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The venerable camping music festival outside Nashville serves up authenticity and positivity   If there’s one obvious sentiment at Bonnaroo, it’s that people are happy. Event staffers are happy. Campers, waiting in long lines and hauling in equipment for the four-day music and arts festival, are happy. And from what we saw, the brands activating […]

The Experiential Marketing Summit kicked off this year with a few out-of-the-box activities designed to show off our beautiful host city of San Francisco—and give event marketers that all-too-rare opportunity to hang out with one another and not be working on an event. At 6:30 a.m. on Monday, May 11, more than 17 intrepid attendees […]

A strong economy and an increase in corporate meetings and conferences have event marketers scrambling to lock in dates and venues much earlier than they have in years past. Convention centers in major cities are booked up as much as five, 10, even 15 years in advance. Key dates are taken and hotel rooms are […]

One of the biggest issues impacting the operational cost structure of the event marketing industry has nothing to do with marketing budgets. Nope. It’s not the fast-paced worlds of social media or technology, either. It’s not even the changing cost of gasoline or the high price of travel.

The biggest threat to your event marketing portfolio’s bottom line may just be a quiet storm brewing around your people—the hired event staffers and helping hands you contract for days and sometimes weeks to be the faces of your brands in the field.