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How To Prepare For A Career In Event Planning

Endless Events

But how does one prepare for a career in event planning? Today, there are many ways to prepare for a career in event planning: Work on your soft skills, Get a degree, Get a certificate, Look for free content (webinars, podcasts, e-books, blogs), Work at events (as a volunteer), Build a strong network of event profs (join communities).

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Quick Trips: How to Score Spontaneous Bookings

Dana Communications

The golden rule of traveling was always to book early, and the earlier the better. Jump ahead to today’s world of flexible work schedules and mobile-savvy globe-trotters and you’ll find that more and more people are choosing to book shorter, spur-of-the-moment trips on the fly. Want to boost bookings in today’s spontaneous society?

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Are You Prepared for IMEX 2021? A Checklist

Smart Meetings

Come Prepared. Come prepared to learn. Donate a book: More than 400 have already been donated, bring one to keep the momentum going. Read More : Story Behind the Decision to Focus on IMEX America Live; Smaller Online. The post Are You Prepared for IMEX 2021? or Safe Expo (international).

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Report: For Savings, Book Meetings Farther Ahead

Smart Meetings

The optimum time for booking meetings for small groups was pegged at more than 30 days; for large groups, that window expanded to more than 75 days. Outside of these booking windows, potential savings dip by 5–10 percent, the report found. The post Report: For Savings, Book Meetings Farther Ahead appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Facilitating an online participation-rich workshop in Gatherly

Conferences that Work

I decided to facilitate an online workshop in Gatherly that took full advantage of the platform. Gatherly’s best feature, in my opinion, is its user interface for online social interaction. So I was excited to see whether I could implement body voting online, something I’d never tried before. ” (run in trios).

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2023 in review—and a book sale!

Conferences that Work

After COVID decimated the meeting industry, I focused on the design and facilitation of online meetings. Though I love my work, it was nice to reduce the number of high-intensity workdays booked in 2023! 2023 book sale! (If Go to my Buy Books page and add the ebooks you want to your cart. In 2023, in-person is back!

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Preparing Your Data for the Cookieless World

Sojern

With 87% of consumers using browsers that will no longer support third-party cookies, marketers must find new ways to understand, engage, and convert travelers online, and data is at the core of this change. You need them to make purchases on Amazon, pass money back and forth on Venmo, confirm travel bookings, the list goes on.