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Before You Sign That Contract: 5 Hotel Contract Tips For Novice Planners

Endless Events

Let’s take the skill of hotel contract negotiations ; novice planners tend to feel overwhelmed by the nitty-gritty details of hotel contracts and often learn as they go. To prevent them from signing a bad contract, we’ve put together five tips to help them navigate the surprisingly complex world of hotel contracts.

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Your Event Goals Should Determine Your Venue Contract — Not The Other Way Around

Endless Events

Whether you opt for an in-person or hybrid event, you need the right venue to create a truly captivating experience. Newbie event planners will often pick a venue, negotiate a deal with them, and sign the venue’s provided contract. . Why should you let your venue dictate what happens at your event? Management.

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First Sight Media bags a five-show win!

Event Industry News

Video production company, First Sight Media, has had an exceptional month, securing contracts to provide filming, streaming and video production services to five of the event industry’s key shows, AMP EventsEvent Tech Live and Event Sustainability Live in November 2023, and Mash Media’s International Confex, The Event Production Show and The PA Show (..)

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Five ways explicit communication improves meetings

Conferences that Work

To minimize no-shows, put the requirement for a tech check in presenter contracts. Also include in the presenter contract that the tech check must be held with the same equipment & location the presenter will be using at showtime. ” Are eager to be “checked” but then want an hour of advice on their setup.

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PlanetIMEX: The wraps come off IMEX’s imaginative new online experience

Event Industry News

Human psychology, Nature, collaboration, contract negotiations and more. Sessions will address hot topics including resilience, the future of work, creative event design for a new era, crisis communication, contract negotiations, technology, wellbeing and psychology. EduMonday Live kicks off at 10am UK time.

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6 Tips for Getting the Wi-Fi You Need

PCMA Convene

Dominguez, who plans large tech-heavy events for Intel (and often hires a third-party technology provider for those events), has a few golden rules when it comes to negotiating network costs and providing ample bandwidth at events: Put network requirements in your standard contracts.

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25 Powerful Event Sales Techniques for Venues and Planners

Planning Pod

Sometimes it is because they sincerely have little knowledge of what it actually costs to book an event space, order catering or contract out for event planning services. Online business tools with electronic signatures can make quick work of signing proposals , online contracts and banquet event orders (BEOs).

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