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How to Write a Winning Proposal for Any Client

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How to Write a Winning Proposal for Any Client 10 April 2024 Writing a winning client proposal is both an art and a science. Historically, Destination Management Companies (DMCs) adopted the practice of presenting highly personalized proposals to clients, showcasing unique event designs, vendors, and ideas. So, let's dive in.

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Top 3 DMC Trends as Tracked by an AI Proposal Platform

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Just as you might make a look book for the top three or 10 destinations with images, square footages and prices, this makes it easy to show what is popular, creative and available when the client needs it. When you aren’t wasting time formatting your margins on the proposal, you can think the big thoughts creatively,” said Volmrich.

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Southwest Commits to Groups with Simplified Booking, Investment in Routes and People

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Dave Harvey, vice president and chief sales officer for the airline, explained that the new product makes booking and/or changing names for group flights—something that could have taken weeks of manual confirmations, approvals and information gathering in the past—a self-service task with the potential to be condensed into a few minutes.

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Groups360 Adds Choice Hotels to Group Instant Booking Platform

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Groups360 announced this week that Choice Hotels worldwide will be offering online instant booking for group guest rooms through their proprietary GroupSync Marketplace. Instant Group Booking at Scale Choice joins hoteliers Marriott , Hilton and IHG on the platform that allows meeting planners to direct book without the need to submit an RFP.

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Is the RFP Dead? Long Live Next Evolution of Booking

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Requests for Proposals (RFPs) are just getting longer, more prolific and, too often, ignored. There has also been a shortening of booking windows almost throughout 2021. While booking windows are typically about 180 days, he was seeing RFP booking windows of more than 200 days in March and as few as 150 days in late September.

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Craft The Perfect Event Proposal, Market Via Facebook Groups, and More

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That means you need to craft an (almost) perfect event proposal if you want approval. Nab That Client with Your Event Proposal. Aside from a sterling track record, having a good proposal also helps a lot in this regard. With Airbnb’s link with SiteMinder, hotels can also be booked through the Airbnb Boutique service.

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Will Meetings Thrive in 2024?

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Calendar year 2024 is already forecasted to show a healthy increase in group rooms nationwide, largely due to the number of meetings that had been on the books in 2021, 2022 and 2023 that were postponed or re-scheduled into 2024. Worse, the detail in the proposal is not what had been discussed and suddenly the prices have risen.

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