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

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Planners: Do not sign venue contracts for event production, electrical services, internet access, and support services until you read the full document—especially if you are bringing in an outside audiovisual company for the event, which usually results in extra conditions and raises prices for certain elements.

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Labor Day Spotlight: The Growing Demand for Specialized Freelance Meeting Planners

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Document and share processes: Provide clear onboarding and process documentation to help freelancers hit the ground running. Contracts and Agreements : Ensure that all freelancers have signed clear contracts outlining the scope of work, payment terms, and confidentiality agreements.

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Wrangling Better Meetings in Tucson

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Contract Lessons Lisa Sommer Devlin When the focus of the event is finding new places to bring events, kicking off with a lesson in what to include—and leave out—of contract clauses is always a good idea. Read More : Weaponization of Travel: Navigating Cultural Obstacle Courses Lowest Rate: Every contract is a futures agreement.

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Change Requests and How to Mitigate Risk

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Read More : The True Cost of Postponing an Event Documentation : When planning an event, documents, such as contracts, agreements and schedules are essential, but when they become overly complicated, it can make the process of implementing changes far more difficult.

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Event Profs Slated for Upgrades with New Certifications, Training Programs

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However, registering provides all access to webinars, on-demand videos, downloadable documents and much more.”. 4, which covered the basics of the event life cycle, from creating the event and RFP templating to contracting and asking suppliers the right questions. The course’s second part will be held Oct. 25 at 11 a.m.

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Demystifying Covid Testing: The Differences, Access and What It All Means for Travelers

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Not having the right documents could cost you your long-anticipated trip. travelers to show some form of health documentation. Puerto Rico’s Travel Safe digital platform allows visitors to archive and verify documentation on a mobile device and can provide testing-site information for visitors’ return trips. Unvaccinated U.S.

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5 Tips for Flexible Event Budgeting, No Matter the Format or Economic State

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First, you negotiated your way out of every contract with minimal exit fees, then for a split second you converted everything to hybrid (with no additional budget), and then transitioned from hybrid to virtual, where we thankfully stayed for a red-hot minute. Once these tasks are complete, I schedule time to walk them through each document.

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