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Product
Prepare Your Presenters to Give Their Best Performances at Online Events
There’s no one way to host an event, whether that be in-person or in cyberspace. As such, there’s no one way to deliver a talk anymore, especially if…
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Product
Get Started with Live-Streaming for Online Events
Just as there are plenty of different ways to record video from the comfort of your home , so too are there plenty of ways to get started with…
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Industry
Virtual Event Engagement: 6 Steps to Help Nurture Your Community Online
Earlier this year we were joined by three community experts for one of our own virtual events, Admission Online. They shared their personal stories of…
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Industry
How Much are Organisers Charging for Virtual Events?
We’ve previously written about the different ways you can show value when selling tickets to your virtual events . What we didn’t cover however, was…
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Industry
Virtual Event Pricing: 6 Options to Try Out
Putting a price on your experiences was hard enough even before events had to pivot online. Nowadays, there are so many ways you can package and…
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Industry
Adapting Your Code of Conduct for Virtual Events
You might have seen that we’ve been running our first fully-virtual series for event organisers, Admission Online, on our new platform, Vito. We’re…
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Team
Admission Online: From Event to Show, A Recap
The third in our new event series, Admission Online: From Event to Show, featured three speakers, over 100 participants, and, somehow, a ukulele and a…
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Team
Announcing our Speakers for Admission Online: From Event to Show
On May 26th, we’ll be delighted to bring you the latest installment in our new event series, Admission Online. For this edition, Admission Online:…
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Team
Admission Online 2: A Recap and Details About Our Next Event
Thank you. It’s been remarkable to see how many people enjoyed our second Admission Online event. Today we wanted to share a little bit about it for…
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Team
Admission Online: A Recap & What’s Next
Hello. If you’ve been keeping track of some of the changes Team Tito’s been working on over the past number of weeks, you might have noticed that we…
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Product
How to Bring Your Tito Events Online
In response to the need to offer your attendees virtual events during the Coronacrisis, we wanted to pass on some tips for customers who still want to…
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Team
Announcing Vito and Our Own Virtual Conference
Embracing change is top of mind for us right now. Since the COVID-19 outbreak, the events industry has taken a seismic toll. However, responding to…
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Team
Answers to FAQs about the Tito Platform in Response to COVID-19
Today we wanted to share some guidelines around using Tito to facilitate changes to events that you’re running due to the effects of COVID-19. In this…
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Industry
Speaking of Speaking… [Podcast]
The people behind Dribbble , the website for discovering the world’s top designers and creatives, also host the Overtime podcast . One episode that…
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Industry
Women in Events: A Personal Account
There are plenty of accounts of what life is like for women in events. If you go looking, you’ll see the articles about how women in events make 22%…
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Industry
Experience Design Trends
Cramer has recently published an updated article outlining some compelling experience design trends the industry is adopting to exceed audience…
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Industry
The Sustainable Event Buyer’s Guide
In one of their latest articles, Event Industry News have put together a sample of suggested improvements that individuals in the sector can make to…
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Industry
The Average Event Manager Salary in 2020 [New Data]
By analysing some 5,000+ reports from individuals in the industry, we’re here today to share the average event manager salary in 2020. Below you’ll…
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Industry
Hitting ‘Pause’ to Take 10 Steps Forward
Learn Inbound is one of the most highly anticipated marketing conferences on offer in Ireland. However, in this post , the conference’s organiser,…
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Industry
Tito ❤︎ Phrase [Case Study]
We recently caught up with our friends at Phrase to share our experience using their all-in-one, web-based localisation platform. Our CEO, Paul ,…
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Industry
131 Stage Design Ideas for 2020
The start of the year is the perfect time to get inspired. However, as we all know, events are multi-faceted and demanding, so it can be hard to find…
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Industry
Why Event Planners Need to Know about Active and Passive Data Collection
It’s easy to think that sending out a post-event survey is enough to gather the data you need to know about how your event went. And while, yes, it…
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Industry
Tips for Great Survey Design
Audience feedback is one of the best ways to make sure that your events are continuously improving and delighting your audiences. However, not every…
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Industry
11 Events for Software Engineers in 2020
2020 is just around the corner. As such, we wanted to provide a last few event round-ups to give you the heads up on what’s on offer and where you…
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Industry
What Should Event Producers Ask Before Choosing a Venue?
Event organisers have a thousand questions rattling around their minds at any given time. Breaking it down a little, this article, originally posted…
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Industry
2019 Event Trends: How Did Our Predictions Hold Up?
I’ve always been skeptical of people who claim to be able to predict the future. That said, I’m a marketer, meaning I make a living by iterating on…
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Industry
Tips for Public Speaking – speaking.io
Zach Holman self-describes as someone who’s spoken at more technical conferences than anyone else on the planet, aside from those who’ve spoken at…
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Industry
4 Ways to Track Event Success Beyond Tickets Sold
Event success can simply mean that your event runs a profit. After all the work that goes into them, this is something that every organiser should of…
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Industry
Are You Ready to Host a User Conference? 5 Ways to Tell the Time Is Right
Writing for Entrepreneur, Don Mal, CEO of Vena Solutions has put together a pretty decent framework for potential organisers to tell if they, or…
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Industry
How to Work with Your Conference Speakers Effectively
Conference speakers are the backbone of every event. They provide the content, their names provide intrigue, and their profiles can help boost your…
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Industry
What I’ve Learned About Networking from 30 Years of Conferences
Finding a tip article like this that only provides ideas you’ve never thought of before is becoming a rarer and rarer occurrence, but here we are.…
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Industry
The 2020 Tech Festivals You Need to Know About
What’s better than getting together with a group of your peers to talk shop and make new connections? Doing it at a full-blown festival. There are…
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Industry
Twitter for Events: Advice from 2 Hosts & 13 Post Ideas
If you’re new to this series , we’ve spent the last few months discussing sales and marketing best practices with some of our favourite customers. One…
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Industry
What It Will Take to Improve Diversity at Conferences?
“ One study found 69% of professional speakers globally are male. However, less attention has been paid to how too many events also lack racial…
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Industry
Survey Sheds Light on Event Industry Food Waste
I love a free pastry as much as the next person, and I hate a wasted pastry as much as them too. All croissant tomfoolery aside, today we’re sharing a…
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Industry
9 Quality Events for Developers in 2020
2019 and the twenty-tens are both coming to a rapid close. As well as the lists of the Best Everythings of the Decade we can expect in the coming…
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Industry
Fear is Healthier than Ego: The Right Steps to Ensure Event Safety
“Only 53% of event planners actually have an emergency plan in place.” In an interview with Endless Events, Lori Pugh Marcum, manager of global…
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Industry
Simple Ways to Engage Your Target Audience for Events
As the first in a series we’ve been working on for some months for conference organisers, we thought a lot about what first step in their promotion…
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Industry
The State of Demographics in Call for Speakers in Tech in 2019
The transparency of JSConf EU is such that you simultaneously want to applaud everything they publish and send it to everyone else to tell them to do…
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Industry
7 UX Events in 2019 & 2020 You Should Know About
User experience is taken for granted by a lot of people until they notice that something is out of place, unexpected, or dysfunctional. For every…
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Industry
Gender Inclusive Tech Events: A hands-on how-to guide
“Some people are not women . We can agree on that, I think. And you want them to come to your events, work at your company, speak at your conference,…
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Industry
Introducing a Series on Sales & Marketing for Conferences
As of this sentence, I’ve begun writing my 261st blog post for Tito . Given my role here, that number has racked up quite quickly. That’s because I…
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Industry
MYWorld 2030 Event Industry Survey
Generally speaking, the MYWorld 2030 survey is a global citizen survey about global sustainable development goals. The aim is to bring people’s voices…
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Industry
4 Progressive Design Events to Get to Before 2019 Ends
There are so many reasons to attend events in your industry. From networking, to getting face time with experts who’ll be presenting, to broadening…
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Industry
Put participants first in conference design
“Picture this: it’s 7:30 a.m., and conference participants are barely awake. Coffee in hand, they blink sleep away as they enter the room. Rows of…
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Industry
20 Useful Resources for Building Accessible Events
Going to events isn’t as easy for some people as it is for others. Accessibility at conferences and events is something that’s finally getting some…
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Industry
Top 5 Corporate Event Trends for 2019
It’s pretty refreshing to find an article about trends that admits “not everyone thinks it’s wise to follow trends.” I’ll also sprinkle that pinch of…
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Industry
13 Sites to Source Quality Conference Guest Speakers
Sourcing conference guest speakers can be quite the challenge, especially if you’re trying to reach out to as diverse a pool of potential presenters…
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Industry
A Reparative List For Your Male-Dominated Design Conference
Male-dominated design events are not just exclusionary: they cannot properly represent the full scope and power of design through the people who work…
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Industry
Q&A: What The Rising Cost of Consumer Attention Means for Event Marketers
So much thought goes into events in their build up, and so much work goes into controlling all the spinning plates on the day that it can be hard for…
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Industry
5 Accessibility and Inclusion Events in 2019 & 2020
1) #culturecake Culture Cake is a non-profit conference due to take place on September 28th in Porto, Portugal. The organisers hope that it’ll provide…
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Industry
Event Engagement: How to Get Attendees Excited About Complex Concepts
“Event engagement” is the holy grail two word sentiment for most organisers. However, it comes with a few complications. For one, it’s a bit…
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Industry
10 Signs Event Planning is Burning You Out
There are a few tell-tale signs of burnout, but because event planning is known to be such a stressful profession, too often people in the industry…
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Industry
Things Experienced Speakers Wish They’d Known: Tips for First-Time Conference Speakers
I know this post is aimed at first time speakers, as was the original tweet that sparked the conversation behind it, but there are so many pearls of…
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Industry
6 Events for Business Owners in 2019 & 2020
Starting your own business and scaling that business are two of the most intimidating and rewarding activities you can get into in your professional…
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Product
PSD2 & SCA: Updates in Tito and a Brief Overview
Tito is currently working on an update to our checkout and will be rolling it out in advance of the 14th September SCA deadline. We’ll notify all…
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Industry
“Help! someone has pointed out my conference has diversity issues! How do I fix this?”
Ada Rose Cannon is a developer advocate at Samsung. She’s also co-chair of the W3C Immersive Web Working Group. Adding another string to that…
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Industry
eCommerce Events 2019: 5 Top Options to Boost Business
Even glancing at them, the numbers associated with the ecommerce industry are truly astounding. eCommerce sales are expected to account for 13.7% of…
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Industry
5 Tips to Turn Your Conference Talk into a Networking Opportunity
Preparing to stand on a stage to talk about yourself, your work, and the accomplishments you’re proud of is one of the most jarring professional…
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Industry
15 Simple yet Powerful Tips to Fix Your Q&A Session
Event organisers, in my experience, are exceptionally good at dealing with finer details. That might take the form of making sure the lights in a…
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Industry
Finance Conferences & Events: 7 Options for 2019
The world of finance is a dizzying world of change, and never more so than in 2019. One great opportunity for staying up to date with the…
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Industry
How to Transform Your Next Conference Takeaways into Real-Life Results
Information overload is really real. Conferences are a single day or couple of days that are designed to cram information (and those who crave it) in…
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Industry
Ultimate Checklist for Conference MCs
If you’ve been keeping up to date with the articles we’ve put out in the last few weeks, you might be familiar with a post I recently published about…
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Industry
7 AI Conferences That Should Be On Your Radar
Before we get into the AI conferences, it’s worth having a think about what AI means to us. Artificial intelligence has spent a long time as something…
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Industry
Event Names: Tactics, Tools, and Ideas Worth Stealing
Finding a great name begins by understanding what your event is about, what you’re trying to accomplish with this event, and why your event is…
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Industry
How Salesforce Got Its Developer Conference Right While Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, and Google Lost Their Way
In the tech conference circuit, the names WWDC, I/O, and F8 mean a lot, but do they mean as much as they used to? Writing for ZD Net, Bill Detwiler…
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Industry
2020 Design Events to Help You Get Ahead of the Game
It seems that, every year, new options pop up for designers to upskill and meet their peers. It can be hard to keep track of all of the choices, and…
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Industry
How Not to Treat Guest Speakers at Your Conferences
As I write this, I’m just off the stage after finishing a guest speaking slot at a conference that I enjoyed. I felt welcomed, had space, knew where I…
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Team
Developing Tito with Paul Campbell [Shop Talk Show Podcast]
If you’re not familiar with the Shop Talk Show , it’s an internet radio show, about the internet! This episode , from June 2019, features Tito…
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Industry
When You Feel the Pressure
In case you’re not familiar with Marc Thiele, he runs beyond tellerand , a conference that takes place at multiple times of the year, across multiple…
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Industry
Event Listing Sites: 12 (Decent) Places to Share Your Event
Please ignore anyone that gives you the advice that “No publicity is bad publicity.” Though you’ve probably come here based on the title, and though…
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Industry
How to Build an Inclusive Conference with Saron Yitbarek [Podcast]
In this, the 687th episode of The Hanselminutes Podcast (hosted by Scott Hanselman ) Saron Yitbarek shares what it takes to build a truly inclusive…
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Industry
TOA Berlin Satellite Events to Add to Your List
The TOA Berlin satellite events on offer this year embody the conference’s founding principal. That is, that tech now touches every aspect of the way…
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Industry
8 Areas to Work on If You Want to Create Inclusive Events
To my mind, there are two types of events. 1) Events that create a community and 2) events created by communities. I recently sat down with Vicky…
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Industry
More, more and more: How the events industry got it all wrong
More ticket options. More speakers. More keynotes. More panels. More technology. More social media accounts. More food. More drinks. Because more is…
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Industry
A Round-Up of the 2019 WWDC Satellite Events
At Tito, we’ve had the pleasure of working with some of the passionate experts behind some of the best WWDC satellite events around. They’ve shared…
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Industry
Eco-Friendly Freebies: 11 Ideas for Sustainable Swag
The promotional products industry is worth roughly $24B . It’s hard to estimate the amount of plastic, food, and general waste that comes specifically…
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Industry
Forget 2018, or Even 2019 – What Will Events Look Like in 2029?
Saying you can predict what’s going to happen in 10 years is, at best, sorcery, and at worst, a scam. Many outlets share their speculations about the…
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Industry
What Tech Events Want
In 2018, 20+ tech events were brought together in the same room by Startup Sesame at their annual kick-off. Their goal was to discuss the most…
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Industry
Tech Events Aren’t Fun Anymore
“ These developer conferences are still full of innovation, but that sense of experimentation — the risk factor, the ‘look what we just did’ — is…
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Industry
Event Video: Expert Tips & Stats on Pricing, Promo, and Production
Recently I got the chance to sit down with Anthony Allen, president of ACA Video . Anthony has over 15 years of experience in the multimedia world. He…
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Industry
Transitioning to Corporate Event Planning
Most people I’ve spoken to about getting started hosting conferences have said that they got there “by accident”. Here, Darren W. Johnson (founder of…
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Industry
7 Python Conference Options for Sssavvy Developers
I apologise for the snake joke but if I hadn’t included it, I risked showing a lack of backbone. Over the last 15 years, the popularity of Python has…
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Industry
Why Early-Stage Startups Should Sponsor Hackathons
Between product feedback and meeting with the community directly, Hackathons help developers and their sponsors alike. This is particularly effective…
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Product
How to Run Ticket Promotions Using Tito (And the Best Kinds to Use)
In an ideal world selling tickets is a very simple process. Decide a price, put the tickets on sale, and watch as hundreds of people buy them. Sure,…
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Industry
40 conferences a year with Sara Vieira
Sara Vieira is a developer advocate at YLD.io. As anyone who’s hosted, attended, or spoken at conferences professionally will tell you, conference…
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Industry
2019 JavaScript Conferences: 9 Top-Quality Options
With JavaScript, you can build memory games , dynamic data visualisations , and explosions , to name but a few use cases. A lot of these are the brain…
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Industry
TechBBQ is one of Copenhagen’s biggest tech events, and it really did start with meat on a grill
Ever been to a BBQ with 6,000 other people? Maybe, if you’ve been to TechBBQ , though it didn’t start out like that. In 2012, five Danish…
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Industry
12 of the Best Event Sponsorship Proposal Examples to Inspire Yours
According to EventMB , finding sponsors is the second biggest logistical challenge when it comes to organising events. Providing useful information as…
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Industry
The Top Conferences for Mac and iOS Professionals in 2019
Finding the right conference to go to can be hard. Even if you have a specialism, there are an overwhelming number of options on offer nowadays, and…
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Industry
5 Business Events for 2019 (That Aren’t Stuffy or Boring)
We’ve talked business events on this blog before, but we think it’s high time we shared an update. We’re 25% of the way through 2019 (?) and plenty…
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Industry
30 Different Productivity Tools Over 30 Days (With My Honest Opinions) | Week 4
For parts one, two, and three of this productivity tools list and their corresponding reviews, please see here , here , and here . If this is your…
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Industry
Podcast: CEO of Tito describes the fickle relationship between integrity and success
Event Industry News is is an online magazine that provides the latest news, views and reviews of the events industry. Recently, our CEO, Paul, spoke…
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Industry
A Global Events Industry Report from the International Live Events Association
Every once in a while event organisers, amid the hectic schedules their roles require, come together at events that focus on them for a change.…
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Industry
2020 Tech Events You Should Be Looking Into (Yes, We Know It’s Early)
It takes a long time to plan a tech conference, but it takes a long time to choose which tech events to attend, too. Conference organisers are…
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Industry
New Research: Men & Women Navigate B2B Exhibitions Differently
A distilled version of the C enter for Exhibition Industry Research Gender Differences and Similarities report was recently published by Kaylee…
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Industry
Testing 30 Productivity Tools in 30 Days | Week 3
For weeks one and two of this little experiment, you can go here and here respectively. As the headline or a previous installment of this series might…
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Industry
This Talk Sucks! Solutions for Improving the Quality of Talks at Conferences
Through a combination of survey results, industry experience and a no-bullshit approach to explaining problems and solutions, Sam Marsden recently…
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Industry
30 Different Productivity Tools for Event Organisers (Part 2)
If you missed last week’s post, you might like to know where this list came from. I spent 30 days trying 30 different productivity tools to give you…
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Industry
What exactly do developer advocates do?
We’ve previously spoken to a Developer Advocate (namely, Chloe Condon ) for this very blog. But, at that time, we wanted to hear what she had to say…
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Industry
I Tried 30 Different Productivity Tools for 30 Days So You Can Use the Best Ones
Event organisers will never have enough time. If there’s one universal fact I’ve learned across every conversation I’ve had with Tito customers, in…
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Industry
I helped host 40 coding events last year. Here’s what I learned.
Florin Nitu runs a freeCodeCamp in Brasov, Romania. At the time of his writing the post below, they’d just hosted their 40th event (and, as such, we’d…
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Industry
A 9-Part Competitive Analysis Framework for Event Organisers
One of the biggest wastes of energy in modern business is being jealous of your competitors’ success. In this post, I want to explore different ways…
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Industry
Using a Genetic Algorithm to Optimize Developer Conference Schedules
Everything about organizing an event is hard. Finding speakers, estimating attendance, securing a venue, scheduling , letting people know about the…
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Industry
Startup Events 2019: 7 Opportunities to Help Grow Your Business
Building a startup can be daunting, and the time founders spend on the responsibilities associated with that can make it hard for them to connect with…
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Industry
Admission 2018: Sandra Persing
As the penultimate speaker at Admission , we were very grateful to hear from the Global Strategist for Developer Outreach at Mozilla , Sandra Persing…
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Industry
4 Types of Video All Conferences Need
Will Curran from Endless Events is a fountain of knowledge when it comes to all things AV. As even more of a god-send, his specialty is (as the…
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Industry
Ruby Conferences 2019: 6 Quality Options for Rubyists & the Ruby-Curious
People call Ruby a beautiful, artful language and, with such high praise, it’s easy to see why its enthusiasts love to meet in person to discuss its…
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Industry
Running an Event for Technologists, as Illustrated Through 23 Gifs
It’s the last Wednesday in January and, for some folks, that means that they’re at the end of their most stressful 1/12th of the year. The world of…
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Industry
How to prepare and write a tech conference talk
Lena Reinhard likes raspberries, beautiful light, and good landscapes. She also loves public speaking and is an introvert. Though this might seem like…
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Industry
Cyber Security Conferences 2019: 5 Options to Help Reinforce Your Strategy
Cyber Security has been a topic of national, international and personal interest for some time now, meaning it’s no surprise that we’ve seen an…
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Industry
Admission 2018: Caitlin Teed
The electricity went out in the whole city at the conference Caitlin Teed was helping to host. There are few things more stressful than eager…
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Industry
The JSConf EU & CSSConf EU Finances
At Tito, we’re big fans of transparency. As probably the most sensitive subject when it comes to hosting events, a lot of organisers can find…
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Industry
Marketing Events 2019: New opportunities to unravel this year’s trends
It can be hard to keep up sometimes. Paradigm shifts like the transition from traditional marketing to online-first were easier. Nowadays, every day…
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Industry
15 Organizations That Sponsor Developer Events
The calendars of people in events are anything but average, but January remains a universal time to refocus, prioritise, and not panic. If you’re the…
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Industry
Favourite Tools of the Year, An Eventicons Podcast
Any podcast that’s been going for 145 episodes immediately sparks curiosity in me. Usually, if there’s that much of a commitment, there must be a…
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Industry
4 Events in January 2019 to Interest Even the Most Niche Technologist
New year, new ambitions, new people to meet, and places to see. Some people feel like January lasts as long as three months. Between the come-down…
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Industry
Admission 2018: Jane Kwett
You don’t need me to tell you that hosting events is a great way for companies to build a community, engage and delight it. Too often, when we get…
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Industry
The Best UX and Design Conferences in 2019 – The Definitive Guide
Getting the UX Collective newsletter to my inbox is one of my favourite parts of the week. Given the nature of UX and design, it’s inevitably pretty,…
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Industry
Developer Events in 2019: Some Options to Kickstart Your Year
After close to 40 different event round-ups this year, this will be the last of 2018. (Which I originally typed as “2019” so you know it’s getting…
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Industry
Admission 2018: Hugh Forrest
I was wondering recently about how long people stick it out on the events circuit. That is, organisers specifically. Don’t get me wrong, the thrill…
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Industry
Advent of Code
Yes, yes, yes, we’re 17 days into it, but Advent is here, and Christmas is nearly here. To mark the holiday, here’s an advent calendar full of short…
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Industry
Event FAQs: A 14-part run down of the most common questions
As the year comes to a close, I think we’re all a little tired. Committing yourself to a new task or project becomes so much harder as the daylight…
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Industry
This Is What Happened When Fear Showed Up At My Conference
This post won’t tell you how to sell out your tickets or get funding. Nor will it tell you how to mingle, or the jokes to tell to make strangers like…
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Industry
Our Most Popular Event Blog Posts of 2018
In 2018 we’ve posted 54% more blog posts than in 2017. However, we didn’t go into the planning and production process with a quantity goal in mind.…
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Industry
Admission 2018: Bryony Gomez-Palacio
When I first had a chance to get to know Bryony , I noticed a couple of things. One, she gets straight to the point. Two, anything she does, she does…
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Industry
Does Your Design Conference Suck?
Bonnie Abbot asks hard questions and gives honest answers. She’s organised conferences, attended them, and found both endeavours wanting, but also…
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Industry
5 Business Events Providing Networking & Growth Opportunities in 2019
When I think of business events, I hear the roar of coffee machines, see people exiting conversations by saying, “Sorry, I’ve got to take this,” and I…
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Industry
Sketchnotes for Beginners: My 1st Time & Tips for Being Better Than Me
I’ve not always been in events, but since I’ve been working at Tito , one of the notions that thrills me about the industry is the idea of creating a…
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Industry
42 Tips For Producing A Memorable Small Business Event
I’m always a little wary of business advice articles that promise quick wins or tips. I get more wary with each number the writer adds to the title,…
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Industry
5 Marketing Events that are Genuinely Worth Attending in 2019
Marketing changes pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you might miss an important SEO update. – Not Ferris Bueller Going…
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Industry
Admission 2018: Jessie Char
Events are wonderful places where you can experience your industry in a vibrant, multi-faceted way. Unfortunately, no one can attend every single one.…
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Industry
2019 Design Events: 7 Recommended Options to Suit Every Skill Set
The promise of design events, if you go looking for it, is often thought about in the same way. If you attend, you’ll get to be “inspired”, to…
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Industry
What High-Scale Startups Want From Trade Show Hosts – The Facts and Figures
Have you ever exercised in virtual reality? I have, but more in a watching-a-full-body-dumbbell-set-on-YouTube-while-eating-biscuits kind of way.…
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Industry
Let’s talk about harassment at events
CW: Harassment The post we’ve linked below refers to breaches of Code of Conduct at Learn Inbound and, in turn, references issues of harassment. Mark,…
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Industry
Conference Organiser’s Handbook
Upon finding this resource and deciding to share it on the Tito blog, I immediately Googled “German word for wishing you’d thought of it first.”…
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Industry
Learnings from Our First International Event Marketing Strategies
As Annie outlined in an earlier post on this blog, Admission became a smaller event than we’d originally planned, which became a success. For context,…
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Industry
Halloween and The History of How 9 Rituals Came to Be
Something that’s hard to understand can be frightening, but exploring what scares us often leads to our most rewarding discoveries. With that in mind,…
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Industry
3 of the Most Useful German Start Ups Event Organisers Should Know About
I recently had the fortune of winning a Women in Tech pass to Bits and Pretzels , a conference for founders held annually in Munich, Germany. One of…
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Industry
2019 International Conferences in the UK That Deserve Early Attention
There are a lot of eyes on the UK, and there’ll be even more in 2019. As I’m sure most of you will be aware, the (current) deadline for Brexit is…
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Industry
Let’s all cry at conferences
In a wonderfully honest portrayal of the high-octane emotional state we get in to when we come together at a conference and discuss all that goes into…
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Industry
What to Bring to a Conference (Or, what I forgot to pack. Twice.)
At the time of writing, I’ve been to two conferences in seven days. Therein I’ve had the pleasure of acting as both one of the hosts and one of the…
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Industry
Homeless Fundraisers: Why Painting Over the Problem Doesn’t Work
Space is the most lucrative commodity in Dublin. For those of you who are not familiar with property in Ireland’s capital, here are some statistics:…
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Industry
I Spoke With a Zero Waste Contributor to See How She Would Run a Conference
Béa Johnson is one of the most famous faces in the zero waste community. She’s come to public attention over the past few years because of a jar. In…
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I Attended an Oculus Conference in Virtual Reality, and All I Got Was Eyestrain
Could I get the same sense of excitement and social interaction that I’d normally get at one of these big tech events, without even having to go…
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Events for Women (That We’d Actually Enjoy Going to) | Oct/Nov ’18
It can be hard (and potentially ill-advised) to steer clear of all the bad news for women that’s out there. Furthermore, it can make it overwhelming…
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Admission 2018: Some Key Quotes from Our Speakers and a Thank You
In September, we hosted our inaugural conference, Admission , in Chicago. We wanted to bring together event organisers in the hope of sparking…
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Attending a Conference Checklist: 17 Insights to Help You Get Ready For Any Conference
We all forget something when we go to conferences. Usually it’s a charger, or contact lenses, or a pair of comfortable shoes for the return journey,…
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Event Management Advice from the Woman Leading Patreon’s Events
Jane Kwett is the senior event marketing manager for Patreon. You might recognise her name from our post detailing why we’ve decided to host a…
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Creating an Inclusive Tech Scene | 5 Questions with Kim Crayton
Kim Crayton is a personal inspiration of mine. She enables businesses to strategise towards growth by embracing inclusion in a meaningful manner that…
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You’re Networking Wrong
Networking is a lot like dating. If you were seeking a spouse, you wouldn’t go up to a stranger in a bar and ask “Will you marry me?” Instead, you’d…
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Explaining Our Conference Code of Conduct for Admission
You can view our full code of conduct for Admission here . The first conference I attended was a global marketing event in the USA. I was a new…
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On Design Conferences & Creating Fulfilling Experiences | Bryony Gomez-Palacio
Bryony is half of the team that founded Under Consideration and their design conference, Brand New. Both roles involve a lot of stakeholders, as you…
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Why Meetups Are Important | 5 Questions with Caitlin Teed
If you don’t know what Shopify is (!) it’s an e-commerce platform for retailers. And it’s very popular . Caitlin Teed is Shopify’s partner community…
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How to Build a Successful WWDC Conference | Jessie Char from Layers
Jessie is the co-founder of Layers , a three-day conference where people talk about design and technology. As a former Apple employee and current…
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Developer Conferences & How to Get Them Right | Sandra Persing
Sandra works (almost) all the time. She has three job titles, has created engagement programs for 18 million developers, and somehow made time to…
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What Are Conference Organizers Afraid of?
It’s disgraceful that someone should be made to feel unsafe at an industry event where they went to learn, or speak. But if that happens, why not just…
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Event Management Tips from a 30 Year Career | Hugh Forrest from SXSW
30 years is a long time. For context (and the thrill of making us feel ancient), here are just a few things that will be turning 30 this year: John…
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10 Tips for Planning a Tech Conference that Women Will Actually Want to Attend
A number of women from the Women Who Tech community feel like large startups admit there are diversity issues, but not enough action is being taken to…
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10 ways to prevent admin tasks from draining your creative energy
Though I don’t strictly agree with all of these, we’re more than halfway through the year, and almost all of us are past our summer holidays (if we…
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3 Quality Events for Startups (Autumn/Winter, 2018/19)
As a startup ourselves, we know how much decision making and research goes into keeping the business going and pushing it forward. As a startup that…
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The Easiest Way to Design Conference Badges That We’ve Found To-Date
We’ve previously written about what makes functional, beautiful design for conference badges , but now we want to share a new easy, practical way to…
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Unexpected Lessons from Unintentionally Starting a Business
Lauren and I often share what one might loosely call CEO-bro articles with one another: tone-deaf screeds on the profound personal joy of waking up at…
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Food Industry Events 2018/19 | A Taster Menu
At Tito, we work with a lot of developer conferences , design conferences, and community conferences, but that’s certainly not all we do. This week…
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Tito Becomes One of the First Companies to Join the New Stripe Partner Programme
We’ve <3’d Stripe for quite some time now, but today we’re beyond excited to announce that Tito is now a verified Stripe Partner. It’s always been an…
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Why Companies Should Pay for Their Employees to Attend Conferences
As a company, you should support your employees and pay for them to attend or speak at conferences not because you’re looking for a quid-pro-quo ROI.…
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If you build it, they will come | 3 Events for Developers
Long gone are the days of building products and services just for the sake of it. The markets that we all operate in are rife with competitors and…
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The Average Event Manager Salary Per Country in 2019
Do you think you make enough money? Does anyone ? (Note: This post was last updated for accuracy on April 24th, 2019) Society has evolved in a way…
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Welcome & Code of Conduct
At the beginning of 2018’s Brighton Ruby, during the introduction, I wanted to ‘get into’ what having a Code of Conduct means. I hadn’t seen anyone do…
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2018/19 Investment Events – A Round-Up
This week, 402 Democrats and Republicans passed 32 bills intended to make it cheaper and easier for small businesses and startups to access capital…
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3 Different Ways to Implement On-Page SEO for Events [Tutorial]
(If you’re new to SEO and want a crash course on where we’re getting all this from, you should refer to our Basic SEO for Event Pages post here.) I…
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Better Developer Conferences
Panels are almost always awful. “Let’s just go down the line and say a few words about ourselves” – and half an hour of everyone’s life is duly…
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How Business Events Can Aid Company Growth (With 3 Examples)
Growing a business is an inexact science. If we were to use a formula, it would look something like: Lots of money + uniqueness + talent + good timing…
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How Introverts Can Make the Most of Conferences
Many introverts are highly curious, and have a great love of learning. For every person you meet, tap into that character strength and think: “There’s…
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3 Community Event Organisers Working Towards Social Good
When we consider the benefits a conference coming to town could hold for us, we always think about it in terms of numbers: The number of dollars, or…
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Free, Effective Writing Resources for Event Organisers
Whether it’s an invitation, an email asking for more funding, or a recap article, events need content that people will actually read. That said, the…
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Fake It Til You Make It: Events That Over-Promised
Mondays are hard, so there’s no better time to read something on the lighthearted side. Brandwatch have compiled a gallery of some shambolic events…
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A Brief History of Pride: Lessons for the Modern Event Organiser
Tito HQ is in a city where it was illegal to be gay until the year this writer was born. So, as you’d imagine, Pride is a subject very close to our…
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How to run a good tech conference
tl;dr: fabulous team + great attendee experience. Matthew Skelton has orchestrated 5 PIPELINE conferences to date alongside his extraordinary team. In…
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3 Youth Conferences to Add to Your Agenda – A Round-Up
It seems that everyone has what I call “Abe Simpson” days: Those days where you feel your age catching up with you; you feel resentful about having to…
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100 Event Statistics (2018 Edition)
When planning corporate events, planners are most concerned about finding innovative ideas (81%), good venues (65%) and marketing their event…
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3 Conferences for Leaders – An Event Round-Up
First rule of leadership: everything is your fault. – A Bug’s Life Everyone has different opinions about what leadership means, but anyone in a…
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Basic SEO for Event Pages
Search engine optimisation (SEO) is one of the most contentious parts of digital marketing. People are often put off by SEO because of a few…
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Conference Blog Post Content: 20 Types You Can Steal
Team Tito has dipped into how to get more content from your conference experiences before, but it’s pretty rare that a listicle actually contains new…
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3 Developer Events to Attend in 2018
When we look at events generally, we tend to think of the same few reasons as to why we go to them. We either want to make new connections, learn new…
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What I Learned from 8 Years of Conference Badge Design
The Tito office is something of a hub for conference materials. Between the events we host ourselves, the publications we put out for organisers , and…
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30 Beautiful Business Card Designs
It’s Monday morning. Whether you’re one of those people who can hit the ground running and accomplish every task on your plate within seconds of your…
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3 of the Only GDPR Emails We Didn’t Delete (And 2 We Promptly Did)
Sometimes you have to crowd-source material, and sometimes doing that is the worst idea you’ll ever have. This post is a little of both. To begin…
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What I Learned About Going Viral After Writing Over 1,500 Blog Posts, Columns, and Content Pieces
I have had work published in every single major publication: TIME, Forbes, Fortune, The Huffington Post, Business Insider, Entrepreneur, Slate, The…
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2018 Events for Retailers – A Round-Up
Most people prefer in-store shopping in every product category except books, consumer electronics, and office supplies – Shopify’s 7 Scary Stats for…
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Why You Won’t Find Us On Third-Party Review Sites
“In my job, people try to sell me things.” – Everyone. Ever. The Aim As a business, if you provide a solution that aims to make people’s jobs easier —…
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Fixing transparency issues: Terms and conditions for normal people.
GDPR is cool. It lets you understand what you’re getting yourself into online, it lets you cull the noise in your inbox , and it gives you a hint of…
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Diversifying Events Without Tokenism: 3 Companies That Get it Right
In Europe only 14% of investment goes to female-led startups. There have been strides toward changing that figure, and many others including attempts…
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Meet the Team Saving Public Speakers Hours on Admin
74% of people are afraid of public speaking, but it seems the events industry hasn’t done much in recent times to help those that fear it, nor those…
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Three-day no-meeting schedule for engineers
Having so many meetings can fragment an engineer’s entire day, eliminating the stretches of uninterrupted time required to build software. Pinterest…
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The History of (and 3 Events for) Geeks
It seems that the interest in finding information about geeks is at an all-time low: Source: Google Trends For literal centuries, geeks were been…
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Two 5-Minute Ways to Decide if Event Technology Fits Your Needs
Functionality is a big word. The fact of the matter is, it can be nearly impossible to get the truth about whether or not a piece of event technology…
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You don’t understand your software engineers
It may seem like this is all we do: But it’s actually a bit more complex. Between discussing how much longer it takes to recover from distraction and…
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3 Ways Events Are Making Tech More Accessible
There’s been a lot of criticism across the industry, either saying that tech is falling short when it comes to helping under-represented minorities,…
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What I’ve learned after 2,700 conferences
All too often a conference or event is seen as being the end of a process, where, once complete, the organizers lower the promotional banners and tot…
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2019 Tech Events to Add to Your Agenda
The events space moves pretty fast, if you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. (Psst… we’ve got our 2020 edition ready for…
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The Many Hangovers from Alcohol at Community Events & How to Cure Them
Daisy Onubogu (pictured below) is head of community at Roam . She works with the several teams who organise events in their global locations,…
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My Curated List of AI and Machine Learning Resources from Around the Web
I’ve created sections below that contain: well-known researchers, AI organizations, video courses, bloggers, Medium writers, books, YouTube channels,…
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Meetups – A Round-Up
Anyone over the age of 20 will tell you that it gets harder as you get older to make friends. There’s any number of reasons for that. Perhaps it’s…
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3 Specific Reasons Why You Should Get an Event Planning Qualification
Candidates with a bachelor’s degree in meeting and event management, hospitality, or tourism management should have the best job opportunities. – The…
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Selfcare.tech
So often I see my fellow developers ignoring their basic needs for rest and refreshment. I started this site to provide a central location to find…
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Events for Good – A Round-Up
You might be lead to believe that running an event is pretty formulaic. Something, perhaps, like this: Start event Sell tickets ??? Profit & happiness…
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How I turned a rejected conference talk into 300K views on Medium and YouTube
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying failure is some magical thing that makes everything better. Failure and rejection are always unpleasant. It’s hard…
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3 London Tech Conferences to Attend in 2018/19 | A Round-Up
My three favourite facts about London (in no particular order) are these: More than half of the London Underground network runs above ground. It’s…
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Futuristic Events – A Round-Up
A lot of the time, when we try to predict the future, we get it wrong. I came across this collection of postcards from Public Domain Review recently…
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5 Innovative Ways to Optimise Your Event (Beyond the Ticket Price) | Lessons from Behavioural Scientists
In 2014, the IAA and Carr Communications were awarded ‘Best Event’ from the PRII for the IAA’s Flightfest where 150,000 people lined the streets of…
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5 Things We Learned About Starting a D&I Initiative at a Tech Startup
Casey Paxton is the Recruitment Branding Co-Op at Salsify I’ve been reading Brotopia recently, and so have been ravenously consuming information…
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Beautiful Event Homepages | A Three-Part Round-Up
You need to seek some tranquility when you’re at a busy start-up. Something I’ve learned since starting here is that that specifically is one of the…
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GDPR FAQ – What Conference Organisers Wanted to Know
Have you ever walked out of a presentation given by one of the smartest people you’ve ever seen, still feeling like an idiot? I have, so don’t be too…
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Leave the office on time and don’t take your work home
Here at Tito, we’re big fans of being ourselves. Doc put it really well when we re-launched this blog last year. In this featured post by Darius…
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St. Patrick’s Day in Ireland: Your Questions Answered
There are two types of people on St. Patrick’s Day in Ireland: Those who embrace it. And those who fear it. As an Irish company , I thought we ought…
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Web Design Events – A Round-Up
Whether you learned how to generate a banner for your personal blog in GIMP in 2007 or you’re trying to develop your start-up’s first landing page, or…
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5 Reasons Why Women Aren’t Applying to Speak at Your Conference
We’ve spoken to the inimitable Chloe Condon before . She’s an actress turned coding evangelist. Here, she wrote for Go Jane Go about her experiences…
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Canadian Events for Spring 2018
Canada has more lakes than anywhere else, better air than anywhere else, and more Michael Cera birthplaces than anywhere else. It is with a happy…
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Innovative Tech For Events And How One Company Made a Business of It
It’s easy to resist change sometimes. For so long I rolled my eyes when I thought of interactive technologies. Because a lot of them seemed to come on…
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8 Questions to Ask Someone Other Than “What Do You Do?”
Assuming you’re already at a work-related networking event or meeting another person in a work context, the question quickly sets a boundary around…
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Events About Innovation (Or Why We Can Have Nice Things)
We’re snowed in at the moment. I for one am glad that the majority of people in Ireland have seen sense, Paul and Doc included, and let their…
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Things I Learned From Attending my First Hackathon
“Listen, getting to the hackathon is better than not going at all, but forcing yourself out of your comfort zone that much further is going to provide…
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Must-Attend Code Conferences: Back to BASICs
I didn’t just want to use this as an excuse to squeeze as many programming puns in as possible. I swear. That said… you better wake up and smell the…
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4 of the Best GDPR Status Pages: Copy & Design
If your birthday’s on the 25th of May, a lot of people are going to ignore you. It’s D-Day for GDPR , and every single business that trades in the EU…
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The 25 Best Icebreaker Questions for Team-Building at Work
However reluctantly, you may have realized that you need to break the ice. I’ve always seen similarities between joining a new team and walking into a…
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GDPR Compliance and Information Security – Some Events to Help
It’s Friday afternoon, do you know where your leads are? *shines light in eyes* Where’d you get them? Who sent you? How long have you had them for?…
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Suggestions and Tips for Attending Your First Tech Conference
Twitter is a marvellous thing sometimes. In a 30+ strong thread, Scott has assembled a post full of advice for those fresh to the conference scene.
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3 Inspiring Events Celebrating Women this Spring – A Round-Up
“Well, I guess you don’t know everything about women yet.” – Princess Leia International Women’s Day takes place on March 8th every year. (Admittedly,…
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When a Code of Conduct Becomes Harmful
It’s necessary we do better than this, especially implementing approaches with quantifiable results that can be tracked over the years. I’ve been…
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Events for Inbound Marketers – A Round-Up
The interesting thing about being a marketer is that we work halfway between the scientific method and the creative process. We target our campaigns…
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The Emoji Report
On average 250 million emojis are posted online each month. The month with the highest volume of emoji use was in July 2016, seeing 293 million. This…
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Personal Development Goals for 2018 – 3 Events For Inspiration
January’s coming to a close and, whether you’re still writing “2017” on your to-do lists, or you’re at the point of successfully completing…
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Ten Lessons Learned from Organizing Diversity-Focused Events
In order to create an event with diverse speakers and attendees, you need to push outside your comfort zone, ask a lot of questions, and fail a lot of…
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A Feel Good Event Round Up
I had a fruit cup for breakfast. I haven’t drank alcohol in 18 days (not in a dependency-back-pat kind of way; I’m doing Dry January ). And, I’m not…
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4 Ways to Create Online Content from Offline Events
Sure, it’s easy to benefit from an event when you actually attend it. But you can make sure your entire community learns from it. You just have to…
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Turning Over a New Leaf: A January Event Round Up
The sentiment of turning over a new leaf as the new year begins is one that can be seen as twee and fake. If you join a gym, you’re mocked because you…
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Javascript is For Girls
The bearded savant of computer science lore was the result of the field’s professionalization and increasing prestige. Logic , “a magazine about…
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Projections for 2018 Event Trends
All I Want for Christmas is You isn’t my favourite, but it did give me an idea. As the year comes to a close, projects wind down, and research and…
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New-Age Nick Cage Networking: A Futuristic Event Round-Up
Art is the juxtaposition of a lot of things that seem unrelated by add up to something recognizable. – Pat Metheny We’ve written just over four…
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What You Need to Know About Invisible Disabilities at Events
I would say that in general it is challenging to ask for accommodation because people automatically assume I am being “difficult” or “entitled” to…
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How Going to Coding Events Got Me An Awesome Job
Soon I knew most of the people at every event I attended, and something amazing started to happen… From introversion to code bros, and from “Hi”s to…
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She’ll Be Right: An Australian Event Round-Up
Remember when American TV shows used to make reference to going straight through to China when a character is digging? Or maybe just this specific…
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How Successful Do You Have to Be Before Imposter Syndrome Goes Away?
I’m scared of you. I’m scared that there’s a conversation going on about how my writing is purposeless, and that what I’m saying has been said 1000…
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Get Past Personas
Instead, Oli spoke about the need to “mend trends”, and make design decisions based on data, rather than the most popular trend at the time. The story…
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Art, Altitude, and An Active Lifestyle – The Tito Event Round-Up
It’s cold. And, while I’m breaking a rule of thumb by opening with the weather, I wanted to take a peep to see past the greyscale sky that’s been…
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Breaking into Coding from a Non-Traditional Background
The notion of the “traditional” career path is dead. If you’ve been following us for a while, you’ll know that my beginnings were as a telemarketer .…
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Best Practices for Public Speaking in Design Conferences and Events
Fear is also part of the journey, it is what is going to make you stronger. Enjoy it. Embrace it. This is one of the greatest moments of your life and…
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The Gift of Giving – An Event Round Up
Every December, I host a tree-trimming party. I serve chili with cornbread and lots of good wine. It’s a wonderful party, and it shows how much adults…
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How This Anxious Introvert Handles Large Events
Introversion isn’t shyness and it’s not a like or dislike of people generally. For example, I really enjoy public speaking. Introversion is…
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The Most Inspiring Event Round Up (probably)
Each Friday on the Tito blog , we showcase some 3(-ish) notable customers. Below, I’ve picked some events run by those customers , all of which are…
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How to Teach Girls to Code (and Deal with Brogrammers)
“I never thought of computer science as a job opportunity in the future,” says Ali, “but after this program, boy, has that changed.” After the…
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A Highly Creative Event Round-Up
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. – Scott Adams This week on Tito, I wanted to dig into some of the…
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Inspiring Women in Tech, Their Resumés and What You Can Learn From Them
It’s annoying when people use superlatives to make what they write sound better. In fact, it’s the worst. I don’t want to talk about today’s Most…
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Take off your name badge!
Ditching your name tag is a subtle cue that you’re a bit different from everyone in the audience – you’re just that little bit special. This is a…
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Christmas Event Round-Up – Too Soon?
I was buying food for dinner yesterday when I saw a Jack-o’-lantern helium balloon stuck to the shop ceiling, over a Christmas tree. It takes a few…
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The Importance of Well-Designed Events
But different doesn’t necessarily mean better. Being different is more memorable, but you need to be positively remembered for standing out from the…
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The Three Things I’ve Learned From Eighteen Years of Public Speaking
“Right around the same time I was learning facts about Killer Whales (top speed — 65 km/h), I remember hearing about a study that ranked people’s…
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There’s No Such Thing As a Free Event Round-Up
I always thought the phrase “there’s no such thing as a free lunch” came off as unappreciative. I understand the sentiment that you’ll always have to…
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The Business Case for Diversity & How One Conference is Making it Happen
From All Male Panels to the now infamous Google Memo to speakers boycotting events , diversity has come to the fore of the minds of those in business…
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How Very European! – Event Round-Up
In the villages in Europe, there are still healers who tell stories. – Yannick Noah Even though it’s the smallest continent, Europe manages to fit a…
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Prompt: Continuing the Mental Health Conversation
F or some reason, we often stigmatize having issues with our brains. People in tech don’t want to admit there are issues being ignored. Prompt is part…
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Who Will Market to Marketing? – Event Round-Up
This week on Tito, I wanted to feature some conferences that are particularly close to my heart and, by proxy, my career: the events that are made…
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Are Conferences The Future Of Work?
The workplace should be carefully designed to offer social exchange, interactive drama and debate, intellectual and emotional stimulation, wow and aha…
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Wigs, Women, and Workshops – The Event Round-Up
Wigstock was a New York-based festival for Drag Queens in the 1990s. This was at the height of RuPaul’s gender-bending music career which made way for…
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4 Simple Steps To Enjoying (& Being Good At) Networking
To a majority of participants, networking events make them feel vulnerable and insecure, so schmoozing or putting up a front is an easy reaction.…
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It’s Really Very Simple: The Tito Event Round-Up
The more complex the mind, the greater the need for the simplicity of play. – Captain Jim Kirk, Star Trek: The Original Series As my previous efforts…
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3 Ways to See the Value of Events Even if They Didn’t Help You Sell
Matthieu Gauthier is the Head of Marketing at Mention , a French HQ’d organization that aims to help those in events and beyond to monitor how their…
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6 Steps to Avoid Internet Overload at Your Event
Our total bandwidth estimate for the first three hours of an event with an expected 20,000 people in attendance is now 400Gb per hour. This will not…
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A Funny, Little, Weekly Event Round-Up
Babies laugh, on average, 400 times a day; people over 35, only 15. – Alison Beard for Harvard Business Review For me, the end of the week is usually…
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How we spent $35K in 4 hours. Should startups invest in events?
The total cost of the event was $35K, which, for a startup, is a lot of money (that’s nearly the salary for a newbie fresh out of university). But for…
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A Very Irish Event Round Up
I went to Poland last week and discovered that they really like cabbage and building chandeliers out of salt. Unfortunately, on the first day of my…
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Things I’ve learnt so far from speaking at conferences
Silence and a well-timed pause is a very powerful thing. It also adds rhythm. Think about your presentation having a good narrative arc. Like a film.…
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The Three Birds of Ticket Sales – Event Round-Up
We at Tito are in the business of helping events sell tickets. If you’ve ever been at an event (which surely you must have) you’ll know that those…
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5 Organizations that Sponsor Design Events
Sales was a big part of my life for quite some time. The biggest draw for me was the ability to learn how people made decisions and how those…
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Compassion, Co-Operation, and Cable Cars – The Tito Event Round Up
Every week, we round up three of the most interesting events on Tito to share with our readers whether they want to attend, support or get inspired by…
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What Our Conference Sponsorship and 0% ROI Taught Me About Marketing
Instead, our goal was awareness, partnerships and networking. Despite what the marketing experts will tell you, you can’t measure any of these. Sure,…
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Leaders, Learners, and Legends – An Event Round-Up
At Tito, our customers are the life and soul of everything we do . As a result, we want to spend a little time each week showcasing everything that…
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Event Sponsorship, From Both Sides
Amy Crimmens is the Community Manager for Red Badger; a digital consultancy that’s heavily involved with the tech community in east London and beyond.…
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6 Potential Tools for Getting Sponsorship This Year
You may remember me from such posts as “ How I Got Sponsorship for the First Time ” If you don’t, let me catch you up. Things have changed since my…
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Lego, Leadership, and Zombies – An Event Round-Up
We help events sell tickets. And there are as many types of events out there as there are ways to say hello , so it’s worthwhile to occassionally step…
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How I Got Sponsorship for The First Time
My first sponsorship experience was five years ago when I was landed with the task of funding a debating society for a year. In the spirit of jumping…
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What I Have Learned from Running My First Conference
I had unrealistic expectations in October 2016, when I decided that Cork deserved it’s own marketing conference. I was going to have 1000 people…
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Marketing Has to Get Better
A Bit of Background I was a telemarketer. I used to call Americans to ask them if they wanted white papers from tech hardware companies, and if they’d…
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Why We Care About Sponsorship
It’s with pleasure that I tell you what our first theme for the revamped Tito blog is going to be: Sponsorship. Why We Chose Sponsorship We surveyed…