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How To Prepare For A Career In Event Planning

Hello Endless Events

Traditionally, many event planners started their careers working in hospitality (as assistants at hotels, for example) and gradually moved into management. Their curriculums typically consist of courses, such as experience design, event marketing, event financing, venue management, agreement negotiating, and more.

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How To Create a Budget for Your Next Event

Eventtia

Just as you’d take the necessary steps regarding finance when establishing a new business, such as opening a business checking account, you should also take the necessary steps regarding finance when organizing a large-scale event. Expand this train of thought to a large-scale event attended by thousands of people.

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Wedding venue management software: How we saved Hidden Barn Venue from spreadsheet paralysis and saved them 62 hours a month

Planning Pod

Hidden Barn relied on a makeshift system of various tools and systems to manage their venue bookings, wedding planning, party rentals, invoicing, finances and more. If there is one thing inefficiencies can do, it can distract you from maximizing and growing your business.

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Wedding Industry Conferences: Which One Should I Attend?

OFD Consulting

There is also plenty of opportunity for mingling and networking- I myself especially loved the “fireside chat” style session the first year I attended, when Michelle ran a talk on finances that encouraged quite a bit of interaction from the group.

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Cvent CONNECT 2019: Celebrate our Excellence Awards Winners

Cvent: Event Marketing

The Cvent Excellence Awards feature 12 unique categories which reflect the wide impact technology has on the meetings, events, and hospitality ecosystem. Hospitality. The organizations, event planning teams, and hospitality professionals recognized have established themselves as thought-leaders within the events and hospitality space.

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How To Choose the Best Online Registration Software – The Ultimate Guide

Eventtia

Your registration platform should seamlessly integrate with the other digital tools and platforms you already use: Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems, marketing automation tools, or finance software. An excellent example is the Pernod Ricard hospitality platform.

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10 innovative ways to squeeze more from your event budget

Planning Pod

Yes, if two simultaneous events use the same menus, share catering/hospitality staff and may even share some common spaces, the venue and/or catering vendors probably realize cost savings that they can pass on to the event promoters/planners. Piggyback onto another event. However, in practice this is much trickier.

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