How to Trim Your Meeting Budget
By keeping branding generic—no specific date, venue or hash tag, for instance—that means that banners, staff uniforms and other signage can be used year after year without having to be replaced.
It’s All in the Details When Negotiating With Venues
When negotiating with venues, consider that new venues are often hungrier than established ones, and they are often more willing to negotiate and provide discounts.
3 Ways to Use Snapchat for Event Marketing
By using Snapchat’s “Story” feature, you can update followers with a series of videos and images on the progress of the preparation for your event as well as ads that build excitement about the event.
How to Use Drone Technology to Enhance Corporate Events
Some resorts or convention bureaus are starting to use drones to give meeting planners and their clients virtual site inspections from a remote location.
5 Easy Steps for Mitigating Event Risks
“Companies should not be comfortable with even 90 percent of respondents agreeing risk is being mitigated properly.”
How to Mitigate Event No-Shows
If you’re having a no-show problem, make sure to analyze the results from past events to see who is not showing up.
How to Spot Human Trafficking in Hotels
Several hotel companies, including Carlson-Rezidor, Accor, Wyndham and Hilton Worldwide, are leading the fight against trafficking by signing "The Code."
5 Ways to Achieve Quiet Event Engagement
How the rise in popularity of silent discos, silent seminars and silent auctions also harness quiet engagement.
5 Questions to Ask Before Forming an Event Partnership
Who you partner with ultimately reflects your business, so it’s important to make sure you partner with a company that your attendees support and know.
5 Ways to Effectively Use Push Notifications at Corporate Events
During an event, corporate event planners should only use push messaging to send out important information such as schedule or location changes.
Meeting in China? 5 Etiquette Tips
If you are with a group, the most important member of the group typically enters the meeting room first. This same individual should also lead the meeting.
8 Tips for Motivating Millennials
Millennials are accustomed to frequent recognition and respond positively to it—just make sure it’s earned.
How to Create a Face Book for Your Meeting
The face book provides an invaluable reference to conference participants, both during the conference and afterwards.
How to Maximize Event Technology: 5 Tips from Marriott’s Convention & Resort Network
Rapid advancement in technology have placed droves of apps and innovations into the hands of meeting planners in recent years.
