10 Quick Tips from HSMAI’s MEET National
- Never leave your home or office without your business cards. Keep cards in your jacket, wallet and your car.
- F&B and AV are the first place attendees notice cutbacks. Look at ways to increase your income, decrease other expenses and make cuts to F&B and AV a last resort.
- Consider creating an online social community for your next event.
- Serve high protein, low carbohydrate meals and limit salt to increase attendee attentiveness during meetings.
- Learn how to listen. Listen 70% of the time and talk 30% of the time.
- Engage the senses of attendees at meetings by opening the window shades, using scents and providing mints.
- Social media is a great way to network, but will never replace face to face networking.
- AV tear down costs should always be less than setup costs. Set up should be about double the cost of tear down.
- Handwritten changes in contracts are often a cause of contract disputes. Take the time to have changes typed into the contract.
- Take advantage of any training opportunity that you have. There is a lot of valuable information out there.
~Molly Hawkins
