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

Smart Meetings

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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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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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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17 Common Event Planning Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

Social Tables

If it rains at an outdoor event, will you panic or will you have a tent prepared to shelter guests from the elements? To streamline the check-in process at an event, prepare as much as possible in advance by: Sending check-in details in a pre-event email. Complicated vendor setup. Training event staff to maximize efficiency.

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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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Your IMEX America 2024 Recap: Day One

Smart Meetings

Identify community organizations and establish vendor and supplier relationships. Whether or not you are a signatory or supporter [of NZCE],” says Rees, “it is a free of charge initiative where the process progresses and documentation is there for the entire industry to utilize in their journey towards net zero.”