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Your Event Goals Should Determine Your Venue Contract — Not The Other Way Around

Endless Events

Newbie event planners will often pick a venue, negotiate a deal with them, and sign the venue’s provided contract. . Here’s how your event goals can (and should) change your venue contract in those areas. If wheelchair users are attending, for example, you shouldn’t book a historic venue without ADA-accessible ramps. Management.

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How Planners Can Manage The “Easy Button” in Events

Smart Meetings

Read more: Helpful Budget Tips for Event Planners in a Post-Covid World Working with Third-Party Agencies Many third parties provide sourcing only, meaning they will find the destination, and other will assist in sourcing as well as contract negotiations. The larger groups are booking out at three to five years now.

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Unlocking the Event Housing Block Dilemma

Convene by PCMA

Too many event registrants are booking outside hotel blocks — an issue discussed during three PCMA roundtable conversations over the past year. When only two out of five of your registrants book their housing within the designated room block, you know you’re trying to work with a flawed industry model.

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13 Reasons To Use Event Platforms for In-Person Events

Endless Events

But before you get too entrenched in booking speakers or drawing up venue contracts, it’s best to think about how you’ll get results from an in-person event. You don’t have to worry about collecting business cards or messing around with paper registration forms at the event. How can you track attendee metrics? Or engagement?

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Creative Methods to Generate More Revenue for Your Next Conference

Smart Meetings

Establishing the conference fee, contracting with the venue and locking the dates will require some effort. By offering refund insurance at a nominal rate, you can give each person peace of mind that they’ll receive their registration fee back in the case of an emergency. Raise your registration fee. Optimize each for SEO.

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Finding Event Registration Patterns

Convene by PCMA

Registration forecasting for 2023 was the top challenge identified by Louisville Tourism’s Client Advisory Council members. The assessment included analysis of CAC members’ registration data, insights discovered about attendee behavior, and suggestions for how and when this information should be communicated.

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Elevated Experiences Scored at Florida Smart Meetings Event

Smart Meetings

That included a gifting experience at registration that allowed all attendees to choose their own swag from a shopping lounge, feathered friends both evenings and a light show that highlighted the fun of the destination care of Go Drone Shows. Smart Meetings Florida Experience elevated the gathering at every turn.

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