This document outlines essential steps for effective meeting and event planning, emphasizing the importance of setting clear objectives from the beginning. It discusses determining success metrics, selecting delegates, and managing finances within a budget. The document also promotes an online registration system and offers additional resources for avoiding common planning mistakes.

1. Meeting and Event Planning; Where do You Start?

2. Meeting and Event Planning; Where do You Start? Meeting and Event Planning can seem a difficult task. This presentation will explain how to keep it simple by “Beginning with the End in Mind”

3. Always start your Meeting or Event Planning by setting some Objectives To help you to do this, it’s useful to ask yourself some important questions: Why are you holding the event? When you think about your business plan, how does holding this event assist you in achieving your business plan?

4. What about the Success of the event? Secondly, how will you know when your event has been a success? What needs to have happened by the end of the event for you to declare it a success?

5. How will you measure success? Are you looking to generate “X” number of leads to follow up? A certain volume of orders placed? Is it industry recognition, if so what kind, how much? Be specific, it’s easier to measure!

6. Delegates Now you know what you want to achieve by holding an event, you need to decide; Who should attend the event and How may delegates do you need to attend to achieve your objectives?

7. Finances Be clear about what the financial investment is. Are you looking to make a profit, or do you have a set budget to work towards? Make a decision, decide on budgets, stick to them.

8. Summary “ Begin with the End in Mind” Start any meeting or event planning by setting objectives based on what you will have achieved at the end …… Do this and it will set you up for success

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