Posted in Contracts, Event Marketing, Housing, Meeting Planning, tagged costs, discounts, Event, event planning, meeting, planning, transportation on June 12, 2008 | No Comments »
Be a hero to your attendees - help them save money on their participation in your meeting!
Helping your participants save money isn’t an entirely altruistic endeavor. Meeting organizers can earn benefits while participants receive discounts. Meetings of all sizes and shapes can qualify for these discount programs.
Airline Discounts
Many airlines offer discount group fares - with [...]
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Posted in Contracts, Meeting Planning, Venues, tagged contract, Event, event management, event planning, Gather, meeting, meetingsnet, negotiating, planning on April 28, 2008 | No Comments »
Ask for what you want. That is the best advice you will ever get regarding negotiating. No, really - I mean it! So many people try to compromise even before the negotiating begins and they never find out what the other side is willing to offer!
I’m not saying that you should never compromise, or that [...]
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Posted in Contracts, Meeting Planning, tagged agreements, attrition, Contracts, event planning, events, Exhibits, Gather, meeting, planning on March 19, 2008 | No Comments »
Negotiating hotel contracts is a bit of a hobby of mine. (I know, strange hobby.) I wanted to be a lawyer, until it came time to spend a few years doing post-graduate work, etc.
Anyway, I wanted to mention a few things that you should always look for in the agreements you review (again, [...]
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