With minimal budget increases year over year, and hotel fees and surcharges increasing exponentially, meeting professionals are tasked to do “more with less.” This is truly compounded by a current environment that makes the return to in-person meetings a murky proposition.

In this high-impact webinar, learn how to avoid hidden fees and discover creative cost savings techniques to impact your bottom line. Attendees will also learn how to communicate these savings to their stakeholders in an impactful way.    

In this free one-hour webinar, Robyn Mietkiewicz, strategic partner for INNOV8 Meetings + Events, will share her veteran meeting planner knowledge to help you in your return to in-person meetings budgeting. Bring your questions on our current environment to gain the essential information you need to navigate this transitional time.

By participating in this webinar, you will learn the following:

• Understand our current marketplace and how it affects a planners’ strategy during negotiations.  
• Discuss potential hidden fees and how to circumvent the unexpected.
• Learn creative cost savings measures to impact your bottom-line.
• Measure your success with the creation of a Cost Savings Report so you can communicate these savings to your stakeholders in an impactful way.    

Earn CEUs: The Events Industry Council has reviewed the learning objectives of this activity and has indicated that attendees will receive 1 CE hours in the Financial Management Domain of the CMP or CMP-HC Standards.