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When Mother Nature Is an Unwanted Attendee at Your Meeting or Event

Smart Meetings

In addition, forming solid relationships with your venue hosts and maintaining good communication with them will benefit you if an emergency arises and you need to make changes on short notice. 5: Communicate (and Overcommunicate) with Attendees Start communicating with guests, speakers, and vendors before and during your event.

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CMP Spotlight: Get to Know Desireé Dolecki, CMP

Smart Meetings

Where She Is Now Dolecki now serves as director of conferences and events for The Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME). To manage the team communication necessary to execute a great event, Dolecki develops a staff playbook. I had the opportunity to work on a large national sales meeting, which gave me on-site exposure.”

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The Sure Way for Association Leaders to Get Constructive Feedback About Meetings

Smart Meetings

This results in communication gaps between executives and members. Recently, I met Alisha, my consulting firm’s client, who is the head of membership engagement at a professional manufacturing association. Observe their communication with others about what you’re saying. Give them time to absorb what you’re saying. Conclusion.

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The Value of Video in Marketing

Dana Communications

As marketers, our job is to design a program that contains a balanced blend of communications tools to gain awareness and drive—ideally—measurable results. While it’s widely understood that photos can be retouched or photoshopped to present a manufactured brand image, video is seen as more authentic.

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Hybrid: Two Strategies, One Powerful Marketing Product

Smart Meetings

As the world opens up and Covid restrictions are lifted, we will not return to business as we knew it before, largely because of lessons we learned about the benefits of communicating digitally. Leverage VR to take attendees beyond a product demonstration and create a product experience.

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The Event Planning Gene

Smart Meetings

The Draw Before joining Visit San Antonio, Goodman worked with greater:SATX (formerly the San Antonio Economic Development Foundation), working with many business sectors in the city, such as aerospace, bioscience, cybersecurity, financial services, manufacturing and, lastly, hospitality, a sector that displayed a camaraderie she found appealing.

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Spotlighting Trust in 2024

Convene by PCMA

Sue Pelletier is a contract editor and writer whose work has appeared in Prevue Meetings and Incentives , ConferenceDirect MeetingMentor , Manufacturing Leadership Journal , and Trade Show Executive. I know this is not a very original thought, but I have to say it.