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

Smart Meetings

Negotiating contracts is the first step before confirming speakers, color themes or catering options. By negotiating F&B pricing upfront, planners can ensure a cost cap clause to avoid dramatic price hikes. When negotiating transportation contracts, look for fuel surcharges and make sure there is a liability.

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Fake women event speakers? We need to think bigger!

Conferences that Work

Fake women event speakers? Fake speakers Creating fake women speakers is just one tiny step in the right direction. Fake speakers Creating fake women speakers is just one tiny step in the right direction. How hard is it to make all your speakers fake? Make all your speakers fake! Lots of them!

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5 Financial Management Tips for Association Event Organizers

Eventmobi

Higher tiers will be more expensive and have more promotional opportunities for the sponsor, such as shout-outs from event speakers or a sponsored welcome video for a virtual event. Your event app presents various opportunities to promote your sponsors, speakers, and exhibitors. Exhibitor fees. Event app advertising.

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How Planners Can Manage The “Easy Button” in Events

Smart Meetings

Read more: Helpful Budget Tips for Event Planners in a Post-Covid World Working with Third-Party Agencies Many third parties provide sourcing only, meaning they will find the destination, and other will assist in sourcing as well as contract negotiations.

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Introducing the 2021 Event Planning Playbook

Event Farm

During the virtual session, the speakers shared their candid thoughts and approach to the different components within the playbook, and below is the recap of the discussion. The panelists offered tips about negotiating with venues and vendors: . Developing a transportation plan. Put technology to work here too.

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On the Road to Ground-Transportation Savings

MeetingsNet

The prices of airport shuttles and other ground-transportation services are revving up. According to a recent MPI Meetings Outlook survey, 85 percent of respondents expect to see price increases in ground transportation, and 38 percent expect those increases to be higher than 10 percent. Creative Ground-Transportation Cost Cuts.

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Lessons Learned from MPI WEC in Mexico

Smart Meetings

Thanks to all the vendors, sponsors, student volunteers & speakers. VanDeventer suggested planners looking into all-inclusive campuses either negotiate a solution for access or communicate robustly about the rules in advance—or both. A heartfelt thank you from the entire MPI staff at WEC23! It turned out clear.”

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