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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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How DMCs Can Help You Manage the Unexpected

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Even the most meticulously planned events can fall prey to natural disasters, a pandemic, vendor cancellations, and keynote speaker travel delays. Consider the following categories of potential risks in your event planning: Regulations : Are there local or federal regulations that may impact an aspect of your event?

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Hybrid Venue Checklist: Here’s What To Look For!

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And in order to help you get things running, we compiled this hybrid venue checklist, complete with everything you should be looking for. In this new age of events, planners and vendors alike will have to push for innovation whilst expertly marrying the best aspects of virtual and live. Today, we start with a hybrid venue checklist.

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11 Questions to Ask Before Hiring a DMC

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You want a company that knows its city well and has built excellent relationships with venues and vendors in the area. How do you approach vendor relationships? One of the advantages of working with a DMC is gaining secondhand access to their vendor network. Can you tell me about your largest group or event?

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17 Common Event Planning Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

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Continue to focus on the ever-changing expectations of venues and event attendees, as they often fluctuate with the times. 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.”

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Put on Spectacular Drone Light Shows During Corporate Events and Incentive Trips

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Fewer Safety Regulations Fireworks and laser light shows have more safety regulations associated with their productions and are limited to where they can take place. Select a Drone-Friendly Venue Drone light shows are aerial displays – meaning you need a venue that can accommodate such a display.

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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. And as a result, every planner needs to know exactly what they are signing on for.

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