Event Planning BluePrint

OCTOBER 30, 2022

There’s just one thing left – making your career as an event planner official “on paper.” . But what are the top event planning courses for planners? In reality, you don’t actually need a formal education, accreditations, or affiliations to launch your own event planning business or to even get a job at an event planning company.

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SpotMe Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Discover how to run a highly effective pharmaceutical advisory board with event technology and best practices from pharma event experts who work with 10 out of the top 20 leading life science and pharma companies worldwide. For example, early on, meetings may focus on clinical trial design, risk management plans, and target patients.

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Event Leadership Institute

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

What can event and meeting pros do to keep their skills relevant and up-to-date? With many event agency owners and other event professionals facing challenges like those never seen before, we’ve announced a new Business Owner Mentorship Program. Event & Meeting Management Fundamentals. Duration: 10 weeks.

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Event Leadership Institute

JANUARY 14, 2022

Virtual events have opened up an entirely new distribution channel for us, and the constant uncertainty of a changing landscape made the need for trusted advisors in our field more important than ever before. We had 4,239 event professionals register for our courses , 3,667 of which passed their exams to earn digital credentials.

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SmartMeetings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Meeting and event planning is a highly stressful, fast-paced occupation. The general rule of thumb is there is an eight-week time frame for a small event (200–400 attendees), around a four-month frame for a medium-size event (400–800) and six months to a year for a large-scale event (800 or more). Cue the event binder.

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PCMA Convene

MARCH 7, 2017

Better contract negotiations. For our largest event in 2016 we had to turn away more than 150 people. This event originally was just for our state but now is becoming a regional event. This event originally was just for our state but now is becoming a regional event. •We Cut back on meeting frequency. •

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SmartMeetings

OCTOBER 6, 2017

It used to be, planners could focus their efforts solely on the success of the meeting or event. Here’s our checklist for meeting safety, with thanks to a pair of veteran event planners—Greg Jenkins, partner at Bravo Productions in Long Beach, California, and Brady K. One event Jenkins managed was the victim of a bomb threat.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

While on the road, I’m educating event professionals on the latest and greatest tech, as well as practical tech solutions that can make their lives easier and more efficient — a key distinction most event practitioners overlook when mapping timelines and checklists. I found this marvelous new app to support my passion: Goombal.

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Plan Your Meetings

JUNE 27, 2016

If you’re like many corporate meeting planners, planning meetings and events may only be part of your job and you learn as you go, without formal training. But if planning meetings and events are a passion of yours and you want to become a meeting professional, there are 33 skills you need to master. B: Project management.

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SmartMeetings

APRIL 3, 2020

While budgets may be stagnant, planners are still under pressure to deliver memorable experiences and raise the bar from one event to the next. A collaborative approach will always benefit you in all aspects, including managing costs.”. Maybe a three-hour event is 2.5 Work with Partners—and Haggle. hours,” says Huggins.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 31, 2016

I definitely think that sometimes we don’t trust the interns,” said Liz King, CEO of Liz King Events as well as the techsytalk event-technology platform. “So So many people hire interns and then let them stand around at an event. It could be managing speakers. It’s time to hand over more responsibility. “I

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GEVME

JANUARY 27, 2020

Events and gatherings happen in all sizes, at all kinds of social and commercial environments — whether it is a Christmas party, a large scale conference or a business event. While people love spending their time in such places, the organizers do not really place sustainability as the anchor of organizing such events.

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Hubilo Blog

MARCH 15, 2018

Event planners are generally in a major rush to plan and organize an event in a proper way minimizing errors. They have to face many event management challenges and overcome the hurdles to make an event a boon! Carrying out an event even if you have less time left is a challenging task. When is the event?

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Plan Your Meetings

JANUARY 28, 2019

With so many outlets for fresh streaming content, we’re blessed with two documentaries chronicling the disaster that was the Fyre Festival, which was more of a Ponzi scheme than an actual event. Check out the Reddit thread, “ Watching the Fyre Festival doc as a former event planer feeling TRIGGERED.”. “I Weddings & parties.

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