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Can Encouraging Bleisure Travel Boost Millennial Conference Attendance?

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As millennials become a greater percentage of meeting attendees, catering to them a bit more—in both programming and marketing—makes sense. Indianapolis has joined the bike share revolution with the addition of 29 Indiana Pacers Bikeshare stations downtown. Other cool history factoids can be found at the Indiana State Museum.

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Thinking Beyond the Traditional Meeting Space

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Several unique locations sit within the borders of Indy, including the following: Georgia Street , a three-block outdoor street and walkway that connects the Indiana Convention Center, Bankers Life Fieldhouse, Circle Centre and several restaurants and hotels. Create something that you would want to go to yourself.”.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 12.15.17

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Aptify discusses the huge role association management systems (AMS) play in marketing to prospective members and customers and to existing members and customers. Indiana SAE ). Marketing Charts ). Although this Harvard Business Review article is written for a corporate audience, the main points apply to associations as well.

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4 Steps to Assessing Your Membership Management Software Needs

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In the movie Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade , after multiple threats to his life and overcoming impossible obstacles, Indy meets the Grail Knight, keeper of the Holy Grail. Marketing and Membership Communication. How do you handle marketing and member communications? Areas to think about might include: Membership Management.

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Association Brain Food: 3.17.23

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But excellent content isn’t enough to gain market share. Devin Cleary, MeetingsNet ) How to eliminate content bottlenecks and keep your content marketing engine running. Jimmy Daly, Superpath ) Personas, even well-researched ones, are worthless for marketing. Content is a commodity, says WBT Systems. Chapter habits. to 5 p.m. –

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Six Ways to Wow Attendees with International Cuisine

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“Meeting planners should contact the catering team as soon as possible when creating something unique and special for their event,” says Josh Vaught, director of catering at Centerplate—Indiana Convention Center & Lucas Oil Stadium. This allows the catering teams to research, test and create unique ideas for the clients to choose from.”.

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5 Tactics To Create An Experiential Event

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One of the ballrooms of the Indiana Convention Center will transform into a special exhibitor space highlighting innovation in agriculture technology to prepare students for jobs of the future. The event included the popular Super Workout on Monument Circle featuring celebrity Beachbody trainers and filling a main corridor of the downtown.