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9 Proven Steps for Planning Successful Events

Planning Pod

Sales (registrations, exhibitors, sponsors, donors) Marketing (web site, social media, email, blogging) Catering / food-and-beverage preparation Talent booking and coordination (keynote speakers, entertainment, etc.) Audio visual and event production Custodial / electrical Security Photography / videography.

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The Future of Meetings Starts with Rebuilding Trust

SmartMeetings

Those steps, and others, will be necessary to both reduce risk and assure transient travelers and event groups that safety is everyone’s top priority, according to more than 300 participants in the first-ever virtual Financial & Insurance Professionals (FICP) Chats last week. Sanitation Ratings.

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Budget Financial Meetings: Doing More with Less

SmartMeetings

Meetings in the financial and insurance sector require outside-the-box thinking. The economy was humming along before the coronavirus hit, but even then the majority of meeting planners in the financial and insurance industries were keeping their budgets in neutral. Financial and insurance meetings in the U.S.

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Financial Meeting Planners Face Special Challenges During Crises

SmartMeetings

When the going gets tough, the tough cut costs—at least in the financial and insurance conference sector, where budgets often are more likely to come under the scrutiny of regulators. Managing risk is particularly important in the financial and insurance meetings sector, and meeting planners play a key role in this process.

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How to Start an Event Venue Business: Two Experts Share 20 Secrets for Opening an Event Space

Planning Pod

Dianne agrees that assessing your target audience’s needs and what venue options are already in the area should be done long before you lay a single brick for your new conference center or event space. A full service kitchen ideally would be my preference because you get the freshest food,” Michael adds. “If Are you charging enough?

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Planners Get Straight Talk from Hotel Owners

MeetingsNet

At a recent meetings-industry conference, hotel executives explained how their properties struggle to balance rising operational costs with competitive rates for meeting groups. Also, group food and beverage contributes about as much profit as guest rooms.

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Post-COVID: Return to Association Events and Travel

StraussCA

The consensus is that people are excited to get back on the plane towards the conference halls, tradeshow floors, and board room tables. This will include food and beverage for your attendees, insurance, and travel costs, just to name a few. How will the association world continue to change? Feasibility. Networking.

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