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Happy Monday everyone! We hope you had a great weekend.
As always we are helping ease you back into the working week with a round-up of last week’s main event industry news, including any interesting stories and insights that can help you improve yourself, your company, or your events.
Enjoy!
EVENT NEWS
Event spend to remain flat due to Brexit and terrorism [Meetpie]
In last week’s event industry news, we shared an article stating a report that had shown event spend had increased in Q3, even with the impending Brexit. This week we have a report suggesting spend will remain flat due to Brexit and terrorism. What are your plans regarding event spend in 2017?
Fundraising events – the coming crisis or potential boom? [UK Fundraising]
People are donating more to charity through fundraising events, which has meant we have seen an increase in them. The question is how will this end? Will there be so many that it becomes a crisis? Or should we expect a boom in fundraising events and their popularity to continue growing?
MARKETING
An age old question that never goes away; how do I get more followers? Lucky for us, Hubspot have asked 10 experts for their tips to show us how.
TECHNOLOGY
How to Get the Right AV Set-Up for Your Event [Eventbrite Blog]
To some, the AV set-up is a dreaded affair. The terminology, all the different types of equipment, it can all get rather overwhelming! We’ve asked an AV expert to help you make sure you are getting the right AV set-up for your event.
Drone racing is coming to Eurosport in November [Wired]
We said drone racing was going to be a big sport in the future, and it seems the future is now, as Eurosport will be broadcasting drone races in more than 70 countries.
PRODUCTIVITY
Are You Singletasking Yet? [Entrepreneur]
How often do you get asked “Can’t you multi-task?”. Well the answer should be an unequivocal no. According to research, focusing on the task at hand, without the distractions of other tasks, makes you a more productive person.
10 Things that Event Managers Will Never Get Right [Eventbrite Blog]
No matter how much you try, you can’t please everyone! This is never more true than when working on events. We’ve picked out some of the issues attendees in general love to complain about.
AND IN OTHER NEWS…
A scientific conference accepted a ‘study’ written entirely by iPhone autocomplete [The Week]
If you’re an event organiser that accepts calls for papers on any scientific topic, best to double-check the veracity of those submissions before admitting them to the programme, lest you get a big serving of egg on face as happened here.
