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The Best Event Planning Books Ever Written

Guidebook

The Event Marketing Handbook : Beyond Logistics and Planning by Allison Saget. This time she’s walking planners through the business aspects of events – all the stuff that can be harder to get a handle on without a ton of experience: proposals, contract negotiation, safety considerations and the like.

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Top 6 Event Planning Certifications To Boost Your Career

Eventtia

The global event management market is estimated to be worth $6.36 To get the CMP title, a person must show that they are good at negotiating contracts, planning events, managing risks, and marketing. For more detail about the requirements, please download the CMP handbook here. Eligibility Requirements. Fee Structure.

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What Makes for Good Internships?

PCMA Convene

She herself turned to the Convention Industry Council’s CMP International Standards handbook to get a sense of the components needed for a comprehensive on-the-job learning experience for her students. “I Of the 27 competencies listed in CIC’s handbook, it could be site inspection, contract negotiation, promotions, and publicity.

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Advice from the Pros: How Industry Leaders are Navigating COVID-19

EventSource

Pre-COVID, the never ending day-to-day demands of running a business meant that many of us simply didn’t have the time or the capacity to delve into those nagging back-burner projects that plague many of us: that new website you’ve been putting off, drawing up that new employee handbook, refining your service agreements, and so forth.

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Why it was a disaster: Fyre Festival. What happened? What went wrong

Eventory

Grant Margolin – chief marketing officer. January 12: Fyre Festival’s marketing machine enhances with a glamorous video, that I embedded earlier in this text. The same person told, that one of the festival marketing team members told Ja Rule “Let’s just do it and be legends, man,” when the latter came for a site visit.

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