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3 Steps To Finding, Pitching, & Keeping Event Sponsors

Endless Events

Event sponsors are often crucial contributors to event budgets and therefore highly affect the overall attendee experience and the overall success of the event. However, event planners still struggle to secure long-lasting relationships with event sponsors. Event sponsors are not just a source of financial aid.

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Creative Methods to Generate More Revenue for Your Next Conference

Smart Meetings

Do you need to find new monetary sources for conferences, conventions and trade shows? Record and sponsor your breakout sessions. You can put content on a private or public YouTube channel with sponsor content at the beginning or end of the recording. Usually, your major budget items are F&B, A/V, and meeting space.

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Are Family-friendly Conferences in Your Future?

Smart Meetings

On top of the ask, that exact meeting participant may miss telling their children bedtime stories, attending their soccer games, or being present for milestone events like their child’s first steps or words. Select a hotel or conference center with family suites. Read More : Take Me Out to the Ball Game Sponsor a talent show.

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Do Babies Belong at Conferences?

Skift Meetings

A conference focused on female founders would seem like an accepting place for babies, wouldn’t it? Elena Brandt, the founder of a market research startup called Besample , was excited to attend the Y Combinator Female Founders Conference 2024 , in August. The conference featured successful female speakers that I wanted to hear from.

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What is Stopping International Attendees from Returning to U.S. Conferences?

Smart Meetings

As that eases, it could not only help increase the ability to bring attendees to conferences from China, but other countries as well as Chinese visitors have been rerouting through neighboring destinations to get to their California events. Conferences? appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Will the Paris Olympics Get the Gold from Meeting Profs?

Smart Meetings

You think planning a sales conference at a Chicago hotel ballroom is tough, try planning the 2024 Summer Olympics. Yet many groups are heading straight for Paris this summer, especially Olympics sponsoring companies or partnering organizations. The games stretch from July 26 to Aug. To be closely followed by the Paralympics from Aug.

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Meet at the Movies

Smart Meetings

From screen to scene, elevate your next event Finding the perfect meeting space is a process. To get a better sense of what is possible when you host your event at the movies, Smart Meetings took a look at Galaxy Theatres Grandscape in The Colony, Texas, and chatted with Frank Rimkus, CEO of Galaxy Theatres , to find out.

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