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Today, more than ever, organizations are challenged with staffing issues. Whether the challenge lies in finding the right staff member, or budget constraints keep you from hiring a full-time employee, securing an outside contractor may be the perfect solution. Here are just a few of the benefits that come along when you bring in an external partner to plan and manage your meetings and events.
In honor of the upcoming ASAE Annual Meeting in Atlanta, but equally relevant to your own organization’s meeting and events, here’s a list of 25 ideas you might consider implementing to help get you, as an introvert, into the right headspace.
It’s pretty few and far between where the registration software an association uses can effectively print the name badges as needed. It’s just TOO basic usually. We then turn to colored stock, various shades of holders, different colored lanyards, a wall of ribbons, stickers, buttons and more to enhance, differentiate and display all the 1,000 things we want to show on our badge. So how do you decide what goes on a badge during printing or post-production? Let’s explore some of the common things we tend to see...and then I’ll toss a few others in there to consider in the process.
How do we expect mobile devices to affect event engagement this year? In this post, we will review what opportunities await your association’s events this year and beyond!
Managing several events at once is no easy feat. So how does our team do it? Impeccable communication and organization. Kate shares some of the tools that help keep our events (and team) organized under any unexpected circumstance.