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From Button Boxes To Chats: Audience Response Systems Through Time!

Endless Events

One of the hottest topics in the events industry nowadays is hybrid and virtual audience engagement. But as the Event Tech Podcast highlights today, you can’t really talk about audience engagement without including audience response systems in the conversations. Audience Response Systems Are Not New.

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From Distraction to Engagement Supercharger: Putting Your Audiences’ Phones to Use

Smart Meetings

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. Rather than being a distraction, mobile devices can be the surprising key to increasing audience engagement.

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How to Enhance Authentic Storytelling with Tourism Ambassadors

The Abbi Agency

And for the same reason, we shop at small businesses because we saw a trusted friend tag the brand on social media. Just like those cheering in the stands at your local sporting events, we find these ambassadors in our everyday lives. When it comes to positioning your destination, ambassadors are your North Star.

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3 Huge Benefits of Sales and Marketing Teams Working Together

Advanced Travel and Tourism

Example: The new Margaritaville hotel is nice for leisure travelers but has no meeting space thus its marketing is useless to the sports or meeting manager attending Connect for One-on-One’s. Example: A marketing manager uses a photo of the football stadium that can’t be rented then sends the collateral with the sports manager on the road.

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More Love for Virtual Attendance at Events

Endless Events

That’s why we’re going to jump in and explore the potential virtual participation has for the event industry, from small conferences through to live sporting events. They need to be comfortable looking straight into a camera, rather than at an in-person audience. Nearly half! We’ll discover: The reality of virtual speakers at events.

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Is Travel Sentiment Shifting Among Higher Gas Prices & Inflation?

Advanced Travel and Tourism

Sports events and other opportunities to meet up with people will provide consumers with a potentially less expensive way to escape from the humdrum of life and get through tough times. Always-on marketing centers around staying consistently engaged and available for your target audiences. How does your brand stack up?

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10 Event Networking Ideas That Work

Smart Meetings

Read More: Winning at Maximizing Virtual Audience Engagement Prep attendees by asking them to bring plenty of business cards and have their 30-second company infomercial down pat. Speed Networking While matching software is available to identify attendees with the same interests, this option doesn’t have to be tech-intensive.