Meeting Planner Resources

Meeting Planner Resources

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5 Must-Have Apps for the International Meeting Planner

These five must-have apps can make the international meeting planner's job that much easier.
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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.
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New App Uses Hotel Snaps to Fight Human Trafficking

Meeting attendees can fight human trafficking by uploading hotel room photos to a new app called TraffickCam which helps investigators gather information.
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How To Increase Event ROI with These 5 Tips

Use gamification to increase attendee engagement at your event.
Crisis Management, crisis, mitigating risks, meetings management, meeting risks, meeting disaster

How to Prevent an Event Crisis

Managing a crisis successfully is every meeting planner's dream.

Joining the Food Revolution One Event at a Time

The combination of food abundance and food problems increases the need for creative spirits now more than ever.

Puppies at a Trade Show? Absolutely!

The puppies performed just brilliantly, bonding with attendee after attendee and posing for an endless stream of selfies and performing.
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How to Choose the Best Incentive Travel Destination

Some destinations in the Caribbean and Mexico have drastically different airfares to and from the U.S. because of their popularity.
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How to Make Long-Haul Flights More Comfortable for Attendees

Airplane food is never great, so some of your attendees may have not eaten for a solid 15 hours.

6 Tips That Guarantee a Smooth Virtual Event

Unless you’re already an expert in online/virtual meeting technology, your IT department will be your new best friend and ally through the planning cycle.
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Deconstructing the Misconceptions of Millennials & Meetings

Millennials actually prefer face-to-face meetings and events just as much, if not more, than previous generations.
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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.
Meeting budget, meeting savings, cost savings, event savings

How to Trim Your Meeting Budget

By keeping branding generic—no specific date, venue or hash tag, for instance—that means that banners, staff uniforms and other signage can be used year after year without having to be replaced.