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Steer Clear of These 8 Pitfalls: A Guide to Excellent Corporate Event Outcomes

Smart Meetings

RFP and Event Planner Selection When seeking an event planner, providing a detailed and comprehensive Request for Proposal (RFP) is crucial. Relying on event planners to ascertain the scope of work without this essential information can result in miscommunication and subpar planning outcomes. She is a 3x Inc.

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Designing a Wow-Factor Wedding Timeline: From Ceremony to Farewell Party

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Reception Activities: Add Some Wow Factor When planning a wedding reception, you want to make sure your guests are entertained and feel welcomed. Think outside the box when it comes to entertainment ideas for your guests. Rehearsal Dinner One of the most popular pre-wedding events is the rehearsal dinner.

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10 Questions About Hybrid Events, Answered

Endless Events

Today, we’ll begin by addressing questions related to hybrid events that most planners considered at least a couple of times. Everything you’d have to consider for an in-person event is still relevant – the venue, the speakers, the entertainment, the catering, and so on. The short answer is yes, you do.

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Production Schedule And Show Flow: What Is The Difference?

Endless Events

Because you’re an event planner, there is paperwork flying towards you from every direction. A lot of times, your producer, your PM, your client, your planner, if you have a meeting planner or a production planner or an event planner, anybody on the large scale thinking side gets a sort of hands put in this production schedule input.

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27 Event Planner Interview Questions

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In a world where technology, particularly artificial intelligence (AI) , is reshaping the event industry, the role of an event planner has taken on new dimensions. This is precisely why hiring the right event planner can make the difference between a seamless event and one fraught with chaos.

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Your 2021 Virtual Event Budget Checklist!

Endless Events

After more than a year of helping planners navigate the complex world of virtual events, we learned a thing or two about pain points. Will they be breakout, keynote, or entertainment? Pre-Production: Sourcing gear, rehearsals, pre-records. Entertainment. How many sessions? Live, pre-recorded, or simu-live?

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Tackling In-person Events as a Team at nSight 2022

Smart Meetings

Altogether, the teams collaborated to organize the event’s stage production, creative design, registration, staffing, lodging, transportation, entertainment and security. The elaborate program was rehearsed many times over, giving everyone confidence that the event would be a success. Takeaways for Planners.

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