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Tips Tuesday: 14 Ideas for Outstanding Conference Catering
Organizing food and beverage at multi-day conferences is a massive undertaking. And making sure the catering at these events is delicious and memorable from the welcome breakfast to the closing gala is no easy task. Read on for tips and tricks to elevate your conference catering. We start with strategic and organizational decisions that make…
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16 Festive Ways to Boost Sales for the Holidays
No matter where your hotel is located, chances are that guests will be traveling there for the holidays. Over 110 million Americans travel for the holidays every year, and not all of them can stay in the spare room at Grandma’s. This massive wave of travelers represents a golden opportunity for your hotel to jump…
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Tips Tuesday: 8 Simple Ways to Use Hotel Guest Reviews to Increase Sales
Word of mouth has driven businesses forward for thousands of years, and has become even more powerful in the age of ubiquitous connection and sharing online. A positive guest experience is one of the best ways to continue to build your brand and earn new business for your hotel. But gathering and highlighting guest feedback…
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Monday Motivation: How to Plan a Successful Large-Scale Event, No Stress
Your task as a corporate planner is never a piece of cake, but large-scale events present unique challenges. Industry trade shows. Product launches. Professional conferences. If all events are puzzles, large-scale events are the thousand-piece ones, and every piece is a shade of the same color. They require an extra measure of planning, coordination, and…
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Friday Finds: 8 Foolproof Conference Planning Tips & a Checklist for Success
Successful conferences come in all flavors and sizes: The multi-day national seminar for fitness professionals, the one-day conference for regional business leaders under 40. But successful conferences all have one thing in common: a planner somewhere who planned early and often for success. The event pros who hold the most successful conferences are always on…
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Wednesday Wisdom: Everything You Need to Know About What a Successful Event Manager Does
An event manager oversees the design, set-up, and execution of events that bring people together. These events can run from small networking meetings with a few dozen guests to large-scale conferences with thousands of attendees over several days”and everything in between. No matter their scope, managing events is always a people-centric endeavor. Your goal is…
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Tech Thursday: 5 Secrets to Creating an Event in a Facebook Group That Gets Seen
A staggering 1.4 billion people use Facebook groups each month. As an event planner, you need to know how to create an event in a Facebook group, as well as how to integrate groups into your comprehensive social media event strategy. Whether you’re planning a one-time mandatory software training for busy professionals or organizing a…
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What’s New: Powerful Notification Tools That Can Eliminate Your Cluttered Inbox
Every event professional knows that poor communication can take an event with a promising vision to a disaster ” and quickly. Our customers tell us this all the time. The most widely-shared pain point in the meetings and events industry is a stubborn inability for stakeholders across teams and organizations to get on the same…
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Monday Motivation: 9 Must-Know Upselling Sales Techniques to Increase Hotel Business Today
Hotel sales is notoriously challenging, but some sales strategies may result in easier sales than you think. The probability of selling to a new prospect is 5-20%. But surprisingly, the probability of selling to an existing customer is 60-70%. By leveraging this knowledge and a few key upselling strategies throughout your sales cycle, you can…
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Friday Finds: 21 of the Best Post-Event Evaluation Questions to Get The Answers You Really Need
Admit it. You’ve bypassed many surveys in your inbox. You’ve had the opportunity to rate a customer service experience, an online course, a sweater, or a website and deleted the email immediately. But when you’re sending out post-event evaluation questions to understand how an event went right and wrong, the familiar pattern above becomes a…
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Tech Thursday: Is 3D or CAD Event Software Best for Your Planning Business?
Standing out in the event planning industry takes more than on-demand creativity and top-notch organizational skills. Those are essential, of course, but the ability to share your vision”and fast”with current and potential clients is also critical. To create shareable event visuals, planners and event designers turn to 3D event design software and CAD (computer-assisted design).…
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Wednesday Wisdom: 17 Event Logistics Secrets to Successful Events
The logistics of an event are the complex processes that get the people, places, and things in place for the big day (or days!). Whether it’s flying in a keynote speaker or renting tables, it’s easy to see how logistics gone awry can impact the success of an event. Wrangling event logistics is never an…
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