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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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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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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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10 Ideas for Communicating Strategic Ideas Up the Ladder

MeetingsNet

Strategic thinking is one thing, but communicating those thoughts in ways that get listeners to understand your vision and see you as a leader is another. But to be known for strategy as well as execution, it’s critical to be able to communicate those ideas effectively. Here’s some advice. You can’t just think strategically.

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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.

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How to Treat Event Speakers

Skift Meetings

Skift Take: Speakers are tired of being treated like babies and they do not want to have to promote their own sessions as that is the event planner’s job. They want respectful, timely communication and have only a few expectations that many planners seem to ignore. Paul Cook Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings.

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DMA West: Going Viral, What’s Trending and Crisis Communication

Smart Meetings

The September event brought destination marketers from Alaska to Texas to Riverside Hotel in Boise, Idaho, for networking, breakout sessions, a lesson in crisis communication and a taste (and a twirl) of downtown Boise’s booming Basque Cultural District. (If Crisis Communication. If you didn’t know, now you do.). Shawna Suckow.