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A Planner’s Guide to Event Vendors 

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Planners work with venues, specialized staff, and vendors to ensure everything runs smoothly. A lot of tiny pieces must fall into place for an event to succeed, and the wrong event vendors could lead to lots of trouble later in the planning process. What are event vendors? a musical festival).

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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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3 Easy Ways Planners Can Reduce Risk Today

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In the same fashion, planners need to do their research when hiring vendors. Too often, planners end up footing the bill for mistakes and mismanagement on the part of vendors, all of which could have been avoided beforehand. You hired the vendor. Prepare for GDPR. More : Is Your Event Marketing Plan Ready for GDPR?

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How DMCs Can Help You Manage the Unexpected

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Even the most meticulously planned events can fall prey to natural disasters, a pandemic, vendor cancellations, and keynote speaker travel delays. Consider the following categories of potential risks in your event planning: Regulations : Are there local or federal regulations that may impact an aspect of your event?

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Hybrid Venue Checklist: Here’s What To Look For!

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In this new age of events, planners and vendors alike will have to push for innovation whilst expertly marrying the best aspects of virtual and live. How much can the space available be optimized in order to be both appealing, innovative, and comply with COVID-19 regulations? And can safe food preparation be ensured?

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17 Common Event Planning Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

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Ignoring local policies and regulations Rules and regulations can vary from town to town and city to city. Event planners who fail to research local policies, regulations, and restrictions could end up paying expensive fees for violating policies. Are their venue parking regulations, or street-parking restrictions?

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A Breakdown of Post-Pandemic Contract Clauses

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Take the space to reference the virus strains and differentiate epidemic-related termination versus pandemic-related, as well as corresponding government regulations. This especially applies to contracts with food and beverage vendors, security and third-party testing companies. Another way is through a liquidated damages clause.

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