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What Event Planning Best Practices Are Here to Stay?

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As times are constantly changing, it is important to have your board, staff or associations review everything prior to planning your event to make sure you are in line with the current atmosphere and regulations. Flexible Contract Language. The post What Event Planning Best Practices Are Here to Stay?

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17 Common Event Planning Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

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Event planning consistently ranks as one of most stressful jobs in the U.S. Whether planners find themselves forced to work with difficult personalities, try to juggle juxtaposing requests, fix event planning mistakes, or balance dozens of last-minute event changes, event planners have plenty of reasons to feel stressed.

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How DMCs Can Help You Manage the Unexpected

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The EPCP teaches that preparedness is "a continuous cycle of planning, organizing, training, equipping, exercising, evaluating, and taking corrective action to ensure effective coordination during incident response. Civil Disturbances : Is your event taking place on the anniversary of a protest? Is another expected?

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Top Legal Issues Meeting Profs Should Be Aware of in 2023

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Force Majeure Clauses As we all learned over the last three years, force majeure clauses focus on liability when unforeseen circumstances impact the ability for one or both parties to perform the contracted activities. However, the more vague the wording, the harder it will be for those looking to cancel or terminate an event contract.

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Top 12 Event Planning Certifications You Need To Propel Your Career

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Ever wonder how the alphabet soup of CMP, CSEP, CPCE, and CGMP can prepare you for a successful career in event planning? Curious whether event planner courses and event planning certifications are worth it? Not sure how to become an event planner? This is the article for you! Learn more: ILEA 3.

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The Top 12 Event Planning Certifications

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Ever wonder how CMP, CSEP, CPCE, CGMP prepare you for event planning? Curious if event planning certifications can actually help you learn more about the industry or take your career to the next level? We'll also show you how to use online event planning classes to your advantage at the end of the article.

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3 Easy Ways Planners Can Reduce Risk Today

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Event planning is a risky business. Recent natural disasters, labor strikes, even a massive data breach that may have compromised the identities of 500 million Starwood guests, have illustrated the number of things that can go wrong in the event professional world. Contracts are self-inflicted wounds,” he says.

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