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Smart Women 2017: Innovators

SmartMeetings

What I love about my job: Using my specialized knowledge to negotiate venue contracts that protect event hosts from undue risk and financial exposure, and to set their events up for success, is what excites me most. I love negotiating great value for my clients and seeing their programs through to successful conclusions.

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Smart Women 2017 – Innovators

SmartMeetings

What I love about my job: Using my specialized knowledge to negotiate venue contracts that protect event hosts from undue risk and financial exposure, and to set their events up for success, is what excites me most. I love negotiating great value for my clients and seeing their programs through to successful conclusions.

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Now is the time to rethink and restart the events industry: Interview with Angeles Moreno, Managing Partner at the Creative Dots

The MICE

It was a big contract, which took six months of negotiations to come to an agreement. At that time, it was 2017, and I knew that the best you can do is to start moving as soon as possible. How did you recover from the financial loss? We also lost a certain client segment— all the national clients—because of the financial crisis.

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Bathroom Ban to Cost North Carolina $3.76 in Lost Business

SmartMeetings

Few large companies already operating within the state have publicly initiated financial penalties. Other forfeited plans were omitted from the analysis due to lack of data on their financial ramifications. But North Carolina’s economy is hardly failing. The state’s gross domestic product is estimated to surpass $500 billion annually.

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Preparing for a Leaner Commission World

SmartMeetings

That was when it was a relationship business, and you were valued for your Rolodex and your ability to deliver on negotiations.” Freitag, senior vice president of lodging insights at hospitality research company STR, echoed that 2017 was both a sellers’ market and a transient-oriented one. Flash Forward to 2018.

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Top 99 keynote speakers every event planner must know about

Hubilo Blog

Featured on Forbes as a “Top 20 Influencer of Chief Marketing Officers” – 2018 #1 Global Content Marketing Influencer – 2018 Listed on Forbes as one of the “Top 20 Influencers of CMO’s” – 2017 Ranked by Apollo Research in the “Top 20 Influencers of Digital Marketers in the USA” – 2016 Where to Find him? Where to find him? Where to find him?

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Preparing for a Leaner Commission World

SmartMeetings

That was when it was a relationship business, and you were valued for your Rolodex and your ability to deliver on negotiations.” Freitag, senior vice president of lodging insights at hospitality research company STR, echoed that 2017 was both a sellers’ market and a transient-oriented one. Flash Forward to 2018.

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