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Mastering Event Contracts: Essential Negotiation Strategies for Meeting Planners in 2025

Smart Meetings

Avoid pitfalls and protect your event Contracts are the lifeblood and backbone of the meetings industry. Negotiating contracts is the first step before confirming speakers, color themes or catering options. Budget Cuts and Cancellations Shifts are bound to happen, especially for financial reasons.

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Event Planning Has Risen in the Ranks of Most Stressful Jobs

Velvet Chainsaw

This perfect storm significantly threatens the sustainability of associations and adds tremendous pressure to those who are organizing events to find ways to improve their financial performance. Event planners are experiencing sticker shock from rising costs for audiovisual, food and beverage, and other direct meeting expenses.

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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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How to Develop an Event Budget for Your Meeting

Eventmobi

To begin building your budget, it’s best to determine what financial success means for your event and how you want to measure it. Let’s take a look first at how you can determine what financial success means for your meeting or event before talking in more detail about cash flow. Food & Beverage @ $35/person.

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Event Contracts: Agree to Be Agreeable

SmartMeetings

Negotiation experts share tips for building win-win event contracts The ROI is in the details when drafting a vendor contract. A win-win contract allows everyone to feel that their biggest risks are covered and they can partner in good faith to execute confidently while working creatively to deliver the best event possible.

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7 Considerations: Financial and Insurance Planners Plot the Return to Productive Meetings

SmartMeetings

Some of those costs may be offset by fewer people attending in person, meaning less food and beverage, hotel rooms and travel costs will be incurred. The financial and insurance industry is based on relationships, and the more you can engage your clients, the more you can strengthen the relationship.

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Don’t Blow Up the Budget: How to Spend Less for More

SmartMeetings

Food and beverage is an essential element of any gathering—and it is also one of the costliest. It’s unfortunate that copious amounts of food go to waste, but event professionals need to ensure there is something for everyone and that there is enough. Savvy Contract Negotiations. In-House Catering.