Event 101: Revisiting the Best Virtual Event Platforms: How to Find What’s Right for You
Back in the naive days of April 2020, when we weren’t exactly sure where COVID would take the event world, we dissected our top virtual platform picks, where we explored ON24, Zoom Webinar, Airmeet, and AnyMeeting.
You might ask “But that was so long ago, cred! Aren’t there so many new players in the game and other platforms we should be considering?” You’d be right! Since a myriad of new platforms have come on the scene, we update you, highlighting their big draws.
Event 101: How to Make Any Event Budget Effective
Events can have a variety of price points. Event and conference budgeting can be hard to navigate, with hidden costs and unexpected details that can build up and easily break the bank. But with a good plan, you can avoid those surprises—we’ve compiled some quick tips to consider to ensure your event, no matter what the budget, is a success.
Event 101: The Benefits of Hosting LinkedIn Events
Event 101: 5 Ways Event Organizers Can Prep Virtual Speakers
Over the past few months, we’ve shared several strategies for speakers to put their best foot forward during on-screen presentations. Now, we share our best tips for event organizers.
Here are 5 ways our event management team has prepared speakers for the 25+ virtual conferences and webinars executed this year.
Event 101: How to Curate a Virtual Event Swag Bag
Like everything in 2020, the swag bag is adapting to the online world and event organizers are getting more creative than ever. Whether you have an event coming up or are looking for ways to boost internal team engagement, here are some of cred’s favorite ways to curate the new virtual event swag bag.
The Unanticipated Benefits of Virtual Events: An Event Organizer's Perspective
Welcome to the sixth month of the virtual “new normal!” It almost seems as though years have passed since rumblings of a pandemic were circulating in early March, threatening to bring the events industry to a screeching halt. Optimism was shared through outlooks of “it will go back to normal next month,” or “don’t worry, they won’t cancel the event”—and now, these words cause us to shake our heads at the blissful ignorance our industry was once guilty of presenting.
Luckily, we’ve seen a quick pivot to virtual, and as we plan more and more virtual events, we’re seeing benefits that we never would have anticipated.
