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3 Easy Ways Planners Can Reduce Risk Today

Smart Meetings

In the same fashion, planners need to do their research when hiring vendors. Too often, planners end up footing the bill for mistakes and mismanagement on the part of vendors, all of which could have been avoided beforehand. You hired the vendor. You can’t insure against everything.

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Local Food Vendors in Washington, DC – 3 Ways to Discover Food for Your Next Event

Social Tables

Today’s event attendee is looking for a unique perspective on the culture and creations of a city’s emerging maker community. Here are our top 3 best practices for finding local vendors: Instagram. Local Markets. We are luckily to live in a region with incredible markets that highlight the best-of small business in the region.

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How to Organize a Successful Event – 10 Top Tips for Perfect Events

Eventtia

Your budget will dictate many different elements of your event, so while you don’t have to have everything set in stone, it’s important to at least have an outline of your budget estimation before planning anything else. Some of the critical elements you should include in your budget are: Venue: both the rental cost and required insurance.

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Master Conference Planning With These Pre-event Checklist Templates

Bizzaboo

☐ Secure a printing and promotional vendor. ☐ Establish and secure additional vendors (e.g., ☐ Secure a certificate of insurance (COI). . ☐ Secure a certificate of insurance (COI). Additionally, you’ll need to segment your pre-event marketing communications to cater to your different audiences.

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The Complete Checklist to Hosting an Event

Eventtia

Since a crucial aspect of successful event planning is to maintain a strict timeline, we’ll divide this checklist into several phases so you can easily keep track of your event’s actual timeline based on these phases. Identify other vendors that may have dependencies with your venue choices (i.e., Event website.

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Master Conference Planning With These Pre-event Checklist Templates

Bizzaboo

☐ Secure a printing and promotional vendor. ☐ Establish and secure additional vendors (e.g., ☐ Secure a certificate of insurance (COI). . ☐ Secure a certificate of insurance (COI). Additionally, you’ll need to segment your pre-event marketing communications to cater to your different audiences.

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How to Safely Return to In-Person and Hybrid Events

Bizzaboo

Over the past year, event planners have become incredibly innovative in their virtual event use cases. And while virtual events have many benefits in their own right, it was never a question of if live events would come back, but when. Event Insurance. 9 Live Event Safety Measures. Source: Bizzabo.