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Maximizing ROI: A Guide for Hotel Sales Directors

Smart Meetings

Utilize Video Personalization : Create custom video messages for high-value prospects that address their specific needs and demonstrate your attention to detail. Additionally, a September 2024 survey revealed that 60% of event professionals include sustainability criteria in their request for proposals (RFPs) for venues.

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3 Easy Ways Planners Can Reduce Risk Today

Smart Meetings

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. And as a result, every planner needs to know exactly what they are signing on for.

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Hire An AV Company for Your Next Event in 5 Simple Steps

Endless Events

Often venues will give you discounts and pressure you to use In-House AV but realize this is completely negotiable and you do not need to. Look into hiring outside the venue, a 3rd party AV company is at your event for you, and only you. Ideally, your AV company should be one of the first vendors you hire. Bring diagrams.

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Are You Settling on Your Audio Visual Company?

Endless Events

Soon enough you find yourself complacent not really thinking about why you’re hiring vendors and choosing the same ones over and over. We know when you find a great vendor you want to stick with them! You want to make sure you are still happy with the vendor’s services and getting what you deserve.

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Everything you need to know about planning events with purpose

Endless Events

Authenticity is a vital component of forming that connection and getting prospects excited about the event. For instance, a brand with a strong thread of sustainability running through everything they do will be able to form an intimate connection with prospects who believe it’s time we started looking after the environment.

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Venue Marketing 101: How Improving Discoverability Generates More Event Leads

Social Tables

How much do you feel you still truly understand venue marketing in today’s ever-involving digital world of snaps, stories, fluctuating industry relationships and new commission structures? Step 1: Understand your Venue Marketing Discoverability Influence. Times, they be a changin’. And really, who doesn’t like thinking about pie?

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An affordable air quality tool for meeting planners

Conferences that Work

How can you determine air quality at a prospective venue? We can implement vaccination mandates using third party vendors such as sharemy.health , CLEAR Health Pass , Safe Expo , and others. But how can we determine the air quality at a prospective venue? When venues employ these mitigation strategies, CO?

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