Have you ever collected registrations for an event?
What was the best part of your experience? And the worst?
Manually collecting registrations can take a lot of time, energy, and money if it requires you to bring in additional employees or if you’re working by yourself.
Online registration tools can help you simplify the process and save you hours of hassles and headaches. Whether you are planning an event for 10 or 10,000, online registration will allow you to create a professional and branded ...
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You’re thinking about hosting an event, maybe for educational, networking, or fundraising purposes.
You don’t have a lot of time to dedicate to it, but you want to look professional and minimize the time spent managing all the event details.
You decide to promote your event via emails and phone calls. Maybe you even create a registration form using Microsoft Word. You post the registration form on your website to be filled out and sent back via fax.
At first, you receive a few phone calls for...
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Like the telephone and email, social media is not going away.
It’s not going to implode, explode or just die. It’s a communication tool that will be around for a long time.
People use social media for personal and business reasons. They use it for entertainment, to learn, to network and to source products and services. Savvy organizations use it for customer engagement, marketing and to share resources.
One in three small businesses now use social media. They understand that having a Website is not enoug...
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Social media is the key to making your webinar a success. Use it before, during and after your webinar to engage with your audience on more than a superficial level. You may develop new professional relationships or get new customers by taking the time to interact with your webinar's audience.
Frost & Sullivan, a growth consulting business, reported in April 2010 that a survey of 1,500 employees found that almost 2/3 used social media for work, and almost ¾ used it for personal reasons. Social media is a powe...
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BizBash CEO and Founder David Adler seems to have a gift for connecting seemingly disparate pieces of information in a way that identifies important trends for the future of events and meetings. His presentations on the subject are fascinating and often spark engrossing discussions.
Recently, he agreed to answer five questions on important event industry trends. You can read his answers to my first two questions here. These are the final three questions I asked, along with David's answers.
Are there ...
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In case you've missed it last week: PlannerTech DC , the Technology Showcase for Event Planners. A short recap on an inspiring power conference.
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What do you get when you let a small team of driven event peeps (Liz King of Liz King Events, Lindsey Rosenthal of Events For Good and Liz Mazzei of Pogby) bring together 10 state of the art event technology start-ups, a group of engaged event organizers, a magician for MC (Josh Norris), and mix them with some top notch partners to add s...
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