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3 Days of Delight in Southern Florida

Smart Meetings

Smart Meetings National Experience at the sunny Eau Palm Beach , Florida, indulged, educated and inspired meeting professionals to get back to what they do best: surprising and delighting. Negotiating for the Win-win. Negotiation is not an act of war, it is an act of discovery,” Dohrn explained.

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Yes, You Can Negotiate Catering

Connect Your Meetings

We all know catering can be the largest expense on the master account, but we don’t realize the several areas that can be negotiated to stretch your catering budget. This is substantially less than the 75 to 80% profit in the rooms department and is enough leeway to allow you to negotiate catering prices for your group.

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Moving Your Meeting Amid Rising Reproductive Rights Concerns

PCMA Convene

I hope professional organizations bear this in mind when they choose conference venues.” That wave of dissent has become increasingly familiar for health-care associations that host meetings in states like Florida and Texas, where laws have placed extreme restrictions on abortion care and reproductive rights.

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3 Enticing Reasons to Plan a Meeting in Southwest Florida

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Air service via most major carriers is available to Southwest Florida International Airport (RSW) in Fort Myers, 34 miles north of Naples. With the number of meetings that are booked near the beach in Southwest Florida, attendees will want to make extra time for sun and sand. It’s hard to beat a seaside meeting. More Adventures Await

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Event Contract Considerations for 2021

SmartMeetings

In speaking with Ty Sheaks, attorney at McCathern , LLC, we found out how meeting professionals and venues are reacting to the fluctuating legal landscape of safety protocols and signage, as well as what questions we should be asking moving forward. Waiving Responsibility. We’ll have to watch that closely,” he says.

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Meetings, Events Return with New Safety Protocols, Operation Standards 

Smart Meetings

For example, this past spring, Georgia International Convention Center (GICC) hosted Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated’s 69th South Atlantic Regional Conference, a gathering of 8,000 members from Georgia, Florida and South Carolina. . Read More : Negotiating and Cost-saving Tips for Real Meetings. Meeting Trend No.

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Internal Meetings: Five Ways Zeiss Keeps its Salesforce Fired up

Event Marketer

So we asked Matt Woelbern, head of marketing, go-to-market at Zeiss Vision Care US, how the brand (and agency partner Trademark Events) continues to deliver a meaningful event through the lens of its latest NSM in Florida, dubbed “Miami Zeiss.” By being in a smaller, contained venue in Miami, it felt really full.