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Planners, Grab the Popcorn and Pay Attention

MeetingsNet

At 100 days out, the moving parts involved with the Winter Olympics in Beijing are enough to unsettle even the steeliest veteran planners. Meanwhile, protesters around the world are calling for sponsors to boycott the event due to alleged human-rights abuses in the host destination.

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Building Event Resilience: 5 Strategies to Ensure Your Event Lasts Year Over Year

Smart Meetings

Achieving longevity and consistent success is a challenge every event planner faces Events are not merely one-time occurrences; they should be a strategic investment that yields returns over time. Showing up once a year to ask for money isn’t the best way to ensure you have valuable sponsors each year.

Sponsors 243
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Asynchronous Hybrid Events: A Step Towards Community Model?

Endless Events

Since the pandemic, many planners have started playing with using pre-recorded sessions rather than live and offering event content on-demand. Additionally, they come with an additional set of perks and pose a great opportunity for event planners to start embracing the up-and-coming community model. The same goes for content delivery.

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Event Platform Case Study: Meet Remo!

Endless Events

The competition among event platforms is stiff these days, so event planners must understand what makes a certain platform stand out from the rest. How do the floor plans work and how does an event planner get started? Also, it’s very easy to please your sponsors with the tools that they give you.”

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Hybrid: Two Strategies, One Powerful Marketing Product

Smart Meetings

For example, marketers, human resources professionals and event planners will continue to leverage the advantages of virtual communications, including massive logistical efficiencies, the ability to extend the lifecycle of an event and the use of advanced analytics to maximize ROI.

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Lessons Learned from MPI WEC in Mexico

Smart Meetings

Thanks to all the vendors, sponsors, student volunteers & speakers. VanDeventer suggested planners looking into all-inclusive campuses either negotiate a solution for access or communicate robustly about the rules in advance—or both. All things considered, VanDeventer didn’t see the logistical issues as a non-starter. “As

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Experiential Events: The Most Powerful Marketing Tool

Endless Events

This is great news for event marketers and planners who can plan experiential events – events that aim to evoke positive emotions in attendees and resonate with their values. After all, what makes an incredible event is not the stage and the logistics, but the atmosphere and the positive emotional state of the attendees.

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