Bizzaboo

MAY 10, 2023

The industry’s best event marketers create a 365-day event experience for attendees, who expect personalized communication and on-demand content once an event is over. It’s a simple, polite, professional way to ensure attendees feel appreciated and that their contributions are valued.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Big events with a high number of attendees might require up to a year to plan. Select your venue, virtual platform, and major vendors. Other important vendors that need to be booked well ahead of your event include your AV team, entertainment, and speakers. Book caterers, florists, and any remaining vendors.

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MeetingsNet

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

They can be tailored to your groups to better assess the experience of attendees, speakers, and vendors. To understand the attendee experience at your events, all you have to do is ask. Below are 29 sample questions you could ask your attendees, speakers, or vendors.

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ADMEI

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

How Planning Impacts Perception Hosting a large-scale corporate event is a massive undertaking, coordinating a variety of vendors to bring your brand to life in a way that aligns with your target audience. They affect the way your employees or attendees view your company as a whole. Be memorable in the best of ways by executing well.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 3, 2021

While a handful of deeply digital-oriented companies are pulling off hybrid events, speaker agencies surveyed in the United States, Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom report booking speakers for hybrid events only 5 percent to 10 percent of the time. We can also secure bigger speakers for less money as they don’t have to travel.”

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Smart Meetings

JULY 24, 2023

Read More : When Mother Nature Is an Unwanted Attendee at Your Meeting or Event A sporting event being held in a high occupancy stadium will have more dynamic risks than a conference due to the size of the venue and activities taking place. For security, implement measures to protect attendees and the event venue.

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ADMEI

OCTOBER 4, 2023

From location and transportation to schedules and speakers, a multitude of decisions await you in your planning. As the definition explains, they can offer detailed insight into nearly every aspect of your event from planning through execution, along with providing valuable connections to local vendors.

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Endless Events

JUNE 10, 2022

The final step in the event management process is a follow-up meeting after the event to discuss the event’s overall ROI, attendee and sponsor feedback, and make the necessary readjustments to the overarching event strategy. To help out, here are a few ways to encourage attendees to provide their feedback: 1. Start planning.

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MeetingsNet

MARCH 4, 2020

A planner's best tactic to get speaker ideas might just be reaching out to colleagues and contacts. In a survey released this year by Jay Baer, SpeakInc, and Michelle Joyce Speakers, planners were asked how they chose speakers. will boost your budget by bringing your attendees back next year,” she says.

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Traveler's Q

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Event mobile apps can increase the level of engagement and interactivity among attendees while creating an immersive experience. Finally, using technology to collect and analyze event data can provide valuable insights into attendees, such as demographics, behavior, and interests.

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Bizzaboo

MARCH 19, 2024

These platforms provide native capabilities to engage and communicate with prospective attendees, registrants, and sponsors, manage logistics, deliver content, and enable attendees to engage with other participants.” Bizzabo has been named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Event Technology Platforms.

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Endless Events

OCTOBER 29, 2020

You can download your very own copy of our Excel template, which includes everything you need to outline your requirements and compare potential vendors. So the major differences are related to what you want the vendors to offer. Additionally, make a point to provide your attendee personas. Vendor Qualifications.

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Endless Events

MAY 20, 2022

The best way to get an estimate is to start calling vendors and building your event RFP. Buffets are outright unacceptable at COVID-compliant events, and there are many other ways to handle feeding your attendees, from meal boxes to sending your audience offsite to eat. Speakers & Emcees. Main Hybrid Event Budget Items.

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Social Tables

APRIL 20, 2023

Continue to focus on the ever-changing expectations of venues and event attendees, as they often fluctuate with the times. Agreeing to a date and booking a venue without further research could cause complications that harm event success, accommodation availability, and the attendee experience.

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Endless Events

JUNE 13, 2022

Local event venues can make a lasting impression on your attendees and gives them a chance to get to know the destination better. Read the blog to learn more about these amazing spaces for corporate events, weddings, and social gatherings, such as amenities , attendee capacity , and what the atmosphere is like. The Van Buren PHX.

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Convene by PCMA

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Making sure attendees use the event app you’ve created requires your organization to market the app before your event takes place. Your organization has created an event app that will seamlessly integrate with the in-person experience — but how do you encourage attendees to use it? Show off its features. Keep engagement strong.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 12, 2021

Planning and planning for weeks on end, getting everything in order—vendors, speaker, planners, F&B, those little odds and ends. Bohrer’s organization has a detailed of duty of care that is a part of the registration process, where attendees opt in and learn what Covid-related requirements there will be on site. “We

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Endless Events

AUGUST 15, 2018

Although the content of the conference is what should take center-stage, sometimes attendees need a helping hand to get over the line and engage with what’s being said. For instance, the on-stage branding should serve to remind attendees why they are there. Make it something attendees will enjoy looking at. Modular Staging.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 31, 2022

What : New product being built into eventScribe allows event organizers to scan attendee badges on existing Android or iOS to capture and analyze information quickly. How it impacts you: Automated back-end processes allow you to better manage speakers, sponsors, staff and meetings. Cvent: New Vendor Marketplace.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 28, 2023

Read More : 10 Questions to Ask a Potential Event Vendor Your AV provider’s technicians will be interacting with your staff, your presenters and your audience. When attendees walk away, what do they say?” You may have 1,000 attendees or more. That way, speakers can see who they are talking to in the seats. we may ask.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 21, 2023

They started having frank conversations with partners working on the next three years of events and vendors who had submitted RFPs, but had not been selected. “An Thanks to all the vendors, sponsors, student volunteers & speakers. Virtual attendees were able to see the general sessions and the main education rooms.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 23, 2021

In 2020, nearly 2/3 of global speakers were men, and 35-40 percent of panelists were black. Dasher shared three ways meeting professionals can begin to close the DEI gap: creating diverse planning teams, looking for aligned partnerships and asking your stakeholders and attendees what they need. It isn’t a quick fix,” she continued. “It

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Traveler's Q

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

An event website serves as a centralized location for all information related to the event, from event details and registration to agenda and speaker bios. When designed and executed correctly, an event website can attract more attendees, increase engagement and participation, and ultimately lead to a more successful event.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 31, 2022

For sure, there are a significant percentage of meeting attendees that can’t wait to participate in person; but organizers and planners found out during the first several months of 2022 that a sizable audience of previous attendees were more than happy to participate virtually. Continue to train staff on hybrid meeting planning.

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Endless Events

APRIL 9, 2021

These went from all things attendee engagement to more specific tech-related issues. How many days/hours & attendees are you expecting? Includes everything from Google ads to vendor and sponsor associated costs. Creative Services: Talent management, storyboarding, speaker coaching. 3D Worlds & Expo Halls.

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Bizzaboo

MAY 15, 2024

The demand for such specialized gatherings has prompted vendors to enhance their platforms, offering advanced features that manage role-based permissions and ensure brand compliance. This shift helps reduce the logistical burdens associated with large-scale events and provides attendees with more meaningful, interactive opportunities.

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Bizzaboo

MARCH 19, 2024

These platforms provide native capabilities to engage and communicate with prospective attendees, registrants, and sponsors, manage logistics, deliver content, and enable attendees to engage with other participants.” Bizzabo has been named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Event Technology Platforms.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Hargrove sets an example for planning events that go off without a hitch through their government shutdown contingency plan After the venue booking, event design, attendee lists, emails, emails and more emails, your event is all ready to go—finally! Hargrove’s contingency plan was not limited to a government shutdown.

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Social Tables

JUNE 29, 2023

Operations Manager: An event operations manager oversees vendor communication. Operations managers negotiate prices, book vendors, place supply orders, and communicate vendor details between the planning team, venue, and benefiting organization. They research services, collect event quotes, and execute event contracts.

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Bizzaboo

OCTOBER 11, 2023

of organizers say they have changed or plan to change their event management software vendor within the next year 72.5% of attendees say they expect in-person conferences to use modern technology (e.g. Event planners used to draft the attendee list contact by contact.

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Bizzaboo

APRIL 1, 2024

Prevention strategy: Start with a detailed plan covering every event aspect, from timelines and venue selection to vendor contracts and emergency plans. Ineffective Marketing and Promotion An event cannot succeed without attendees; people won’t come if they don’t know about the event or aren’t sufficiently persuaded of its value.

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Endless Events

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Live streaming allows attendees to share the event with friends and co-workers who might enjoy it, which expands your reach. A live stream can also be enticing for speakers because it allows them to reach a larger group of people. If you hire a streaming vendor, they may send a technician to set up and take care of the box.

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Stova

JUNE 22, 2023

But attendees’ expectations have changed a lot during the past few years. It can be about connections among stakeholders or between attendees and your brand. As a result, attendees became more tech-savvy. Attendees today are more sophisticated and have higher expectations for audience engagement.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Smart Meetings walked the trade show floor asking people how they help put attendee humanity at the center of event agendas and found that caring for guests is something everyone is focusing on in 2023. They were able to experience authentic Orlando,” he said.

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Endless Events

DECEMBER 18, 2020

How can we engage attendees and immerse them in the virtual experience? Even your event partners and vendors can have access to the most important aspects of the strategy and work alongside planners in order to execute an event to perfection. Lucky for you, there are a ton of great strategies you can employ to engage your attendees.

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Endless Events

JULY 26, 2019

If you have bad WiFi your attendees might forget about all the great parts of your event and only remember the WiFi sucked. Attendees expect great (and free!) How will attendees use the internet? It’s almost guaranteed that in today’s hyper-connected world attendees will find it impossible to unplug.

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Endless Events

OCTOBER 25, 2019

You’re dealing with vendors, speakers, performers, caterers, marketers, the media, you name it. Airtable is an excellent resource for event managers who need to track attendees, press releases, or marketing materials. As an event planner, you’re juggling a dozen or more balls. There must be an easier way, right? Is totally free.

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