Is Virtual Currency a Real Possibility for Your Registration Fees?
Bitcoin has been making plenty of headlines lately. Will attendees want to start using virtual currency to cover the costs of coming to a conference?
Industry Content & Media
Maximizing Attendance: Decision to Attend Study 2
The second Decision to Attend Study survey report – DTA2 – provides extensive insight on what drives attendance.
The Present and Future of Technology in Business Events
This report aims to give business events industry professionals information that can help them think creatively and strategically about how to incorporate technology into their events.
Developing a Digital Event Engagement Strategy
This resources provides you with a high-level overview of the recommended steps for creating a long term digital events engagement plan.
Guide to Creating a Mentoring Program
This guide will give you an idea of how the Award winning mentor program was created and how you can use that program as a blueprint to creating a Mentoring program with in your association or company. Each organization will have different needs and no two mentoring programs will look the same. But this tool will help you to figure out how to create the program that works for you and give you specific examples from past organizations.
The Power of Digital Events Revolutionizing Audience Engagement
Learn how PCMA has captured over one million incremental dollars and enhanced audience engagement through their six-year digital event strategy.
Virtual Speaker Management: A Best Practices Guide
Virtual speaker management requires more attention to detail than managing face-to-face speakers. You have to overcome both the technical as well as the interpersonal challenges posed by not having the speaker at the event. Use this guide to effectively plan for and manage your speaker to present an engaging virtual session.
Convene Magazine 26th Annual Meetings Market Survey
With this annual survey, we took a longer look back — over the span of 10 years, from right before the U.S. recession hit December 2007, through post-recession (mid-2009), to the recovery. Remarkably, some metrics in 15 key areas have held steady during the past decade.
Convene’s 2016 Meeting Professional Salary Survey
In 2016, average salaries barely changed, as raises became scarcer — and smaller. Yet most meeting professionals reported satisfaction with their pay.
The Economic Significance of Meetings to the U.S. Economy
Meetings contribute more to the GDP than the air transportation, motion picture, sound recording, performing arts and the spectator sport industries. Compared to 2009, the meeting industry’s contribution to GDP.