Convene by PCMA

MAY 13, 2024

Cross off your to-do list items as early as you can, because the best way to start iterating on your event is to observe how your attendees arrive. You’ll get a quick list of event improvements just by watching your audience behavior. Opposites Attract A dance pop hit about creating intentional networking for your audience.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Unsurprisingly, companies are heavily invested in attendee satisfaction. Often, event planners turn to metrics and attendee engagement as a measure of an event’s success. That’s why we’ve brought on an expert on all things attendee engagement metrics, Ryan Costello. And then where are you now?”. “We

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 8, 2022

Are virtual attendees seeing value? According to Kim Myhre, founder of Experience Designed, in “ Attendees to Virtual Events: To Charge or Not to Charge? Audiences will pay for quality content. So how do event and meeting planners make sure attendees see value in attending a hybrid event virtually?

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Endless Events

MARCH 9, 2018

Every meeting planner we know is a great juggler. So we have compiled our favorite meeting planner tips and few tricks to help you manage your time by using some classic event management shortcuts. Finding Your “Ultimate Goal” When you hold an event, what’s the ultimate thing that you want your attendees to take home?

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 1, 2022

“Know thy audience!” When it comes to engagement success, “You need to start by diving into what your audience really likes, then dig a bit deeper to uncover what life is like around them,” says Dahlia. Now, more than ever, a feel-good moment is going to resonate, no matter the age of your audience” shares Dahlia.

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Endless Events

MARCH 22, 2018

Unfortunately, event planner networking often falls to the bottom of event planners’ priorities. When it comes to event planner networking ideas, it can be difficult to find new and exciting ways to effectively bring the right people together. Use technology to better connect your attendees. But it shouldn’t.

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Social Tables

JUNE 8, 2022

Audience engagement plays a significant role in the success of any event. Whether in-person or online, event organizers want attendees to pay attention and participate. In fact, more than 80% of marketing professionals believe that audience engagement is a key indicator of an event’s success. Understand your audience.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 28, 2023

But to mesmerize your audience with something they haven’t seen before, meeting planners should invest time developing a productive relationship with an AV partner. By signing a contract with a venue, meeting planners can quickly lose their freedom to choose their AV provider. When attendees walk away, what do they say?”

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Smart Meetings

MAY 23, 2022

Cut the Quality and You’ll Cut Your audience. In the early days of the pandemic, attendees were more accepting of bad camera angles, awkward transitions between segments, or video that looked grainy. Food is another way to keep the audience in front of your presentation, instead of getting up to go to the fridge.

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Endless Events

AUGUST 7, 2020

?? The Best of the Best: Two Audiences: The Ins & Outs Of Hybrid Audience Engagement. Attendees were not able to strut their stuff nor were they able to interact with creators. It takes a lot of work to produce these types of events in a way that keeps attendees and exhibitors happy. Hybrid events = two audiences.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 24, 2021

Event planners can now start to think about what life looks like on the other side. As event planners, we’ve always taken responsibility for the safety and security of our attendees while they were in our care. Many events that have begun their relaunch are insisting attendees have a vaccine passport before admitting entry.

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Stova

JANUARY 18, 2024

Creating stellar attendee experiences is a goal of every event. Wouldn’t it be great if you could get instant audience feedback throughout your event? Wouldn’t it be great if you could get instant audience feedback throughout your event? Modern technology answers the call with innovative audience engagement tools.

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MeetingsNet

APRIL 19, 2024

In mid-April, the convention division of marketing and engagement firm MCI USA rolled out upgrades to its OneSystem Plus event-management platform, that use artificial intelligence to aid both event-planning teams and their attendees. For attendee messaging and customer service in the OneSystem Plus, an A.I. And after an event, A.I.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Significant corporate events take time and resources to plan, with organizers and attendees looking forward to achieving desired outcomes. Read More : What Do NFTs and the Metaverse Offer Planners? Event attendees can “own” exclusive pieces of the event experience when they take home unique NFTs from events. Cory Hymel Gigster.

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ADMEI

MARCH 13, 2024

Designing Events with Empathy 13 March 2024 In the world of event planning, there's a growing awareness of the importance of empathy in crafting unforgettable experiences for attendees. This is a valuable skill, and it’s well worth developing for event planners. Every attendee has specific motivations for attending any event.

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

While there’s a lot that planners now need to focus on, from engagement to networking and more, we want to talk about something else today. Because much like event profs had to adapt to the new normal, so did presenters and attendees. A Smooth Virtual Experience For Attendees. Is it that then it shifts over to the planner?”,

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Endless Events

MAY 18, 2023

A recently published Freeman report highlights a significant shift in the demographics of B2B event attendees. With this new generation of younger, more diverse, and more educated attendees emerging, the event industry must adapt to meet their evolving needs and expectations. Understanding your audience is a big deal.”

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Endless Events

JANUARY 11, 2018

How to improve audience engagement? Turn your event attendees into event participants. Try these six audience engagement techniques at your next event. It takes ages for the microphone to be passed from audience member to audience member while everyone waits in awkward silence for the next question.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 27, 2022

As health and safety standards change with every new surge in Covid cases, many planners adopted virtual or hybrid platforms, but not all attendees have embraced the shift. Though planners are most familiar with in-person events, it is important to understand how much they’ve changed in the last few years. In-person Events.

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Endless Events

JANUARY 28, 2022

Event trends 2022 are here and let us tell you, it’s an exciting year for event planners who dare to dream big. Others, however, might seem a little bit too daunting for a novice planner, but they’re just what innovative and tech-savvy planners are looking for. Most trends in our guide are beginner-friendly.

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Endless Events

JUNE 5, 2020

Our main goals here has been to educate planners everywhere on the subject – and make them realize just how cool and engaging virtual events can be. After you took the time to learn about mistakes to avoid , how to engage your audience , and sponsorship deals , we want you to think about how to entertain attendees.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 3, 2021

Crowd control is going to be on meeting planners’ minds in the first few months of the post-pandemic era, and there’s no better model for how to herd the hordes than the Walt Disney Company. What should planners expect in terms of how their meetings will be different from how they were before COVID?

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Endless Events

JUNE 15, 2023

Navigating event attendee data requires the right balance between collecting valuable information and respecting event attendee privacy. Catalyzed by a recent Tech Crunch headline about a General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) violation at Mobile World Congress (MWC), Will, Nick, and Dustin tackle attendee data in today’s episode.

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Attendee arrival has changed in recent years. Before the pandemic, attendees would have booked hotels and made transportation arrangements in the days or weeks leading up to the event. Then, I joined a small catering company, just as they were scaling up, and went into vending management as the primary caterer and event planner.

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Endless Events

MAY 18, 2018

Increasing audience engagement can be a challenge even for the best #eventprofs. The good news is that your attendees crave engagement more than ever. In order to increase audience engagement, you need to first capture their attention. Make Your Audience Pay Attention. Your Guide to Event Registrations.

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Endless Events

MARCH 30, 2018

But while you use those services a lot, do you really know how to engage your audience on social media? Attendee engagement is our main focus this year and part of that is interacting with them way before the event starts. Further, incentivize the games with prizes and you’ll have your audience buzzing with excitement!

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Convene by PCMA

DECEMBER 30, 2021

After a promising but brief return to in-person-only events in the spring, the Delta and Omicron variants forced many event organizers to renavigate a hybrid event landscape to engage both digital and physical audiences. L’Italian cautions planners to avoid rushing to commit to a platform before a strategy is set. Building Rapport.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Note to #meetingprofs : You have to experience the @encore @EncoreGlobal_ experience to spark your excitement about the possibilities for immersing your attendees in multi-sensory journies. To ease the rush of registration, attendees were urged to print badges at home and grab a lanyard in the hall. A Brighter, Faster Mandalay Bay.

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Endless Events

MAY 5, 2022

And as event planners were somewhat forced into a technological era of event planning, many of them started seeing the benefits of event technology. As such, they’re the dominant audience at corporate events and conferences. It’s not just that technology appeals to our attendees. Event Technology Provides Analytics & Data.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

How can planners help presenters compete with the ubiquity of handheld devices? One presenter at a recent conference made the mistake of scolding her audience to turn phones off and put them under their seats. She was met with groans; about a third of the audience left, and the rest ignored her command. So, what are these tools?

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Endless Events

APRIL 8, 2022

Since the pandemic, many planners have started playing with using pre-recorded sessions rather than live and offering event content on-demand. What makes a hybrid event synchronous is that both hybrid audiences experience the same event, at the same time. Event Planners Have Less On Their Plate. Why asynchronous events?

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Even though there are now more than 100 event platforms on the market, many event planners still choose Zoom in its limited form for their virtual experiences. Zoom , in its limited form, is still a choice for many virtual event planners because it’s budget-friendly and easy to use. Enhanced virtual audience engagement.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Steve Steinhart Both planners and sellers will have to make paradigm shifts if 2024 is to become the new high watermark for group attendance and revenue. But those rates will not work for planners seeking value for their attendees. If I can create a memory, I can get more attendees excited about attending future events.

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Endless Events

JUNE 15, 2021

“We have an audience of fans, teens that want to see their creators. We have an audience of creators that want to learn how to make better content. “We love engaging with our audience around the clock and reaching people all around the world. ” Hybrid Event Trends: Expectations Of The Next Generation Attendee.

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Convene by PCMA

JULY 21, 2023

Ken Holsinger, Freeman’s senior vice president for strategy, presents the EduCon 2023 session, “Attracting & Engaging Next-Generation Event Attendees.” However, they contribute to the new wave of Next Gen attendees identified in a Freeman report Convene wrote about a few months ago. .

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Endless Events

MARCH 24, 2022

Thanks to an absolute boom of event technology solutions , event planners can now craft data-based event strategies and measure their event success better than ever before. First, planners define their event goals – what they want to achieve with this event – and break them down into measurable event KPIs. Refunds issued.

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Convene by PCMA

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Many planners responding to the October Dashboard survey said rising F&B and AV costs represented their biggest budgeting challenge for in-person meetings. The largest percentage of planners — nearly 3 out of 10 — said travel and budget policy restrictions, followed by inflation and supply-chain issues (27 percent).

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