Conferences
Event costs are rising for everything from venue rentals to catering to audiovisual equipment. For associations, it can be difficult to manage these rising costs while still offering fair ticket prices to your attendees. Increasing costs are a significant threat to associations, adding pressure to your budget and impacting your ability to host engaging events. …
Association gatherings often pursue many goals – to achieve attendance or revenue targets, deliver on learning objectives, or foster connection among attendees. The foundation beneath these goals, however, isn’t often on our radar – joy. Joy is often the key ingredient that enables members to achieve other goals, and to strengthen their engagement with and…
Helping Associations Change the World™ is more than just a slogan or tagline for the AMR Education and Events team. It’s what drives us and keeps us going through the long days (and nights), travel disruptions, and (seemingly) endless pages of Banquet Event Orders. Being an event manager is always on the list of most…
“Let me introduce you to Shannon.” “You need an AV team? I know a great one!” “I’d be happy to connect you to someone in that city!” These phrases, and more, are my go-tos as I exercise the philosophy of Return on Relationships in my everyday life. Return on Relationship (RoR) is a concept that…
When you think about an “away game” you might flash to your kid’s hectic soccer schedule or a team sport you played back in your glory days. For my association, NASCIO (National Association of State Chief Information Officers), it means meeting our members (in all 50 states and six territories) and our association strategic partners…