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How to Promote Your Event on Social Media in 2023

Eventtia

While our focus on this guide is how to use social media to promote our events, we’ll also need to consider the other available channels and best practices. If this is your first event and/or you are a brand new event organizer, you can purchase email lists from various vendors. Social Media Event Promotion: Tips and Tricks.

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How DMCs Can Help You Manage the Unexpected

ADMEI

Even the most meticulously planned events can fall prey to natural disasters, a pandemic, vendor cancellations, and keynote speaker travel delays. Will travel routes be affected? Contracts : Are your contracts with venues and vendors solid? Do your vendors and venues have emergency plans? Is another expected?

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Hybrid Event Budget: 7 Items & Tips To Consider

Endless Events

The best way to get an estimate is to start calling vendors and building your event RFP. Rather than booking an impersonal hotel ballroom, book a non-traditional venue. And last but not least, book it early. Do not book more speakers than you absolutely need to give attendees quality. Include them in your proposal.

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17 Common Event Planning Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

Social Tables

While planners want to meet the wishes of their clients, it is important not to book dates blindly. Agreeing to a date and booking a venue without further research could cause complications that harm event success, accommodation availability, and the attendee experience. Complicated vendor setup. Activities starting late.

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Everything You Need To Know To Create Your Event Timeline

Endless Events

Booking major venues and event entertainment is something that should be done as soon as possible. Select your venue, virtual platform, and major vendors. Other important vendors that need to be booked well ahead of your event include your AV team, entertainment, and speakers. Finalize your vendors at least 3 months out.

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Will Meetings Thrive in 2024?

Smart Meetings

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. We need to do everything we can to help them boost their number of events, attendees and budgets.”

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The 10-Step Guide to Nonprofit Event Planning

Social Tables

Operations Manager: An event operations manager oversees vendor communication. Operations managers negotiate prices, book vendors, place supply orders, and communicate vendor details between the planning team, venue, and benefiting organization. Book a venue for the press conference and serve refreshments.