Event Industry Trends, Strategies, & Tips
7 Tips for Attending a Conference Alone (And Having a Good Time)
These tips will give you the confidence and positive mindset for attending conferences alone. After all, you can still have a good time and build more connections!
5 Use Cases of Live Polling to Understand More and Engage Better
Live polling helps you capture event attendees’ instant feedback in a way that is engaging and interactive! Find the 5 benefits and use cases of live polling provided by Whova.
Hassle-Free Event Check-in with Whova Event Management System
We’ve released an exciting new service: an easy-to-use Event Check-in feature in the Whova Event Management System that makes check-in quick and hassle-free!
7 Innovative Event Sponsorship Proposal Secrets for Remarkable Results
Event sponsorship is a win-win for everyone. We summarize 7 useful tips to create an effective proposal for your potential sponsors, and help with the lasting relationship.
How to help attendees share information with one another (e.g. ride sharing)?
We had attendees who flight from various countries and cities and we wanted to help them interact with one another to prepare for their trips. Fortunately, without needing a complicated arrangement and help from our organizers side, our attendees could find the best way to do so through the Whova app. Whova had a public […]
How to engage attendees to make Q&A time more active and effective?
At my previous events, I was a moderator of multiple sessions. Sometimes the discussion was not very active during the Q&A session partly because it was a big session. Some other times, we had a lot of questions but we couldn’t use the limited time effectively by selecting good questions – we didn’t know what […]
Dealing with Lost&Found
One attendee told our volunteer that there was a bag under a table in the dining hall. We thought someone may have forgotten it there. Since the attendees are all spread into different rooms for their sessions, it’s hard to find the person. So we tried to send an announcement in the Whova app. Also, […]
How to help exhibitors with lead generation?
Our event had an 1 full day for exhibition. To maximize our exhibitors’ benefit and keep them coming back in the future, one major taskfor us is to help drive more traffic to their booths and ease their leads generation. We ended up utilizing several features to achieve this. 1) We used the exhibitor profile, […]
How to collect more surveys
I used to use a web-based survey and found that it was not effective to collect many feedback. Not many people were willing to open the laptop to do it during an event, and after an event, their mind seemed already moved on to something else. This time, we did a survey through Whova. We […]
Whova has received the MetroConnect award!
We’re pleased to announce that Whova is a winner of the MetroConnect Prize! With this program, Whova will further accelerate its global reach and provide better service to out international customers.
All-in-one Event Management
Whova’s new EMS update brings event registration to your dashboard. From now on, you can manage all you need in one place. Read more for details.
10 Ultimate Event Promotion Lessons You Need to Know to Spotlight Sponsors
We’ve compiled our favorite lessons that keep event sponsors happy. Use them to steward your relationships with the sponsors and get them for future events.
New on Your Organizer Dashboard: Renovated Event Reports
We’re excited to reveal our latest release to the Whova Organizer Dashboard! We’re always looking for new ways to bring more life to your dashboard and this time, we made some great enhancements to event reports, giving them upgraded visuals, clarity, and...
The Ultimate Guide to Creating & Using #EventHashtags to Boost Engagement
Hashtags help users find the content they’re looking for easily. This blog provides hints on how to effectively utilize hashtags for your events.
10 Unique and Innovative Giveaways You Can Consider for Your Next Event
Giveaways are an important component of a successful event. How to make your giveaways stand out without costing a fortune? Check some new ideas here.
How to Build an Event that Encourages Awesome Sponsor Engagement
After getting a sponsor, another critical task is to encourage more engagement for them, thus giving them more values. We share some tips on this.
9 Tips to Get the Most Out of Your Mobile Event App
How to maximize the benefits of using a mobile event app for your events? 9 tips and simple actionable items to make your event shine with the app!
Constantly Growing and Inspiring, Whova is Referred by Forbes
Whova has been growing rapidly. We are proud to be inspiring more and more #eventprofs from many ways, including from top medias such as Forbes.
3 Certifications That Help Elevate Event Planning Careers
Many different event planning certificate programs are in the market. We summariezed and compared some, and hope it could help choose the one for you.
Increase Your Event Ticket Sales With These 10 Simple Strategies
Got an upcoming event? If so, ticket sales are probably top of mind. Check out this article for a list of simple strategies to increase ticket sales.
Another Upgrade to Your Organizer Dashboard: Quick & Easy Agenda Importing!
We’ve made it so that not only attendee list importing is a breeze, but agenda importing too!
New on Your Organizer Dashboard: Make Attendee List Uploading A Breeze!
It’s that time again where we enhance the Whova Event Organizer Dashboard to make it even better, faster, stronger.
Whova App’s Latest Advancement: A Whole New Level of Messaging
We’ve taken Whova messaging to the next level so that you can rejoice in meaningful and effective communication.
10 Effective Tactics to Increase Event App Adoption (Download Rate & Usage)
Generating downloads and driving usage can be a challenge. These ten tips will help get your app promotions on track fast.
Networking for #EventProfs: 6 Ways to Connect with Other Event Planners in Your Area and on Social Media
Looking to network with other fellow #EventProfs? Check this out.
Introducing Documents (and More Awesome Upgrades)!
We’ve given you the power of file uploading, plus our Whova mobile app has new features and greater capabilities!
An Unprecedented Event Experience from Whova (Upgraded Organizer Dashboard + Renewed Mobile App)
Today we have good news for you…
6 Ways to Measure the Success of Your Event
Have some way of gauging event success to make the next one even better.
5 Things #EventProfs Can Do to Relax after The Event is Over
So your event is over and they’ve finally stacked the chairs … now what? Relax!
9 Proven Tactics Using Facebook to Promote Your Event
Learn how to use Facebook to promote your event with these tactics.
Event Sponsorship: 5 Actionable Tips to Get More Sponsors
Want to attract more sponsors to your events? Check out this article!
We Are Featured on The Front Page of San Diego Business Journal
Being mentioned and appreciated on the Internet is great, but being featured in the newspaper makes us feel even better.
Working against The Clock to Organize a Conference
Been tasked with organizing a conference and time is ebbing away? No worry!
Top Business Conferences in LA You Won’t Want to Miss in 2015
Looking to expand your business network? Here is a list of the conferences/events in LA we hand picked for business professionals to attend. Enjoy!
How to Expand & Keep Your Network with Whova Event App
Take your real-time engagement to the next level and network smoothly with the Whova app before, during and after conferences.
3 Event Planning Secrets You Can Steal from #EmTechDigital 2015’s Success
what we can learn from the strategies that made EmTechDigital a success
Announcing the Business Card Scanning Feature in Whova App
We are thrilled to announce the Business Card Scanner. Connecting with others just became a whole lot easier.
6 Reasons to Re-Think Building your Own Event App
Should you build your own event app? To be blunt: no. Not unless you have a dedicated app development team.
4 Ways to Attract and Keep the Right Event Volunteers
What percentage of your team consisted of volunteers? We’re willing to bet that percentage is pretty high.
How to Use Events to Advance your Career
You can leverage events to expand your network and showcase your skills and knowledge in many different ways.