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Negotiating Your Way to a Better Experience — for You and Your Attendees
How to get your best hotel deal
Event Organizer’s e-Journal speaks with Joan L. Eisenstodt, Chief Strategist at Eisenstodt Associates, LLC.
We all remember the story of Goldilocks. When she grew tired after a long stroll through the forest, she came upon a house and, of course, let herself in. Once inside, she helped herself to some grub. The first bowl of porridge was too hot, the second too cold, the third just right. Exhausted, she went upstairs where she tried out three beds until she found the perfect one.
Once upon a time, event organizers could take a similar approach to finding a hotel. They’d go to the proposed venue, look around a couple of hotels to see what the rooms looked like and maybe try some food.
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Welcome to the latest issue of Event Organizer’s eJournal — the newsletter that focuses on helping event organizers, planners and producers increase attendance, delight attendees and make more money at their events.
When
you take your event “on the road,” how do you determine the right hotel to house
your program and your attendees? Do you know what kind of concessions to ask
for? And when it comes to the negotiation process, do you find yourself acting
as a lion or a lamb? In this month’s
feature article,
Joan L. Eisenstodt, the chief strategist at Eisenstodt Associates, explains how
to find the right hotel and negotiate your way to the best deal possible. A CIC
Hall of Leaders inductee, Ms. Eisenstodt has been honored by several event
associations and consistently appears on the List of the 25 Most Influential in
the [Meetings/Hospitality] Industry, so her insights are invaluable.
In last
month’s issue, a reader asked for advice on going green. After seeing
what our readers have to say, you may just want to go green yourself. This
month, another reader has a boss who keeps piling on the work, despite her busy
schedule and the fact that the work has nothing to do with the events she’s
responsible for.
How
does she get this guy to get real? And congratulations to Syd Fredrickson,
Event Coordinator of Seattle Event Horizons for being this quarter’s winner!
If you
have a problem you’d like some help with — or if you have an idea for a
future article —
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