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Event Planning Has Risen in the Ranks of Most Stressful Jobs

Velvet Chainsaw

Unless you plan events for a booming industry, your reality working for professional and trade associations is that revenue from your 2022 and 2023 meetings is 15 percent (or more) lower than 2019. Annual conference budgets are usually finalized 12-plus months prior to the event. Can Vendors Be Part of the Solution?

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Event Planning Is a Team Sport

Membersuite

While the majority of the responsibility falls on the event planner, make no mistake, event planning is a team sport. And since event revenue is the lifeblood of many organizations, it’s critical that everyone gets on board. It requires creativity and a knack for multitasking all of the moving parts.

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Funding Your Mission: 4 Nonprofit Financial Management Tips

NXUnite

Your team likely plans and launches multiple fundraisers throughout each year to bring in enough revenue to fund the various initiatives associated with furthering your mission. Let’s break down the two sides of an operating budget—revenue and expenses—in more detail.

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Association Brain Food: 2.2.24

Reid All About it

They explain how to develop a content strategy, know when it’s time for a redesign, decrease costs and increase revenue. They start with the benefits of a well-crafted print magazine, just in case you have to make a case to your leadership team. Hear how the speaker’s team developed a price elasticity forecast. Generation Z.

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Association Brain Food: 9.29.23

Reid All About it

One difference this year: “For the first time in the survey’s history, the challenge of generating non-dues revenue topped all other obstacles faced by associations.” That explains the interest in communities like Non-Dues-A-Palooza and Professionals for Association Revenue. Host: UST Education Speaker: Jay S. Daughtry, M.Ed.,

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SBI Events Team Earns Virtual Event & Meeting Management (VEMM) Credential

SBI

While the pandemic may have slowed us down at the onset while in-person events were rapidly canceled or postponed, we are now moving full steam ahead in the virtual event space, and are proud to share that our entire Events team has completed the Virtual Event & Meeting Management Certification.

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Association Brain Food: 11.10.23

Reid All About it

Wes Kao shares solid advice for onboarding yourself when you join a new team. If you manage non-dues revenue programs, you’ve got to understand Unrelated Business Income Tax (UBIT) —or your association will eventually pay the price (taxes plus penalties and interest). New job advice. More info/register. More info/register. Elliott Co.,