- The Event Lead Engagement Blueprint As you’ve no doubt guessed, our business is the business of events. But as any regular event planners out there will know only too well, there’s a whole lot more to planning an event than what goes on during the day itself. So given our experience of working on hundreds of events, we wanted to […]
- 6 Golden Insights From IMEX 2016 A mainstay in the event agency and planner’s diary, this year’s 3 day IMEX Frankfurt conference was bigger and better than ever before. Team Glisser spent almost 4 days exhibiting as part of the Technology Pavilion, returning not only with lots of memories and new contacts, but a new personal best for breaking down our stand (bang on […]
- Glisser and Prezi Prezi comes up a lot in our conversations with clients. And for good reason – their software has really paved the way for new interactive presentation software to engage audiences. The very fact that old man PowerPoint now has a credible competitor should be cause for celebration. So are we truly in a new era […]
- Why experiential is the word on every event manager’s lips for 2016 In Eventbrite’s spot-on round-up of the trends their experts predict for 2016, one buzzword was on everyone’s lips. Experiential. To the uninitiated, experiential (specifically experiential marketing) is defined as “a marketing strategy that directly engages consumers and invites and encourages consumers to participate in the evolution of a brand.” Basically – it’s anything where your […]
- Pitch on the go: How to present when you’re delayed. Be it plane, train or automobile… It’s the doomsday scenario all presenters fear, your train has been delayed (thanks very much National Rail). You have an important client meeting to get to, that you absolutely can’t miss. They won’t reschedule. You can’t miss the start. What to do? 1. First off, get in touch with the client Do this as soon […]
- What types of questions drive audiences to answer? Simply opening up the floor for an audience Q&A at the end of a meeting or event, is - as we’ve sadly all found out - not necessarily a sure-fire way of guaranteeing your room is filled with riveting debate. You might find yourself with a crowd full of quiet introverts, ask confusing or controversial […]
- Presentation Dos & Don’ts Without any further a -do (see what we did there…), here are our key do’s and don’ts for a successful presentation. Do… Practice, practice, practice. Unfortunately, sometimes mothers do know best. Even if you’ve spent weeks painstakingly crafting every word of your speech, you’ll always find it sounds different when read out aloud. Rehearsing with […]
- Dressing the part: Look like a top presenter I was once told never to wear perfume during job interviews. The reason supposedly being that you never know quite how someone will consciously or unconsciously react to fragrance. While this is clearly a rather extreme bit of advice (!), there is some truth in the fact that before you’ve even opened your mouth people […]
- Polling for effect: A guide to gathering feedback through Polls Love ‘em or hate ‘em, polling is pretty ubiquitous in the event industry and deep down we all know that they’re useful (see below). So here are a few of our tried and tested techniques for getting the most out of your polls. 1. The times they are a-changing: Make sure you know what options […]
- Make your event part of your content marketing strategy Using data from presentations and events as part of content marketing strategies is something we all know we should be doing more of, but often struggle with in the whirlwind of activity that is running a live event. JD Marketing recently gave us a masterclass in on the spot content creation, when we ran an […]
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