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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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15 Best Collaboration Tools for Event Planning

Endless Events

You’re dealing with vendors, speakers, performers, caterers, marketers, the media, you name it. It allows teams to share assets (fonts, images, colors) and collaborate on documents. As an event planner, you likely need to send a range of materials to your marketing team, vendors, sponsors, and everyone else involved with the event.

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

Smart Meetings

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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Best Project Management Tools for Event Planners

Endless Events

Trello is an effective way to connect with others, share documents, give assignments, and create checklists. Social Tables really is social—it allows users to easily collaborate and share plans with vendors and team members. Pros: Social Tables makes it easy to connect and collaborate with other vendors, like caterers and entertainers.

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AV Quotes Essentials: Top 5 Things You Need To Know (And Top 11 You Need To Clarify)

Endless Events

In every contract, an Audio Visual (AV) quote is the piece of a vendor agreement that has the dollars attached to it that breaks apart the projected cost of different materials. Keep in mind that AV quotes will come in various types of forms, excel documents and software. Can you summarize the various areas of your contract?

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10 Best Tips to Make the Most of Your Event WiFi

Endless Events

Often though, we don’t give the same attention to your vendors, exhibitors and event staff, but it’s critical to keep them in mind. However, with some planning and a great WiFi vendor, this is easily preventable. . There are a lot of questions you should be asking so be sure to write them down and ask your vendor! .

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The 15 Biggest Event AV Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

Endless Events

Your AV company should be one of the first vendors you hire. In fact, you should ideally hire your AV company before you even sign your venue contract. Pre-plan where each item will be hung to avoid additional costs and check with your venue before you sign the contract whether or not rigging points and included in the cost.

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