Saturday, January 31, 2009

ADH Events is now a diversity supplier

ADH Events became certified by the NGLCC, which allows us to register as a diversity supplier with many organizations, including Fortune 500 companies.

For those of you who don't know who ADH Events is, we're a Chicago based meeting and event planning firm, producing board and sales meetings, investigator meetings, training seminars, diversity retreats, incentive trips, team building events, client dinners, political events and fundraisers, just to name a few.

In addition, we speak a multitude of languages, among them all the European languages, allowing us to assist our clients with the planning of their programs anywhere in the world.

Check us out on the web, call us or send us an email.

Talk to you soon.

Alexander

Friday, January 23, 2009

Venues and Audio Visual - In House or outside Source?

Did you know that most venues allow you to bring in an outside source for all of your audio visual needs? Did you know that virtually all in-house audio visual companies have to pay a fee to the hotels, which of course is being tacked onto your bill.

In most cases, bringing in an outside audio visual company, even with sometimes the penalties that need to be paid to the hotel (up to 20%), and inclusive of our management fee, the outside audio visual company is the less expensive way to go.

Meetings and Events in a down economy

This is the best time to plan a meeting or an event. Everyone is interested in negotiating the best deal, whether it is a hotel, the caterer, transportation or the audio visual company.

Did you know that most hotels, when booking sleeping rooms, they pay 3rd party planners like us, a commission. In addition most planners charge a management fee. We actually deduct the commission from our fee, which will give you either more money to spend on other items or will save your overall budget.