B-to-B Events

With all of the focus that goes into prepping keynote speakers before a conference it can be easy for an event organizer to ignore breakout sessions which—let’s face it—is where attendees really get the goods. But failing to give your breakout sessions the proper care and feeding can ruin the entire event. Sure attendees will get pumped up to hear a well-known high-energy keynoter but it’ll be all for naught if the breakout leaders don’t come through.

Email invitations are standard operating procedure for corporate events these days. But even seasoned pros will admit that keeping electronic messages out of the electronic trash is becoming a greater challenge.
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To its legions of enthusiastic owners and owner wannabes Porsche is not just another car. The automaker wants its presence at the Los Angeles Auto Show to be viewed in the same light. That’s why for the last nine years Porsche has taken over a separate 20 000-square-foot hall adjacent to the Los Angeles Convention Center for a standalone exhibit apart from the dozens of other automakers.

For decades the model remained the same. Now the rules are being rewritten.
The commercial manufacturing category has long relied on a selling strategy that is still relatively intact across the Fortune 500 today: Invite clients to a showroom at headquarters flick on a PowerPoint and do your best to get visitors to sign on the dotted line before they head back to their corporate office.

Whether you’re staging a 150-booth trade show or an intimate consumer event for 20 high-income influentials the one thing you need is a smart registration system. Registration software options can do everything from email marketing to managing payment records and travel arrangements. So which registration system is best for you? Give Google a break. We checked them out. Game on.