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4 Event AV Contracting Tips to Consider

Smart Meetings

With an event production career that spans over 26 years, Frankel was a perfect choice as speaker to educate our audience on the fine details of AV contracting. Details on set up, rehearsal, show and strike are crucial to top-tier execution by AV teams, and the sooner you can provide them with those details, the better.

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Welcome to the AV Audit

Endless Events

This can be a great deal but you want to ask a few things before signing the contract and locking in. If either of these doesn’t turn out to be the case, you can probably negotiate this out of your contract but only before signing! Does this labor include rehearsals? We have heard of WiFi costing upwards of 30K at venues.

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AV Team Management: The Ins & Outs Of Navigating The Audiovisual Jungle

Endless Events

So, it is kind of at that point hopefully the show is contracted. Because it’s definitely going to influence the decision of who I’m putting on a show” Who Does What? “I do believe that you should always have one, even if it’s not someone on-site, have an ally in your production company”, says Andrew.

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The 15 Biggest Event AV Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

Endless Events

Specifically, your AV and event production are some of the most crucial factors for success at your event. In fact, you should ideally hire your AV company before you even sign your venue contract. As an extra precaution, schedule a rehearsal with your AV company. Fortunately, we’re here to help you. Skimping on Audio.

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When to Embrace Change—and When to Hold Your Ground

MeetingsNet

Every meeting element—the budget, the agenda, the food and beverage, the production, all of it—will go through several iterations as the planning goes on. In addition, “rehearsals are so important for planners to learn what type of glitches could happen, and how to solve or work around them if they do happen.

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17 Common Event Planning Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

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Not starting early enough Leah McCrae, Director of Strike Productions, believes one of the most common mistakes event planners make is failing to allot enough time to successfully plan and execute an event. While rehearsals are critical for virtual event success , they are also a vital part of in-person event success.

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What Do All The AV Labor Positions Do – Whiteboard Wednesday

Endless Events

Production assistant? So you’ll see this with a lot of event production companies. Production Manager . All right, next up you see also another position that’s kind of similar to the technical director, which is the production manager. You usually end up bringing in a production manager.