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How Wedding Planning Is So Much More Than Managing the Day

The Road to Marriage

Contrary to popular belief, professional wedding planning (and event coordination) is about so much more than managing the wedding day. Your planner or coordinator is like your wedding’s project manager. Your planner or coordinator is like your wedding’s project manager. Vetting vendors.

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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

Planning Pod

Hotel sales, banquet and private event managers know what it’s like to work under pressure. 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. Sign up for a free trial!

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Museum event management software: How we helped Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum streamline their in-house and private events

Planning Pod

Juggling two different tracks of events – in-house events that support their mission/audience base and private group events and rentals that help boost their revenue – can quickly become a cumbersome task that creates process gaps, continuity killers, collaboration conflict and more.

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9 Proven Steps for Planning Successful Events

Planning Pod

But in our many years of planning events (and helping thousands of other event managers plan theirs through our event management software ), we have found that those three qualities – focus, preparation, diligence – are necessary traits in event organizers and team members if you are going to come close to planning a killer event.

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What does an event planner do?

Souvenir Weddings & Events

An event planner, also known as an event coordinator, is a professional who specializes in organizing and executing events, such as weddings, corporate events, conferences, trade shows, and more. In this blog post, we'll explore the role of an event planner in more detail and provide insight into what they do.

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Brain Dumping for Event Professionals: Part One, Identifying and Organizing Stressors

Planning Pod

Once you have used a brain dump to identify tasks, Planning Pod offers easy-to-use task and project management tools so you can track them and make sure they are completed on time. Once that’s complete, your to-do list should look a lot more manageable. What is Brain Dumping? Want to learn more?

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Starting an event planning business: Your guide to turning a passion for planning into profit

Planning Pod

Crafting once-in-a-lifetime experiences while dealing with unpredictable challenges (weather disruptions, equipment malfunctions, and unreliable vendors) often equals intense pressure for event coordinators and wedding planners. Planning Pod is your ultimate event management toolkit. But never fear!