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A Planner’s Guide to Event Vendors 

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Planners work with venues, specialized staff, and vendors to ensure everything runs smoothly. A lot of tiny pieces must fall into place for an event to succeed, and the wrong event vendors could lead to lots of trouble later in the planning process. What are event vendors? a musical festival).

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Your Guide to Vendor Management

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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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Activity Vendors Pair with Planners for Unique Attendee Experiences

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Planners meticulously manage the attendee experience , but often activity vendors also play a major role in influencing how someone remembers a trip. Customer service is the cornerstone of this business and the better that is presented, the more successful the experience will be,” Mosleblech says. Mike Murray. Mosleblech says. “Of

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Preparing For The Worst: Is Your Production Company Ready To Pivot Again?

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This pandemic taught us a lot of lessons , and if we’re ready to let them all go, let us at least keep one of them very present – you can never be overprepared. Who wants to sit through hours of platform demos, sourcing studios, and finding individual vendors for each moving part of a virtual event? But we can’t.

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Price-Conscious Wow: How Meeting Planners Find More Value With AV Partners

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Instead of concentrating on the number of screens you had last year or equipment assignments per room, different questions during the preparation stage may help you find the right, long-term AV provider. Lead With Intimacy In a large audience setting, it is very difficult for a presenter to connect with everyone in the room.

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

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During his main-stage presentation titled “Mastering Site Inspections for Audiovisual and Production,” Frankel noted that “almost everything is negotiable before you sign the contract. Find out what those minimums are before signing and prepare to negotiate them, or they might be too onerous for your outside vendor to meet. •

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The Art of Managing Vendor Conflicts and Client Relationships in Event Planning

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From other vendors to family members to CEOs, it is important to be the central person who can work with everyone and make the magic happen. Vendor Conflicts. In that case, the best way to prevent unnecessary tension is simply to avoid having vendors that do not get along on the same event team. Easier said than done, right?

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