Event Management - Event Marketing

One crucial element of event management is the event marketing. One way to keep things fresh and insure a positive outcome from your events is to attend event marketing conferences.

Here are five reasons from zvents.com why you should attend event marketing conferences:

1. Stay informed on the latest and greatest - Learn from your peers and the top leaders in the event marketing industry.

2. Make sure to network - Build your inside connections while attending conference seminars, mixers, and parties (sure, you’ll learn some interesting stuff while sitting in
those sessions, but personally engaging in conversation with conference attendees is a huge benefit).

3. Pitch speaking opportunities - Your
business can gain excellent visibility as a guest speaker so encourage your executives to
get on the speaker list.

4. Get noticed in the Expo Hall - Exhibit your products and evangelize what you do!

5. Drum up new business & maintain client relationships

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Using Podcasts for Event Planning

One of the latest technological trends involves incorporating podcasts into corporate events of all sorts.  There are a variety of benefits to using podcasts for your events, many of which are enumerated in this informative article from bizbash.com.

If you're involved in event planning, be sure to read the article to stay on top of the latest trends in corporate events.

Events professionals have just recently caught on to the power of podcasts. They are deploying these messages via the Web in the hopes of creating stronger, more profitable connections by both marketing their events and distributing event content to a wider audience.

Technophiles coined the word podcast in 2004 as Apple's iPod portable device surged in popularity. (Analysts predict that by the end of this year, Apple will have shipped some 85 million iPods since they were introduced in 2001.) But the term is something of a misnomer. Almost all podcasts can be downloaded and played on any device that supports the nearly ubiquitous formats such as MP3 (audio) or MPEG (video).

Can I just convert the conference audio I record now?

You can, but it may not get you very far. Few podcast listeners will endure recordings of 50-minute keynote sessions or long sales pitches. Content should be sliced and diced for this new, portable medium. Focus on shorter formats and one-on-one interviews.

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Need an Event Management Company?

If you're going to be putting on a business event or a large scale get together and you're questioning your ability to pull it off on your own, you might want to consider employing an event management company.

Here is an informative article about what services such an event management company can provide you and how to chose an event management company.

Read the full article if you're involved in any kind of event planning and management.

clipped from www.isnare.com What Does An Event Management Company Do Exactly? Event management companies can help you organise a number of different special events that your organisation may be interested in hosting. Ceremonies, celebrations, product launches and product presentations, workshops, company inaugurations, conferences and events where you invite the public. You can ask the event management company to help you set up special meetings that your employees and/or business partners may need to attend. An event management company can also assist in setting up trade congresses to publicise your line of work and any products or services that go with your company profile. Many events companies will charge you a fee to put forward their proposals whilst some will simply be reimbursed by the local authorities or commissions from the hotels, venues and leisure companies that they may utilise.

Event Tickets Just Got Easier

When traveling, keeping track of your itinerary is hard enough, so when TripIt announced recently that Event Tickets can be automatically added to your online itinerary, this was welcome news.

Basically, a confirmation email is sent to TripIt when the reservation process is completed and parsed by TripIt to add it automatically to your customized travel itinerary.

This works with event planning sites like Eventbrite, etc.

Read the full article for more info...

clipped from www.earthtimes.org TripIt Adds Event Tickets to Travel Itineraries TripIt, the online travel organizer, has added support for adding event tickets to travel itineraries. Travelers can now book events in advance, such as dinner and a show, a sporting event, or even family night at the movies, and simply forward the confirmation emails to plans@tripit.com to have them automatically added to their TripIt itinerary. TripIt is the only travel site that automatically reads confirmation emails from many of the top ticketing websites, including Tickets.com, TicketMaster, TicketWeb, StubHub, Broadway.com, LasVegas.com, Vegas.com, Fandango, Eventful and Eventbrite.

Event Planning Site founded by Microsoft and Yahoo Execs Gets Funding

Combining local search, event planning and social networking elements, this new site founded by former MS and Yahoo execs. has landed $6.5 Million in funding for its event management service.

clipped from www.dmwmedia.com Center'd Lands $6.5 Million, Debuts Event Planning Social Net Menlo Park, Calif. - Center'd on Wednesday announced the launch of a public beta of its event invitation site, and said it has raised a total of $6.5 million in funding, from investors including Norwest Venture Partners and Keynote Ventures. The company was founded by a team of former Microsoft and Yahoo executives, including CEO Jennifer Dulski, formerly Yahoo's VP and GM of local markets and commerce, and CTO Chandu Thota, who was previously the lead developer for Virtual Earth at Microsoft.

Viral Social Marketing with House Party

The next time you want to promote an event using Social Marketing, you may want to consider House Party.

Depending on your budget (which will have to be sizable given the cost of their services), you can potential reach MILLIONS of customers the next time you are launching a new product or looking to build brand awareness.

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clipped from www.lipsticking.com House Party Combines Social Events with Social Media A House Party™ is a viral marketing platform that develops and launches a thousand parties on one day, in homes nationwide, with an exclusive brand experience at the center of the action. These specially designed parties take place across the country in the homes of carefully selected consumer Hosts who can invite their friends, family, neighbors, classmates , co-workers, whoever they wish, into their homes to experience these uniquely fun parties and the products they feature. What a really cool business model House Party has developed. They integrate actual social events that happen in the real world with social media in the online world. A pretty progressive approach, don't you think? Also it appears that most of their hosts are women. Who better to plan events such as these and then follow through by uploading videos, photos and blog entries online to share their experiences.

High Tech Event Tickets for Olympics

If you are planning on purchasing event tickets for the Olympic games in Beijing, you need to be aware of the high-tech tickets be employed

These tickets will have your personal information, including photo, address, email and telephone numbers. Something to think about...

clipped from blog.foreignpolicy.com Attention Olympics fans: Beijing wants your data The last thing Beijing wants to see at the Olympic opening ceremonies on August 8 is Tibetan flags, "Stop genocide in Darfur" signs, or similar such provocations from "troublemakers." And given Beijing's paranoia, it's hardly surprising that this year's opening and closing ceremonies are going to have some of the tightest security of any event, ever. Each ticket for the ceremonies will have a microchip embedded with the user's photograph, passport details, addresses, emails, and telephone numbers. All event tickets also have microchips to prevent counterfeiting, but only the ceremony tickets will contain the personal data. Some have raised fears of data theft, and others question whether activists known to the Chinese authorities could even attempt to attend, since many of them are being detained or at least closely watched ahead of the games.