Shaping the Future: Key Meetings and Events Industry Opportunities for 2025
It’s an exciting time to be part of the meetings, events, and incentives industry. Generational expectations, technological advancements, and sustainability imperatives are driving opportunity and[...]
Amp Up Event Branding with Nine Creative Environmental Branding Ideas
Imagine attendees embarking on a journey of creativity, innovation, and brand immersion as soon as they enter an event. We here at Bishop-McCann are constantly looking for ways to turn a guest’s[...]
Engaging Remote Employees With Corporate Event Strategies
At the onset of work from home during COVID-19, many companies expressed concerns about drops in productivity. In most cases, those concerns never came to fruition, and workers continued to work[...]
Understanding the Pharmaceutical Meeting Landscape
From the outside, a meeting looks like a meeting. People in suits or business casual filtering from room to room, attending sessions, networking over coffee, and congregating for meals to discuss the[...]
TikTok: Sharing Your Corporate Event Experience
Social media has evolved quickly. From a way to get to know classmates to a worldwide phenomenon for connection, retail shopping, news dissemination, and marketing, it can be difficult to stay ahead[...]
How Travel Directors Add Value to Corporate Events
Even the best corporate event planner can’t be everywhere at once. That’s why at Bishop-McCann, we engage travel directors (TDs) to help us manage the details of each event we plan, and they are[...]
How to Transform Corporate Meeting Check-Ins With Attendee Services
If there’s been one consistent buzzword across nearly every industry (but especially in the events industry), it’s personalization. Even before the forced isolation due to the pandemic, people were[...]
Five Reasons To Start Using Event Chatbots
First impressions are important, which means your initial contact with an event attendee is crucial. When guests arrive at your meeting or event, they’re greeted, provided with information or[...]
Meeting Planning? Try Meeting Experiences Instead!
While we realize that the term “meeting” can cause groans of disappointment or sighs of annoyance, we at Bishop-McCann also know that when executed successfully, meetings can be the source of JOY and[...]
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.[...]
COVID Couldn't Stop Us: Our Pandemic Accomplishments
It’s been over a year since the pandemic began, and we've been busy. Thinking about all the obstacles we had to overcome (and the entire industry!) has us feeling proud. From our team’s hard work and[...]
Eventure: Event Gifting Made Easy
With the number of virtual programs doubling in 2020, event planners everywhere are trying to find ways to make their virtual event stand out. As we’ve stated in previous blogs, holding virtual[...]