Connect Your Meetings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

How would you handle an unanticipated budget increase of $40,000 because the venue’s contract had fine print that dictated your client had to use the in-house preferred supplier for all breakout rooms? a consulting agency dedicated to reviewing and negotiating balanced event contracts. Register for webinar.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Master planner consultants offer 6 tips for negotiating your next corporate event Does this sound familiar? How can you word the hotel contract to protect your company? How can you word the hotel contract to protect your company? What should you include in the RFP? Events CEO Nancy Shaffer for answers.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Again, it depended on whether the applicable contract contained a force majeure provision and whether that provision was the “long” or “short” form (i.e. Again, this can be addressed either initially in the contract, or by negotiating additional addendums or riders to the contract after the fact.

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Prestige Events Magazine

APRIL 2, 2024

Natalia is an event consultant with over 10 years international experience working across the corporate and public sector. Venue sourcing and management: The team secures the perfect location, negotiates contracts, and oversees logistics. On-site management: Do you have your event sorted but need it managed on the day?

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Stova

MARCH 17, 2023

The Event Planner's Guide to Venue Sourcing and the RFP Process This guide examines a shift event professionals are experiencing in negotiation power with venues. We'll show you how to get the most out of strategy, opportunities, and tools available to strike the best deal with venues.

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Event Industry News

DECEMBER 11, 2019

It comes as no surprise that one of the key elements of organising any event is securing a space or venue. It may sound like simple work – finding a venue and exchanging contracts – but the devil is in the detail and more often than not, there’s a myriad of hidden factors that will impact the eventual price tag.

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ePly

JANUARY 3, 2024

A Guide for Event Profs in the Age of Rising Costs Welcome to 2024, where contract negotiations continue to be a critical but dreaded aspect of event planning. In this day and age, negotiation skills are even more essential as event professionals strive to deliver memorable experiences while staying on budget.

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Event Planning BluePrint

JANUARY 18, 2022

Hourly consultation packages. You will coordinate every element of the event from vendors to venues and sponsorships to guests. Contracts & templates. You will still do things like making custom recommendations of vendors, venues, sponsors, etc.; A one-hour initial consultation. Partial Planning. Sponsorship .

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Prestige Events Magazine

JULY 21, 2021

Award winning consortium Venues of Excellence has just launched its ‘Confidence in Us’ campaign to underpin their venues commitment to deliver safe events as the UK opens up to ‘business as usual’ for meetings and events. Our venues continue to offer flexibility with their contracts and terms of business. Read more here.

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Planning Pod

JULY 27, 2022

Here at Planning Pod, we build venue and event management software tools that help our customers close more business, so we want to do everything in our power to help them improve and grow. What are you looking for from a venue/planner? source: Spotio ). What kind of experience do you want for your guests/attendees?

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The Castle Group

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

At Castle, we are continually consulting with our clients to help them make the best decisions for their stakeholders, achieve their meeting goals and mitigate financial loss.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

They negotiate for higher wages, improved benefits including retirement plans and family healthcare, job training, due process and safety concerns. Unite Here created FairHotel to assist meeting and event planners in choosing a union hotel or venue. Many of Unite Here’s goals concern taking care of their hospitality workers.

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ePly

JANUARY 3, 2024

A Guide for Event Profs in the Age of Rising Costs Welcome to 2024, where contract negotiations continue to be a critical but dreaded aspect of event planning. In this day and age, negotiation skills are even more essential as event professionals strive to deliver memorable experiences while staying on budget.

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SmartMeetings

JUNE 3, 2019

When searching for a venue, securing a property with in-house catering gives planners some elbow room—financially and in menu customization. It’s more difficult to negotiate prices with a venue that outsources its food and beverage service, as it doesn’t have much control over food options. Savvy Contract Negotiations.

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SmartMeetings

MAY 28, 2020

If you are seeking legal advice, consult with a professional. But there also exist common law principles that are similar to the force majeure clause, and they come under different guises, such as “impracticability,” “impossibility,” “frustration of contract,” or “frustration of purpose,” depending what state you’re meeting in.

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Members of PCMA’s Catalyst community discuss when they might be able to invoke the force majeure clause in contracts for 2021 meetings. We have a 2021 contract in late April in Chicago for which we updated the force majeure clause to include COVID-19 as a specific situation that would allow us to cancel.

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QC Event School

APRIL 6, 2023

The 10 Most Profitable Careers in Event Planning Choosing a Name for Your Business Conducting the Client Consultation Top Questions to Ask at EVERY Client Consultation (Free Download!)

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Event Industry News

MARCH 25, 2020

Clients are drawn from a variety of different fields including: Accountancy Advertising Charities Financial Services FTSE 100 companies Insurance The Legal Profession IT Trade Associations Local & National Government Management Consultancy PR and Marketing TV & Radio Production. How do we work?

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QC Event School

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

This includes coming up with the initial concept and theme to booking the venue, coordinating logistics, and managing the budget. Know how to negotiate. Once you have a clear understanding of the event’s purpose, you can start making decisions about things like the guest list, the venue, and the overall tone of the event.

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SpotMe Blog

JUNE 13, 2023

If you are considering changing the pharmaceutical meeting planning company you work with, it is vital to consult your organization’s internal policies, recommendations, and lists of approved partners before consulting this list. Things like target audience, messaging, venue selection, and budget are all part of the planning process.

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The Planner's Lounge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

4 Key Strategies for a Sustainable Wedding Business: 1) Solid Contracts for Long Term Sustainability. Is there anything we learned more about during the pandemic than the importance of contracts? It showed us how extremely important it is to have a solid wedding planning contract in place. 2) Safety Protocols.

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Conference Care

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

We’ve shown this to be true by adoption of our own virtual & hybrid platforms, Event Apps and most recently our Carbon Consultancy – but they all have a human element in the solution. Some of the venues featured even had reviews which is always nice to see. send an RFP to the venue). send an RFP to the venue).

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Event Planning BluePrint

MARCH 29, 2022

Not only can it help you learn the lingo to help you sell your services, but it can give you insight into how the pros handle things, like negotiations to help save their clients money. You don’t have to think of it as a formal, tough, adversarial negotiation,” she said. Catering consultation. Creative & event consultancy.

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The Planner's Lounge

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Is the amount negotiable? Can I review your contract? Event Venue Specific Questions. Pro tip: Most venues require clients to obtain an event liability policy. Persons requiring advice should consult an independent adviser. If more than one, how does your team handle the volume? Who will be the point of contact?

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The Castle Group

MARCH 2, 2021

This will depend on several circumstances, such as the speed of the vaccine rollout, safety thresholds of hosting organizations and hosting venues, and local market conditions. Vet your live venue. When sourcing an in-person meeting destination and venue, safety and security should be paramount. Photo by Uri Paz on Unsplash.

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Eventsforce

JUNE 12, 2019

Eva the robot can move around a venue and locate guests using an advanced facial recognition system. Usually when events or meetings are cancelled, the party that signed the contract is responsible to pay either a flat fee or a percentage of the revenue they were to bring to the contracted supplier.

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Nuila Events LLC

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Let’s look at an example from our specialty here at Nuila Events – simply booking the venue for an event. As Meeting & Event Consultants who specialize in handling bookings for hotels for conferences and conventions, the truth is that most people don’t know the language of that business. The Morris Law Firm, LLC. You’re behind.

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QC Event School

APRIL 6, 2023

The 10 Most Profitable Careers in Event Planning Choosing a Name for Your Business Conducting the Client Consultation Top Questions to Ask at EVERY Client Consultation (Free Download!)

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Event Industry News

MAY 21, 2018

Katie Allen from venuefinder concierge explains five key benefits to outsourcing your venue hunt. There’s no cost for using a venue finding service. We receive our commission from the venue once we’ve secured a place that’s right for you and your meetings or events. So when we say we know venues, we really know venues.

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Bizzabo

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Now co-hosted by Brandt Krueger and Will Curran of Event Technology Consulting, the Event Tech Podcast was started by John Federico many years ago. EventLab is produced by Hire Space, a UK-based venue booking website. You'll be sure to learn as much as you laugh. Event Tech Podcast. Event Industry News Podcast. PlannersPod.

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Social Tables

MARCH 2, 2021

Billable hours include consultations with clients, onsite visits, actually planning the event, and so on. This means that your contract should say what clients will and will not be billed for. A full-service wedding planner usually takes care of big picture to-do list items such as negotiating contracts and coordinating vendors.

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Conference Care

JUNE 4, 2020

As we began talking to our client about negotiations on the finer details of the venue contract for their Annual Trainee Conference, we established there was no plan B should they decide not to go ahead with a live event. Brief – Graduate intake and onboarding programme – Can we make ours work in this pandemic?

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Stova

MARCH 16, 2023

That means you will know the most efficient way to source your meeting venue, what event software to use, how to properly budget for your event, and finally how to measure your total meeting spend and return. Here’s how to source a meeting venue that is perfect for your attendees, budget, and organization.

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Event Leadership Institute

MAY 27, 2015

Brandt Krueger , meeting & event technology consultant, and ELI instructor, shares strategic insight from the field on how to negotiate your next AV contract. The next closest bid happened to come from the in-house AV company in the venue, which was eager to set up a multi-year contract.

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Brandt Krueger of Event Technology Consulting will be walking us through commonly heard s**t AV people say, as well as why they say it. They don’t have to run off to another part of the venue, down the street to the sandwich shop or something like that. This Whiteboard Wednesday is all about the *?#! AV people say.

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Nuila Events LLC

MARCH 30, 2016

Do you really want to get stuck negotiating contracts with hotels for sleeping rooms? Negotiating with caterers and making sure that the menu is a great choice for your guests? It’s the exact same with planning an event with your business, whether you have a small business or large corporation!

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Event Guru

MAY 5, 2023

These services typically include event concept development, budgeting, logistic management, venue selection, vendor coordination, onsite event management, and post-event evaluations. This may involve selecting suitable venues, coordinating catering, managing budgets, and ensuring that all necessary resources are available.

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