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Developing Micro-Credentials for Corporate Training Events
Returning to school to complete a masters degree is becoming less and less popular. Your employees don’t have the time, energy, funding, or interest in doing so. But at the same time, their skill sets are growing outdated faster than ever before (after all, toddlers are being taught to use iPads and kindergarteners are learning…...
How Influencers Can Organically Grow Your Event Attendance
Maybe you’re the kind of person to raise their eyebrow when someone posts pictures of their food to Facebook, or maybe you check Instagram as soon as you wake up in the morning. However you view social media in your everyday life, you can’t deny its immense impact on your work and your ability to…
The Role of Tech in Modern Conferences
The future of modern event management isn’t what we might’ve imagined fifty or even five years ago. Between COVID-19 and the speedy development of event technology, the dream “future state” of corporate conferences has moved from flying cars and neurological implants to a brave new world of hybrid engagement. Like a match made in heaven,…
15 Team-Building Activities to Promote Diversity and Inclusion
Work events are an excellent opportunity to get to know each other better. Getting out of the office or trying new things teaches everyone to communicate and trust their co-workers on a new level. Interpersonal relationships in the workplace foster more inclusion and create room for additional diversity, as well as the resulting 38% increase…
How To Use Visitor Management To Streamline Guest Event Check-Ins
The National Fire Protection Association’s 101 life safety code specifies the need for 1 crowd manager per 250 guests. Furthermore, they stipulate that crowd density should not exceed one person every 7 feet. Incidents related to overcrowding are still happening at events, shown by the 8 deaths at a Travis Scott concert in November. If…
5 Benefits of Using User-Generated Content in Your Hybrid Events
Are you organising or hosting a hybrid event soon? Here is how you can make it successful — integrate user-generated content into your hybrid event. UGC is the content created by your customers, clients, or employees. No one else can be a better brand ambassador for your brand than your customers and users.Using UGC…
How to Host a Blockchain Conference
Hello there, today we’re going to give you our very best advice on how to host a blockchain conference. Not just any old conference, and not a cryptocurrency conference either. A blockchain conference.Hosting a blockchain event is worthwhile for a whole load of reasons. But here’s two for the time being. Firstly, they’re popular.…
Nine Essential Elements Every Conference Room Must Have
Organising a business event is not easy. It is easy to think that running a successful conference is about spending money. However, you must also take responsibility for making your event an enjoyable experience for others by being mindful of their needs and concerns throughout the process.Therefore, in this article, we will consider the…
How to Attract an International Audience to Your Online Event
In the modern era, virtual and online events are becoming more prevalent. They enable businesses to reach a global audience of hundreds of people in various locations and time zones. To organise, promote, and host a virtual event, the same attention to detail is required in planning, publicity, and hosting as a physical event. However,…
Hybrid Engagement: 5 Tips for Navigating Upcoming Events
At the height of the COVID-19 crisis, virtual events dominated the corporate event industry, crowding out the old ways of in-person networking, handshakes, and whispering inside jokes to other attendees.But as the pandemic evolves and we emerge from virtual hibernation, virtual events have been pushed out of the spotlight. Now, say hello to the…
7 Ways to Monetize Your Hybrid Conference
Live events have always been a great source of revenue for all kinds of companies. However, since the beginning of 2020, any corporate event planner will tell you that rather than waiting for live events to resume, an online conference platform can be used to host a hybrid conference. However, corporate event management is all…
12 Top Tips to Foster Creativity in the Meeting Place
You can’t tame a unicorn, and you can’t bottle lightning. But if you play your cards right, you might be able to manufacture some elusive creativity.Because as we all know, meetings are inevitable, so you might as well make the most of them.In this guide, we’re going to give you our top tips…
6 Tips For Event Professionals To Cope With Stress
Successfully managing stress can be a challenging part of one’s life, especially for event professionals who are constantly working in a demanding environment. From constant communication to budget restrictions and managing minute details, they must juggle multiple high-pressure tasks and stringent deadlines. As an event professional, you might also encounter unexpected problems, including last-minute changes…
5 Tips to Build a Sophisticated Event Website
Creating a website is the opportunity to spread the word about your event and maximize attendance. To harness the power of your website, you need to ensure it reaches your target audience and engages them. Here is how to design a killer event website in five simple steps: Invest in User-Friendly Website Design By creating…
8 Proven Tips To Successfully Remodel Your Restaurant
Competing in the capitalist economy can be challenging. When you have decided to remodel your restaurant to make it more customer-friendly, you need a step-by-step approach. When you spend a lot of money on renovations, it is necessary to do it right the first time around. If anything goes wrong during the remodelling process, it…
An SEO Guide for Event Planners: 6 Tips to Attract and Convert Attendees
The world is still recuperating, and we have a long way ahead of us to fully end the pandemic, but some countries are boldly moving back to event organisation and enabling group gatherings for business as well as pleasure. While you’re exploring the latest 2021 event trends that will help you set the stage for…
The Ultimate Guide to Team Building
Some of you might feel a bit tired of hearing the word team building. We hear you. Sure it’s a corporate buzzword, but this ultimate guide to team building will show you its value.Team building activities – when they’re done right – are great for company culture. And improving company culture is, yes, another…
The Ultimate Guide to Event Technology
The beauty of event technology is that it’s there to assist your events, not take over. Nobody will force you to use tools you don’t want; you’re in control.The old ways still reign supreme. A handshake, a shared joke, a goodie bag, they’re not going anywhere. But a handy app to make it all…
The Ultimate Guide to Event Marketing
If you offer people what they want, they will come. Whether it’s free stuff, fun games, a service, you name it. And once they’re there – with your branding on full display – you can yield some smashing results for your business. That’s event marketing, folks.So without further ado, this is the ultimate guide…
How to Organise Successful Pop-Up Events
One of popular culture’s favourite tropes is the homely Lemonade Stand. And why is that? It evokes a warm sense of childhood in us, sure. But in a world of cold global conglomerates, there’s something satisfying in someone setting up a stall and making a go of it.The pop-up event is a bit more…
How to Measure the Success of an Event
People don’t just do things for the sake of it. Likewise, people don’t just host events for the sake of it. You can throw an event for one or many reasons: for the fun of it, to sell something, to celebrate something, to inform, spread awareness, you name it.So if you’ve hosted an event…
The Ultimate Guide to Corporate Event Planning
If you’ve ever organised a trip to the pub or a quiet lunch between friends, you’ve planned an event. If you found just the slightest thrill from this organised fun, then this article might be of interest to you.Corporate event planning is something that people get paid to do. It’s big business and, folks,…
10 Questions to Ask When Choosing a Conference Venue
With Europe’s health authorities rolling out vaccines, an end is now in sight for our industry. We can begin planning for 2021, safe knowing that people will be attending meetings and conferences again soon. But when we eventually return to normality, we’ll be reacquainted with all those old dilemmas and conundrums that come with being…
How To Relieve Stress and Anxiety at Work
For many of us, the current period is providing unprecedented levels of work anxiety. Not only do we have to protect ourselves (and worry about our loved ones), the pandemic has led to millions of redundancies and forced the vast majority of office staff to work from home. The shift to virtual working has its…
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