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Certified Meeting Professional (CMP) Grad Spotlight: February 2023

Certified Meeting Professional (CMP) Grad Spotlight: February 2023
Gabriella Peterson, CMPResearch Project Manager, RENCI How has being a CMP helped you? I got my CMP certification right before I transitioned to a...

Keeping Events Relevant through a Recession

Keeping Events Relevant through a Recession
Keeping Events Relevant Whilst on the Brink of a Recession It’s no secret that the current economic climate is unsettling. Companies are laying of...

Certified Meeting Professional (CMP) Grad Spotlight: January 2023

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Caryn Kocel CMP, CIS, CTA Independent Global Travel Director and Program Manager How has being a CMP helped you? Earning my CMP designation has al...

Choosing the Right Event Ticketing Software

Choosing the Right Event Ticketing Software
As an event planning professional, you work tirelessly to organize and engaging and seamless events. The last thing you’d want to have happen is to...

Certified Meeting Professional (CMP) Grad Spotlight: December 2022

Certified Meeting Professional (CMP) Grad Spotlight: December 2022
Caitlin Ryan, CMP, Event Manager at HarbourVest Partners How has being a CMP helped you? The CMP has given me confidence and the ability to feel r...

Top Event Success Metrics for 2023

Top Event Success Metrics for 2023
It would be an understatement to say that the events industry has been thrown for a loop over the past few years. Moving into 2023, the world is ac...

Certified Meeting Professional (CMP) Grad Spotlight: November 2022

Certified Meeting Professional (CMP) Grad Spotlight: November 2022
Erika Summers, Chief Events Officer, Erika Summers Events, Chicago & LA How has being a CMP helped you? I had a successful career in corporate...

Certified Meeting Professional (CMP) Grad Spotlight: October 2022

Certified Meeting Professional (CMP) Grad Spotlight: October 2022
Sandra Dagovic, Event Producer at Bond Brand Loyalty How has being a CMP helped you? Being a CMP brings a level of credibility to my conversations...

Thinking Outside the Box: Alternative Spaces for Events

Thinking Outside the Box: Alternative Spaces for Events
An event cannot happen without attendees and a place for them to gather. After being confined to the same spaces for over a year during the pandemi...

Planning a F2F Corporate Holiday Party Post-Pandemic

Planning a F2F Corporate Holiday Party Post-Pandemic
Planning a F2F Corporate Holiday Party Post-Pandemic For many of us, it’s been at least two years since we have attended (let alone, planned) a phy...

Certified Meeting Professional (CMP) Grad Spotlight

Certified Meeting Professional (CMP) Grad Spotlight
 How has being a CMP helped you? While it is still early in the accreditation, the immediate benefits I have seen have been the additional networks...

Gaining ROI in your virtual events in 2022

Gaining ROI in your virtual events in 2022
Once events went virtual in 2020, the entire industry was forever changed. Though we are all eager to get back to as many in-person events as possi...