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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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When Mother Nature Is an Unwanted Attendee at Your Meeting or Event

Smart Meetings

1: Know Your Location While you think you may know what types of weather to expect when you are in certain parts of the country, the truth is you cannot be too sure. Of course, this goes for your keynote speakers, caterers, audiovisual support, and the weather, too. How do these impact your plan for severe weather response?

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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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Lessons Learned from MPI WEC in Mexico

Smart Meetings

Be Flexible and Transparent Playa Del Carmen, Mexico, was not the location originally slated for this year’s WEC. They started having frank conversations with partners working on the next three years of events and vendors who had submitted RFPs, but had not been selected. Louis required VanDeventer and the team to pivot.

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Virtual and Hybrid Meeting Tech Updates You Need Now

Smart Meetings

How it impacts you: Automated back-end processes allow you to better manage speakers, sponsors, staff and meetings. Cvent: New Vendor Marketplace. What: A curated network of trusted vendors to support in-person, virtual and hybrid event requirements will be a core component of the Cvent Supplier Network.

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17 Common Event Planning Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

Social Tables

Ignore competing events Clients often approach planners with specifics in mind for an event, such as the date, location, or event design. Not only can rehearsals help speakers and presenters become more confident, but they also ensure that the event planning team catches and corrects technical issues.

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Maximizing Your Event’s Online Reach: How to Create a Successful Event Website

Traveler's Q

An event website serves as a centralized location for all information related to the event, from event details and registration to agenda and speaker bios. An event website serves as a centralized platform for the promotion, registration, and communication of all event-related information to the attendees.

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