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Keeping Your Members and Attendees In Mind
Imagine a dartboard with your customer in the bullseye. That’s the picture you need to envision as you design multichannel events amidst continued uncertainty.
2 Ways to Make Account-Based Marketing Work for Your Next Event
If you’re addressing a potential decrease in your event attendance, focus on quality over quantity. Here’s how account-based marketing can help you attract quality participants.
If You’re Preparing to Host a Hybrid Event, Stop!
There is no such thing as a hybrid event — there are digital events and in-person events.
5 Ways to Use Influencer Marketing to Drive Attendance
You should be cultivating influencer marketing to promote participation at your next event. Here’s how.
We Shouldn’t Take the Air We Breathe for Granted
We have been single-minded in our approach to keeping venues clean and safe for attendees. But we’ve been missing one very important —maybe the most important — thing.
Leaning Into In-Person Events
Digital events have their place and will remain an important part of our industry going forward. But it’s our face-to-face events that change the world.
Why In-Person AI Conferences Are Critical to Society’s Future
An article in The New Yorker earlier this year clearly spelled out how conferences serve as the de-facto lens for ethical considerations of artificial intelligence (AI) applications.
5 Program Design Changes to Add Value to Your Conference
We’re seeing a trend that association leadership is more open to making changes to the annual conference than ever before. It’s about time.
New Rules for Marketing In-Person Events
As face-to-face events start up again, the ways we used to market them no longer work. Here are the new rules.
The Top 5 Job Skills Every CEO Will Expect
If you’re the person responsible for your organization’s meetings and trade shows in 2022, here are the capabilities your leadership is looking for you to master.
6 Questions to Consider While Planning Your Hybrid Future
While event organizers are preparing for a return to in-person events, they still must decide if they will or won’t provide audiences digital options. These important considerations can help guide them.
Digital Event Experiences That Go Places
After months of limited in-person social engagement, many in the business events industry are ready to experience real things, places, and spaces. Some organizations are doing just that, even through digital events.