How Labor Shortages are Impacting the Events Industry
Even after nearly two years, everyone’s lives are still being impacted by COVID in some way, and the events industry is no exception. While we as an industry are incredibly proud of the progress we[...]
Seven Tips to Building Your Event Budget
Often, event planning starts with imagination and vision. However, imaginations can run wild, and visions can be over the top. When beginning event planning, your mind may wander to extravagant[...]
Conference Planning 101: How to Keep it Captivating
There are times when all of us deserve a much needed break from work. Now, this may have you thinking of vacation (which is understandable), but what if you started thinking about conferences in this[...]
Office Holiday Parties - Creating Traditions and Building Teams
Ugly sweaters. Office “Dundies.” White elephant parties. Secret snowflake gift exchanges. Yearly competitions. It’s probable that your workplace, much like your family, has a holiday tradition of[...]
How to Safely Return to In-Person Meetings and Events
One thing we know in the events industry is to expect the unexpected. While we prepare and plan, we are also keenly aware of the potential for something to throw the proverbial wrench in the works.[...]
Finding the Right Keynote Speaker for your Corporate Event
Think back to the last corporate event you attended. What was the most memorable aspect? Some may say the venue and others the food. Maybe it was the breakout sessions or the swag. But if you don’t[...]
Top 6 Tips to Corporate Event Planning
If you’ve ever hosted a party, even for a small group of people, you’re likely aware of how important event logistics can be. For example, if one stops to consider how important timing is when it[...]
How to Master Audience Engagement for Hybrid Events
Show Notes With the expected increase in hybrid events comes a unique challenge: balancing two different audience types. Not only do you have people in person watching your event unfold, but you also[...]
How to Perfect Virtual and Hybrid Event Communications
With virtual and hybrid being the most popular forms of events currently, event planners everywhere have been putting in countless hours trying to perfect these kinds of meetings and events. But one[...]
Cvent CONNECT Insights: Virtual Attendee Personas
Recently, I attended Cvent CONNECT Virtual , joining over 35,000 other meeting and event professionals in order to learn more about our recovering industry. After attending several breakout sessions,[...]
Proxfinity's CUE
Smart Badges Make Networking Easy at Meetings and Events Let’s face it—for many people, networking at events or meetings is a daunting task filled with a lot of awkward conversation. Most of the[...]
14 Unique Client Gifting Ideas
We all struggle with client gifting ideas. Okay, well at least I do. It’s always difficult to find the right combination of "what’s under my client’s corporate gifting policy" and "what’s a cool and[...]