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Top Tips for Preparing Your Presenters

Velvet Chainsaw

Imagine how you might do your job differently if your performance and compensation were evaluated based on overall session attendance and industry presenter ratings at your annual conference. Recruiting or selecting industry presenters who will draw a crowd. Recruiting or selecting industry presenters who will draw a crowd.

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How to Improve Your Call for Presentations Process

Velvet Chainsaw

In the submission form, ask if this session has been presented at another industry conference. Make it clear that the submission must be made by the person or people that will be presenting. Reprinted with permission of Convene , the magazine of the Professional Convention Management Association. Avoid spin.

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Filling Your Well of Ideas

Spark Consulting

I subscribe to (and actually read) a variety of high-quality magazines, from the New Yorker to MIT’s Technology Review to The Atlantic. ” I am a voracious reader , and rarely of business books, which I find to be largely a waste of time. I still read the print newspaper every morning. I read fun fiction.

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10 Ideas for Improving Your Pay-to-Play Conference Presentations

Velvet Chainsaw

Some organizations limit commercial presentations to the exhibit hall. In your conference marketing, final program, and mobile app, be sure to clearly state that this session is sponsored, presented, offered or organized by the sponsor. Stage time can range from a five-minute-interruption marketing slot to a full-session buyout.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 6.21.19

Reid All About it

Presenter: Amanda Kaiser, founder, Kaiser Insights LLC. Presenters: Andy Hicken, Director of Quality and Strategy, Web Courseworks. Presenter: Ray van Hilst, Director of Client Results, Yoko Co. Presenters: Myllisa Patterson, Senior Director Event Cloud Campaigns at Cvent. 1 CAE credit. More info/register. 1 CAE credit.

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Association Brain Food: 10.25.24

Reid All About it

Awards, Before & After Hear about the planning and discipline that morphed a print magazine to print + digital, also now feeding a newsletter and social platforms. Host: AM&P Next Speakers: Maggie Murphy, editor-in-chief of ABC’s CE Magazine Colby Waller and John Serrao of THOR Studio Tue 10/29 at 2 p.m.

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Amplifying Your Industry Awards

Velvet Chainsaw

During a recent client roundtable, we had a lively discussion around the challenges of changing up the way awards are presented during general sessions at events. There are two primary challenges with general session award presentations. First, they compete with the main event. Eliminate thanking the academy.