Managing Entertainment

Managing entertainment is an important skill for meeting planners.

Penthouse Expectations With a Ground Level Budget

Here are 4 ways you can save costs on event planning without compromising the quality of your event.

The Power of Peers

These organizations help meeting planners thrive.

Managing Dine-Arounds

CVBs can help meeting planners arrange dining to showcase the best of a destination.

Negotiating to Fill the Gap in Your Speaker Budget

Chances are your speakers bureau can work with you to negotiate acceptable trade-offs that will benefit the speaker while keeping you within your budget.

Meetings With After-Hours Events

Many destinations help set up pub crawls, casino hops and boardwalk bump-and-runs for after-hour events.

Food 
For Religious Meetings

Faith-based groups often have specialized catering needs.

Think Like A Guest

To better align our offerings with the needs of our event attendees, here are 10 tips to make meetings memorable while thinking like a guest.

The Nametag: Your Personal Billboard

Vickie Mitchell shares tips for maximizing delegate name badges.

Negotiating and Budgeting for Meetings

Planners that are involved in the budgeting process at the beginning have a better understanding of the process.