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PSAV Acquires Encore Event Technologies: What It Could Mean for Event and Meeting Planners

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If you are an event or meeting planner you’ve heard of PSAV. The news makes for shaky ground and uncertainty for meeting and event planners nationwide. December 2016. So why should event and meeting planners care?What In fact, it’s highly likely you’ve done multiple deals with them. Will this merger change that?

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Where to Host Your Next Conference: 8 Best Locations

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When it comes to planning a conference, location is key. Today’s conference attendees expect more. And that all starts with a great conference location. . A conference is more than just the convention center. The content and networking is invaluable, but what often sways a decision to attend is the conference location.

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3 Steps To Finding, Pitching, & Keeping Event Sponsors

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However, event planners still struggle to secure long-lasting relationships with event sponsors. Finding, pitching, and keeping event sponsors is not a gamble – it’s a process that event planners need to carefully prepare for. Before pitching potential event sponsors, event planners and organizers need to know them well.

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Conference Events Think Outside the Ballroom

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When planning your next conference event, it’s always important to think of ways to add value for your attendees and promote your brand outside of the ballroom. While this can be done in many ways, one of our favorites is by planning conference events and parties. Reasons Behind Conference Events and Parties. Let’s jump in!

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Event Gamification Guide: Reach Your Event Goals!

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It boosts audience engagement and helps event planners reach their event goals in quantifiable and seamless ways. No wonder it is one of the most important virtual event platform features for many event planners! Gamification should help planners achieve their event goals. Why Event Gamification? And the same holds for events.

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Meeting Safety Trends in 2022

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Event safety has become a priority, if not for meeting planners, then for attendees. Meeting planners don’t need to be IT gurus. However, the FBI reports active shooter events increased 33 percent in 2020 compared to 2019 and 100 percent compared to 2016. Here are some things to consider.

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CMP Spotlight: Get to Know Constance Samuels, CMP

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Despite her doubts, in early 2016, she began studying for the exam anyway. At her first event for which she was lead planner, a 200-plus person conference in Louisville, she says, “I was a nervous wreck, and I probably held my breath through the entire three-day event.” In 2017, she passed on her first try.