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Risk Management 101 with Jordan Atherton, 1st Global

Connect Your Meetings

Incentive Research Foundation (IRF) Event Disruption Study. She plays an integral role for the company through event design and plan formulation, event oversight, vendor and venue contract negotiations and management, and site selection for meetings and event. ITA Group Ensuring Safe & Secure Practices. _.

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4 Lessons Event Planners Can Take from 2016 Rio Olympics

SmartMeetings

The mosquito-borne virus, which causes babies born to women who contracted Zika during pregnancy to be more vulnerable to severe birth defects, has led several prominent athletes to skip the Rio Olympics. Site selection is a critical step in event planning , and site visits are crucial to the process.

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The Ultimate Guide on How to Start Your Event Planning Business

Capterra Event Management

Venue Selection. Site Selection. Surveys and studies conducted by major event planners have conducted plenty of research into this subject. If you are able to negotiate beneficial contracts with your vendors, you will minimize your need to store resources. International Institute of Event Management (IIEM).

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The 33 skills meeting and event planners need to succeed

Plan Your Meetings

Studies have shown that face-to-face meetings are one of the top ways to close new business, build relationships, gain consensus, launch new products, train employees and handle crises. Manage contracts. Depending on your meeting location, it may be necessary to travel with or contract security teams. Develop selection criteria.

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Booking Meeting Venues Site Unseen

PCMA Convene

It wasn’t COVID-19 that kept Sandra Geiger, a global account executive with ConferenceDirect, from visiting Hotel Effie, a 250-room hotel in Sandestin, Florida, before she signed a contract for an association group meeting in July — it was because the hotel was still under construction. Virtual Site Visits.

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Best in Show: Class of 2017

PCMA Convene

Nominated by Robyn Jones, CMP, Conference Manager, Association for Asian Studies — “Ricky Hopkins is our account manager, and assists us with the site-selection process. But I would like to nominate Ricky for what he does for us outside of contract negotiation.

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