Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Van Halen ‘s 1982 World Tour performance contract contained a provision calling for them to be provided backstage with a bowl of M&Ms from which all the brown candies had been removed. ” — Brown Out , snopes.com. ” — Brown Out , snopes.com. ” I can’t post materials on the walls.

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Endless Events

JANUARY 27, 2023

One of our top clients wanted us to help move a program’s contract. Once she successfully signed the contract, she ended up staying in Mexico. “I One Thing the Industry can do Better: Educate Attendees One of the significant benefits of the nomadic lifestyle is constant exposure to other cultures.

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Education Travel Contracts Management 71

The Planner's Lounge

APRIL 20, 2023

By educating potential clients on the role of a venue coordinator, you can help them understand that it is still in their best interest to have a planner who is 100% there to execute the perfect event. Basically, anything that the venue has promised to provide within the contract is the responsibility of the venue coordinator to deliver.

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MeetingsNet

MARCH 25, 2020

Understanding things like event-insurance fine print and which areas of operation hotels get group revenue from will help planners become better at contracting and negotiating. This article from Reuters has more details on the postponement-clause fine print in those event-insurance contracts.

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Contracts Hotels Insurance Negotiating 72

PCMA Convene

APRIL 25, 2024

Like many associations, SMFM signs contracts with its host destinations years in advance. That clause allowed SMFM to exit a contract up to two years prior to the meeting date if the state passed a law banning abortion pre-viability. It’s really about becoming educated about what the laws are in these states,” she said.

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Event Leadership Institute

OCTOBER 24, 2018

One of the learning outcomes was for students to learn the importance of reading a contract. So, I decided to create an experiential learning activity where my students had the opportunity to experience first hand why reading a contract was important. Cell phone contracts. Cell phone contracts.

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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? Being able to work with your own preferred AV supplier begins with negotiating solid and comprehensive language into the venue contract.

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MeetingsNet

APRIL 15, 2024

During the 12-hour educational marathon hosted by Meeting Professionals International on April 11—Global Meetings Industry Day—one session presenter touched on a delicate issue that surely had all the business-event planners in attendance nodding along: Yes, change is essential and inevitable.

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Event Planning BluePrint

JUNE 1, 2016

Question: Have you ever run up against a client who suddenly stopped paying for your event services, which left you wondered what to include in your event legal contracts to protect you and your event business? Your Event Legal Contracts. At what point do you sue over breach of contract? (16:29). Geneen via @eventblueprint.

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MeetingsNet

OCTOBER 2, 2017

However, as is the case when contracting with any meeting venue, think about what you are committing to before you sign the contract. Here are some questions that Grimes says planners should ask when contracting with cruise lines: • What is included and what’s extra? Can you count on the ship you book being the ship you get?

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Contracts Food and Beverage Negotiating Insurance 63

Event Industry News

MARCH 23, 2017

Ruddy Nice have extended a contract with D2i Systems to secure use of the Engage event management software and self-managed registration solution for Defence Simulation, Education & Training (DSET) 2018. The post Ruddy Nice renew event tech contract with D2i Systems for 2018 appeared first on Event Industry News.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 15, 2023

From finances to DEI and team building, 2023 was a year for support and education All of us at Smart Meetings and all of our contributors want to see each other thrive, which is why we frequently post strategy stories as a resource for all of us to learn from each other.

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Velvet Chainsaw

MARCH 12, 2020

Many organizations are banning business travel altogether, with large companies mandating that employees work virtually and educational institutions closing campuses to students and staff. Global, national and local governments are all over the board on prescribed actions, from declaring states of emergency to barring travel.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 5, 2022

With so much young talent entering our industry, we wanted to create an easy and free way for our clients to train new team members and to provide continuing education for more experienced planners,” said GDP President and CEO Catherine Chaulet in a press release. The course’s second part will be held Oct. 25 at 11 a.m.

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SmartMeetings

JANUARY 5, 2024

Problem clauses to consider fixing or downright excluding Sometimes, in an attempt to cover all of our bases by including every conceivable contract clause, we trap ourselves in the outfield with confusing and unenforceable language that leads only to lawsuits and court cases. Lowest Rate Every contract is a futures agreement.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Smart Meetings Extraordinary Experience focused on setting and reaching event goals When some of the most productive meeting professionals in the world meet in majestic The Westin La Paloma Resort & Spa in Tucson for three days of education, inspiration and networking, the experience has to be over the top. “We

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Event Planning BluePrint

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Today, I am sharing some of those insights, particularly focusing on the aspects of vendor and venue selection, negotiation strategies, and understanding contracts—key components that can make or break an event. Navigating Event Contracts: Ensuring Clarity and Protection Event contracts are the safety nets of event planning.

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Venues Negotiating Contracts Insurance 62

Eventmobi

JULY 27, 2022

Meet the educational needs of industry professionals: We don’t want to ignore the large virtual audience we attracted during the pandemic, particularly those who can’t or won’t travel because of personal responsibilities, budget or schedule constraints, physical disabilities, health concerns, or employer restrictions. Event Type. Event Goals.

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Event Industry News

JUNE 22, 2021

Lineup Ninja will provide speaker management software to help the organisers coordinate over 150 educational sessions across five days and numerous theatres. The event takes place in Las Vegas every three years and attracts over 130,000 visitors and 2,000 exhibitors.

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MeetingsNet

APRIL 3, 2024

But the practice of offering childcare services around a convention or exhibition is not sufficiently widespread to help most of those women take advantage of an event’s educational and networking opportunities. There are also tips for promoting the childcare services to event participants.

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MeetingsNet

MARCH 1, 2024

They had signed the contract with the convention center but did not have a lot of their hotel contracts finalized. For the decisionmakers of more than one group over the past year, Fitzpatrick has coordinated multi-day itineraries to see dozens of hotels to make sure they are right for a convention’s room block.

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MeetingsNet

JANUARY 13, 2023

If you can’t get the hotel concessions your stakeholders are expecting, it’s in your best interest to educate them about the current landscape. Let’s face it, being on either side of the table in hotel-contract negotiations is tough these days. Here’s how one meeting professional does it. Often, it’s a simple realignment conversation.

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Event Farm

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Lock down Your Contracts. Fortunately, much of this can be mitigated by a locked-tight contract that spells out the liability for you and your vendors, in case something happens. More than that, a fully-engaged PCA can also be your point-person for education, on-site problem solving and risk mitigation, as well.

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Master the Event

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Corporate Event Ideas That You Can Handle The following ideas/themes presented are events that a non event planer can manage: Lazor Tag Bowling Ping-Pong Tournament Murder Mystery Show Wine/Beer Making An Office Party with a Draw for a Week’s Holiday, Vacation Destination Corporate Event Ideas Where it’s Best to Contract a Third Party Like a DMC Teambuilding (..)

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Conferences that Work

MAY 14, 2018

Mythodology: We can contract a venue for our meeting before we design it. Sue, The Solution Room—a powerful conference session There’s been a lot of interest in The Solution Room, a session that I co-facilitated last July at Meeting Professionals International World Education Congress in Orlando, Florida. It is one.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Multiple representatives on the panel advised planners to evaluate contracts more carefully than ever—don’t pre-assume anything as a given if it isn’t explicitly stated in the contract. Read More: Tips for Negotiating Your Next Big Event Contract During the open Q&A, planners aired frustrations—contracts are time-consuming already.

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Meetings Trade Shows Contracts Sustainability 98

SmartMeetings

JUNE 16, 2020

In the fifth of FICP’s new virtual education series, Financial & Insurance Professionals (FICP) Chats, more than 200 participants explored how to book group business for future meetings, including immediate adjustments for events, and how those were not being written into RFPs for the long-term. Uncertainty Persists in the Short Term.

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Event Industry News

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Continued Professional Development (CPD) encompasses educational content relating to an industry that many employers require their staff to complete as part of their contract. Granted full accreditation by the CPD Standards Office ahead of the 2019 show, virtual Event Tech Live 2020 maintains the same status.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 14, 2023

Read More: Cvent’s Event Tech Roadmap According to filings, at the end of last year, Cvent had approximately 22,000 customers globally in the corporate, non-profit, higher education and hospitality sectors as of December 31, 2022.

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Negotiating 2022 2021 Contracts 98

QC Event School

JUNE 15, 2021

Strict – but necessary – contract clauses. Over the course of 2020, there was much talk and action taken to create stricter payment policies within event planners’ client contracts. As an event planner, don’t take these clauses out of your contract! So, protect your business! What I Recommend.

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Event Farm

MARCH 24, 2021

The role of a PCA includes: ensuring the venue follows appropriate regulations, procure and distribute safety supplies, engage and educate staff, monitor local risk, and coordinate risk mitigation on-site. You have carefully reviewed your vendors’ contracts and understand your liability. You have an Event Safety Code of Conduct.

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MeetingsNet

MARCH 7, 2024

The hyper-granular attention to detail required to negotiate and contract the various parts of an event, and then manage the ever-changing tactical and strategic elements leading up to the opening session, is beyond my capabilities. Read the story in our digital magazine now , or read it online at MeetingsNet.com as of Monday, March 11.)

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Velvet Chainsaw

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Mattering — participants should get something out of this: They may be entertained, educated, surprised, awarded, helped, satisfied or become more connected. Most organizers can effectively sell these by offering them as a check-the-box, upsell opportunity during booth contracting. How to Organize Your Sales Team.

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Nunify

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Tip #1 – Formal Education vs Self Taught One of the first crossroads you’ll encounter is choosing between pursuing formal education or taking a self-taught path. Deciding between formal education and a self-taught approach is a personal decision. This approach with technology helps you plan more efficiently.”

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Conferences that Work

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Require suppliers who are presenting to describe in advance how their content will educate session attendees appropriately. To minimize no-shows, put the requirement for a tech check in presenter contracts. Smart suppliers already know this, but there always seem to be some who haven’t gotten the message.

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MeetingsNet

DECEMBER 2, 2021

A meeting professional’s expertise can go in any number of directions: marketing, adult education, event design, site selection, contracting, event technology … It’s a dynamic role. Having a conversation with your venue about indoor air quality is a must. Here are some resources to help you understand the basics.

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SpotMe Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Then, as soon as a drug is licensed pharmaceutical advisory boards help to devise post-marketing clinical trials, review medical education programs, and provide expert suggestions for life-cycle management. Pro Tip: Give yourself enough time to complete the contracting process with the advisors.

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