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The Evolution of Meetings: Lessons for Navigating a Hybrid Future

Smart Meetings

Continue to train staff on hybrid meeting planning. One of the big benefits of hosting a hybrid or virtual trade show is that it’s easy to increase accessibility. It may be listening to a certain speaker, visiting a particular sponsor, connecting with colleagues, or attending a new product demo. Account for accessibility.

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Your 2021 Virtual Event Budget Checklist!

Endless Events

Not to mention that if you start planning early, the production and partners team you choose have more time and energy available to help you cut costs where you can without sacrificing the success of the event. The latter in particular can be either a big cost-saver or spender when you factor in studio time and pre/post-production needs.

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How To Use Event Software Analyst Reports To Choose the Right Technology

Bizzaboo

With their deep dives into market trends, product evaluations, and vendor landscapes, analyst reports offer invaluable insights for decision-makers. Each has its own methodology and focus areas, from in-depth product evaluations to market forecasts and trends.

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Planning a Safe Event: Back to Basics

Endless Events

And with tech playing a larger role in event planning and production, not only do we need to be on top of physical threats, but cybersecurity concerns as well. If using security scanning devices at your event, then the staff operating them must be highly-trained. Security should form a visible presence. Don’t leave anything to chance.

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17 Common Event Planning Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

Social Tables

Not starting early enough Leah McCrae, Director of Strike Productions, believes one of the most common mistakes event planners make is failing to allot enough time to successfully plan and execute an event. Training event staff to maximize efficiency. Complicated vendor setup. Making the check-in process touchless and paperless.

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The Complete Guide to Creating a Budget for an Event

Eventtia

Event Budgeting Benefits Fundamental to the performance of any event, event budgeting involves multiple benefits one can take advantage of. Prices for services or products might escalate due to demand surges, seasonal variations, or external economic factors.

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Hybrid is Dead: A View from the Stage

Smart Meetings

The cost of production, between software and other resources needed to pull off a simultaneous virtual immersion experience, increased their budget by more than 30 percent and the work to plan a hybrid was like planning two entire events at the same time. It went hybrid for one year and the organizers said, “Never again.”

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