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5 Tips for Positive and Profitable Planner-Vendor Relations

Smart Meetings

You can be the best event planner in the world and have wonderful clients who love you, but none of that will matter if you don’t have a solid team of vendors to work with. Vendors and planners need each other. A planner without a vendor cannot produce an event. Stay true to who you are. Always be sure to pay on time!

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Event Management Versus Event Production: What’s the Difference?

Endless Events

Some call themselves an event production agency, while others are “event management firms.” Let’s dive into the most significant differences between event production versus event management. Event Production Versus Event Management. Whichever option you choose, both vendors will make your event look effortless and high-quality.

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Ten Questions to Ask a Potential Event Vendor

Smart Meetings

It’s easy to get excited about a product during a sales demo, but it’s important to know your event tech platform’s team will meet your expectations and your event’s needs. Here are the 10 questions you need to ask the event tech vendor before you get started. Yuvraj Saxena. What does my post-sale journey look like?

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Technical Production With Isaac Holt!

Endless Events

Will’s guest is Isaac Holt, the director of technical production at Endless Events. To make him feel welcomed and at ease, they mostly talked about technical production, but also touched on the future of virtual events and hybrid events – the works. Technical Production Post-COVID. But wait, there’s more!

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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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Is Q4 The Most Productive Season Of The Year?

Endless Events

It turns out that it’s the most productive season for most of them! But while some reached peak productivity in October, others are putting lots of hours in in December. Today’s Topic: Productive Season! Instead of using the word busy, let’s use the word productive. Will introduces today’s topic.

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Event Management Tools: When Tech Meets Productivity

Endless Events

Whether they’re exhibitors, sponsors, vendors, the B2B partners that are interested in these live events, how to better match them with the live event organizers and with the event properties” “The other piece of what we do is, we have a marketplace”, he continues. And then break it into production, ops, back of house.