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What To Include In Your Event Legal Contracts

Event Planning BluePrint

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. How do event planners get paid? (12:18). I’m excited.

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Smart Moves in San Antonio, Atlanta and More

Smart Meetings

In this role, he will call on his more than two decades of experience in sales management, New York hotels and the cruise industry to build on existing client relationships and expand the hotel’s business opportunities in luxury leisure and corporate sales.

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2019 40 Under 40: Natasha Stamper Pedigo, The Asphalt Institute

Connect Your Meetings

Natasha Stamper Pedigo, CMP, 38, works in Lexington, Kentucky, as a meeting planner and event manager at The Asphalt Institute. A s a 2019 40 Under 40 honoree, Pedigo discusses her passion for the events industry. I had four months to plan, sell and market the event. Connect with Pedigo on Instagram. .

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You Can Negotiate Away Annoying Hotel Fees

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billion for all manner of fees and surcharges, according to Bjorn Hanson of New York University Preston Robert Tisch Center for Hospitality and Tourism. In New York City, it’s often known as an “amenity fee” or “facilities fee.”. Last year, the U.S. hotel market collected an estimated $2.7

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2019 15 Over 50: Blanca Ferreris, CMP, CMM

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Blanca Ferreris, CMP, CMM, works in Woodhaven, New York, as a s enior business events manager at RIMS, Risk Management Society. As a 2019 15 Over 50 honoree, Ferreris discusses her passion for the events industry. What I do: I am responsible for contracting more than 75 hotel agreements per year.

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10 innovative ways to squeeze more from your event budget

Planning Pod

Book vendors and venues for multiple events. Long ago when I ran a marketing agency, I was accustomed to contracting with a vendor for a specific use on a specific project and then negotiating with them for that particular deal, hoping they would come down in price for the promise of more business from me down the road.

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2018 40 Under 40: Jim Clapes

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Jim Clapes, 37, works in New York City as conference and events manager at the Drug Policy Alliance. As a 2018 40 Under 40 honoree, Clapes discusses his passion for the events industry. and marry my interest in event coordination with the non-profit sector. Connect with Clapes on Instagram.

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