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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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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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Venue Contracts for AV, Electric, and Internet: Read the Fine Print

MeetingsNet

Planners: Do not sign venue contracts for event production, electrical services, internet access, and support services until you read the full document—especially if you are bringing in an outside audiovisual company for the event, which usually results in extra conditions and raises prices for certain elements.

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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. Clearly identifying risks enables event planners to develop and implement targeted mitigation strategies. What is the potential of each risk?

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Why is DEI Critical to the Hospitality Industry?

Smart Meetings

Diverse vendors such as chefs, decorators, audio-visual technicians, professional photographers and a wealth of other industry talents bring rare culture to event destinations. ESPs representing hotels, CVBs and convention centers authentically strive for one common goal and that is to host a most memorable event for stakeholders.

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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. How often do you want to meet with your vendors?