Five Ways to Make Attendees Feel Appreciated and Welcome
Attendees take time away from the office and spend money to attend your events. Are you doing everything you can to make them feel appreciated? Five ideas for setting the bar high.
Samantha Whitehorne
Event Planning Lessons From the Jeopardy! "Greatest of All Time" Tournament
The game show’s tournament of champions was a ratings juggernaut, thanks to its memorable contestants and creative format. It also offered a few ideas when it comes to planning unforgettable events.
Meetings Memo: Newbie Navigators
The Grant Professionals Association uses a new strategy to ease first-time attendee anxiety.
Smart Business: Get a Jump Start
A strategy for boosting early attendee registration.
Should Your Next Conference Have a Plant-Based Menu?
This year’s Golden Globes served an entirely plant-based menu for the first time. With more of your attendees going meatless and looking for meetings to have a smaller environmental footprint, should your conference menu be plant-based too?
What’s on the Horizon for Meetings in 2020?
A new year often brings change. Three ways that association meetings may transform in 2020.
Ideas for Making Your Conferences More Inclusive
You want to make sure every attendee has the best experience possible, and that may mean rethinking how you’ve done everything from registration to captioning. A look at three associations taking the lead on creating more inclusive meetings.
Meeting Planning Lessons From a Bestselling Cookbook Author
Alison Roman knows how to create a memorable meal. Some of the lessons she’s acquired from having people over for dinner and publishing bestselling cookbooks can also be applied to meeting planning.
A Meeting Strategy for Your Environmentally Conscious Attendees
Here’s a reality many associations face: More meeting attendees want to lower their carbon footprint by flying less, and some companies are reducing how often their employees can fly. It may be time for associations to consider a different conference strategy.
How to Get Current Attendees to Recruit New Ones
It’s hard work to convince new people to register for your conferences, but your current attendees may be able and willing to help. Here are three tactics for making it happen.
