Don't Forget Your Name Badge! - A Podcast For Event Planners & Meeting Planners

On today's show – Captivating event experiences. Subscribe to the new DFYNB! Apple Podcasts – http://bit.ly/DFYNBpodcast Google Play – http://bit.ly/DFYNBdroidcast We've got a new home! Check out our new podcast page at https://blog.cvent.com/podcast/. Read more at http://lanyonpodcast.libsyn.com/podcast#Zzly3Zoei89rweww.99 For those of us in marketing, our live events are the rare occasions when we get to meet our customers and prospects face to face, where we can put our brand and our message front and center. So it's crucial that we make the most of that opportunity by creating an experience that our attendees will remember. At the same time, the competition for people's attention has never been greater. It's not good enough to get your audience to attend – once they're onsite you've got you captivate them. And provide them an experience that's more tempting and more engaging than whatever they've got on their mobile device. Today I'm speaking with Jay Guilford from Cirque du Sole

On today's show – getting more VIP attendees at your event. Subscribe to DFYNB! Apple Podcasts – http://bit.ly/DFYNBpodcast Google Play – http://bit.ly/DFYNBdroidcast We've got a new home! Check out our new podcast page at https://blog.cvent.com/podcast/. You know, a lot of event producers and marketers are under pressure to increase attendance at our events year-after-year. But just as important as overall attendance is having the right mix of attendees. When you're using your live events to drive demand for your products and services, or to generate leads for your sales department, it's especially important that you attract decision makers to your events – those prospects who can ultimately cut the check to your business. Most of the time, that means executives, and executives can be the toughest folks to get to your event. So in this episode of Don't Forget Your Name Badge, I'm joinded by Kevin Lau, Senior Manager of Customer Marketing at Marketo. Kevin and his team used focus

Welcome to Don't Forget Your Name Badge, a podcast about event planners, meetings planners, and the business of bringing people together, hosted by Timothy Mercer. Subscribe to DFYNB! iTunes - http://bit.ly/lanyonpodcast Google Play - http://bit.ly/LanyonPodcastAndroid Email us at podcast@lanyon.com Today on the show – The LINX Spectacular Here at Lanyon, we believe in the power of technology to transform the meetings and events industry. So it should come as no surprise that at Lanyon Live 2016, we put event technology at the forefront of the show.   Lanyon Live brought together a group of leaders in the event technology space to create an encompassing event tech experience. We call it the LINX (Lanyon Innovation Networking eXperience). It's a place where attendees could experience first-hand a wide range of technologies that are changing the way people plan, manage and engage with events.   Over the three day conference, I had the pleasure to sit down and interview several of the fine folks w

Welcome to Don't Forget Your Name Badge, a podcast about event planners, meetings planners, and the business of bringing people together, hosted by Timothy Mercer. Subscribe to DFYNB! iTunes - http://bit.ly/lanyonpodcast Google Play - http://bit.ly/LanyonPodcastAndroid Email us at podcast@lanyon.com In this episode, we're doing things a little differently. On October 25, 26 and 27, we held our annual customer conference, Lanyon Live, right here in Dallas, Texas. Lanyon Live was the culmination of 10 months of hard work by our in house event team (thanks, Teri Harper and Robin Rankin) as well as our whole marketing team – many of whom you've heard from right here on the show. One reason Lanyon Live is such an interesting event is that it's an event by event planners, for event planners. So the whole team really challenges themselves to make it a memorable experience. So for this episode of Don't forget your name badge, we're going to take a look back at Lanyon Live 2016. First we'll chat with Patrick Mendoza –

Welcome to Don't Forget Your Name Badge, a podcast about event planners, meetings planners, and the business of bringing people together, hosted by Timothy Mercer. Subscribe to DFYNB! iTunes - http://bit.ly/lanyonpodcast Google Play - http://bit.ly/LanyonPodcastAndroid Email us at podcast@lanyon.com   Today in the show – all about event websites.   It's obvious, to me at least, how important it is to have an event website. But building websites can be tricky. A really good event website has to do a number of things. It needs to be attractive and easy to navigate, so that people who visit the site will stick around to learn more about the event. It has to deliver the information that potential registrants want and need to know, but in a way that is quick and easy to read. And a good event website needs to perform well. Search engines need to be able to find it and it needs to convert viewers into registrants.   That's why I was really pleased to sit down last week with the digital team here at L

Welcome to Don't Forget Your Name Badge, a podcast about event planners, meetings planners, and the business of bringing people together, hosted by Timothy Mercer. Subscribe to DFYNB! iTunes - http://bit.ly/lanyonpodcast Google Play - http://bit.ly/LanyonPodcastAndroid Email us at podcast@lanyon.com   Today in the show – email marketing tips from our resident email expert, Val Perez. A Lanyon Live update, and a look into event planning at the University of Arizona. It's back to school time, and for our friends working in higher-ed, that means freshman orientations, academic conferences and scores of student-run events are hitting campuses nationwide. That's why I'm excited to welcome Cheryl Novalis-Marine, Robert Lanza and Robbyn Lennon – three staff members from the University of Arizona (go Wildcats) – on today's show. As a large research institution, the University of Arizona hosts hundreds of events every year – from large international conferences to small, faculty and student-led events. For me, wh

Welcome to Don't Forget Your Name Badge, a podcast about event planners, meetings planners, and the business of bringing people together, hosted by Timothy Mercer. Subscribe to DFYNB! iTunes - http://bit.ly/lanyonpodcast Google Play - http://bit.ly/LanyonPodcastAndroid Email us at podcast@lanyon.com Today, a meetings-focused episode of DFYMB. Today I chat with meetings industry pioneer and 2016 Meetingsnet Change Maker, Kevin Iwamoto. Kevin's career in strategic meetings management spans several decades, including some pretty turbulent times for the meetings and travel industry and the world economy as a whole. We talk about some of these tough times and how they presented opportunities to create lasting change within the industry – the most well-known being the Strategic Meetings Management Program, which Kevin developed in the wake of the dot-com bubble burst of the early 2000s. We also discuss travel itself – both business travel and travel for leisure – the differences between the two and how each has cha

Welcome to Don't Forget Your Name Badge, a podcast about event planners, meetings planners, and the business of bringing people together, hosted by Timothy Mercer. Subscribe to DFYNB! iTunes - http://bit.ly/lanyonpodcast Google Play - http://bit.ly/LanyonPodcastAndroid Email us at podcast@lanyon.com   Robin Rankin is one half of Lanyon Dynamic Duo of event planners in charge of Lanyon Live, our annual customer conference. Today, she sits down with me to discuss event sponsorships: What should planners look for in a potential event sponsor? What's the difference between a sponsor you need versus a sponsor you want?  Robin also shares with us how being an event planner has shaped her everyday life - from how she interacts with other people to how planning events has changed the way she looks at events from the perspective of an attendee. Later in the show, we get a call from Scott Owens, Director of Event Technology at Salesforce. Scott is on the team that plans and manag

Welcome to Don't Forget Your Name Badge, a podcast about event planners, meetings planners, and the business of bringing people together, hosted by Timothy Mercer In this first full-length episode our good friend and DFYNB! contributor, Patrick Mendoza, joins us to talk about finding the right keynote speaker for your event, and some of the ways it can get tricky. Then, you'll hear him speaking with Angelia Meaux from the Colorado Judicial Branch. Angelia organizes educational events for the CJB – helping to keep public servants in that great state up-to-date on new legislation and other trends so they can better serve their communities. She'll share some of the ways she's been able to increase attendance at her events by simplifying the registration process, as well as how she meets the stringent reporting standards for public-sector events. Recorded and produced at Lanyon HQ Studios in beautiful downtown Dallas, Texas, USA. As always, help us bring you more great content. Share this show with your friends a

Welcome to Don't Forget Your Name Badge, a podcast about event planners, meetings planners, and the business of bringing people together, hosted by Timothy Mercer   In this introductory episode (a half-episode, really), Timothy sits down with Madeline Hessel, event blogger, to discuss the basics of event blogging and how planners can use their blog and social media strategy to drive registrations at their events.   Recorded and produced at Lanyon HQ Studios in beautiful downtown Dallas, Texas, USA.   Help us bring you more great content. Share this show with your friends and colleagues. Subscribe, rate and review on iTunes.   Email us at podcast@lanyon.com.