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Hybrid: Two Strategies, One Powerful Marketing Product

Smart Meetings

For example, if you are selling or presenting a product through a barcode, you can have the entire product in a physical room—even virtually. Leverage VR to take attendees beyond a product demonstration and create a product experience. The Future for Hybrid Events.

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The Top-Rated Incentive & SPIFF Rewards for Manufacturing Incentive Programs

ITA Group

The Top-Rated Incentive & SPIFF Rewards for Manufacturing Incentive Programs. In the past few years, manufacturing and retail organizations have increased the use of incentive programs to try and keep audiences engaged and loyal. Having a manufacturing incentive program in place is a great start. Download the study.

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New and Renovated: Innovators, Go International!

Smart Meetings

When the renovation team removed the old carpet, rather than send it to landfill, they reduced the carpet tiles to their component parts, then sent the yarns to be regenerated into new products to enable a full cyclic reuse.

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Community versus audience in journalism and meetings

Conferences that Work

Jeff Jarvis, Facebook’s changes Jarvis believes that journalism should serve people’s individual needs rather than manufacture content for the masses. In addition, journalism’s service should be about convening communities into civil, informed, and productive conversation.

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CWT Study: Business Travel Costs Are Still Going Up, Slightly

Smart Meetings

In 2022, the average global ticket price rose to $749, a rise from its 2019 level of $670, which the study has attributed to the continuing shortage of pilots, a dearth that is expected to grow to 34,000 by 2025, and supply chain issues affecting manufacturing, maintenance, repair and overhaul of planes. Focus on ROI. Use loyalty rewards.

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Carpocalypse: How to Prepare for Rental Car and Rideshare Price Surge

Smart Meetings

Chip manufacturers largely switched from making auto chips to making the kind that were in demand mid-pandemic, like those that power laptops, cell phones, home appliances and gaming systems. It’s not a quick switch to flip production back to auto chips, and these shortages may result in as many as 1.2

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Scrap Giant Makes E-Waste Problem Impossible to Ignore

Convene by PCMA

Value Guarantee, who sponsored the creation of the giant and its tour to encourage repairs, offers insurance that covers the repair of products to extend their use. There’s still a lot of work that needs to be done to change consumer habits — and manufacturers’ business models — but a more circular economy is inevitable, Lempers said.