A decision has been made to host a conference or an event; what do you do and when? You’ve been asked to help organize your association or charities’ upcoming event and the easiest way to keep track of all that needs to be done is to create a timeline. [...]

It goes without saying that you always want the best value when you negotiate a hotel contract for your signature event or conference - but too often the guest room rate and meeting space rental cost are the only items evaluated. When hotels are competing for our business, and [...]

Congratulations! You have reached the end of planning your event and are ready to put together your delegate conference evaluation. Asking the right questions and gathering useful, useable information can be a challenge, but when done correctly the information that you gather can put you steps ahead in planning [...]

Event planning has an almost “chicken and egg” conundrum. It has to do with budget planning vs program layout vs registration. Each of these components touch and influence one another during the planning period. And if you try, you’ll see you can’t determine registration fees before determining budget, but [...]