Event management – CEIR Blog

Copying Your Competition: The First Step on the Road to Event Failure

October 21, 2017 // 0 Comments

by Warwick Davies An interesting column in Convene recently advocated working with your competition or co-opting them as competitors, so that everyone can benefit. The piece [...]

Cultivating the Next Generation of Live Event and Expo Professionals

October 14, 2017 // 0 Comments

by Latoya Lewis How did you land your first job in the events industry? If you’re like me and many of my colleagues, you may have “fallen” into the profession. But how [...]

Tomorrow and the Future

October 7, 2017 // 1 Comment

Excerpted with permission from Francis Friedman’s The Modern Digital Tradeshow. The new book is available here free. Looking to the future, marketers have already [...]

Event Technology in the Age of Bitcoin

September 30, 2017 // 1 Comment

by Stephane Doutriaux Cryptocurrency has made headline news regularly in the past months, with multiple waves of radical enthusiasm, measured skepticism, and a lot of eager [...]

Innovate Celebrate: How to Support Startups, the Foundation of Our Economy

September 23, 2017 // 1 Comment

by Gary Shapiro In many ways, the US economy is thriving in 2017: The unemployment rate is low, the stock market is breaking records and our economy is growing faster than at [...]

CEIR Predict: Organizers Don Their Thinking Caps

September 18, 2017 // 1 Comment

by Bob James Once a year, CEIR turns “seer” when it convenes its national leadership summit, CEIR Predict. At the two-day conference, experts lead in-depth conversations [...]

Events are a Means to an End

September 9, 2017 // 1 Comment

by David Nour I spend a lot of time at industry events. In addition to speaking over fifty times a year, I often attend events to spend time with my clients or to recharge my [...]

Events: We Love You. You’re Perfect. Now Change!

September 2, 2017 // 1 Comment

by Carl Landau Post-event, if you did your job, everyone is high on love: Loved the program! The speakers rocked! You did great! It’s a Kudos Fest. But, let’s admit, [...]

How to Increase Your Website’s Conversion Rate

August 26, 2017 // 0 Comments

by Andy Crestodina Your website visitors take action, or they don’t. Some become leads, subscribers, registrants and customers. But most of them do not. Your conversion [...]

5 Steps to Take NOW to Make 2017 and Beyond a Success

August 19, 2017 // 1 Comment

by David Saef With summer in full swing, state fairs and music festivals in full force, and many of us heading to the beach, the woods, or the mountains with a good book [...]