Smart Meetings

MARCH 7, 2025

However, for hotels considering bookings for 2028, he emphasized the importance of securing that future revenue now, ensuring they have committed business in place before the market shifts with the influx of new and upgraded properties. #2 The post Key Takeaways from MPI Northern California ACE 2025 appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 19, 2022

Do you sometimes wish you could book the most reasonably priced rental car by clicking a few buttons on your phone? The travel management company CWT just added car rental and train booking to their app and website to give travelers more independence in making their reservations at a time when travel costs are reaching historic highs. .

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Event Marketer

OCTOBER 28, 2024

If I was to see a repeating mistake, is that event marketers and organizers are not asking valid questions when negotiating their venue contracts. Is the venue willing to lose a booking from you to hold on to that exclusivity? Somewhere along the line they were told they couldn’t ask questions. They absolutely can.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Read More : How to Transform Events with Local Culture “We wanted to remind people that, unfortunately, hate is real and it’s not some mythical occurrence that happened in a book. You can negotiate it back in, but what’s the difference? This really happened,” Dunn says. “It Let’s look at Covid.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Read more: Helpful Budget Tips for Event Planners in a Post-Covid World Working with Third-Party Agencies Many third parties provide sourcing only, meaning they will find the destination, and other will assist in sourcing as well as contract negotiations. The larger groups are booking out at three to five years now.

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Attendease

AUGUST 26, 2024

Finding and booking an appropriate event venue 2. Negotiating with vendors and adhering to their policies 5. 5 Ways to Streamline Corporate Event Planning Corporate event planners have a lot on their plates—from negotiating with venues and vendors to designing memorable experiences that “wow” attendees.

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Velvet Chainsaw

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Future bookings are getting more difficult as organizations are more reluctant to take on new risks. No question, negotiating contracts is going to get more complicated as the industry rebounds. Challenges abound for event professionals looking to reduce housing block commitments.

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Eventinterface

JULY 11, 2017

As we speak with meeting and event professionals for our Interviews with Planners series, we continue to be amazed by the variety of books that help these talented professionals in their jobs as planners. Although traditionally a marketing book, the takeaway of standing out in a field of cows is very important in the events industry as well.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Reliable internet, A/V capabilities, and streaming options are non-negotiable. Unexpected cancellations, attendance fluctuations, and travel restrictions have made rigid contracts a dealbreaker.

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GEVME

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Since we understand just how important venue booking is, we have made a list of the best tips from event planners to help you sniff out the wrong venue option for your event: 1. Now, if you plan on booking it after just seeing the pictures, HOLD ON! Discuss the policies and identify the areas of negotiation.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 25, 2021

In addition to creative ideas for booking and engaging hybrid and in-person events and even a few RFPs, meeting professionals left armed with fresh new strategies for negotiating everything from contracts to relationships care of the bold Linda Swindling , author of Ask Outrageously! : Ask Outrageously.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 25, 2022

Read more tips for negotiating contracts amid Covid. . Now Global Head of Events, Training and Certification at Amazon Web Services, she has realized that the challenges meeting professionals are facing and the way they are learning has changed since she published her book pre-Covid. Contract and Negotiation Tips.

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GEVME

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Here’s a list of helpful books for event planning that may provide useful information on events organization and management and give event planners some real benefits for their business, for both corporate planners and their demanding clients. Enjoy our must-read event business books compilation. The top 20 books for event planners.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 18, 2024

The word “partnership” gets thrown around a lot in the events world, but when there are too few ballrooms for too many functions being planned, meeting planners and hotel and destination counterparts often find themselves on the losing end of negotiations that could be win-wins. Then she was blunt. “We

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Prestige Events Magazine

MARCH 6, 2023

An Advisory Board, representing a collective buying power of £320m, has been established for GRATIS, the end-to-end sourcing and booking tool provided by venuedirectory.com. At the inaugural meeting, Instant Book topped the agenda as part of the group’s drive to progress venue booking.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Master planner consultants offer 6 tips for negotiating your next corporate event Does this sound familiar? Look for Synergies When Booking Venues For corporate planners aiming to efficiently source for their next event, Shaffer offered up some initial tips. What should you include in the RFP? Events CEO Nancy Shaffer for answers.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 23, 2021

What contracts need to include and how to negotiate those from third parties. Business events and hotel group room bookings are nearly half of what they were in 2019. Glynn shared that this new threat is scary for every traveler, every planner, every third-party negotiator. Costs are changing and budgets must follow suit.

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

As you are seeing the fee’s mounting on you may have even wondered, “Can I negotiate AV charges?” But in order to negotiate venue AV charges, you must arm yourself with knowledge, strong negotiating skills, and the will to walk away if you need to. Video Transcription: Can I Negotiate Venue AV Charges?

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Conferences that Work

JULY 17, 2023

But I felt surprised, dismayed, and angry to discover that this $10 billion company, OpenAI, has misappropriated my copyright, by digesting my copyrighted book Conferences That Work: Creating Events That People Love without any notification, discussion, or thought of compensation. ChatGPT can be a useful tool. I don’t think so.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Sustainability Is Non-Negotiable More planners are prioritizing eco-conscious venues and destinations. Takeaway Tip: Suppliers who embrace these trends and market them effectively in their RFPs, proposals, and promotional materials will stand out as trusted partners for meeting planners.

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Event Marketer

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The Global Business Travel Association’s annual report and forecast cites factors other than the pandemic’s influence for creating a “dynamic environment” in business travel spend and booking. Bleisure’ is influencing how your event attendees are booking travel. Fact is, those that love to travel are ready to spread their wings.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 23, 2021

What contracts need to include and how to negotiate those from third parties. Business events and hotel group room bookings are nearly half of what they were in 2019. Glynn shared that this new threat is scary for every traveler, every planner, every third-party negotiator. Costs are changing and budgets must follow suit.

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SmartMeetings

JUNE 16, 2020

In the fifth of FICP’s new virtual education series, Financial & Insurance Professionals (FICP) Chats, more than 200 participants explored how to book group business for future meetings, including immediate adjustments for events, and how those were not being written into RFPs for the long-term. Budget Considerations.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

While in-person meetings are on the rise, meeting planners are booking much more short-term with less prep time. Prior to the pandemic, large events were booked up to three years in advance, whereas now, many are booked within the year. Read More : Negotiating and Cost-saving Tips for Real Meetings. Meeting Trend No.1:

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 28, 2023

Jaki Baskow reflects on celebrity booking trends in the top convention city In the 45 years talent broker Jaki Baskow has been booking celebrities in Las Vegas under the Baskow Talent brand, a lot has changed. He’s the best speaker I’ve ever booked. Prices, for one.

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Velvet Chainsaw

MAY 21, 2018

Marriott, Hilton and IHG have announced reductions in group-booking commissions from 10 percent to 7 percent for their North American hotels, to take place over a period of time this year and next. rebates negotiated by a CVB/DMO to win business. prepaid commissions at the time of booking instead of after actualization.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 20, 2024

Read More: Top Legal Issues Meeting Profs Should Be Aware of in 2023 What To Leave Out Cohen has a few suggestions for the things you leave on the negotiation room floor of your contract: Your own personal liability for any issues caused by a guest, such as room damage, and noise complaints. Damage provisions—are you liable for your guests?

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Velvet Chainsaw

JUNE 29, 2016

Many built their expertise in an industry or function, shifted to consulting and then wrote a book to launch their speaking career. Onsite Optimization – Captured or streamed keynote, concurrent session presentation, sponsor recognition, book signings, social channel engagement and VIP sessions/experiences.

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Planning Pod

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Be an open book with your clients and highlight value for money. Navigate negotiations: Approach negotiations as a partnership, focusing on long-term relationships and finding a win-win. Dont say: “This price is non-negotiable. Advocate for transparency: Build trust with open communication. ” 5.

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Velvet Chainsaw

APRIL 13, 2020

Room rates should be adjusted to keep attendees from booking outside the block. Look for hotels to run booking promotions and bring commissions back up to 10 percent. Also expect hotels to carefully review their practice of prepaying 50 percent of commissions to third parties at the time of booking.

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Event Marketer

JUNE 26, 2023

With those stats in mind and restaurant bookings at an all-time high, Resy launched a “Reservationship” campaign aimed at demonstrating to foodies that its platform helps them secure the perfect restaurant reservation every time they book. Resy negotiated with its restaurant partners to hold the reservations for dates two weeks out.

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EventSource

MARCH 13, 2020

Avoid It : Before booking your venue (or any vendor) have them check out the space and indicate whether or not extra equipment is needed. When it comes to your venue, you can always try to negotiate the inclusion of extra equipment or staff. . $$ : This could run you anywhere from several hundred to several thousand dollars.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Using various methods, businesses seek out attendees and exhibitors to recruit or pull them away from official negotiated hotel blocks. Misrepresentation : Poachers misrepresent themselves to sell bookings outside of the official hotel block. Notify attendees that haven’t booked in the official room block of possible poaching.

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Event Marketer

JANUARY 22, 2024

Reservations are going fast, even White Castle’s 300-plus locations are requiring bookings for its 33-year tradition of a Valentine’s Day Dinner from 4-9 p.m. With Valentine’s Day falling on a Wednesday this year, restaurants will be overflowing with the post-workday rush of couples hoping to have a night out together. on the big day.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 2, 2018

But the phone-tag negotiations moved at the speed of molasses. Surely, he thought, there must be a less aggravating way to book small meetings. So amid the flooding and frustration, he pivoted from another startup idea he was working on to pursue this: an online platform for automated, DIY instant bookings for small meetings.

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Conferences that Work

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

In his influential 1971 book A Theory of Justice , John suggested that “the fairest rules are those to which everyone would agree if they did not know how much power they would have.”. This leads to a number of problems, which I described in my first meeting design book: Conferences That Work. The sixth agreement…. …is

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 28, 2022

Sheaks, who deals with law in the restaurant and hospitality division, breaks down the force majeure process and points out the risks and legalities event planners and producers should be aware of when booking an event in a world recovering from Covid—where last-minute changes have become a regular, anticipated occurrence.

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