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Create Disruption with FOMO

Create Disruption with FOMO We have all been in this position, scrolling through our Facebook/Instagram/Twitter feed and the instant feeling of jealousy and anxiety hits when you come across one of your friends posting photos and live videos of them...

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Peeling Back the Layers: Performing Arts Venues

Peeling Back the Layers: Performing Arts Venues The beauty of live performance art is layered: the passion of the actors, the music from the orchestra, seemingly-miraculous set design, transformative costumes, or an immersive script. Each part combi...

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Software Decision: Value Proposition

Software Decision: Value Proposition In the first two parts of this article, we examined the background on purchasing a “best of breed” versus an integrated solution, followed by the infrastructure questions that needed answering. In the final inst...

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Creating Sustainable Events

Creating Sustainable Events It is easy to get into the funk of doing the same thing for your event year in year out. Great in some aspects, but not so good in others. The main change we need to think about, as Eventprofs, is making your event more e...

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A Single Source of Truth Split Four Ways

A Single Source of Truth Split Four Ways The lights of the theatre fade, the curtains open and within moments audience members of every age and background are completely immersed in a world of dance, music, emotion, passion and drama. The world of l...

From an internal staffing perspective, with resources, we are a very small team. We have 11 fulltime people out here and that’s it… So if you want to stretch the amount that we can do, this program that a couple of us can tap into and start inputting events and working the events, it’s going to make it a lot easier for us and take the work off one or two people and kind of spread it out among everyone.

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How Behind-the-Scenes Technology Shapes the Exhibition Life Cycle [Part 3: After the Event]

How Behind-the-Scenes Technology Shapes the Exhibition Life Cycle [Part 3: After] The final installment of this series brings us to the last leg of the show cycle. If you’ve missed my previous thoughts on the Before and During, check them out now! W...

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How Behind-the-Scenes Technology Shapes the Exhibition Life Cycle [Part 2: During the Event]

How Behind-the-Scenes Technology Shapes the Exhibition Life Cycle [Part 2: During the Event] It’s that time! The show that you’ve been prepping for and anticipating for months has finally arrived. If you read the last part of this series (or in case...

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Delegate to Dominate

Delegate to Dominate Raise your hand if you have a hard time delegating tasks and responsibilities. If you’re anything like me or the many performing arts pros I speak with regularly, your hand is in the air. As you might expect, we’re hardly alone ...

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How Behind-the-Scenes Technology Shapes the Exhibition Life Cycle [Part 1: Before]

How Behind-the-Scenes Technology Shapes the Exhibition Life Cycle [Part 1: Before] Event organizers bring like-minded people together to create invaluable, lasting relationships, and with the prevalence of digital communication channels, connection ...

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The Customer Journey at Exhibitions: 4 Steps to Engage Trade Show Visitors

Compared to e-business, the event industry has been slightly hesitant when it comes to analyzing the customer journey at trade shows. How can event organizers optimize individual touch points

The price of getting Ungerboeck with the ecommerce solution wasn’t much different than most everybody else’s purely ecommerce system. So, it was a no-brainer decision for us. The product and the price is fantastic compared to what we were getting for just ecommerce.

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Translating Terminology

TRANSLATING TERMINOLOGY I feel like it was just yesterday that I was a server at a restaurant, running around like crazy, feeling that rush of adrenaline knowing I had more to do than likely physically possible. And every time I go to a busy bar or ...

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The Event Sponsorship Revolution: Winning & Retaining Sponsors

The Event Sponsorship Revolution: Winning & Retaining Sponsors Selling event sponsorships is a tough business. Companies spend thousands (and millions) of pounds, dollars, Euros, etc. to sponsor an event . Given these large investments, the idea of ...

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The New Era of Event Professionals

The New Era of Event Professionals Humans are social beings and best communicate when meeting face-to-face. Remember: kings and monarchs met face-to-face to better come to conclusions or compromises. Event planning is a profession with roots in anci...

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Video Content for #Eventprofs

Video Content for #Eventprofs Since the advent of smartphones, the days of relying solely on professionals to record and capture an event has passed. Videographers and photographers aren’t always compatible with an event professional’s budget or the...

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What Does It Take to Host a Successful Conference?

What Does It Take to Host a Successful Conference? As a software solution provider for the events industry, I’m sure you can imagine the pressure involved in planning and hosting an event for people who actually do it for a living! And yet, here we ...

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What Brexit Really Means for the UK’s Events Industry

What Brexit Really Means for the UK’s Events Industry It seems a long time away, but the vote is clear: Brexit is here, it is real, and we have to live with it. How do UK event professionals feel about the referendum? And what does Brexit really mea...

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Capturing the Right Event Photographer

Capturing the Right Event Photographer As an event professional, there is more than enough on your plate and worrying about how the event is being captured shouldn’t be one of them. There is so many elements involved with preparing and running a suc...

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Un-Conferences: Participant-Driven Events

Unconferences: How Participant-Driven Events Increase Engagement & Knowledge Sharing Dull, dated, and boring are frequently stigmas about conferences. People generally think that they show up listen to an opening speech, go through the motions of pr...

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