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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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It’s Time to Re-Evaluate Your Event Tech Stack

Endless Events

Kyle adds that this documentation helps you remember things after the event to re-evaluate your tech stack after an event or before the next one. . Map-Based Tools for Exhibitor and Vendor Relations. Exhibitor and vendor relations is another area that requires a lot of correspondence and time between event planners and exhibitors.

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

Smart Meetings

Once these tasks are complete, I schedule time to walk them through each document. G Suite is a one-stop-shop for my entire team—including our clients and vendors—and the fact that it’s a live document ensures everyone is well-informed and up to date on how we’re tracking against our profit goal or allowable spend in real time.

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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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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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Secrets of Green Miami

Smart Meetings

Their living document strategy enables Greater Miami and The Beaches (GM&B) to address urbanization, globalization and climate change. Their free option offers guidelines, a sustainable gatherings program guide and a preferred vendors list. They don’t have the time or resources, so they’re looking to the vendor to do it for them.

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Why is DEI Critical to the Hospitality Industry?

Smart Meetings

Diverse vendors such as chefs, decorators, audio-visual technicians, professional photographers and a wealth of other industry talents bring rare culture to event destinations. ESPs representing hotels, CVBs and convention centers authentically strive for one common goal and that is to host a most memorable event for stakeholders.