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Venue Sourcing for Event Planners

Stova

This will dictate space requirements, seating arrangement, room set up, and tech/AV needs. Also, especially for large corporate meetings, consider the type of attendees. For example, know what departments are involved, how attendees want to work or meet, and the relationship dynamics of the attendees.

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Wedding venue management software: How we saved Hidden Barn Venue from spreadsheet paralysis and saved them 62 hours a month

Planning Pod

Create online legal contracts and track electronic signatures with contract management tools. Create detailed, colorful proposals, contracts, BEOs and invoices; collect signatures and payments online; and build reusable templates for everything to save you time.

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Creating Restaurant Event Spaces that Sell

Social Tables

Restaurants are highly sought-out venues for many events, from corporate meetings to private gatherings, casual parties, and fine dining affairs. Create clear guidelines for staff serving alcoholic drinks, and detail the restaurant’s cut-off policy in event contracts. What makes restaurants great event venues?

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Convene Investment Targets Small Meetings

SmartMeetings

The evolution of the meetings landscape continued today with the announcement that Convene, which targets the small-meetings market by offering full-service facilities in five major American cities, has made a strategic investment in Bizly, an end-to-end software solution for meetings management.

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AEG Presents Special Event Venues (AEGSEV) Are Springing Back to Life

Unique Venues

Not only does that come as good news for concert and theater goers, but it’s also an exciting development for planners that rely on these types of non-traditional venues for galas, corporate meetings, training and development seminars and product launches. The great news, Benaderet says, is that the interest is there.

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5 Online Event Planning Classes To Jumpstart Your Career

Capterra Event Management

Corporate Event Planning. Vendor/Contract Management. Corporate Events Specialty Course. Intro to Corporate Meetings, Events, and Conferences. Corporate Event Budgeting. If you found the information in this piece helpful, be sure to check out these resources: The 4 Most Important Event Tech Trends for 2017.

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Is the Party Over?

Smart Meetings

I am not keen to restart show-floor happy hours where too many people crowd into the booth,” adds Lisa Grogan, who manages events, meetings and trade shows at Canadian tech company Matrox. The contract should also specify that the hotel or venue will not serve a drink to anyone noticeably intoxicated or underage.