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A Planner’s Guide to Event Vendors 

Social Tables

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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Everything You Need To Know To Create Your Event Timeline

Endless Events

Booking major venues and event entertainment is something that should be done as soon as possible. Select your venue, virtual platform, and major vendors. Other important vendors that need to be booked well ahead of your event include your AV team, entertainment, and speakers. What type of an event is it?

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4 Tips on Booking the Right Entertainment

MeetingsNet

What you can learn from other planners’ entertainment mistakes. At MeetingsNet's Las Vegas Corporate Invitational Destination Showcase, held April 11-13, Matthew Gucu, a 25-year-veteran of the entertainment industry, spoke to meeting planners on entertainment for events. Hint: Don’t make the broom closet your green room.

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How to Produce a Stand-Out Experience

Smart Meetings

Similarly, reducing ticket prices for events has downstream implications on budgets for speakers, entertainment, lighting, food and beverage, giveaways, and other key elements of the experience. The emcee should generally not be an executive, a vendor or anyone who is not a trained public speaker. The Best Speakers.

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Contract Clauses Planners Need in 2024

Smart Meetings

Cohen, a partner at Cohen, Cooper, Estep & Allen LLC, who specializes in entertainment, criminal defense and hospitality law, to chat about what planners should consider adding to their contracts in 2024. Outside vendors or exclusive vendors? You need to be able to say, ‘We can re-book at the same rate.’ Resort fees.

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The Best Unique Phoenix Event Venues For Corporate Events

Endless Events

They also allow working with outside vendors and bringing your custom signage. This popular Phoenix event venue was booked for corporate events by clients, such as GoDaddy, Facebook, Google, EO, and more. On Jackson. On Jackson is a downtown Phoenix event venue that used to be a warehouse. In 2015, it has been completely renovated.

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11 Questions to Ask Before Hiring a DMC

ADMEI

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. And that’s not all you can expect from ADMCs!