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6 Attendee Retention Tips: Keep Your Audience Coming Back

Endless Events

If you want to increase attendee retention, you need to figure out what makes your audience come back. Event gamification is one of the best tactics in event planners’ arsenal to achieve their event goals, including higher audience engagement and attendee retention. The Power Of Personalized Communication.

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Speaker Trends for This Year’s Business Events

MeetingsNet

The Speaking Industry Benchmark Report produced by AAE Speakers Bureau compiles data from both event organizers and keynote speakers to better understand the issues and trends affecting the speaker-booking process. For many events, speakers will be chosen based on outcomes and relevance versus celebrity alone.

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Survey Explores Speaker and Planner Dynamics

Convene by PCMA

Event organizers are worrying about increasing costs and attendance numbers at their events this year, according to responses to a recent survey conducted by AAE Speakers, a speakers bureau and talent agency. Here are some other takeaways from the survey results: Who Chooses Speakers?

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4 Shortcuts to Keep Your Audience from Zoning Out

Smart Meetings

But the truth is, audiences were tuning out long before we ever started upgrading our work from home setups. I’ve interviewed enough people to know that corporate presentations are too often bloated, meandering content dumps on our audiences. Ask what moves your audience to action and build your presentation around that.

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Virtual Event Speakers: The Ultimate Hacks For Success

Endless Events

You’re either a planner eager to learn how you can set your virtual speaker up for success, or you’re a speaker looking to be trained in the art of virtual presentations. You might also just be a curious person, but for the sake of purpose, let’s assume you’re either a planner or a speaker.

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Six Effective Tips To Improve Audience Engagement At Live Events

Endless Events

How to improve audience engagement? Try these six audience engagement techniques at your next event. The speaker drones on, reading from their notecards or plain white powerpoint slides. There’s a real beauty to live events because nothing beats face to face communication. Yeah, I also have experienced moments like that.

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Inside WorldatWork’s Speaker Coaching Program

Convene by PCMA

Mesmer has added new voices to the list of speakers, including young professionals who are on the rise in the industry. It’s a sweeping transformation, and one that relied heavily on the association’s investment in something that often doesn’t get a lot of attention: speaker coaching.