Book Description
Uncover the hidden strategies for successful-and easy-event planning!
Provides tips and ideas for budget planning, location selection, catering, entertainment options and negotiations.
Ideal for any event-whether there are 10 participants or 10,000.
Offers the broadest range of planning strategies in the market. If you are given the responsibility of planning a meeting for your business, you need to make your company look good. This guide gives you suggestions for planning the budget, negotiating a space to meet, choosing a caterer, setting up the room, and planning programs. You will be able to produce an event that is organized and within your budget.
Robin Craven and Lynn Johnson together have more than 40 years of experience in the hotel-sales and meeting-planning industries. Johnson spent 16 years as a hotel sales supplier and has served as president of an association management firm. Craven is an active meeting planner and Web designer for the meeting-planning industry. Both are past presidents of the Wisconsin Chapter of Meeting Professionals International. Both are also partners in their own meeting-planning company, Alliance LLC, as well as frequent writers and speakers.
Book Info
(Alpha Books) Offers reluctant or novice event planners ways to get the job done creatively and economically. Includes tips on transportation, setting up and breaking down the meeting space, keeping expenses under control, and handling event emergencies. Also offers tips for keeping the meeting on track once it is underway. Softcover.