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Q&A: What Does an Event Planner Do?

Social Tables

From event conception and stage design to technical programming and day-of event coordination, event planners manage the event planning process from start to finish. Planners work with vendors, suppliers, and venues to coordinate meal service, event staffing, negotiate pricing, and so much more.

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The Top 10 Most Common Types of Corporate Events

GEVME

When looking for new ways to engage employees, corporate event professionals experiment with multiple event formats. From fun incentive trips to spectacular galas, you can align the goals of an organisation with a huge variety of corporate meeting types. What is corporate event management?

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Venue Sourcing for Event Planners

Stova

For example, Stova’s event technology simplifies event sourcing and gives you the power to better negotiate with venues. Filter out venues that don’t meet your criteria. Manage your budget. Control and track your event expenditures, revenue streams, and overall financial performance. Save your favorites.

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Tips for Difficult Conversations from FICP22

Smart Meetings

“It should be really obvious that we aren’t just order takers,” she said, putting the enhanced role of the corporate meeting professional in perspective. “We We are basically project managers, but unlike technology projects, you can’t move the deadline and unlike before 2020, you can’t let contracts sit.”. Choices, Choices.

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The Event Planner’s Guide to Venue Sourcing and the RFP Process 2023

Stova

The Event Planner's Guide to Venue Sourcing and the RFP Process This guide examines a shift event professionals are experiencing in negotiation power with venues. Political, economical, and technological turmoil are profoundly affecting the way we choose where to host our events and creating unprecedented opportunities.

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Interviews with Planners - Chivonne Hyppolite

Eventinterface

In your beaker, combine the elements: creativity, passion, experience and negotiation. Actually, add a bit more of negotiation for good measure - I mean who doesn’t love a good negotiator. Her client centric, methodical approach to planning events is what sets her apart from other planners.

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The Ultimate Guide to Corporate Event Planning

GEVME

Would you analyse the ideas that employees have about an upcoming event and then try to align them with what you are planning? Do you think you could organise an event in Spain even if you don’t speak Spanish and you’ve never been in this country before? Have you ever successfully negotiated a price with an event vendor before?