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Event Contracts: Agree to Be Agreeable

SmartMeetings

Negotiation experts share tips for building win-win event contracts The ROI is in the details when drafting a vendor contract. A win-win contract allows everyone to feel that their biggest risks are covered and they can partner in good faith to execute confidently while working creatively to deliver the best event possible.

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Renegotiating Live Event Agreements When All Parties Are Innocent Victims

Velvet Chainsaw

The previous low for occupancy was during the financial crisis in 2009 when occupancy was 55 percent. However, from past experience, any time that there has been a shift from a seller’s to a buyer’s market, those contracts signed during a seller’s market just flat out had to be updated. Remove Barriers.

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The QEII Centre strengthens leadership team with two new female directors

Prestige Events Magazine

Leading London events venue, The QEII Centre , has strengthened its director team with the appointment of Elena Gurgul as Sales and Marketing Director and EeLain Ong as Finance Director. New Finance Director EeLain Ong has worked across multiple sectors throughout her 28-year career in financial services.

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Event Planning Has Risen in the Ranks of Most Stressful Jobs

Velvet Chainsaw

This perfect storm significantly threatens the sustainability of associations and adds tremendous pressure to those who are organizing events to find ways to improve their financial performance. Shifting marketing budgets. Event planners should consider asking key suppliers to add a Service Level Agreement (SLA) to their contract.

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Budget Financial Meetings: Doing More with Less

SmartMeetings

Meetings in the financial and insurance sector require outside-the-box thinking. The economy was humming along before the coronavirus hit, but even then the majority of meeting planners in the financial and insurance industries were keeping their budgets in neutral. Financial and insurance meetings in the U.S.

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7 Considerations: Financial and Insurance Planners Plot the Return to Productive Meetings

SmartMeetings

The financial and insurance industry is based on relationships, and the more you can engage your clients, the more you can strengthen the relationship. Alternative plans covered in the contract also need to include the possibility that a group may outgrow a venue if social-distancing guidelines make the space unworkable.

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Moving Your Meeting Amid Rising Reproductive Rights Concerns

PCMA Convene

Like many associations, SMFM signs contracts with its host destinations years in advance. Gerard, CMP, chief program officer, meetings, membership, and marketing at SMFM. That clause allowed SMFM to exit a contract up to two years prior to the meeting date if the state passed a law banning abortion pre-viability. Gerard said.

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