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How Vendor Relationships Rooted in Shared Goals Lead to Success

Convene by PCMA

Ascend Integrated Media provides daily newspapers, exhibit guides, digital communication tools, and sponsorship items for conferences with the goal of helping association clients increase revenue and ROI. For others, a vendor relationship enhances strategic and creative thinking. This will help ensure you get what you need.

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

Smart Meetings

Who are your vendors, and would they be self-sufficient in preparing for a weather event, or would they need emergency guidance? In addition, forming solid relationships with your venue hosts and maintaining good communication with them will benefit you if an emergency arises and you need to make changes on short notice.

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Business Travel Strikes Back, A New Company Culture Dawns

Smart Meetings

While “90% of large companies have committed to hybrid work plans [that reduce] the touch points that once conveyed company culture, for all companies, including those which never went remote, unprecedented reports of burnout are signaling that businesses must quickly adapt,” said GBT. We learned quickly how well the remote model worked.

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The Mega Guide to Live Streaming Events

Endless Events

In order to decide on your purpose, you have to consider your remote audience. Consider what you want the live stream to accomplish by thinking through these questions: Do you want the remote audience to have the same in-room experience as people at the event? Do you want your remote audience to be able to network?

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Evolution of Spatial Design Technology Could Simplify Event Planning

Smart Meetings

Another event planning platform that started in the wedding planner world is Merri , which has evolved to include 3D visualization, seating chart tools and a shopping cart to create rental orders from preferred vendors.

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Lessons Learned from MPI WEC in Mexico

Smart Meetings

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. “An Thanks to all the vendors, sponsors, student volunteers & speakers. Construction delays at America’s Center Convention Complex in St.

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Best Project Management Tools for Event Planners

Endless Events

No matter if you’re managing multiple tasks related to an event, keeping your team in order, or communicating with clients, you’ll likely use a digital project management tool. Slack claims to be the future of business communication. The entire team can quickly communicate through these channels to share files, insights, and updates.

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