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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. According to a recent Maritz Industry Trends Report , most meeting expenses are up over 20 percent since before the pandemic.

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Is There an Easier Way to Book Small Meetings?

PCMA Convene

In 2014, venture capitalist Ron Shah was deep into a month of internal meetings when the pipes burst in. He worked the phones in a rush, trying to clinch local hotel meeting rooms on short notice. But the phone-tag negotiations moved at the speed of molasses. Bizly in action. his building. He called it Bizly. “It

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How To Prepare For A Career In Event Planning

Endless Events

Event profs can plan conventions, exhibitions, corporate events, meetings, fundraisers, weddings, and other events. Their curriculums typically consist of courses, such as experience design, event marketing, event financing, venue management, agreement negotiating, and more. CMM (Certified Meeting Management) by MPI.

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2019 15 Over 50: Stephie Young, CMP

Connect Your Meetings

Stephie Young, CMP, works in Columbus, Ohio, as v ice president/director of event services at Advanced Meeting Solutions, Inc. I left my job in May 2014 and became a consultant. Impressive stats: I successfully negotiated terms to include association concessions, rebates and commissions totaling more than $700,000.

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A ‘Watershed Moment’ for Events — and the World

PCMA Convene

COP26 is shorthand for the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, a summit which brought leaders from more than 130 nations together to negotiate a global plan to address climate change. It also was the site for negotiations. People said, ‘If we have to do this, we will — but we cannot negotiate.

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Event Management Platforms: Technology and The Experience of Planning Events

Eventmobi

Learn about the top event management platform that event planners are using to save time and effort when managing their meetings and events. I remember the state of the meeting and events industry when we first started EventMobi about 10 years ago. Less negotiating power. Nothing is free without a reason!

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Guest blog: Are you getting the best value from your venue?

Event Industry News

Lead time – work with your venue finding agent to understand the metrics of your booking patterns; what is the optimum lead time to source a venue, negotiate best value, retain space on option to allow for site visits and exchanging of contracts, that results in the best value per delegate? Areas of interest. Brand Events. Conferences.

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