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Seeking Innovators, Experts, and Educators in Meeting Planning

MeetingsNet

Session proposals are now being accepted for the MeetingsNet track at CaterSource + The Special Event show happening February 12 to 15, 2024, in Austin, Texas.

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6 Strategies for Large Event Contract Negotiations

SmartMeetings

While some event professionals may gleefully embrace the prospect of negotiating contracts for large events, many would rather run for the hills. In many instances, event professionals can land sweet deals if they consider a multi-year agreement for annual events. Consider multi-year agreements. Take your time.

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The best pharma event management companies in 2023

SpotMe Blog

And many of them use our fully compliant life science event platform and mobile event app to help pharma companies manage engaging HCP events. That’s why we’ve created a list of examples of the top pharmaceutical meeting planning companies we have experience with. It is not for commercial purposes.

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Interviews with Planners - Greg Jenkins

Eventinterface

Jenkins and his firm are the recipients of the prestigious Gala Awards by Special Events Magazine for Best Event Produced for a Corporation - Budget $100,000 to $249,000 and Best Event Design - Budget $20,000. Jenkins recently served as Chair, and produced the 2017 Special Event (TSE) Opening Night Party.

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Finding Balance: How Event Companies Can Offer Both Design and Planning Services

Social Tables

However, finding a balance between design, coordination and execution can take some fine-tuning to ensure that the event process runs like a well-oiled machine. Event design and planning go together like peanut-butter and jelly. Typically, we start our events with design – what does the client want?

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How to Become an Event Planner (Full Guide)

Master the Event

As previously mentioned, having a bachelor’s degree in a related field is highly favored, as courses will often cover everything from hospitality management to event design and meeting planning. Social media and personal websites are invaluable tools to event planners looking to build their book of business.

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The 33 skills meeting and event planners need to succeed

Plan Your Meetings

A: Strategic planning. H: Meeting or event design. Each one is linked to a story by a meeting professional that we think will help you understand them better and apply them to your work. Manage contracts. Manage implementation of meeting or event. It’s a scary world, we’re just planning on it.