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Steer Clear of These 8 Pitfalls: A Guide to Excellent Corporate Event Outcomes

Smart Meetings

Steering clear of these common pitfalls is key to ensuring that your event not only meets its goals but also provides a memorable and gratifying experience for everyone involved. This timeline ensures both the production team and speakers are adequately prepared, contributing to a smooth event flow.

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How to Build a Risk Assessment Checklist

Smart Meetings

The definition of “risk” has grown beyond the traditional definitions of financial, operational, reputational and security issues meeting professionals checked off their list as they prepared to bring people together in days of old. That is a lot to consider: create what-if scenarios for and rehearse responses to “just in case.”.

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Contingency Plans Save the Day for Events, Again and Again

Smart Meetings

By being prepared for any last-minute disruptions, you can go into your event confident that you and your team will know how to handle anything thrown at you. Hargrove, however, was prepared with a swift response. Smart Meetings spoke with Vice President of Event and Trade Show Production at Hargrove, Lisa Miller. 29 to Oct 1.

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EventMobi Redefines the Role of Virtual Events

Smart Meetings

We had no choice,” says Bob Vaez, founder and CEO of event software platform EventMobi , speaking about the turn to virtual events and meetings during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. It features transitions, well-rehearsed speakers and is short enough to keep people engaged. The technology adoption was extraordinary.”

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17 Common Event Planning Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

Social Tables

She explains, “You can have the best caterers, the most wonderful venue, amazing artists and magnificent décor, but unless a practical time plan is followed, the result won’t meet the expectations of the client.” While planners want to meet the wishes of their clients, it is important not to book dates blindly.

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Production Schedule And Show Flow: What Is The Difference?

Endless Events

A lot of times, your producer, your PM, your client, your planner, if you have a meeting planner or a production planner or an event planner, anybody on the large scale thinking side gets a sort of hands put in this production schedule input. Client and talent rehearsals. ” Production Meetings & Photo Calls. .”

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How to Deal With 7 Curveballs Thrown at Event Organizers

Convene by PCMA

Almost every aspect of event setup takes longer on site as the business events industry moves forward with fewer workers — so organizers need to prepare their staff members for possible challenges. In our experience, nearly every meeting service provider is short-staffed and plagued by last-minute no-shows or insufficiently skilled workers.