Event attendees have it good. They get to show up to your meticulously-planned event, soak up the experience, and leave before cleanup. Meanwhile, between answering a million questions and putting out metaphorical fires, you’re obsessively reading the crowd to see if...
Your work as an association leader is important. Day in, day out, you’re supporting your members through education, advocacy, and offering them a shoulder to lean on. That, in turn, helps your members excel in the transformational work they do. You kept it up, even...
Lately, we’ve been thinking a lot about how event chatbots could help event organizers foster stronger communities around events. EventBots are our bread-and-butter, taking us inside hundreds of events each year with millions of guests submitting just as many inquiries...
If you’re running a big annual event like a conference, a festival or a tournament, we don’t need to tell you how important ticket sales are. If you don’t sell enough, you may not have enough money to keep your staff or to keep your organization alive. Those are high...
So you’re thinking of getting a chatbot for your event… that’s great! Chatbots are the future of event tech. Our text-based EventBots are like the best employee you’ve ever had: they can instantly answer questions any time of the day or night with 95%+ accuracy, all...
There are great events and there are “can’t miss” events. Both might have a solid lineup, the perfect venue, and delicious food. Yet, one organizer is announcing that tickets are sold out while the other is announcing an extension to the early bird pricing (again)....
We work with tons of creative, hard-working event organizers like you who lead the charge to dream up great events and come to the rescue when the train starts to teeter off the rails. To become the best-of-the-best, you’re always looking for ways to up your game, be...
When you open registration to your event, are people excited? Do they ask their friends if they’re going with wide eyes and an upward inflection? If you’re immediately thinking “No,” it might mean that your audience engagement strategies aren't working as well as they...
At the SISO Summer Conference, the greatest benefit is in the networking! Everyone in SISO is a business owner or senior executive of a for-profit show-producing organization. During any given coffee break you will learn more about the industry than you could from...
Event organizing is a complex business on its own, but it gets even more complex when you add in the huge volume of questions that can occur in the weeks and days leading up to an event or at the event itself.
If you’re struggling right now to find reliable temporary event staff, you’re not alone. When the Covid-19 pandemic hit, events disappeared almost overnight, and event organizers, staffing agencies, and general contractors lost upwards of 70% percent of their...
Greeters, event security, booth staff, brand ambassadors, caterers, and more. That’s a lot of people to employ. As you know, it’s a big job to hire these people and a big expense to pay them. But that’s just how event organizing has been done since the dawn of time....