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Your Guide to Vendor Management

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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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Virtual Event RFP: What To Include (With Free Template!)

Endless Events

You can download your very own copy of our Excel template, which includes everything you need to outline your requirements and compare potential vendors. As you read through what you should include in your virtual event RFP document, some things will be very familiar. How often do you want to meet with your vendors?

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The Importance Of Feedback & Follow-Up Meeting After Events

Endless Events

Event professionals have to come to follow-up meetings after events well-prepared. If you want to truly discover ways to improve your event, you need to collect new data straight from your team, attendees, and vendors while it’s fresh in their minds. You can’t avoid mishaps during events but you can prepare for them.

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Everything You Need To Know To Create Your Event Timeline

Endless Events

That’s why the event timeline serves as a guiding document that sets expectations and deadlines for each individual member of the event staff. Include all planning meetings into your event timeline so everyone can add them to their calendar and prepare in advance. Select your venue, virtual platform, and major vendors.

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Planning a Safe Event: Back to Basics

Endless Events

Around the world, tragic incidents at events like the Las Vegas shooting and the Boston Marathon bombing, and natural disasters have shown that we aren’t prepared for every type of security and safety issue in our industry. We’ll talk about how to ensure you’re using the right vendors for this shortly. Don’t leave anything to chance.

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Four Crucial Questions To Ask When Developing an Effective Contingency Plan for Events

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Additional considerations should be given to the number of attendees, crowd management, alcohol-related incidents, traffic management, emergency evacuation, and vendor management. Clearly identifying risks enables event planners to develop and implement targeted mitigation strategies. What is the potential of each risk?

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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. The worst thing you can do is assume every vendor and event staff are ready for your event. It might even be helpful to create a document that states each person’s role and send it out to the team. Planning an event? Hiring Your AV Company Too Late.

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