-Contributed by Charu Gupta, Knowledge Buddy
The 1st World SME Conference organized by Milagrow was a huge success and went off very well. I was a part of delegate registration team where we approached various Associations, Banks, Retail and IT Companies specifically dealing in SME sector who could participate as delegates and gain from the conference. The Mumbai blasts tragedy had just struck the whole country few days before the conference but that too didn't deterred us and also our participants and we saw massive participation from the industry and the event was attended by more than 250 delegates.
The task of delegate registration was started in the last week of October which was a little late but still we managed to get pretty good response. We tied up with various prominent associations and portals which helped us to create the buzz and seek active participation for our conference. The whole delegate registration process involved getting the delegates, making follow-up calls to prospective delegates, receiving the payments of confirmed ones and sending them invoice and an acknowledgment mail immediately, sending the reminders to those whose payments were due, sending final mail informing about the venue, timings and the final schedule to all the delegates and also meanwhile maintaining a complete excel sheet of the same.
On the day of the conference the delegates were received at the registration desk where we had prior segregated list for press, special guests, paid delegates and delegates from sponsors and partners. The names were cross checked and the delegates were handed over the delegate kit and the schedule of the conference. On the second day, the names were again cross-checked to avoid any chaos.
