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Your Guide to Vendor Management

Motivation Excellence

But what about vendors? Problems with a vendor can disrupt even the most well-structured of businesses, and that kind of disruption stresses your employees and often spells disaster for your clients. To avoid this particular domino effect, you need to manage your vendors well. A Vendor Management Definition.

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It’s Time to Re-Evaluate Your Event Tech Stack

Endless Events

Kyle adds that this documentation helps you remember things after the event to re-evaluate your tech stack after an event or before the next one. . Map-Based Tools for Exhibitor and Vendor Relations. Exhibitor and vendor relations is another area that requires a lot of correspondence and time between event planners and exhibitors.

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Five ways explicit communication improves meetings

Conferences that Work

But often, explicit communication — saying or writing what’s needed to guide or influence desired behavior — improves matters over staying silent or beating around the bush. Here are five examples of how explicit communication improves meetings. A little explicit pre-party communication will improve your meeting.

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Four Crucial Questions To Ask When Developing an Effective Contingency Plan for Events

Smart Meetings

Additional considerations should be given to the number of attendees, crowd management, alcohol-related incidents, traffic management, emergency evacuation, and vendor management. Communicate clearly with the stakeholders and event participants. What is the potential of each risk? How will the plan be tested and reviewed?

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15 Best Collaboration Tools for Event Planning

Endless Events

You’re dealing with vendors, speakers, performers, caterers, marketers, the media, you name it. It allows teams to share assets (fonts, images, colors) and collaborate on documents. As an event planner, you likely need to send a range of materials to your marketing team, vendors, sponsors, and everyone else involved with the event.

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17 Common Event Planning Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

Social Tables

Take advantage of free event planning software that makes it easy to communicate event updates. Not staying in touch with attendees prior to a free event While pre-event communication is always recommended regardless of the cost of attendance, the no-show rate can be as high as 50% for free events. Complicated vendor setup.

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Virtual Event RFP: What To Include (With Free Template!)

Endless Events

You can download your very own copy of our Excel template, which includes everything you need to outline your requirements and compare potential vendors. As you read through what you should include in your virtual event RFP document, some things will be very familiar. Timeline, Budget & Communication. Once a month?