Prestige Events Magazine

AUGUST 5, 2024

Leading luxury catering and event management services provider Blue Strawberry Group has secured a five-year contract to deliver exclusive hospitality and event services at 8½ London – home to The Skinners’ Company. Blue Strawberry Group was awarded the contract after undertaking an extensive and highly competitive tender process.

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SmartMeetings

JULY 30, 2024

3 tips for events that meet goals and fit the budget As planners, we’re expected to deliver results while delighting our clients and staying on budget. For example: If you’re negotiating a contract in 2024 for a 2027 meeting, lock in menu pricing based on current prices. Check options for internet usage in the meeting space.

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Velvet Chainsaw

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Throughout 2022, nearly every meeting service provider continues to be short-staffed and plagued by last-minute no-shows or insufficiently skilled workers. To best prepare you, here are eight kinds of curveballs other meeting professionals have been thrown so far in 2022, with expectations extending into 2023— and how to deal with them.

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Prestige Events Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The arm of national catering business, Amadeus , responsible for the delivery of standalone event catering, has secured its latest contract with Unique Venues Birmingham (UVB). Events by Amadeus has been working with UVB since 2019, and the team have signed a new three-year contract to deliver catering provisions to the organisation.

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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

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

How to prepare for 2023 contract negotiations Yes, we’re out of the pandemic shutdown, but it’s not back to “business as usual.” From workforce shortages to inflation worries, what should event planners be looking for when it comes to 2023 contracts? On the “high” side: Larger deposits up-front for hotel contracts.

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SmartMeetings

JULY 28, 2023

What to do in advance and in the moment to meet your room block budget It seems simple. Book a block of rooms for meeting attendees based on the number of people and the times of the meetings. For example, does everyone sign up with enough advance notice to meet the hotel’s deadline? Just follow the formula, right?

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SmartMeetings

JULY 31, 2020

Meeting professionals are looking for guidance. Smart Meetings’ State of the Meetings Industry monthly confidence survey from June found planners looking at a glass that was most decidedly less than half full. Others focused on how much meeting professionals are learning about alternative ways to reach their goals now.

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SmartMeetings

MAY 8, 2023

. — Heather Mason is CEO of Caspian Agency , a senior fellow and instructor at San Diego State University and Smart Woman in Meetings Hall of Fame winner. You can subscribe to the magazine here. The post Meetings MBA: Budgets, Models and Forecasts appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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SmartMeetings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

The travel, hospitality and meetings industry has been one of the hardest hit during the COVID-19 slowdown. Independent planners are facing gaping holes in their calendars as meetings continue to drop off. Many organizations, including Smart Meetings , have turned their events virtual.

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Prestige Events Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Central Hall Westminster, part of Central Hall Venues group, has announced it has awarded a new £8m contract to in-house AV production services partner White Light. Situated directly opposite Westminster Abbey, the venue is renowned for hosting famous occasions and concerts as well as live and recorded Television shows in its Great Hall.

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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Complex gatherings require creative solutions Brandon Goodman Meeting professionals plan their tactical strategies for months before entering the Zone of Action in the ballroom. Read More : Hey, Busy Meeting Planner, You Feeling Stressed? We set up an environment to meet each specific client’s needs.”

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 4, 2024

We love fresh starts at Smart Meetings. The team has been busy rethinking the best way to curate the inspirational, innovative and empowering nuggets of wisdom that could pave the way to a bright, shiny meetings career for you and more transformational moments for your attendees. We asked you. You belong here.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 4, 2024

We love fresh starts at Smart Meetings. The team has been busy rethinking the best way to curate the inspirational, innovative and empowering nuggets of wisdom that could pave the way to a bright, shiny meetings career for you and more transformational moments for your attendees. We asked you. You belong here.

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Master the Event

JANUARY 9, 2024

Breaking into the meeting planning business takes a mishmash of education, experience and passion. It seems almost everyone I meet lately appears to have an interest in meeting planning and a meeting planner career. Immerse yourself in all things meeting planning.

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SmartMeetings

MAY 30, 2023

After all, it’s a two-way street with you and your supplier-partners, and it works best when the parties involved share the responsibility of making meetings work. As meeting professionals, there are a million moments of truth involved in your many roles, from initial conception of your events to paying the final invoices.

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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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Prestige Events Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2022

Judging by the increase in contracts confirmed and bookings moving to contracts that we have seen in three days since the news of the lifting of the Plan B restrictions, many event planners are gaining greater confidence to run live events,” says Adam Simpson, Director of Marketing for etc.venues. Contracts worth £1.6m

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SmartMeetings

OCTOBER 1, 2020

When the lights went dark on the more than $1 trillion meetings and events industry in March, the call to shelter in place dimmed prospects not only for 26 million people whose jobs are directly or indirectly connected to bringing people together, but also for the 1.5 billion globally who attend meetings and $2.5 Out of the Shadows.

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SmartMeetings

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Simultaneously, full-time, part-time and contract planning positions were slashed as “not needed.”. Supply, meet Demand as we move back into the world of live events. The post Meeting Industry Jobs Outlook appeared first on Smart Meetings. Rise of the Technical Producer.

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MeetingsNet

MARCH 7, 2024

When meeting professionals gather and commiserate, the perspective and wisdom in the room is priceless. After covering the meetings industry for 32 years, one of the few things I know for sure about this business is that nobody would hire me to be a meeting planner. Are you putting yourself out there?

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 4, 2024

We love fresh starts at Smart Meetings. The team has been busy rethinking the best way to curate the inspirational, innovative and empowering nuggets of wisdom that could pave the way to a bright, shiny meetings career for you and more transformational moments for your attendees. We asked you. You belong here.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

“They gave us three options: Terminate our original contract and they would return our deposit with no penalty, Reschedule the event in 2020 with new contract terms; or. Postpone to 2021 with the same contract terms.”. FAMP opted to renegotiate its contract terms and host an in-person event in 2020. Physical distancing.

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SmartMeetings

APRIL 1, 2024

DMCs are an untapped resource for meeting profs A Destination Management Company (DMC) could be the secret ingredient for meeting professionals cooking up their next event. What DMCs Can Do for Meeting Profs A DMC is truly a one-stop-shop. We are there to stay one step ahead of everything.”

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SmartMeetings

MARCH 26, 2024

Read More : Change Requests and How to Mitigate Risk What this means is that you can front-load the discussion that increased scope has on both your team and contracted team members. Heather Mason is CEO of Caspian Agency , a senior fellow and instructor at San Diego State University and Smart Woman in Meetings Hall of Fame winner.

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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

The evolution of the meetings landscape continued today with the announcement that Convene, which targets the small-meetings market by offering full-service facilities in five major American cities, has made a strategic investment in Bizly, an end-to-end software solution for meetings management.

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SmartMeetings

JUNE 29, 2021

She suggests meeting professionals reach out to their personal networks to find qualified help. Jeff Quade, executive vice president of exhibitions with convention logistics company GES, predicts the return of big meetings will be “a little lumpy,” particularly in some parts of the country, for the rest of this year.

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Prestige Events Magazine

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Optimism in the business meetings and events sector is high, with average event budgets on the rise, according to the Meetings Industry Association’s (MIA) latest MIA Insights. Despite this, just 6% feel that the business meetings and events sector is supported by UK government.

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Prestige Events Magazine

JUNE 12, 2024

The wait is almost over – The Meetings Show 2024 kicks off at ExCeL London next week, and final preparations are in full swing for what promises to be THE must-attend event for #eventprofs this summer. Other meetings industry professionals are welcome to attend by purchasing a non-buyer visitor ticket.

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Prestige Events Magazine

OCTOBER 30, 2024

HeadBox, the UK’s fastest-growing B2B meetings and events platform, is proud to announce the release of its latest whitepaper, “How AI is Solving the Event Industry’s Biggest Challenges.”

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SmartMeetings

MAY 22, 2020

Tech companies tested virtual meetings before they were cool. Smart Meetings talked to the planners behind the alt-launch and a bevy of other experts in streaming meetings and found out the answer is: “A lot.”. Most face-to-face meetings embody three major components: education, networking and commerce. The solution?

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Plan Your Meetings

MAY 31, 2018

Welcome to the inaugural edition of the Plan Your Meetings Professional Development Guide ! Exploring the meeting and event industry publications landscape, we recognized the need for something more like a career resource than a newsy magazine. The post Meet the New PYM Professional Development Guide! Let me know !

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SmartMeetings

MAY 27, 2021

Smart Meetings talked to three meeting professionals tasked with figuring out how to achieve company goals and engage their geek audiences and their evolving expectations and learning styles in ways that are meaningful and effective, regardless of how content is distributed. The Day the Meetings Stopped.

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MeetingsNet

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Many of the most-read articles from the past year will remain relevant in the year to come, with information on contract clauses and planning stress to EU entry regulation changes and, yes, shoes. Here’s our report from September 29, “ Hurricane Ian Damages Florida’s Peak Meetings Season.”. The top 10: Did you read them all?

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SmartMeetings

DECEMBER 13, 2019

However, since that’s not the world most of us inhabit, here are a few tips I’ve picked up from meeting planners over the course of my 14 years as a keynote speaker. Negotiate Your AV Costs Before Signing a Contract. In the words of one event planner, “Once I sign that contract, I can’t get them to budge on anything.

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SmartMeetings

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Let’s lobby to change how meeting professionals are categorized to elevate our worth The meetings industry is still relatively new. One signal that “meeting professional” is a new career track is the way government looks at us. You can subscribe to the magazine here. appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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SmartMeetings

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

November 11, 2016 – Smart Meetings, the leading media company and most trusted resource for meeting professionals, was awarded two Eddie Awards and two Ozzie Awards at the 2016 Eddie & Ozzie Awards by Folio in New York City. 1 resource for meeting planners,” says Marin Bright, CEO and founder of Smart Meetings.

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