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Maximizing ROI: A Guide for Hotel Sales Directors

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Generic proposals no longer suffice in this environment. Create Industry-Specific Content : Develop proposal templates, case studies, and marketing materials tailored to key verticals like pharmaceutical, technology, or financial services. Research shows that people are more likely to open and click on personalized emails and messages.

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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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How Meeting Profs Can Find the Right Event Tech

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6 steps to finding the right event tech vendors and product Finding the right event tech can be a long, tedious process. The journey of locating vendors and the resources that best match your needs can send any planner into a tailspin. She suggested utilizing free trial periods and asking vendors to build out your event as a sample.

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Cvent Connect Rolled Out Road Map to a More Integrated and AI-enabled Meetings Future

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Reposite , an AI-powered supplier-sourcing platform, streamlines the planning process with a curated database of more than 35,000 group-friendly offerings, robust request for proposal (RFP) creation tools, and AI-powered quote matching solutions.

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Will Meetings Thrive in 2024?

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Read More : Hospitality and Humanity Meet to Solve Hotel Staffing Crisis When hotels do respond, they often omit information in their proposals and contracts that had been discussed, information that is critical in the buyer’s decision-making process. An important shift will need to be “hotels need to re-staff,” Edwards states.

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How to Plan an Outdoor Event in 10 Steps

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Talk through the logistics of catering an outdoor event with your vendor and make sure they have experience running events outdoors. If you choose great vendors who have experience with outdoor events, they can help guide you and explain what equipment you need for their piece of the puzzle. Hire a caterer.

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Concerns about using facial analysis at events: part three

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Training algorithms on stereotypical facial expressions is bound to mislead.” They originated in a book by Charles Darwin, “The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals,” which proposed that humans evolved certain facial movements from ancient animals. Think Again. ” – Dr. .”