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Choose Full-Service Banquet Facilities for Weddings, Anniversaries, or Reunions

Maybe your daughter has come to you starry-eyed and announced her engagement, talking about all kinds of plans for a big, splashy wedding. Or your parents are looking forward to their golden wedding anniversary, and as the "glue" that binds the family together, you're being looked upon by your brothers and sisters, cousins, aunts and uncles as the natural choice to pull off a big anniversary party. Maybe you're responsible for a long-awaited family reunion, or a reunion of your husband's army buddies, or the annual firefighters' association banquet....

Reasons for throwing a major social event are infinite. The trouble is, pulling together a wedding reception, anniversary party, or reunion can be a complicated affair. Renting and decorating a banquet hall, finding entertainment, hiring a caterer, choosing the menu, creating and sending invitations â€" all take time as well as money; and with the busy schedules we all lead today, it can be a major commitment of energy as well as time and money.

Make it easy on yourself!

Contracting with a full-service banquet facility which offers event planning expertise can simplify the process immensely, while creating an attractive and festive environment sure to impress the participants. A competent event planner can also guide you through the process of coordinating your event. She can help you develop a budget for your affair, and then present alternatives, including ideas for décor, menus, and entertainment options. While an event planner can't take all the responsibility for your special event off your shoulders, she can certainly save you a lot of wasted time and effort and help you avoid the pitfalls of event planning.

When you're contracting with a banquet facility, make sure you take into account the events that need to take place there. A wedding generally has a band, orchestra, or DJ with music and dancing; a reunion or wedding anniversary may need some kind of AV equipment and a projection screen for showing family photos or home movies.

Many brides-to-be want a formal wedding in a church, with a reception to follow in a second location; but others are happy to hold both wedding and reception in the same place, and many facilities provide a wedding chapel or other wedding hall in addition to the reception area. In this instance, the facility event planner can coordinate the entire process, from wedding to reception.

Arranging for accommodations for out-of-town guests can be an added responsibility. If you've chosen a facility which is part of a hotel, making overnight on-site accommodations for your out-of-town visitors can be a major convenience, both for them and for you; and there's a possibility that you'll be able to arrange for group discounts.

Keep your most important priorities in sight.

Remember, hiring a full-service banquet facility and event planner isn't supposed to complicate your life, it's supposed to make it easier. The most important thing is that all of the event's participants â€" including you â€" enjoy yourselves. Let the event planner worry; that's what she's hired to do!

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Over Deliver - The Key to Customer Satisfaction

Client satisfaction starts with meeting or beating the contractual obligations of the relationship. There are also some intangibles that can help you to over deliver to a client.

Meetings

In most organizations it's easy to deliver additional value around meetings, because statistically, most companies run meetings poorly. Capture important notes during your meetings and then deliver your neatly typed notes consistently with your client's format. Not only will it allow you to capture the main ideas and benefit of important discussions, but it will almost always be appreciated by your client's team members. Send this as soon after the meeting as possible.

Proactively help to define the agendas and outcomes for each meeting. Help keep things on track and try to meaningfully contribute towards these goals. Become highly proficient at running successful meetings.

If there are action items for other team members that are critical to your projects success, tactfully contact the team member and offer your help if it makes sense. Keeping the project on track internally helps you accomplish your goals as a consultant and you'll be viewed favorably as a team player.

Reports

Delivering quality reports during your client engagement will enhance your image as a consultant because they're so visible to the internal team members. In your earliest meeting possible get together with the client and define parameters for the report format and content. Every client has different needs so don't assume that your template doesn't need to change. Information important to one client is not interesting to another. Define up front what works and then deliver it.

As with the rest of your communications, a picture is worth a thousand words. You or your staff should become proficient at producing flow charts, Gantt charts, performance charts and architectural diagrams. Drawings in your report that communicate an abundance of information make it easy to use.

Perfect the art of the executive summary. For busy executives in the client organization, sometimes they'll only want a one page summary. Make sure it communicates the key issues of the report. If they want more information, they'll drill down.

Accessibility

Make it easy to contact you around the clock using email, phone, or mobile. The more you're as accessible as internal team members the more you will be regarded as one. Have backup plans when you know you're not going to be available. Proactively contact your clients letting them know if there will be a period of time they won't be able to get a hold of you and give them some alternative options.

Profit Engineering

Our company focuses on profit engineered technology, that is, how we maximize the ROI on the technology we deploy. We pay attention to the business process, the costs of the process and try to achieve the best solution possible that will impact the bottom line for our client. And we're also pretty good at communicating this to the client so they can appreciate our responsible efforts.