One thing is for sure, you can’t spend a budget you don’t have; but what you can do is make as much use of it as possible. You won’t believe how incredibly flexible an event budget can be. Throughout our experience, we’ve seen quite a few strategies related to corporate event budget optimization. In this article, you’ll find six fundamental lessons we’ve learned.
If you’ve ever been to conferences like CES, which hosts over 200,000 attendees annually, you must have asked yourself this one question: “How do they manage such a huge crowd?” The answer is that you just need one strong event communications plan that is supported by reliable devices and that can be used on site to deliver messages and give instructions. Sound easy enough? Well, it’s not really a piece of cake. To be able to carry the weight of a large-scale event, one should start developing a detailed plan of interaction weeks or even months before the start of the event.
Showing recognition for employees’ achievements by awarding travel experiences may be an old trick but it’s also one that’s not going away any time soon. According to Transformativa’s survey results, 65% of employees claim that they appreciate incentive trips more than any other form of reward. Still, before breathing a sigh of relief, you should understand that the demands and tastes of corporate staff change, which leads to the evolution of new incentive travel programs. This means that sending your team on the same leopard safari in Sri Lanka that you did five years ago simply won’t work today. We’ve collected the top 10 tips for planning an incentive trip that keeps up with ever-changing trends.
Despite what sceptics may believe, impressive lighting design is an important part of your corporate event atmosphere. The common mistake many event professionals make is viewing lighting as simply an embellishment that doesn’t play an important role in the event’s performance. The truth is, creative lighting solutions for events can be the perfect tools for guiding your audience’s attention, presenting information, and transforming the venue space. We’ve compiled a list of the top five lighting companies for corporate events that can do all of that and much more.
Whether it’s a conference or a trade fair, most types of corporate events rely on technologies that help reduce wait times and eliminate hardware errors on the ground. As one of the principal stages of an event lifecycle, onsite check-in has the power to shape the mood of the event’s attendees. So if you want to see smiling faces, you need to ensure everything runs smoothly in the check-in area. How do you find the technology that caters to your corporate event needs? What features should you focus on? And how do you organise the process? Read on to learn the answers.
If you’re in the events industry, you’ve likely heard many myths and facts surrounding one of the buzziest data protection regulations, GDPR. When the news about GDPR shook the world in 2016, most businesses were in the dark about how to handle it. This gave birth to a huge variety of misconceptions about GDPR compliance in the events industry. Today, with GDPR enforcement knocking at everyone’s door, we’ve decided to clear things up.
As Peter Drucker once said, “Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.” When organising a successful party or a business meeting for one of the most demanding category of event-goers, corporate staff, you need a well-laid-out plan.
The way people collect, process, and store the personal data of EU citizens is going to change very soon. Find out how GDPR enforcement is going to revolutionize the world of event planning and which measures event marketers should take right now to comply with this new legal framework.
