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5 Advantages of Using Pre-Recorded Content in Your Virtual Meetings
As virtual meetings continue to reign in the COVID-19 saga, best practices and success strategies continue to be tested and refined. One of these strategies is using...
Finding Unicorns — How to Uncover Your Next Fortune 500 Client!
Meetings and events industry partners all face the same tough challenge: landing the holy grail of sales, the unicorn — a Fortune 500 client. The American Meetings...
How to Hack-Proof Your Virtual Events
With COVID shutdowns, virtual meetings took over, allowing people to stay connected while safely apart. However, with the rise in virtual meetings also came the need to keep unwanted guests from entering meetings – competitors dropping into private meetings, students who didn’t pay for courses were crashing classes, or late registrations allowed in problematic hackers.
The Meeting News by AMI – Venue Cleaning Requirements in the New Meeting Normal
Today, running any business, meeting, or event plan requires a new and improved commercial cleaning strategy. There are basic steps that you can take to move the needle on your meeting and event sanitation protocols, which are a must-do in our post-pandemic world.
Navigating the New Meeting Normal – An AMI Executive Update
Hear from AMI CEO, Andy McNeill, as American Meetings, Inc. helps clients navigate the “new normal” for meeting and event planning. AMI is here to provide the right tools and resources to make both virtual and live events safe and successful. When pivoting to virtual or hybrid meeting plans, AMI is here with the right platforms and technologies to perfect your team’s webcast and meeting experience.
Personal Protection and supplies for Meetings & Conferences – An AMI Executive Update
AMI CEO, Andy McNeill, invites you to learn more about the right equipment and solutions for keeping your meetings and events safe in today’s new normal. Through effective use and distribution of personal protection equipment (PPE) for meeting hosts and attendees, your business can rest assured that your next post-pandemic meeting will be a safe and successful one. Review and order from AMI today.
Guides
Taking Your Live Meeting To The Web Cost Savings Guide
AMI constantly seeks out ways for our clients to save money, gain efficiencies and meet compliance standards. Transitioning some meetings online produces significant value in these areas and is key to a successful overall meeting strategy.
5 Ways to Break Through Your Annual Sales Goals in The Meetings Industry
Click here to download an infographic Surpass your quarterly metrics by meeting with event planners directly Follow these 5 key points to hit your annual sales goals....
Top Five Pre-Webinar Best Practices
Click here for some great tips on how to begin planning your webinar. We get it. You’re busy. That’s why we’re here. When moving your Meetings Virtual, consider these...
Coronavirus airplane exposure. Check out this CDC infographic to guide you.
Meeting Professionals and business travelers can spend upwards of 60% of their time, on average, on the road. As each of us navigate the Coronavirus threat, it is...
4 Things Meeting Planners Want From Their Sales Professionals
What influences buying decisions for today’s Sourcing Managers and Meetings Planners? Click here to download an infographic Here are four seller capabilities that every...
Case Studies
Event Concept Development Case Study
This rapidly growing US-based investment firm was launching a media and event venture for the midcap markets. The objective was to build a profitable national brand online, a magazine and an annual conference for the midcap investor. They required professional consulting from a marketing and meeting services organization to launch the concept and provide logistic support around the conference portion of the strategy.
The Value of Face-to-Face Meetings: A Case Study
Conference calls and virtual meetings may be fine for the smaller details but when you need to motivate, inspire and/or close the big deal, there is no replacement for sharing the same physical space. Business leaders and their meeting planner partners have come a long way in developing metrics to calculate the return on investment of face-to-face conferences. And it’s amazing how many things CAN actually be measured. But there are some powerful intangibles that cannot be captured on a spreadsheet.
Videos
Onsite Meeting Sanitation, Safety & Resources for Live Meetings – An AMI Guide, Part 2
A live meeting checklist is always a good idea, but in our post-pandemic meeting and event world – health and safety are more important than ever. In this video, you’ll learn best practices that support the health and safety of your live meeting participants as AMI provides you with key insights for checking all those health and safety measures. In addition to tactical opportunities for you to instill meeting safety, AMI will manage your events across cleaner and wider spaces, along with enhanced sanitation in all meeting venues.
How Meetings Will Change in a Post Pandemic World – An AMI Executive Update
Hear from American Meetings, Inc. President, Todd Bludworth, on the changes you can expect going forward across the meetings and events industry. From social distancing, fewer attendees, and new technologies… Overall you can expect cleaner and wider spaces, along with more sanitation in your new meeting venues.
Tips for Negotiating with Hotels and Venues in the New Normal – An AMI Executive Update
Learn how negotiating with hotels and venues has changed drastically in the last few months. More agreeable cancellation terms, deposit schedules and no attrition are just a few of the tips that AMI President, Todd Bludworth shares in this AMI Executive Update.
Meet AMI’s Typical Client, Tom & Marie, busy business professionals and they have a meeting to plan.
Whether you are an association, business or fortune 500 company, we have the relationships, experience, technology and resources to help you develop a successful meeting, incentive, conference or tradeshow strategy.
Virtual Meeting Types Explained, with AMI CEO Andy McNeill
How Can Various Types of Virtual Meetings Support Your Business?
Discover the key differences between Virtual Collaboration Webinars, Dedicated Virtual Webcasts, and Virtual Conferences and Tradeshows. The experts at American Meetings, Inc. are ready to walk you through these key platforms to present the best solution for you to deliver the best in virtual meeting experiences and guaranteed meeting success.