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Olympics Crisis and Hotels’ Pain Provide Event Contract Lessons

MeetingsNet

Understanding things like event-insurance fine print and which areas of operation hotels get group revenue from will help planners become better at contracting and negotiating. With the Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo postponed to 2021 , some of the biggest insurance firms in the world are breathing an enormous sigh of relief.

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Creative Methods to Generate More Revenue for Your Next Conference

Smart Meetings

While sponsorships have been prevalent for a long time, further information about the popularity of digital and print options might surprise you. Also, 83% of exhibitors have purchased at least one sponsorship from 2017-19. Provide exclusive or a finite number of sponsorship opportunities. Sell refund protection.

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Solving for Pricing, Sponsorships, and Skills Challenges When Going Digital

PCMA Convene

You are seeing the focus on virtual, and also seeing meeting planners having to create an “insurance policy” for their associations by potentially producing digital and live meetings simultaneously. As for pricing sponsorships: This appears to be the Wild, Wild West right now. Easier said than done?

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Introducing the 2021 Event Planning Playbook

Event Farm

Pay extra attention to indemnification and insurance policies. Because legal expenses are a concern, insurance is now 30-40% more expensive even though it doesn’t cover epidemics. Like the venue, they must agree with your compliance protocols before you sign the contract. Planning the event layout. Mask monitoring.

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How to Organize a Successful Event – 10 Top Tips for Perfect Events

Eventtia

An event, as we know, can involve many different moving parts, so by planning early, you’ll get more options for different elements of the event: venue options, speakers/talents options, sponsorship options, marketing options, and so on. Securing Sponsorships Build a list of target sponsors you’d want to support your event.

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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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Meeting and Event Planning Professional Development Series by Eventinterface

Eventinterface

Planners now need to be marketers, product managers, negotiation and contract specialists, security experts, digital media and technical whizzes. Sponsorship and increasing event revenue in the age of technology. Most events require sponsorship support to be produced. All sessions, live broadcast participation, $250. WORKSHOP 1.