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Tips for Negotiating Your Next Big Event Contract

Smart Meetings

Payne, CMP, CMM, strategic partner at INNOV8 Meetings + Events , to get her take on the current marketplace and its impact on meeting planners, and some helpful tips and tricks planners should be looking at when drafting up a contract with a hotel or venue. Negotiate the Details Prepare for pushback on all fronts, Payne advised. “I

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Cool Event Venues For Your Next Event

Event Planning BluePrint

Whether you are planning an event for 10 people or 1000 people, you should think of ways to trade in the traditional conference room setting for cool event venues for your next event. You have probably noticed the rise in unique wedding venues such as Vineyards or breweries or rustic barns, highlighting the fact that people want different!

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Introducing the 2021 Event Planning Playbook

Event Farm

The Playbook provides three valuable tools for venue scouting. . Selecting an event venue. This section suggests questions to ask venues about compliance and safety, recommends venues with GBAC STAR accreditation, and advises following CDC guidelines on ventilation and sanitization. . Event risk assessment planning tool.

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25 Powerful Event Sales Techniques for Venues and Planners

Planning Pod

If you are somehow engaged in event sales – whether as a salesperson, business owner or manager in the hospitality and events industry – you already know that establishing successful sales practices and habits is the #1 way to grow revenues for private, group and in-person events. What are you looking for from a venue/planner?

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Business as Unusual: Shifting Live Events to Digital and Hybrid Experiences 

GEVME

Also, since there is a virtual element to it, you can find innovative ways to engage with the audience, reach a larger group of audience worldwide and get valuable insights and data from each event. . These leads are the main reason why brands do sponsorship in the first place. . Why Should You Shift Your Live Events to Hybrid?

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Top 5 Event Planning Courses for Planners

Event Planning BluePrint

Event Revenue and Sponsorship ROI. Negotiating with Vendors. If you want to attend in-person classes and earn your diploma in Event and Venue Management, Trebas is for you. contract negotiations, and. advertising and venue operations management. When Virtual meets In-Person: How to run a successful Hybrid Event.

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In-person events: The best planning and technology guide (2023)

SpotMe Blog

You have to consider the costs of: Venue rental Catering Transportation and accommodation for attendees Marketing and promotion Staffing and event production Technology like Wi-Fi, audio/visual equipment, and live streaming The total cost can easily reach tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars for large events.

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