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Creating and Defending Your Budget
Need help crunching numbers? Here, you’ll find strategies to help balance your budget and prove your events' worth.


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The 2009 Budget Report
Corporate event budgets took a traumatic 28-percent plunge this year, marking the largest decrease on record. But as it turns out, mid-year reality has proven far less tragic than the pessimistic projections of late 2008.



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The State of Spending

Will the ailing U.S. economy wreak havoc on the event industry in 2009, or deal it a glancing blow? Corporate EVENT asked readers where their annual budgets are headed, and how they're adapting to today's economic realities.


Connecting Events To Cash Flow

To earn management respect for event marketing, design event strategies that support your company's main objective: generating revenue and profits.


To Keynote or Not to Keynote?

Should you hire an expensive ''name'' keynote speaker to generate attendance, or should you allocate the money to a lesser-known speaker with industry-relevant expertise? Three experts weigh in.


Second Opinion – Invisible Budget Items

How do you get management to understand the value of hidden budget items, such as audience-acquisition resources and measurement, and ultimately approve funding for them? Four corporate event experts weigh in.



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