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Four reasons why you should attend professional association meetings

2018/03/28

As an association manager, I’m regularly coming up reasons why professionals should join their industry associations, and different ways to market and share their value propositions – and yet, there is still work to do around awareness in our own meeting planning industry! How do you get your professional development? What networks have you joined? Is it time to start being more active in your industry’s association? Or, maybe you’ve already had a full career and it’s time to give…

Career Development, Meeting Community, People & Profiles, The Business of Meetings

Trend Watch – Association Meetings in 2018

2017/12/06

Over the next few months, the team at Redstone will be taking the time to look at what we can change or improve on in our association meeting planning in 2018 – particularly those that will require increasing a budget line or two – in order to be able to bring the organizations we work with into the future. Here are two important areas where our team will be learning, training and increasing our budgets in order to better serve…

Event Branding & Marketing, Event Budgeting, Event Operations, Meeting Community, The Business of Meetings

Dos and don’ts for events geared toward young professionals

2017/10/17

Young professional events can be super tricky to plan, because of the wide range of individuals attending (often anywhere from 21 to 35), varying from junior, to mid, to sometimes even senior-level professionals. Considering that you’re probably marketing to both Baby Boomers and Generation X (if they’re controlling the budget for professional development and other events for their staff), and Generations Y and Z (yes, the first-born of this group are now 22!), it can be very challenging to make…

Event Branding & Marketing, Event Operations, Social Media & Technology, Speakers & Entertainment, Special Events

Resourceful ways to stretch a small meetings budget

2017/07/26

Meeting planners don’t generally lack original ideas for how to wow attendees. It’s fun to daydream about having a limitless planning budget and all of the things we could do, from infamous speakers, to the highest quality of food and beverage, and holding events in the most breathtaking destination locations and venues. Now, back to reality. Many of us face small or shrinking meetings budgets, especially in the not-for-profit world. Here are a few ways that you can help stretch…

Event Budgeting, Event Operations, Food & Beverage, Site Selection, Speakers & Entertainment

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Four reasons why you should attend professional association meetings

Trend Watch – Association Meetings in 2018

Resourceful ways to stretch a small meetings budget

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