2021

Skip to content Menu Solutions Interactive Floor Plans Collaborative event sales software that increases qualified leads and drives direct revenue. NEW Client Services Get all the support you want for your events because we know hospitality matters. That’s why we put together this guide on how to plan a concert.

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Leonardo

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Leonardo is excited to share that we have further strengthened our partnership with RateGain, a leading provider of SaaS solutions for the travel and hospitality industry. In addition to offering static content with 4,000+ attributes in almost 10 languages, DHISCO helps audit content for channel partners as well.

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Convene by PCMA

APRIL 6, 2022

The show must go on, so commit to doing the best you can with what you have and giving yourself extra grace. Or do we have an obligation to stage an event that helps small- and medium-sized businesses, as well? Before we thought of our competitors as other shows that competed with ours. Filter out the noise.

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ITA Group

JUNE 3, 2021

Developing successful behavior-based incentive programs requires reframing several traditional partner program practices. They often fall short on enabling and rewarding partners to market service contracts, upgrades and solution extensions—all vital to retention and growth. We’re in the age of the partner.

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Leonardo

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In today’s online booking landscape, hotels need to do everything they can to stand out. When building hotel websites, we showcase local travel information provided by our client’s knowledge of the area from their real-world experience. Experience: Real word expertise For many years, the acronym in question was just EAT.

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AltexSoft Travel

JANUARY 17, 2023

If you operate a vacation rental management company and are looking for ways to develop, or if you’re just considering the possibility of starting such a business, we hope that this post will help you get a clearer picture of how things work in this industry, learn more about related technologies, or just pick up a tip or two.

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AltexSoft Travel

APRIL 20, 2023

Written in conjunction with Hudson Crossing partners Max Rayner and Brian Clark Nobody likes paying for things they don’t need. This is why we’ve teamed up with Hudson Crossing , a leading global advisor to travel and hospitality companies, to unravel what this concept entails and what benefits this approach gives hoteliers and hotel guests.

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ITA Group

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

I suspect even if you polled companies who are “doing great” at leveraging data, they would say they could do better. Here’s an example: For one client, we collect rebate submissions, which means we see somewhere between 150,000 and 500,000 customer activations through our system. But how do you know what is good data?

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ITA Group

JANUARY 26, 2021

We asked our event experts what emerging technology they’re most excited about and why. Take a look at what our experts had to say, and how these tech trends may take your next event to ‘wow’ status. What I’ve been most excited about is the data captured through all of the technology platforms.

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The MICE Blog

MARCH 1, 2021

What does the gaming industry have to do with events? In fact, both the gaming and events industries have many similarities when we look closely at each. These similarities go beyond the entertainment element of gamification that we might associate it with. When we think about gaming today, there has been a huge shift.

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ITA Group

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Now, it’s already time to start thinking about 2022 and how you plan to integrate an urgency for customer experience into everything you do. Here’s what I will be recommending to my clients for the next 11 months as we prepare for 2022. Amazon is the ex-partner you thought you’d be with forever.

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Travel Daily News

MARCH 26, 2023

Travel agents are the true retailers of our industry, and launching Smartpoint Cloud on Travelport+ will help our partners to deliver more value to both their clients and suppliers,” said Tom Kershaw , Chief Product & Technology Officer at Travelport. The Smartpoint Cloud and Travelport+ solution is really compelling and advanced.”

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Eventtia

OCTOBER 9, 2023

What should you do when your key speaker suddenly cancels five days before the event? What should you do when the venue you’ve booked becomes unavailable? We hope you find this event checklist useful and easy-to-use. Clearly articulate what makes this event (and the products or promotions it features) unique.

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Bizzaboo

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

In fact, 97% of marketers believe that events are the most effective channel for driving business outcomes. In this guide, you’ll learn the following: What Event Sponsorship Is. In this guide, you’ll learn the following: What Event Sponsorship Is. What Event Sponsorship Is. But what about the “why”?

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