MeetingsNet

JANUARY 31, 2018

Seven steps you need to take to safely decide whether or not to cancel when your meeting destination is hit by a hurricane or other devastating event. After the epically awful 2017 hurricane season wreaked destruction from Texas to Florida to Puerto Rico and the U.S. Consider the viability of holding the meeting with fewer attendees.

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Connect Your Meetings

MARCH 21, 2018

Many times, a convention’s catering expenses can be more than half of the master account, and planners frequently do not attempt to negotiate what can be a huge expense. You’ll learn how to negotiate catering pricing, service charges and fees to deliver immediate savings to your company or organization.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Previously, she was director of sales and revenue at The Joule in Dallas as well as reservations and revenue manager at The Turnberry Isle Resort & Club in Aventura, Florida, and The Ritz-Carlton Orlando, Grande Lakes. He took a brief hiatus from Reed, spending one year at Gartner Worldwide Events as account manager.

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Eventbase

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Event managers can capitalize on this growing trend to make their event experiences more appealing to business travelers who want a bit of leisure on the side. How can event managers appeal to the bleisure traveler? There are many ways to appeal to the bleisure traveler.

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Eventinterface

JULY 26, 2017

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. All of our tools are becoming digital and cloud-based, so we can virtually plan and have meetings from anywhere in the world.

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Connect Your Meetings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

The International Regional Magazine Association convenes today for day 1 of its annual conference in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and meeting planner Dianne Davis is confident things will go off without a hitch. Eighteen months ago, I met with the sales manager at Hotel A* in Fort Lauderdale. Here’s what happened, in her own words.

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SmartMeetings

MAY 17, 2022

Could forever-remote tech workers fuel meeting boom? To build trust and relationships and depth in remote-first teams, you’ve got to meet in person. When it matters enough to gather, the meeting design could be much different that in the BC (before-Covid) times. We’ll gather for the moments that matter.

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Eventinterface

APRIL 15, 2017

Jenkins is also a previous nominee as Samaritan of the Year and a two-time nominee as Event Planner of the Year by Event Solutions Magazine, an international magazine serving the event and meeting planning industry. One function that stands out was an event staged for a client in Palm Beach, Florida.

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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

What I love about my job: I enjoy the art of the sales process and meeting execution. Company or organization: Conference Event Management in West Des Moines, Iowa. First job: Internal marketing manager at a five-start resort in the Red Sea, Egypt. Tracy Blair. Job title: Director of sales and marketing. Michele DeClerck, CMP.

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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

What I love about my job: I enjoy the art of the sales process and meeting execution. Company or organization: Conference Event Management in West Des Moines, Iowa. First job: Internal marketing manager at a five-start resort in the Red Sea, Egypt. Tracy Blair. Job title: Director of sales and marketing. Michele DeClerck, CMP.

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Hubilo Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Negotiate contracts with various vendors, hotels, caterers, and speakers. In short, event planning is a journey where different elements of organizing, management, and promotion come together. Planning an event effectively helps you stay away from the risks of chaos, disorganization, and failure to meet the event’s goals.

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Event Industry News

APRIL 9, 2021

Exhibitions and business events are the fastest of all fast tracks to drive economic recovery after the pandemic,” says Kai Hattendorf, Managing Director & CEO –UFI. Especially small and medium-sized enterprises rely on these marketplaces to drive their sales.

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Eventory

JULY 25, 2018

Smart hospital requires management, administration, IT and other specialists that keep it running. This is a place where many top-class professionals from all around the world meet and exchange their knowledge. Management. Medical conferences are places where suppliers and organizations meet. Suppliers and providers.

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Hubilo Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

To assist event profs with smooth event management we have curated a list with 97 best industry keynote speakers by industry. Alina Wheeler frequently speaks to management teams about brand fundamentals, processes, best practices, and critical success factors. Alina Wheeler Who is she? What is she known for? Where to find him?

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The meetings and events industry is returning with a lot of confidence, and face-to-face gatherings are trending upward with the potential to surpass pre-pandemic numbers. These gatherings illustrated some emerging trends we are seeing that may require meeting professionals to rethink how they approach gathering. Meeting Trend No.1:

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Hubilo Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

To become one of these specialists, you need several skills like marketing, customer service, market research, communication, people management, and more. University of West Florida: It is one of the best universities in the USA, offering an accredited event planning certification course. Certificate in Event Management.

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Hubilo Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

To assist event profs with smooth event management we have curated a list with 97 best industry keynote speakers by industry. Alina Wheeler frequently speaks to management teams about brand fundamentals, processes, best practices, and critical success factors. Alina Wheeler Who is she? What is she known for? Where to find him?

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Endless Events

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Workshops are fast becoming the preferred activity for many conferences and meetings. Aside from the traditional conference format and the more immersive workshops, another event format is taking center stage: “brain dates”, one-on-one meetings that foster a new level of knowledge exchange. Orlando, Florida. Phoenix, Arizona.

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Event Planning BluePrint

JUNE 1, 2016

We luckily love in the land of federalism, so what is good for the residents and citizens of California might not be necessarily what the residents of Florida or Georgia like. In Georgia, Florida, those don’t exist. The planner is technically in breach of contract if they’re five minutes late to a meeting.

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Capterra Event Management

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Considering the fact that the first ten locations on Cvent’s Top 50 Meeting Destinations in the United States are major cities, this means that parking costs will be a factor for most events. Orlando, Florida. When you multiply these savings with your pool of conference attendees, ridesharing becomes non-negotiable. Conclusion.

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EveryEventGuide

MARCH 1, 2018

They are tasked to organize several meetings & conferences throughout the year. They have corporate events, off-site meetings, sales conferences, product launches, charity events, seasonal holiday parties, social galas etc. Each type of meeting calls for a different venue. Plans are nothing. Planning is everything.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

I n a real sense, Convene , which was launched in 1986, grew up alongside the meetings profession. As late as 1980, there was no textbook on meeting or exposition management and only one accredited college program devoted to its practice, former Convene editor Peter Shure pointed out in a 2003 story in the magazine.

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