The Certified Meeting Planner certification is a classification created by the Convention Industry Council to distinguish meeting planners who have demonstrated their knowledge of special event planning via successful completion of a special CMP examination. Aside from the recognition, achievement and wide acceptance of the certification in the industry, many CMPs use their certification as a bargaining chip or competitive advantage when applying for jobs or attempting to win…
Online Registration Analytics Tips For Event Planners: Hand Out Cookies!
Most people who’ve spent some time browsing the internet are familiar with the concept of cookies, or have at least heard of the technology. Cookies are a very common element in most websites today. They allow a lot of great things like shopping carts, saved passwords and tracking visitors to a site. But did you know they can also improve the registration process for your event?
Online Registration Analytics Tips For Event Planners: Privacy Is Paramount
For an event professional, building a base of fans that trust you to provide a great experience at every event is crucial to being successful. One easy way to upset your regular attendees and lose their confidence is to violate their privacy. With the advent of internet technology that helps plan events and make their execution more efficient, many privacy concerns have arisen.
Instantly Accept Payments In Multiple Different Ways
All online registration systems will allow you to automate your event registration by moving registrations from manual to online, but only some will have the ability to process payments online. There should be no PDF downloads, no printed forms, and absolutely no faxing or mailing allowed. You should never have to take credit card numbers over the phone and manually key them in because all registrations should be processed instantly over a secure connection. Registration fees…
How To Avoid A Common Meeting Planners Nightmare
Picture this: You sign up for a new online registration service. You learn the system and you begin taking registrations for your event.
How To Cut Your Workload In Half
Using an online registration system for your event can make life for event planners far easier by saving time and removing much of the manual labor of entering data, processing payments and writing reports. However, often online registration systems offer only some of these options and only some of the time. The key, then, is to choose an online event registration system that offers total, integrated automation.
Fully Customizable Registration Forms
Online registration can take the hassle of event registrations by saving you the time of manually completing each step of the process. Online registration systems offer ready-made forms that especially when customizable can make the registration processing easier and more comfortable for both you and you registrants.
A Simple Trick That Increases Attendance By 30%
Did you know that only 50% of people who start filling out your registration form will actually complete it?
Access Control: Who Has Access To Registrant Data?
As a busy event planner ? in seemingly endless contact with venues, catering companies, and the oh-so-demanding event sponsor ? can you afford to spend time developing registration spreadsheets, keeping track of each registrant?s information, recording travel and hotel details, and taking and processing credit card info? For most event planners, the answer is a resounding no. The process of registration is often the straw that breaks the camel?s back, causing an event planner…
5 Ways To Improve The Success Of Your Trade Show Booth
It’s important to remember that participating in a successful trade show requires a lot of time and effort. Underestimating the preparation and the planning necessary for a trade shows is one of the more common reasons that businesses are not successful. If you are going to invest money in a trade show booth, you will also have to invest your time, effort and creativity in order to obtain the desired effect. A good trade show booth can make the difference between a good exper…
The Importance Of A Vulnerability Management Program
No matter how secure a website is, there is always the possibility that it could be breached; however, how high the chances are for that breach and how that breach is dealt with if it occurs can be controlled. So, before you choose just any system for your event registration, make sure that you know the website has the most secure vulnerability management program.
Testing And Monitoring Of Networks For Security
eBay, iTunes, PayPal these are just a few of the places that most of us enter our credit card and personal information every day. Since the internet became an integral part of each of our lives, the treat of identity theft is a daily reality for all but the most paranoid of internet users.