Working with corporate clients can be very different than working in the personal event space, but it can also lead to big rewards. Corporate business means larger events, expanded budgets and most of the time higher stakes. While working in corporate events can be a lucrative business for many planners, you need to work hard to maintain relationships with your clients in order to thrive in this industry over the long haul.
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Best Airport Venues for Meetings & Events
GoToMeeting, Skype, Google Hangouts, Whatsapp keep us hyper-connected. However, they haven’t managed to eliminate our primordial need for Face-2-Face encounters. The more we connect, it seems, the more we want to be connected and the ultimate fulfillment of that desire is the reassuring comfort of a handshake or a hug given in a real place with real people in real time.
6 Habits of the Forward Thinking Event Business
Technology is ubiquitous and touches every part of our lives. We can no longer rely on “old” methods of planning and producing events. We need to rethink, retool and for many, change some day to day practices. This has to start with the tools we use daily to run our businesses, because digital disruption has already happened. Are you ahead of the curve? Or getting left behind?
The 6 Biggest Fears Event Planners Have About Social Media (and How to Resolve Them)
1. Looking Bad Have you ever said something and regretted it later? Traditional marketing provides ample opportunity for editing and review, allowing time for crafting a message and refining it so that it is as accurate, agreeable, and effective for its target audience. Social media communication often happens so quickly that it is difficult to […]
Dubai Events: 11 Tips and Take-aways
Dubai, a destination of contrasts, has earned a reputation for opulent hotels and spectacular events that garner a buzz around the globe. Here are 5 take-aways from Dubai events and 7 tips for planning events in Dubai. Event planners can use them to enhance their own meetings, conferences, and corporate events.
Forget Speakers: 7 Alternatives for an Innovative Event
Meetings are changing, yet speakers are still the main ingredient of every conference. In this modern age of meeting design why don’t we use things like video, art and testimonials more often? Here are 7 potentially brilliant alternatives to speakers, worth considering for your next event.
5 Bulletproof Tactics for Winning Showfloor Management
This is a sponsored post written by Nishita Jain, Sr. Digital Marketing Director, a2z. More information about Event Manager Blog’s sponsored posts. Are you ready to put behind you the days when your expo management team managed your event’s floor plan with just pen and paper, or with complicated updates to the CAD for each and every revision? […]
23 Event Startups to Watch This Spring
Everybody loves event technology. Event startups are popping up all over the place. Trade shows are featuring special sections with technology only. We are also getting a good dose of individuals that don’t even own a smartphone that call themselves experts – that should mean #eventtech is going mainstream. Remember, remember that you heard the […]