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Event Planning Has Risen in the Ranks of Most Stressful Jobs

Velvet Chainsaw

Unless you plan events for a booming industry, your reality working for professional and trade associations is that revenue from your 2022 and 2023 meetings is 15 percent (or more) lower than 2019. One of the other challenges planners are dealing with is less support from their event suppliers.

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Two Tensions Keeping Senior Event Professionals Up at Night

Velvet Chainsaw

The bad news is that full year performance for 2023 participation and revenues is expected to be 9.5% below 2019. The good news is that 2024 is expected to eclipse 2019 results by 3.6%. For most business event professionals, rebuilding attendance and overall revenue is priority one. One can only hope!)

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4 Professional Services that Save Associations Time and Money

Higher Logic

A membership director also helps with event planning and updating the website, for instance. All those elements provide a great member experience, which can help increase member acquisition, retention, and revenue. Event Planning. Service providers offer event planning , management, and execution packages.

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Game On! Returning to Face-to-Face

Velvet Chainsaw

Most Q3 and Q4, 2021 conferences are reporting attendance numbers that are 40 – 60% below 2019. Events with greater international participation are seeing the steepest declines. If you do plan for hybrid, make sure that you have dedicated staff and trusted vendors to focus on delivering that experience. Business Model.

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Association Brain Food: 4.28.23

Reid All About it

. – Event Manager’s Master Class – A Tool Kit for Events in 2023 From industry data and survey feedback, it is clear that audiences have new (and higher) expectations. As events are more judiciously considered on their return on time, value, and investment, organizers must adjust for this new normal (your 2019 tool kit won’t cut it).

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 04.19.19

Reid All About it

MemberSuite shares 17 tips for making first-time attendees feel so welcome and comfortable that they’ll return for your next event. Some quick hits before we get to next week’s free webinars: 14 event planning blogs you should follow—they mention this one because of Association Brain Food Weekly. Dee McCurry, Ex Ordo ).

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 3.15.19

Reid All About it

Meetings Master Classes 2019 Session 3: Accountability and Conflict Management – A Planner’s Guide. Hear about strategies to make team members more effective, and make the planning workflow less stressful. Beyond the Logo: Building Real Partnerships to Grow Non-Dues Revenue (virtual and Washington DC). Tue 3/19 at 2 p.m.

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