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Creating Rock Solid Relationships with Your Event Vendor

By |2015-10-01T10:23:42-05:00October 8th, 2015|

Event planners rely on great vendors to make the events we manage a success. We are typically highly organized, type A personalities and we expect our vendors to be as organized as we are. I am sure you have some horror stories about dealing with vendors that maybe weren’t [...]

Breaking Down Your Food and Beverage Budget

By |2024-12-19T13:15:42-06:00September 10th, 2015|

Event planners and event managers are often tasked with creating the food and beverage budget for conferences or meetings and it’s usually a very significant part of the total event budget. While at first this number may seem like a lot of money, it can literally get eaten up [...]

The Power Goes Out and Guests Are on Their Way

By |2015-07-08T16:37:37-05:00July 8th, 2015|

As event managers there are so many parts of our job that are completely out of our control and we often have to make in-the-moment decisions based on little available information. I recently experienced that first hand, when an hour before our client’s event was scheduled to begin, the [...]

Planning an Event in a Unique Venue

By |2015-06-25T13:19:08-05:00July 2nd, 2015|

Let’s look at a hypothetical situation. Your client read my article “Not Another Boring Conference Room: Bringing Your Event to a Unique Venue” and was inspired to choose a unique venue for their event. To an event manager a unique venue would be defined as one that uses a [...]

Planning a Great Exhibitor Trade Show as Part of Your Next Conference

By |2015-06-16T11:47:50-05:00June 2nd, 2015|

More and more conferences now have an exhibitor trade show. A trade show is a great addition to a conference as it provides an opportunity for your delegates to network and also provides additional sponsorship and revenue opportunities for the conference. However, as an event manager this adds another [...]

Building and Maintaining Strong Relationships with Your Volunteers

By |2024-12-19T11:34:44-06:00January 15th, 2015|

Many of our clients rely on the work of volunteers to make their events a success. Volunteers are just as important as your attendees, exhibitors or speakers, yet they are often an afterthought. Here are some things to consider when recruiting, interacting and managing your volunteers. Create High Impact [...]

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