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First, he secured the date with the wine vendor, who helped keep costs down by shipping boxes with miniature bottles. Dress rehearsals the night before allowed participants to practice. Then he counted backward three months to ensure he had time to market and deliver wine to attendees before the big day.
.” You can’t really expect that, but if they want to do that, that’s a great partner, that’s a great relationship, and that’s someone who you wanna keep a hold of as you move on as a vendor. So, the more time that you can dedicate to rehearsal, the better your show is gonna be. Moving onto the next one.
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” The reason why, sometimes your setups are going to grow, they’re going to expand, you need more time, you need to do rehearsals, things like that. Who are your vendors? You want to know when other conferences are going on around yours as well. Do we have to revise the design?” ” Oh, yikes. The Lighting.
Usually, this person is working with vendors. Let’s say they need to go pick up something at a vendor. This person also usually helps the main presenter work with their scripting and making sure that it’s written the way they want it to be, it has spaces where they want it, everything like that.
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Usually, this person is working with vendors. Let’s say they need to go pick up something at a vendor. This person also usually helps the main presenter work with their scripting and making sure that it’s written the way they want it to be, it has spaces where they want it, everything like that.
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☐ Send invitations and calendar blocks for event rehearsals. ☐ Secure a printing and promotional vendor. ☐ Establish and secure additional vendors (e.g., Event Presentations Checklist ☐ Create a slide deck template for all presentations. ☐ Build a show agenda. You can always modify it as planning moves forward.
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