5 Ways to Inspire, Motivate, and Activate Attendees
5 Ways to Inspire, Motivate, and Activate Attendees Are you using your corporate events to lay out the company’s plans for the year ahead? While broadcasting information to customers and teams was once a prime objective for in-person meetings, it now makes no sense to waste your meeting doing something that is more quickly, easily, […]
PRIVATE NORTH SCOTTSDALE CORPORATE EVENT VENUES
PRIVATE NORTH SCOTTSDALE CORPORATE EVENT VENUES From the world’s leading brands to elite individuals, we are the No.1 choice for today’s most discerning clients seeking an exceptional, personalized, end-to-end event planning service in our own venue’s. We will assist you to create a commanding story and awe-inspiring Scottsdale corporate event experience that mesmerizes your audience […]
Protecting Your Event with Contracts and Insurance
Protecting Your Event with Contracts and Insurance. Don’t let a series of unfortunate events derail your conference. Just because it is unexpected doesn’t mean it can’t be planned for. Attorney Barbara Dunn O’Neal and Lance Ewing, executive vice president Global Risk Management & Client Services at Cotton Holdings Inc., walked attendees through contracts and insurance for […]
Stream your event without sacrificing live attendance
Stream your event without sacrificing live attendance Common sense has it that providing a live stream of your conference can kill rather than attract attendees to your conference. After all, if they can watch it at home why pay for a ticket and come along in person? That doesn’t have to be true. In fact, […]
The Hottest Trend: Industrial-Style Spaces
Industrial-style spaces are one of this year’s biggest trends in the events industry. These edgy venues make a bold statement and bring guests together in new and exciting ways. Exposed brickwork, steel beams and original fixtures (complete with peeling paint) make an authentic backdrop for a thoroughly urban affair. In this article, we take a look at the top […]
Avoid These Biggest Production Mistakes Planners Make
Avoid These Biggest Production Mistakes Planners Make. The June 30 #Eventprofs Happy Hour, “Ask Me Anything About Event Production,” showcased more than just today’s hottest AV and production trends. Led by Adrian Segar, participant-led-conferences advocate, author, and facilitator extraordinaire, and featuring Brandt Krueger (owner, Event Technology Consulting), Christopher DeArmond (managing director, Freedom Event Services), and professional conference […]
How to Beat 3 of the Gnarliest Room Block Challenges
Today’s planner has to deal with housing poachers. They prey on exhibitors and attendees to get them to book in their block. Whether they actually have a block or not. And then there are the attendees who’d rather book their rooms through Priceline.com than your provider. These are among the many threats to room blocks today. […]
What’s Disrupting Medical Meetings?
What’s Disrupting Medical Meetings? Medical meetings are being disrupted more than any other sector we work with. While the profession is thriving, scientific meetings and healthcare professional conferences are not. In addition they are not performing nearly as well as they did five to ten years ago. Three of the main factors contributing to declines […]
6 Characteristics of a Successful Female Meeting Professional
6 Characteristics of a Successful Female Meeting Professional Today’s guest post is by meetings, travel, and hospitality consultant Pam Wynne, HMCC, CMM, CMP. Women have a hard enough time in the meetings industry—given the lingering gap in what women earn versus their male counterparts, and fewer strong women in leadership positions than there should be—without […]
9 Ways to Fix Your Boring Awards Dinner
9 Ways to Fix Your Boring Awards Dinner Recently, Joe Schmelz, owner of Wolfgang Productions, and corporate entertainer Philip Myers led a breakout session about making awards dinners more compelling. To start things off, they asked audience members to call out the challenges they face. The list was long: same old thing, limited budget, poor […]
