Meeting & Event Design

Meeting & Event Design

Live music, event playlist, music budget, event music, how-tos

How to Find the Groove of Your Event’s Music Playlist

The best way to know your audience’s likes and interests is by creating a pre-event survey that includes questions about music.

Take the Stage: How Theater Can Influence Sensory Experiences at Events

Just like theater, the size, physical environment, flexibility of staging and all the moving parts affect the outcome.
Crowne Plaza, meetings

7 Tips for Making Your Meetings More Experiential

Driven by the trend among consumers valuing experiences over material things, meetings are undergoing a profound transformation and becoming more experiential.

Stay Relevant: How to Keep Your Event from Melting

Keep your event from melting by addressing three key meeting elements: attendance, enthusiasm and exciting topics.
Effective Meetings, meeting agenda, efficient meetings, meeting schedule

5 Key Ingredients to Planning Effective Meetings

Setting meeting objectives and creating a meeting agenda will help make a meeting run effectively.
What I Know, meeting planner confessions, creative events, creative meetings

The Most Creative Event I Have Ever Produced Was…

In this meeting planner confession, planners share their most creative events to date.
Sensory Marketing, Dianne Devitt, five senses, colors

5 Reasons to Amp Up Your Sensory Marketing Strategy

Sensory experiences such as color and music can help enhance attendee participation.
Budget strategies, meetings budgets, event budgets, budgets, budgeting

3 Next-Level Budgeting Strategies for Event Planning

Here are three ways meeting planners can stay ahead of the numbers game when budgeting for their next event.
Event ROI, return on investment, return on event, event return

How To Increase Event ROI with These 5 Tips

Use gamification to increase attendee engagement at your event.
Lafayette Hotel, Swim Club & Bungalows; San Diego; millennials, millennial meetings

Deconstructing the Misconceptions of Millennials & Meetings

Millennials actually prefer face-to-face meetings and events just as much, if not more, than previous generations.
Passport, international meetings, meeting itinerary, global meetings, meeting travel

5 “Musts” Your International Meeting Itinerary Might Be Missing

In the Middle East for instance, some women feel uncomfortable shaking the hands of men they don’t know, even in professional settings.
San Francisco, destination marketing, selling destinations, meeting destinations

5 Ways CVBs Can Help Planners Market the Destination

Most CVBs and DMOs have downloadable information and interactive maps for meeting planners to provide to their clients and conference attendees.

4 Ways to Drive Attendee Engagement on the Show Floor

Break down the barriers between your conference and exhibition with short talks on hot topics.
meeting, Windy City Fieldhouse

5 Tips for Summer Outings

A recent trend toward evening picnics held from 5 to 9 p.m. is a good choice for a variety of reasons, including cooler weather and lower costs.