A comprehensive guide on Conference Planning & Management

"Understand the issues and risks to help you run a better event."

Overview

This is the best conference planning guide you can get.
Why? It is current, detailed, has examples, has templates and is true to life.

And because, unlike a hard copy book, we send it to you electronically in Word & Excel, you can adapt it to your own use.

Created by Jonathan Ricketts, with help from many professionals, it is the combined experience from over 25 years in conference management.

The conference management manual contains;

• Templates
• Timelines
• Budgets
• Checklists
• Forms
• Examples
• Explanations
• Tools
• Advice
• Tips
• Schedules
• Glossary

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What will you learn?

This helpful conference management tool has over 100 pages of advice in Word & 25 Excel Files from experienced planners designed to help you:

• Avoid the risks
• Know what to do next
• Save you a lot of money
• Avoid the common mistakes
• Save you hours (or days) of time
• Understand the tricks of the trade
• Make your conference even better

Our Manual gives you all the documents and templates in electronic form so you can start straight away.  Documents are supplied in Microsoft Word and Excel 2002. Use the checklists, examples and templates and modify them to suit your own environment.  Create your own manual.

Who should use this manual?

Associations can create their own set of guidelines for state, national &
international conferences even when they use a professional meeting planner.

Meeting planners can use it to get some fresh ideas.

Students can use it to see the real issues.

Committees in corporates & government can use it to determine who has to
do what tasks (and the magnitude of those tasks).

Designed to help;

• Students
• Educators
• Corporates
• Committees
• Government
• Meeting Planners
• Convention Organizers
• Not for Profit Associations

Conventions, conferences, congresses and all educational meetings – this manual can assist with all such meetings.

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Testimonials

“A wealth of knowledge from one of our country’s leading professionals. It will be of enormous value for those who want to be in control, who need ideas and who want to minimise the risk.”

Joyce Webb - Founder of Organisers Australia.

"An electronic resource well worth studying before you start.  The timeline structure gives a clear overall picture of what to do by when." 

Trevor Gardiner - Amlink Technologies - Suppliers of the "Events Pro" Software for Conference and Event Management.

"An invaluable source of information. I recommend it to all those who are starting down the conference planning process."

Dr Renald Portelli - Australian Society of Anaesthetists

"I have found the manual easy to read and extremely useful in staff education."

Emere Wano - Tihi Ltd, New Zealand

"The manual really is excellent and very valuable. You seem to have covered everything. I cannot see anything you have left out. The manual is a must read for ideas, education & adding to your own systems & procedures - A great time saver."

Eileen Newbury - Leading Edge Events

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Manual Contents

Over 120 pages of helpful tips plus guidelines, 25 Excel checklists, schedules and .templates, to help you save time, to know what to do next, to avoid the common mistakes and to make your conference even better.

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Pricing

Once this Manual has been sent to you in electronic form, unfortunately, there can be no refunds.  If you have any concerns about the quality or content before you purchase, please email us so we can help resolve any concerns before you buy

You only have to save 6 hours of time (assuming you time is valued at $50 per hour) to justify the purchase.

The price of the electronic Manual with all the checklists and examples is $AU297.

You may pay by cheque in Australian dollars, a Bank transfer or by Visa card or Master Card.

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Help Line

Jonathan is available to answer any of your questions and inquiries on the contact details below.

Jonathan Ricketts has been organising conferences since 1985. He is a past State Chairman and National Councillor of the Meetings Events Association of Australia (MEA) and is a regular presenter at industry conferences and hospitality educational institutions.

tel 02 6680 8853
int + 61 2 6680 8853
info@diyconferences.com.au

DIY Conferences
PO Box 188
Suffolk Park 2481
New South Wales, Australia.

Copyright
This manual is protected by Copyright. This means that when you purchase it, it must not be copied for another party or given or sold in any form to another party. The law does not prevent you from modifying the document for your own internal use.

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