Endless Events

AUGUST 22, 2018

And if you don’t understand the quote, it can be tricky to know how to negotiate on the price , or if you hold any power to negotiate whatsoever! Get started with negotiating AV prices by: Learning AV lingo. If you don’t see that piece of equipment on site, then you are in good standing to negotiate with your vendor.

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MeetingsNet

APRIL 17, 2023

Whether your meetings specialty is event design, contract negotiations, operations management, sustainability, risk management, virtual events, speaker trends, food & beverage, or something else entirely, our call for speakers is seeking fresh voices to educate and spark new ideas for meetings and conventions.

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Eventmobi

MAY 23, 2024

Oftentimes, conferences include keynote speakers and workshop sessions, each designed to educate attendees. That said, conventions also aim to educate attendees via speeches, panels, and workshops. These aim to educate attendees on tech ideas and products while also encouraging networking. Might we suggest EventMobi?

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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. Uncertainty Persists in the Short Term.

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MeetingsNet

MARCH 25, 2020

Understanding things like event-insurance fine print and which areas of operation hotels get group revenue from will help planners become better at contracting and negotiating. This article from Reuters has more details on the postponement-clause fine print in those event-insurance contracts.

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Event Planning BluePrint

JUNE 1, 2016

Question: Have you ever run up against a client who suddenly stopped paying for your event services, which left you wondered what to include in your event legal contracts to protect you and your event business? Your Event Legal Contracts. At what point do you sue over breach of contract? (16:29). Geneen via @eventblueprint.

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MeetingsNet

OCTOBER 2, 2017

However, as is the case when contracting with any meeting venue, think about what you are committing to before you sign the contract. Here are some questions that Grimes says planners should ask when contracting with cruise lines: • What is included and what’s extra? Try to give yourself some room to negotiate, he suggests. •

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 25, 2022

Read more tips for negotiating contracts amid Covid. . Contract and Negotiation Tips. We skipped to the good part—Negotiating Rooms: Cancellation, Attrition, Rebooking and Reselling — where the big idea is planning for contingencies. They even flew in some of the rovers for people to see.

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MeetingsNet

JANUARY 13, 2023

If you can’t get the hotel concessions your stakeholders are expecting, it’s in your best interest to educate them about the current landscape. Let’s face it, being on either side of the table in hotel-contract negotiations is tough these days. Here’s how one meeting professional does it. Where does that leave planners?

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SmartMeetings

JANUARY 5, 2024

Problem clauses to consider fixing or downright excluding Sometimes, in an attempt to cover all of our bases by including every conceivable contract clause, we trap ourselves in the outfield with confusing and unenforceable language that leads only to lawsuits and court cases. Lowest Rate Every contract is a futures agreement.

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SmartMeetings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

They help educate, promote, get work done and reward or celebrate the workplace. Ask the event sales staff for a booking date during a time where they need extra revenue and they may be willing to negotiate a deal. This sometimes results in a more expensive event contract than if you were to start with one of the pre-designed packages.

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MeetingsNet

APRIL 8, 2021

On Global Meetings Industry Day, hospitality-sales veterans detailed how availability, contracting, and staffing will be different for meetings after the pandemic. Another area requiring flexibility and constant communication: service levels.

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Endless Events

APRIL 8, 2019

Education Is Key. Much like everything in life, the more educated you are on a matter, the better you’ll do. We had to do it as far as we had to start putting it in our contract because even though this stuff is pretty common across AV companies, people would always be shocked”, says Will. Be Creative!

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Smart Meetings Extraordinary Experience focused on setting and reaching event goals When some of the most productive meeting professionals in the world meet in majestic The Westin La Paloma Resort & Spa in Tucson for three days of education, inspiration and networking, the experience has to be over the top. “We

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SmartMeetings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

With a computer and internet connection, you have access to a world of education. In your spare time, turn your attention to a virtual meetings education. Of course, a host of continuing education and certification courses are available for the meeting and events industry.

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Eventinterface

MAY 2, 2017

This is followed by an educational session for which attendees receive CEU credits. Educational sessions vary and can include topics such as contract negotiations, risk mitigation, and others. Partners also participate in educational workshops.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 14, 2023

Read More: Cvent’s Event Tech Roadmap According to filings, at the end of last year, Cvent had approximately 22,000 customers globally in the corporate, non-profit, higher education and hospitality sectors as of December 31, 2022.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 2, 2024

Whether the playing field is national politics, a Southern California crime scene or a hotel contract negotiation, leading with love, empathy and respect is the fast track to building relationships across what might otherwise feel like unfathomable divides, according to keynote Corporal Ryan Tillman.

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Event Industry News

APRIL 17, 2019

Industry leaders help create educational content for the online community. Paired with limited educational and training options, unprotected and inexperienced individuals operating as ‘professionals’ bring unnecessary risk to event hosts and lower the professional value while adding to the guesswork for the customer. .

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SmartMeetings

MARCH 27, 2020

Online education is the fastest way to master skills from the convenience of your laptop while earning credits toward your CMP and hearing from experts in the field,” said Howard Givner, founder and CEO of Event Leadership Institute (ELI), which has partnered with Smart Meetings to offer Smart U, Meeting Professional Masterclasses.

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Attendease

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Educational? Make sure you have signed contracts in place at least three months out. How does this event align with our overall corporate strategy and goals for the year? What are the 2-3 key messages we want to communicate through this event? What type of experience do we want to create for attendees? Entertaining?

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Endless Events

MAY 13, 2022

Before we get into the formal education side, we have to acknowledge that event planners need to have a set of particular soft skills. Their curriculums typically consist of courses, such as experience design, event marketing, event financing, venue management, agreement negotiating, and more.

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Connect Your Meetings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

How would you handle an unanticipated budget increase of $40,000 because the venue’s contract had fine print that dictated your client had to use the in-house preferred supplier for all breakout rooms? Being able to work with your own preferred AV supplier begins with negotiating solid and comprehensive language into the venue contract.

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Eventmobi

JULY 13, 2023

These event speakers promote a more inclusive and equitable workplace, educating your team on the importance and benefits of diversity. Get contracts signed. A signed contract helps protect both parties and outlines expectations clearly. Now it’s time to negotiate! Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) advocates.

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Eventinterface

JULY 14, 2016

Don’t bother yourself with learning the hotel language, use a company like HelmsBriscoe to help with negotiating and contracting – it will save you lots of time. I know that I’m successful when my client at the end of the year tells me that I saved the company X dollars through negotiating and careful contracting.

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Master the Event

DECEMBER 13, 2023

A Destination Management Company, for example, knows the local suppliers well and are much better positioned to negotiate on your behalf. You may be surprised to know that a 3rd party planner does not necessarily mean an increase in the budget. Sometimes it’s the exact opposite.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 26, 2024

Transparency is an asset when negotiating with vendors Incentive packages have greatly improved over the years in both quality and customization. Using transparency in your negotiation process isn’t just appropriate, it is often expected, as many vendors offer a surprising amount of flexibility.

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Endless Events

OCTOBER 31, 2018

It’s best to be educated and prepared when working with an AV Union to prevent being caught off guard. He will cover the basics of contracts, how the staff is AV union staff is hired, shadow labor and more. Unions have contracts with the venue. Here’s our contract.” Hard to negotiate.

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Event Leadership Institute

JULY 28, 2021

Please note: This story and referenced webinar are intended for educational purposes only and do not replace independent professional judgment. If you or your organization require expert assistance, you should contract the services of a professional. The most important thing is to be a fully informed planner, Eisenstodt said.

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Event Planning BluePrint

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Today, I am sharing some of those insights, particularly focusing on the aspects of vendor and venue selection, negotiation strategies, and understanding contracts—key components that can make or break an event. Negotiation Strategies: Maximizing Your Event Budget Negotiating with vendors and venues is an art.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

And what are some negotiation strategies that can help you get an incredible deal? And this, of course, includes the AV company you’re signing a contract with. Take it upon yourself to learn about event AV and get educated on the subject as much as you can. Negotiation Goes A Long Way. Negotiating Event AV Costs.

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Social Tables

MAY 14, 2019

While for an event where the purpose is to educate, a key measure of success will likely be how well content translates into attendee engagement. But that’s not to say you can’t negotiate. Tips for negotiating a bigger event budget When it comes to negotiating an event budget , the language stakeholders speak most fluently is data.

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MeetingsNet

AUGUST 19, 2019

As a speaker for Executive Speakers Bureau , I educate individuals and organizations all across the country by sharing my experiences from my FBI career. And if it was a meeting planner/company, it could be anything from invoices and contracts, to basic contact information. And I’ll tell you how! Over the past three decades, Scott E.

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Event Industry News

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The VoE partnership which has been entered into for three years will realise c£6K sponsorship to the school furthering education and learning. As an organisation, Paddy & Scott’s have their own farm in Kenya and divert profits towards rebuilding the local school and fuelling the ambitions of the local community.

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SmartMeetings

APRIL 1, 2020

For example, Mark Herrera, director of education and life safety with International Association of Venue Managers, faced his choice in early March. Dominguez acknowledged that, often, meeting planners often have no choice but to pull the plug as they are tasked with undoing years of contracts in a day. Don’t Overreact or Underreact.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Multiple representatives on the panel advised planners to evaluate contracts more carefully than ever—don’t pre-assume anything as a given if it isn’t explicitly stated in the contract. Read More: Tips for Negotiating Your Next Big Event Contract During the open Q&A, planners aired frustrations—contracts are time-consuming already.

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Eventtia

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

On the other hand, you could be planning an event focused on knowledge sharing, such as product masterclasses, where the main aim is to educate and empower your audience. Here are questions to help you determine your non-negotiables: What are your core functional requirements? What security features are key?

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