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15 Big, Bold Trade Show Ideas from EMS 2025

Event Marketer

If a demo takes 15 minutes, how about a massage chair? Or a churro to sweeten up a 10-minute demo? Negotiate budgets like a pro. If you dont have a national sales rep, youre not negotiating, says Strickler-Vazquez about negotiating with event venues. Negotiate on ideas a venue or property can sell to others.

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EMS 2025: Everything You Missed on Day Two

Event Marketer

EVENING ACTIVITIES In the evening, conferencegoers once again mixed, mingled, demoed and dined during a happy hour in the Hall of Ideas.

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5 Ways to Streamline Your Corporate Event Planning

Attendease

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. Finding and booking an appropriate event venue 2.

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How Meeting Profs Can Find the Right Event Tech

Smart Meetings

Once you have narrowed down your top choices, you’ll then start emailing vendors to request demos. You need to send them what it is that you’re looking for, because you do not want to waste 30 minutes of your time with each of 10 tech vendor demos.” Once you start doing demos, ask a lot of questions and involve your teammates.

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Conference Management: What Event Organizers Need to Know

Eventmobi

Exhibitions and product demos are also regular occurrences. That way you can focus on tasks that need human input, like allocating resources and negotiating with sponsors. Others offer in-depth demos. Sign up for a free demo of EventMobi today to see if the tool meets your unique needs. Some tools offer free trials.

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Introducing the 2021 Event Planning Playbook

Event Farm

The panelists offered tips about negotiating with venues and vendors: . Leverage virtual queuing during mealtimes, demos, registration, and product pickups. Only work with venues that agree to comply with your protocols and stand by your decisions on ejecting non-compliant attendees. . Creating the event agenda.

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Event Management Platforms: Technology and The Experience of Planning Events

Eventmobi

All the research, content reading, and demos it takes to find a tool that solves a specific problem is extremely time-consuming. Less negotiating power. When buying separate tools, you can’t negotiate on price or feature bundling to save more. Request a Demo. E.g. IT, Marketing, etc.