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Level up your event business with automation: More touchpoints with less effort

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Use social media scheduling platforms to set up your posts in advance so you can share engaging content, promote your events, and show everyone why your services are the creme de la creme. And you can send them off electronically and often track when they’re opened, viewed, and signed (depending on the software you choose).

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Best Venue Management Software of 2021: Reviews of the Top 4 Solutions

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Shown here is our BEO builder, which auto-updates information like event dates, headcounts, schedules and proposal/invoice details. Easy-to-build proposals, contracts and BEOs … with electronic signatures. Planning Pod auto-updates many documents and areas when information in those areas is modified in another area or tool.

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Hotel event management software: How we helped Hotel Salem boost lead response time, get paid faster and save 62+ hours/ month

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Whether they’re responding to new prospects, following up with them for contract signatures or chasing down clients for payments or vital input for their event, there is rarely any free time in their schedule. You can even set-up customized payment schedules with automated reminders and auto-payments.

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Hotel sales software: How we solved data disarray for a Holiday Inn Express and saved them 80 hours/month

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to track regarding each lead and event, so you also need a way to organize and manage all that information as well as electronic files, forms and other related items. It even integrates with other electronic calendars, including Google, Outlook and Apple, in case you or your staff use those as your primary calendar.

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8 Event Management Tools You Should Be Using Right Now

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Your event billing software should allow you to create custom-branded templates, automatically generate new invoices for clients and offer them an opportunity to settle debts with easy and secure online credit card payment processing, straight from an electronic invoice. . Integratable calendar app.

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Banquet Event Orders – How to Create and Use a BEO

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In addition, if an event contains two or more “sub-events” that have their own unique setup, schedule and/or food-and-beverage requirements, the venue or caterer will likely create multiple BEOs for the same overarching event. For the last 30 or so years, banquet event order spreadsheets and electronic documents (i.e., Signature Lines.

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7 Tips to Supercharge Your Venue Management Processes in 2020

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Don’t battle busy schedules just to grab a signature. And if you’re working off of a physical calendar for which there is only one copy, you’re more likely to make false promises or scheduling errors. Some typical paper trail items you should make digital include: Client or vendor contracts. 6 – Track inventory more efficiently.