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Strategic Meetings Management

Strategic meetings management (SMM) programs can help you to streamline tasks and analyze processes, giving you more accurate data, insightful information, and better reporting.

This increased visibility on spend can help you capture, track, and leverage your corporate meetings spend, while mitigating risk, being mindful of duty of care, increasing compliance, and achieving savings goals.

Time to get strategic about your meetings management?

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Save costs on strategic meetings management

A SMM program can decrease your company’s total corporate meeting costs by 10% to 25% by centralizing functions such as event venue sourcing and consolidating your overall spend.

Event Travel Management’s (ETM’s) global buying power means that your bookers are achieving the best possible rates and contractual terms.

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Increase visibility of spend

A well-run strategic meetings management program helps to provide better transparency as well as overall visibility of finances.

By channeling your company’s spend through a single lead agency, you will have complete and detailed insight into where event budgets are being spent.

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Drive compliance

Clear and well-communicated booking processes are key to ensuring an event planner doesn’t spend outside of approved channels. Implement pre-determined controls and approval processes to prevent out-of-policy spending, and utilize comprehensive reporting tools to monitor your event budget and support compliance.

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Mitigate risk

ETM utilizes CTM’s 24/7 traveler tracking event technology to quickly locate and bring home attendees should an emergency occur.

A robust SMM program also enables you to create standard terms and conditions for hotel contracts to protect you from onerous cancellation and attrition fees.

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Your guide to managed meetings

Ready to get started with a managed meetings program of your own?

Take your first step on the path to better corporate meetings. Our managed meetings event portfolio features a library of content for every step in your journey to a successful managed meetings program.

Consider it your own personal guide to confidently managing your meetings, all in one place.

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Contact our ETM events team today to discuss your strategic meetings management needs.

Take the stress out of event management with our expert event planning team.

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