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Money Talks: Defining an Event Budget

TicketBud

It sounds like a nightmare, but that was the reality for DashCon 2014, an event where attendees paid witness to one of the most important lessons in event planning – don’t bust the budget. By delineating expenses across various categories such as venue, marketing, and entertainment, budgets help prioritize spending for maximum impact.

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Are You Planning A Safe Event?

Endless Events

The importance of safety is something that simply cannot be overstated in the world of events and entertainment. Editor’s Note: This post was originally written in February 2014 and updated by Anja Grcar for clarity purposes. . So today, we are exploring what it takes to plan a safe event. Safety is by no means a result of luck.

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Beach Days at MPI’s World Education Congress

PCMA Convene

The Jersey Shore destination has been aggressively courting meetings in the wake of recent casino closures — and as MPI’s luck would have it, Caesars Entertainment was nearing completion on the Harrah’s Waterfront Conference Center. The 100,000-square-foot venue offers 2,500 hotel rooms just upstairs, a perfect fit for WEC 2016. “It

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The Way Forward 

PCMA Convene

From 1994 to 2014, a Pew Research Center survey found, highly negative views of the other U.S. According to a 2014 survey by Convene Green — then a business unit within ASAE, today owned by HIP Network — 39 percent of association meeting professionals schedule at least one community-service or legacy event at their meetings.

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