04 Jun 09 How Meeting Planners Deal with Competition
Call it a work hazard or a part of the parcel, competition is unavoidable in a business scenario. Many times it may so happen that your competitors might be organizing a conference at the same day and in the same venue as you. This leads to a lot of confusion and unwanted chaos. You or your competitor might end up losing some valued customers who would not know where to go first or not even turn up for one of the events.
Another disadvantage of hosting an event at the same day as your competitor is the unnecessary comparisons between the two events that are bound to trigger up discussion among the attendees.
Nobody likes to share the same dates and venue with their respective competitors. However the good news is that there are many ways to avoid this unwanted and uncomfortable clash of dates, ensuring you of full attention from your attendees. (more…)
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05 May 09 Goals of Meeting Planning
Planning a meeting is no easy task and efficient handling of the many event activities can result in desired success. However meetings can go wrong owing to many factors- lack of coordination between staff, insufficient budget, and most importantly miscommunication between the event planner and the client. One of the main goals of an event planner is to ensure that he clearly understands the demands of the customer. Miscommunication can lead to a lot of confusion and in the end, unsatisfactory results.
Proper time management is another crucial goal for a successful event. If the event planner is not organized and unable to manage his/her time, things are bound to go haywire. Multi-tasking is unavoidable in the event planning industry and a competent event planner should be able to multi-task with ease and deliver services right on time. For example, on a given day of work, an event planner might have to decide the design for the invitations of an event, prepare an invoice for a past event, and work on an event budget for a future event, and so on. Deadlines are to be met with impressive speed and the goal is to maintain high quality service within the available time limits. (more…)
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