The Bullet List Show

We talk with Ben Gutkovich of Superlinked, a privacy-first social recommendation engine. We discover how to make your event app irresistibly relevant and the best way to understand your users and give them exactly what they want.

We also discuss how virtual events are losing the competition for attendee attention with low attendance and even lower engagement. It's negatively impacting sponsor satisfaction and revenues. No wonder event planners are excited about the return of IRL events!

Where do you start when it comes to great movie soundtracks? There are just so many movies that you watch over and over just for the music! In this episode of the Meeting Planner Music Club, we are joined by our regular guest Stuart Mitchel of Catch The Mice. We share our top pics, memories and more.

Our choices include...

🎶 Charlie's Angels

The live recording of this episode can be found on our YouTube channel. 

The big news from the last week or so is that Elon Musk has bought Twitter. There is still plenty of speculation on what he's going to do. There are plans for layoffs, changes to the verification blue tick pricing and a proposal to allow the return of banned users. There is also talk that Vine, which was discontinued in 2016, may come back and be integrated in to the Twitter app.

The question we discuss is, how will this affect event industry marketing?

I'm sure you have your own opinions on Elon Musk and the plans he has for Twitter, so join us on our Facebook group and tell us what you think.

Podcasts are the topic for this episode of The Bullet List Show podcast. We chat about the things that event industry podcasters are getting right, and what they seem to be getting wrong. We’ve noticed a lot of good and bad things while we were building our latest project – Phizzpod. The event industry’s only site that aggregates podcasts.

There are plenty of things that are being done right. For example, when it comes to a podcasts's home page on the site they are using to host their episodes…

✔ Links to the associated website

✔ Social Media Links

✔ Show notes that are to the point and encourage listening.

We had a lot to say about podcasts, I bet you do too! Let us know what you think in our Facebook Group.

Twitter is an important and pervasive social network. It has proved to be an essential tool for event and meeting planners. However, there are things you need to do to get the best out of it. In this episode, originally recorded as part of our 31 days of August, Keith and I share some top tips that you really need to know.

We also mention tools like Canva, Buffer and the image resource site Pixabay. Great resources that can help your tweets get more interest when it comes to using images.

We have not been sponsored for any tools or resources mentioned, all recommendations are based on our experiences and personal preferences.

If your association or conference doesn't have an associated podcast, then it's about time it did! In this episode, originally recorded as part of our 31 Days Of August Challenge, we talk with Mike McAllen of Podcasting 4 Associations. We discuss podcasting and how it can help associations reach their members and even generate new revenue streams.

Wordpress lets you get a website up and running in no time at all. With the right plugins, you can create an event registration system that suits your needs. In this podcast episode, we highlight our favourite plugins that let you get the job done. We also discuss GDPR requirements, whether SEO is really important and who should be looking after the website.

The Wordpress plugins mentioned include,

Don’t forget to come and visit us in our Facebook group, where you can share your thoughts on on this episode

When it comes to publishing your website content for events, conferences and meetings, which platform will you choose? In this episode we chat about Wordpress and why you should consider it for your website. There are plenty of advantages, not just because 43.2% of all websites on the internet use it or that it's a free download. There's more to it than that.

Here's three amazing statistics that we mention in this episode...

In Episode 22, we talked with Laura Jelinek and Francesca Rodriguez Balit about accessibility for venues and websites. In this episode, we continue to explore accessibility but this time we take a look at virtual events. Helping us to examine this important topic is  returning guest Stas Zaslavsky of Vii Events.

The points discussed include,

One very interesting item that is brought up during our conversation, is how the law in Israel forces companies to ensure accessibility needs are met. Could be a model that the rest of the world should follow...

We’ve been thinking about going live on Facebook for quite some time. But what would we talk about and how would it fit it to our normal  episodes? After much thought, discussion and a little bit of planning, we did a test.

On Thursday 31st May, went live to our Facebook group just to see what it takes when using a third party platform. In our test we used Restream, which makes this sort of thing fairly easy. The test went very well, so well that while we were there, we recorded an episode!