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Play the Numbers Game to Win: 5 KPIs to Keep Track of Your Hybrid Event Success
What KPIs are essential for your hybrid events? And how do you use them? Start with this guide.
Lessons Learned from the Return to In-Person Events
Think hybrid is the future? Guess again. The team at Unbridled has unpacked lessons learned from planning more than 300 events a year.
How to Make Your Virtual Event Digitally Accessible
When the pandemic shut the event industry down, the evolution of hybrid and virtual events not only gave the industry new life, but also more…
Reimagining Your Signature Event
Event experimenter Matthew Homann shares his methodology on reinvention, so that you can reimagine your signature event too.
WTF Happened At the Oscars?
Diversity, Duty of Care, & the Slap Heard Round the World
Among the many ways Will Smith’s awful behavior tarnished this year’s Academy Awards, his overshadowing of what was otherwise a milestone event for diversity and inclusion is perhaps the worst.
Why Event Planners Need to Prioritize ESG and DEI in 2022
Five event industry panelists share insights on how ESG and DEI values can improve event production and execution.
Theatrical Versus Cinematic Presentation Approaches: What They Mean for In-Person and Virtual Events
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8 Key Metrics to Pay Attention to for Virtual Events
ELI’s rundown of eight key metrics that event planners should have on their dashboard, what they mean, and why they matter.
What’s to Come for the Event Industry in 2022
Howard Givner, ELI founder and CEO, shares insights on what to expect for the event industry this year and in the near future.
How to Plan In-Person Events in the Face of Uncertainty
Set yourself up for success and safeguard your sanity when planning in-person events –– even in the face of uncertainty.
‘Everyone Has to be Empowered:’ COVID’s Impact on Event Risk and Crisis Management
How has COVID impacted risk and crisis management? Juliette Kayyem and Frank Supovitz share how event risk management has changed and what to prepare for now.
5 Tips for In-Person Event Success in 2021 (and Beyond)
Hosting an in-person event, large or small? These 5 tips will help you achieve success in 2021 and beyond.
The Boycott Dilemma: How To Respond When States Pass Discriminatory Laws
New, restrictive voting laws have been proposed. The issue and others point to an environment where tools including boycotts are going to be used to try to effect social change—and planners have to be ready.
29 Tips to Successfully Promote Your Virtual Event
Follow these tips to create a successful multi-channel promotion plan for your virtual event.
4 Content Design Tips for Virtual Events and Meetings
Now that events and meetings of all kinds have moved to virtual formats, planners face additional considerations around content design. Paying careful attention to content delivery is necessary to meet online learners’ expectations and achieve overall event goals and objectives. Here are four tips for effective content design.
4 Reasons Why Now is Ideal to Invest in Your Event Team’s Professional Education
Whether you and your team’s goals are to find new ways to pivot this year’s meetings and events to virtual approaches or start the wheels turning for pandemic meeting and event design, here’s why embracing professional education now has a significant pay-off.
The Essential Checklist for Virtual Event Planning
Here is an essential planning checklist to get started, which can be tailored for your specific virtual event to stay on track, on-time, and on-budget.
How to Plan a Virtual Non-Profit Fundraising Event
To understand how to successfully and strategically plan a virtual non-profit fundraising event, we talked to Lindsay Landman, founder of Beyond the Benefit and a widely respected event designer who has helped non-profits in every sector raise millions of dollars to support their missions.
Virtual Event Planning: A Round-Up of 25 Need-to-Know Stats
Covering everything from planning and budgets to promotion and attendee engagement, use this round-up of 25 stats to develop your virtual strategy.
Virtual Event Lingo: 23 Terms to Know
We’ve designed a glossary for many popular terms that come up when it comes to planning virtual events and meetings.
5 Tips for Selecting Virtual Event & Meeting Planning Vendors and Platforms
Planners know the care and effort it takes to find the right vendors to support the design and execution of their face-to-face events and meetings .The process is no less critical when it comes to virtual events and meetings.
Creating a High-Performance Volunteer Team
Volunteers can make or break your event. A well-managed volunteer program helps them perform at the highest level and come back year after year.
An Introduction to Event Insurance Essentials
It’s important for event and meeting planners to have a good grasp of basic insurance principles to ensure that they have the proper coverage for their events.
8 Tips for an Efficient Check-In Process
Check-in is your first opportunity to create a fantastic experience. It sets the tone for the rest of the event, and it can have a direct impact on your guests’ mood and attitude.
Effective, Low-Cost Ways to Market Your Fundraiser
Whether you’re holding a fundraiser for the first time or the tenth time, you need to market it. Without overthinking all the clever tactics or paid marketing opportunities (your last option if you’re trying to raise money), try picking the low-hanging fruit.
Tackling the Rigors of a Fundraising Auction
To raise funds, many nonprofits and charities turn to silent and live auctions. But auctions are labor-intensive, and not all organizations are equipped to produce them.
Ideas for Increasing Engagement at Meetings
Finding unique ways to get our attendees involved is the key to creating exceptional events and keep your clients coming back meeting after meeting.
Managing Event Production Timelines
In event and meeting management, it is critical that timelines are established for the planning team, clients, suppliers, venue and others involved with the planning and delivery of the event.
Leveraging the Whys for a More Profitable Fundraiser
Research tells us why individual donors give. Aligning major event objectives with the reasons they give is one way to help make a fundraising event more profitable. Here’s how to develop messaging, programming and solicitation that leverage the whys.
5 Questions to Ask When Hiring a Destination Management Company
Doing business in an unfamiliar destination comes with specific challenges. A Destination Management Company (DMC) brings local expertise, local knowledge and a set of local resources that can make or break
your destination-specific event.
How to Leverage Insiders to Obtain Fundraiser Sponsors
Sponsors are a critical revenue stream for fundraising events. However, not every organization knows how to approach sponsors and or whom to task with the job. Members of your community who already know and support your mission are the best advocates for bringing in sponsorship revenue. Here’s how to help them help you.
What Is a Campfire Setup & When Should You Use It?
Less structured than a typical breakout session, campfires
are designed to allow attendees to easily drop in or out as their schedule and interest level permit.
Important Communication With Entertainers Prior to an Event
Logistical challenges, miscommunications and last-minute surprises at events can fluster or agitate performers. Communicating clearly with entertainers prior to an event is often overlooked.
5 Questions to Ask Your Client Before Selecting Event Entertainment
Take a closer look at event entertainment and how you can make sure you choose the best type of entertainment for your events.
Guns, Mass Shootings & The Events Industry: Our Missing Voice
For a number of years, I’ve been giving a presentation at industry conferences on Disruptions Facing the Events Industry. Of all the various potential disruptions – economic, political, technological, social, etc. – guns and shootings…
The Hidden Value In Your Slides: Using Micro-Content Analytics to Drive Meeting Value
“I see people at our conferences stand up and take pictures of slides with their phones. I want to know which slides they are. For all of our sessions.” I was sitting with a new client, the chief marketing officer of…
How To Run A Q&A Session At Your Event
The question and answer portion of a presentation or panel discussion is hold-your-breath time for event organizers, as it can go one of two ways…
Cause Connection: Converting Gala Attendees into Passionate Evangelists
You’re standing on the stage in the middle of your major fundraising gala, surveying the room. The main honoree is about to speak, and all eyes are riveted on…
Everything You Heard About Brainstorming Is Wrong: How Data Disproved the Two Universal Rules of Brainstorming
Do you get your entire team together in one place to brainstorm big ideas for your event or company? Howard Givner explores universally accepted rules of brainstorming that may have you checking your assumptions.
Hot Mic Snafu During Democratic Debate: What Caused It & How They Handled It
Every so often a live televised event has a production screw up so flagrant it becomes Exhibit A when telling skeptical bosses or clients, “See?…
Diversity and Accessibility – the Coefficients of Inclusion
As Event Leaders it is on us to ensure that any person attending an event will have the same experience and this means as event designers we must think deeply about the symbiotic relationship between diversity, accessibility and inclusivity in order for all attendees to feel valued, respected and most of all…
Golden Nuggets – The Hidden Value of Professional Development
So much like mining for precious stones and mineral, conference experiences are defined by the golden nuggets we forage. It might be that one connection made unexpectedly during a coffee-break, a speaker that inspires one golden idea, or even an event set up we experience in a session that will make a difference in the work we do.
When Life Gives You Lemons
When life serves you up a lemon we don’t need to pucker up and take the sour! In the world of event management, anticipating the unexpected and being prepared is crucial to our success.
Five Risk Management Tips For Your Holiday Event
Planning a corporate holiday party? Here are five risk management tips to keep the “Bah Humbug” out of your holiday event.
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID): What It Is & Why It Matters
One of the latest technologies that you’ll start to see more of over the next few years is Radio Frequency Identification (RFID). You may have even heard of this type of tech before, but maybe you’re not quite sure what to do with it. To help you decide if RFID technology is right for your next event, we’re going to dive into what exactly Radio Frequency Identification is, what problems it solve, and additional benefits it can provide.
10 Ways to Measure Audience Engagement at Your Event
Planning an event requires more than ordering supplies and securing a guest list. Beyond the basics, you need to ensure that your message is not only reaching the right audience, but also eliciting the right feedback. Event audience engagement can reflect how effective your methods are and influence future events in positive ways. Here’s how to measure (and increase) audience engagement at your event.
5 Benefits of Untraditional Event Venues
Untraditional venues break the mold and can help you deliver an unparalleled attendee experience. Untraditional venues are spaces that were typically not created for events as their main purpose. Airplane hangars, warehouse spaces, breweries, wineries, bowling allies, art galleries, zoos, museums, aquariums, or even parking lots could all make great untraditional venues for conferences, workshops, fundraisers, galas, or other business-related events.
A Quick Guide to Key Social Media Channels for Event Profs
Event marketing is an essential step in pulling off a fantastic event. Not only can it help spread awareness about the event, but it can also help you engage attendees before arrival, disseminate important information, and more! And yet, many event planners leave social media as an afterthought when it should really be at the forefront of an event management and marketing strategy.
Part 2 of 2: Four Tech Tips for Increasing Your Event ROI
Communication is key to establishing a life-long donor. For fundraising events, it is so much more than generating one-night revenue (although that is important). The data we can collect before and during an event can translate into a much larger campaign that drives greater value.
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