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Obsessive Innovation: Why Associations Must Constantly Turn to What’s Next

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He cites examples like Dollar Shave Club and Cleveland Whiskey for their unorthodox messaging and business approaches and suggests association executives must lead their associations and their industries toward similar reinvention. According to Linkner, creative thinking is the driver of both disruption and avoiding being disrupted.

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What’s Next for Convention Centers?

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Centres are challenged by rapid change in … technology and connectivity demands, both of which require greater facility investment in a time of only modest revenue growth. But even with slowing revenues, conventions centers must find ways to adapt to these changing expectations in order to keep their appeal to meeting planners.

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Association Brain Food: 2.10.23

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Without a basic knowledge of APIs, you could also cost your association a lot of time and money. Trade show costs. Danica Tormohlen at the Trade Show News Network writes about The Exhibitor Advocate’s 2022 Material Handling and Labor Study , which provides benchmarks for trade show labor and materials handling costs in 16 cities.