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The ‘New’ Outsourcing for Meetings: On-Demand and Task-Specific

EventMB

Meeting planners have been seeing more “Open to Work” badges on LinkedIn and hearing from colleagues who left in-house jobs to start their own firms. After leaving her job, she pivoted to her own company, Page-One Meetings and Events , which she had previously started as an LLC to do charity work.

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Paje Consultancy launch Learning and Development partnership with beam

Prestige Events Magazine

Paje are specialists in the meetings, events, and conference market, who offer bespoke training for venues, hotels, and agencies. Mandy has been a keen beam supporter and was on the events and training committees for over 12 years, involved in the first Code of Conduct and was herself the HBAA Venue Chair in 2007.

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Convene’s 27th Annual Meetings Market Survey

PCMA Convene

When we invited event professionals to participate in this Annual Meetings Market Survey in November, the U.S. In November, the economic recovery since the 2007–2009 recession was in its eighth year, and “showing little signs of fatigue,” according to Reuters. Thinking ahead — The average booking window for large meetings is 2.2

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Got Shrinking Room Blocks?

PCMA Convene

First a look at the numbers, taken from a decade’s worth of data gathered in Convene ‘s Meetings Market Survey: The average room pickup in 2007 was 6,009 — in 2016 it was 3,449. Meanwhile, the average number of attendees in 2007 was 4,400, while in 2016 it was 5,201. .

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What Does Frances McDormand’s Acceptance Speech Have to Do With Events?

PCMA Convene

As it turns out, the notion of an inclusion rider — a clause that an actor can insist be inserted in his or her contract requiring that the cast and crew on a film meet a certain level of diversity — was first floated at a conference. From 2007 to 2015, Smith’s research team had viewed the top 800 grossing films in the U.S.

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Wedding planning software: How we helped Blush by Brandee Gaar simplify processes and streamline her wedding planner business

Planning Pod

We started Blush by Brandee Gaar in 2007 and it took off quickly,” said Brandee. “I Each new contract would take him roughly 20 minutes just to transmit the data to their various programs. Just to write a contract, I would watch him go through all these crazy processes,” she said. “I

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Aisle Planner vs Honeybook vs Planning Pod – Wedding Planning Software Alternatives, Reviews and Pricing

Planning Pod

For this reason, we always recommend that wedding professionals set up a free trial when possible in order to see for themselves if a platform can meet their needs. Proposals & Contracts. In fact, the first version of our product created in 2007 was wedding planning software for couples and planners. Email Integration.