Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Three weeks after Hyatt Corporation confirmed that it would cut planner commissions, thereby following the lead of three other large hospitality companies, Meeting Planners Unite held its first conference in Washington, D.C. MPU’s leadership is also focused on negotiating for new sources of revenue for planners.

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2019 Meetings Insurance Negotiating 89

Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Smart Meetings chatted with Michelle Crosby, CMP, CITP, an account executive at Bright Spot Incentives and Events, and Yvette Campbell, CMP, a meeting broker at Meetings Made Easy, to explore how planners can seek out third-party agencies and independent planners that fit their needs and how to integrate resources into their organization.

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Negotiating Management Contracts 2028 98

SmartMeetings

JULY 9, 2024

Tapping into women’s strengths for negotiation success We begin to learn the art of negotiation in childhood. As we grow, we begin to negotiate with our teachers, our coaches and our friends. And by the time we graduate from college, we realize everything in life is about negotiation. It is the power of HERsuasion.

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GEVME

AUGUST 15, 2019

Future meeting environments to increase event innovation. Let the sponsors choose the environments, provide you with the technical means and meeting environments, arrange zones for interacting with customers, or even offer something on their own. . Strategic meeting management is introducing more and more organisations into their work.

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2020 2019 Negotiating Technology 219

SmartMeetings

AUGUST 8, 2019

In a Smart Meetings exclusive webinar , Catherine Chaulet, president of Global DMC Partners, shared eight safety tips for your next intercontinental meeting. Whether you are planning a domestic or international meeting, attendee security is the top priority. Negotiate Carefully. Put Safety First. Get Everyone Home Safely.

Meetings 85

Meetings Negotiating Travel Contracts 85

GEVME

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Remember that negotiation may take time. A rider is a document containing conditions of a domestic nature, such as accommodations, food, transportation, security, and more. In the case of non-compliance with the norms established by the riders, the artist has the right to refuse to negotiate. What is a rider?

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Negotiating Transportation Contracts Events 168

MeetingsNet

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

A recent survey takes the pulse of meeting planners, asking about budgets, contracts, airfares, virtual meetings, and more. The latest meeting planner survey from Global Event Planners, the network of independent destination management companies, found that higher costs was a top challenge for 70 percent of the 200 planners surveyed.

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GEVME

APRIL 25, 2018

When organising a successful party or a business meeting for one of the most demanding category of event-goers, corporate staff, you need a well-laid-out plan. Discuss company improvements or project outcomes or motivate your team (business dinners or board meetings). Board meeting. How do you manage your event team?

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MeetingsNet

MAY 16, 2019

An online reseller of contracted meeting elements launches a week ahead of its industry rollout at the IMEX show in Frankfurt. When meetings are canceled, the group that signed the contract is typically responsible to pay either a flat fee or a percentage of the revenue they were to bring to the contracted supplier.

Meetings 89

Meetings Contracts Food and Beverage Hotels 89

SmartMeetings

APRIL 3, 2020

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 Insurance Meetings Food and Beverage 95

GEVME

JUNE 27, 2018

If you choose a popular meetings and events destination for your conference, you’ll have a huge range of venue choices. Explore available transportation modes, and ensure that people can easily reach the location by train, automobile, plane, or public transport. The best tips for selecting a conference venue.

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SmartMeetings

JULY 25, 2019

All-inclusive properties may seem like the holy grail of venues to meeting planners, and while they can make the planners job a lot easier, they don’t automatically guarantee a high-quality event. During your two- or three-night site inspection and prior to signing a contract, Wendell’s smart tip is “ negotiate, negotiate, negotiate.

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Negotiating Contracts Transportation Insurance 81

PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Business event planner respondents to Convene s 31st Annual Meetings Market Survey shared their biggest work challenges in open-ended responses, which fell into similar categories as the 2023 responses, but with budget woes taking the lead.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

As a luxury hotel sales director, youve seen how increasingly sophisticated meeting planners are becoming in their venue selection. Takeaway Tip: Suppliers who embrace these trends and market them effectively in their RFPs, proposals, and promotional materials will stand out as trusted partners for meeting planners.

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GEVME

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Choosing a venue for an event is also one of the first negotiation points as well. In order to carry out a targeted search for a venue, it is first necessary to determine the general conditions and criteria that a given venue must meet. Also think over transportation and other logistical requirements. Check the weather forecast.

Food and Beverage 166

Food and Beverage Venues Transportation Contracts 166

Social Tables

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

Negotiate with vendors. If you have an annual event, try to negotiate a multi-year contract where you get a discount if you commit to exclusively using their business. This not only applies to catering, but also transportation, rental space, floral, hotels, and dining establishments. Better events, no stress. Click To Tweet.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Meeting planners are responsible for the success of corporate events, conferences, and incentive programs. Hotels, CVBs, and destinations looking to attract more group business, need to understand the top pain points of meeting planners. Reliable internet, A/V capabilities, and streaming options are non-negotiable.

Meetings 52

Meetings Sustainability Contracts Tech 52

MeetingsNet

MAY 13, 2022

In addition to the executives at the convention center or hotel with whom you negotiate and execute the event—national sales reps, convention services managers, and chefs—you need to build trust with the audiovisual, destination management, and transportation companies that can make or break the experience.

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Trade Shows Negotiating Transportation Meeting Planning 98

Event Marketer

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Related Stories: Zeiss Shares Five Ways to Make Sales Meetings More Fun Q&A: San Francisco Travel Association Discusses Event Safety and Business 82% of travelers say business travel is ‘very or moderately’ worthwhile in achieving business objectives. percent increase in hotel rates. degrees Celsius,” Reuters reported. “It

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2024 Travel Trade Shows 2023 130

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Financial and insurance industry meeting planners face complex demands. Many plan both internal and customer events, incentive trips and sales meetings. To meet these evolving challenges, a record number gathered at the reimagined Sheraton Denver Downtown for the 2024 FICP Annual Conference this week.

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Insurance 2024 Financial Negotiating 97

PCMA Convene

JULY 29, 2022

The transportation and travel costs have prompted suppliers and planners alike to think critically about smarter ways of moving AV resources. Roberta Sumner, principal at VRS Meetings & Events, also has had to get creative when it comes to getting equipment to events on time and in a cost-effective way. John Rissi. Annette Suriani.

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2019 Transportation Hospitality Travel 124

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Choosing Bellevue to Host Lenovo Tech World 2024 Meeting Attendee Needs Marty McCormack, destination sales manager, Visit Bellevue Bellevue is a major tech hub in the Pacific Northwest, which made it a top choice right off the bat. Its position as home to numerous tech companies makes it a prime choice for tech meetings in particular.

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2024 Tech Transportation Negotiating 84

MeetingsNet

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

How to stretch your event budget for food and beverage, event tech, ground transportation, and venues. The costs of holding a meeting or convention have skyrocketed, but most planners find their budgets just aren’t budging—at least, not enough. Need to Cut the Meeting Budget? On the Road to Ground-Transportation Savings.

Food and Beverage 59

Food and Beverage Meetings Transportation 2023 59

GEVME

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Remember that negotiation may take time. A rider is a document containing conditions of a domestic nature, such as accommodations, food, transportation, security, and more. In the case of non-compliance with the norms established by the riders, the artist has the right to refuse to negotiate. What is a rider?

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Negotiating Transportation Contracts Events 120

Cvent: Event Marketing

MAY 21, 2019

What negotiating with hotels boils down to is synchronized value – in other words, you have what they want (occupied guest rooms, meeting space and food and beverage revenue), and they have what you want (a great hotel at a desirable location). If possible, do your negotiations in person or via a video chat. Meeting Rooms.

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Negotiating Hotels Food and Beverage Venues 39

Eventinterface

MAY 4, 2017

Unfortunately, a lot of meeting and event planners tend to overlook some of the details that can be the difference between booking quality entertainment and not booking the best entertainment available – or worse, not booking any entertainment at all. Know the Negotiation Process.

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Entertainment Conference Negotiating Contracts 100

SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Negotiation experts share tips for building win-win event contracts The ROI is in the details when drafting a vendor contract. Read More : Why AI Might Mean Salvation for the Meeting Industry Payne believes in creating a custom contract for each client that addresses all hotel fees and surcharges.

Contracts 98

Contracts Negotiating 2024 Hotels 98

Social Tables

JUNE 12, 2024

Transportation vendors. The layout of an event venue plays a prominent role in the transportation vendors required to accommodate attendees. Consider offering airport transportation or providing hotel shuttles for out-of-town events. Consider offering airport transportation or providing hotel shuttles for out-of-town events.

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Contracts Food and Beverage Entertainment Venues 158

Smart Meetings

JUNE 19, 2023

How can meeting professionals create an environment that will not only set the tone that aligns with the client’s brand but also connects with everyone regardless of their cultural, social, racial or ethnic background? Meeting professionals may run the risk of dealing with hidden fees. Yet there is a counterpart to this.

Contracts 98

Contracts Transportation Negotiating Events 98

Canadian Special Events

JUNE 9, 2017

ground transportation. I always try to remind my clients about the fact that these riders are considered part of the legal binding contract and they are negotiable as long as we negotiate BEFORE SIGNING. Everything and I mean everything, is negotiable. This may include: hotel rooms. merchandise sales. Hospitality Riders.

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Negotiating Contracts Entertainment Hospitality 40

SmartMeetings

JUNE 3, 2019

Smart Meetings asked experts about their tricks for creating a phenomenal experience while spending a minimal amount of money. Related : 4 Easy Tips for Reducing Meeting Waste. It’s more difficult to negotiate prices with a venue that outsources its food and beverage service, as it doesn’t have much control over food options.

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Food and Beverage Contracts Negotiating Financial 86

MeetingsNet

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

For example, do you really need to hold that meeting off-site and in person? For board meetings and other smaller business events, is a virtual meeting an option? Yes, attendees are a bit tired of online events, but they are effective for short meetings to exchange information. Ground-Transportation. Event-Tech.

Food and Beverage 59

Food and Beverage Meetings Transportation Consulting 59

GEVME

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Choosing a venue for an event is also one of the first negotiation points as well. In order to carry out a targeted search for a venue, it is first necessary to determine the general conditions and criteria that a given venue must meet. Also think over transportation and other logistical requirements. Check the weather forecast.

Food and Beverage 120

Food and Beverage Venues Transportation Contracts 120

SmartMeetings

JUNE 13, 2020

In the latest Smart Meetings Accelerator “ Top Planner Contract Questions Answered ,” Lisa Sommer Devlin, an expert in contract law at Devlin Law Firm , answers those very questions (and more) for planners. You’re supposed to be negotiating one complete document rather than a contract and an addendum. More : J.D.

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Contracts Hotels Negotiating Airlines 109

PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

COP26 is shorthand for the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, a summit which brought leaders from more than 130 nations together to negotiate a global plan to address climate change. It also was the site for negotiations. People said, ‘If we have to do this, we will — but we cannot negotiate.

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Negotiating Sustainability 2030 Government 98

Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Read More: Defy Conventional Meetings in Sacramento Education for Prosperity, in Life and Work On the first day, attendees met one-on-one with select industry partners to efficiently connect with organizations that offer solutions specific to their association’s needs. Inspiring, it certainly was.

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Trade Shows 2023 Education Negotiating 98

Planning Pod

APRIL 12, 2020

Like a sales meeting to train and motivate your sales force. Where would be the ideal location for these attendees to meet? Before you plan your first tasks or spend your first dollar, your event must have a singular purpose or goal that will drive all decisions moving forward. Event Income.

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Food and Beverage Social Media Insurance Entertainment 206