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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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*?#! AV People Say – Whiteboard Wednesday

Endless Events

Brandt Krueger of Event Technology Consulting will be walking us through commonly heard s**t AV people say, as well as why they say it. They’re willing to stay up till 3:00 in the morning rehearsing it as many times as the CEO wants to and then turn around and come right back down again at 4:00 in the morning. AV people say.

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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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The 15 Biggest Event AV Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

Endless Events

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. As an extra precaution, schedule a rehearsal with your AV company.

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When to Embrace Change—and When to Hold Your Ground

MeetingsNet

To do that, Nguyen advised planners “to create backup plans for event spaces, session presenters, technology, and any other element” that will have an impact on the attendee experience. 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

Social Tables

Before we dig deeper into the discussion of individual errors, here are some big-picture strategies to help you avoid common event planning mistakes: Keep up with event planning trends and technological developments to stay ahead of the competition. Complete a run through of the event, start-to-finish, multiple times prior to the event date.

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Drive Event Growth and Engagement Via Attendee Satisfaction

Endless Events

Using Technology to Drive Engagement. Preferably, there should also be enough time for rehearsals before the big day. In the end, you need to make sure the contract is properly accomplished. The old way of doing business is past. Instead of pen and paper, we now have gadgets. Why should events be any different?

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