What a Meeting Planning Consultant Can Do For You

According to PMP... "A meeting planning consultant is your link to a well established industry in which you may have some knowledge of, or you may have no direct experience in.  Consider the consultant a team member who is working on your behalf with the strategies you have carefully laid out for them.  Professional Meeting Planners are proven industry experts who can provide consultation services, who are also industry leaders in providing consultation services. The two main areas in which we provide consulting services are:

• General Consultation and Meeting Design - We act as your industry expert and connection to other industry resources. You decide how to best utilize our expertise. You control and manage your meeting or event.  We can consult with you on:
• Timeline and goal setting
• Floor plan /room configuration and traffic flow design
• Speaker and evaluation planning and reviewing
• Reviewing meeting agenda templates
• Vendor Selection and Management
• Budget Planning & Projections -Developing a meeting budget can encompass the entire meeting or just specific areas of a meeting. When necessary, several different scenarios can be created to explore income and expense variations to aid in decision-making.
• We meet with you to understand your meeting requirements.
• An initial budget is created based on your specifications.
• We review the initial budget with you and adjust it based on your input.
• A final budget is produced; detailing both projected income as well as fixed and variable expense projections."
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