Special Event Venues can include restaurants, art galleries, museums, movie theaters, banquet halls, vineyards, auditoriums, and a variety of other unique spaces. Many unique venues such as aquariums and sporting facilities have become popular in recent years. Meeting planners favor special event venues for one day meetings or evening events because the catering costs are often more affordable than hotels. Additionally, if guests are not traveling from out of town then hotels are not always willing to rent meeting space at a low cost when room nights are not being rented. In the case of restaurants the food options available for attendees might have a wider variety as well.
Planners can browse the wide variety of Special Event Venues profiled by Cvent at http://venues.cvent.com
The Cvent Supplier Network is an easy-to-use resource for finding and securing the best supplier for your next meeting or event. Whether searching for venues or event services, sending RFPs, or comparing supplier quotes, the Supplier Network allows you to easily manage the entire site selection process all in one place, from start to finish.
Simply search over 75,000 venues and providers, from conference centers to banquet halls, caterers to florists, each with detailed profiles that outline the key facts you want know, such as total meeting space and amenities. Compare suppliers based on these specifics to select those who can best meet your needs, then quickly create an RFP using the step by step RFP wizard. Send your RFP to selected venues in one click – no unanswered emails, back and forth phone calls or time-consuming on-site visits necessary.
The Supplier Network allows planners to compare received quotes side-by-side, providing a clear picture of which venue can offer the best pricing and availability. Plus, its comprehensive enterprise features both save time and cut costs. Copy and update past RFPs rather than re-entering unchanged details. Use past venue history to negotiate costs with event suppliers, ensuring an even better deal.
The Cvent Supplier Network is the ideal answer to eliminating the hassles and anxiety of event site selection and RFP management, and it’s available at no cost to planners. Just register for a free account today, and see how you can start the process of securing the best supplier for your next event. To start the site selection and event sourcing process for your next event, please visit the Cvent Supplier Network.
Cvent offers web-based software with features including online event registration, event management, event website creation, meeting site selection, event sourcing, and online surveys. Cvent helps over 10,000 event, marketing, and business professionals plan over 100,000 events, surveys, and marketing campaigns per year. Cvent’s users have sent over 175 million email invitations, have processed $750 million in online payments, and have managed over 5 million registrations and responses using Cvent’s software.
Cvent Reports 55% Increase in Sales and New Product Features (2007)
Cvent is a leader in web-based event management, eMarketing and online survey solutions, announced another record breaking year in 2007, with sales increasing by 55%. For the fourth quarter ending December 31, 2007 Cvent completed its 20th consecutive profitable quarter.
Cvent signed over 1,000 new event management customers during 2007, setting company records for the most customers acquired in one year including companies such as The Washington Post, Exxon Mobile, Harvard Business School, Forbes Magazine, The Boston Globe, SAS Institute, Network Solutions, Check Point Software Technologies, Siemens Energy and Automation, Disney Consumer Products, PNC Financial Services Group, The New York Times, and Halliburton Energy Services.
Cvent also signed over 500 new clients for its Web Survey offering including organizations such as:
Southwest Airlines
National Geographic
International Monetary Fund
Au Bon Pain
Checkers Restaurants
In addition to Cvent’s increasing client base, the McLean-based company has undergone significant employee growth and added substantially to customer-facing sales, operations and client services teams. Cvent hired 135 new employees in 2007, bringing the company full-time employee total headcount to over 300 employees. The company plans to continue to hire aggressively in 2008 to meet its technology and growing customer’s needs.
Do you throw parties or special events? I do and I learned the hard way when I was trying to provide an online registration tool to register every one for the events. I tried EVITE which is a free registration tool. I am sure you heard of it. However, my database was just too large for the “free” tool in EVITE so I found CVENT! Wow, I am glad I did. I live and breed this online registration tool now.
If you throw larger meetings and/or events (over 100), I strongly suggest taking a look at CVENT. I am in no way vested in this company, but, I am “hooked” on their service for my parties that I throw for our organization.
Take a look at the video interview from Meeting Professionals International Conference in Houston with the executives of CVENT. I stopped by their booth to learn about this alternative to EVITE and I was happy to hear their is a cool solution to register my event attendees. While it is not “free”, it will free you up with time and headaches when producing larger meetings, parties or events.
Planning a meeting but need more information on which city would be the best for your event?
The Cvent Destination Guide offers key facts about planning meetings and events in the top metro areas across the United States and Canada. The guide provides extensive information on meeting destinations including an overview of the city and where you can plan events at 100,000 venues nationwide.
With Cvent Web Surveys, organizations can streamline the way they collect feedback and timely business intelligence. Use surveys to test markets, qualify leads, measure program effectiveness, enhance company culture and gauge stakeholder opinions. Launching surveys on the web is more efficient and effective than traditional surveying techniques.
Web Survey Features
Survey Creation
Survey Templates
Survey Question and Response Libraries
Survey Question Types
Advanced Survey Logic
Survey Distribution
Survey Email Marketing
Contact Management
Survey Scoring
Survey Reporting
Survey Data Security
Professional Services
Support and Training
Enterprise Features
Our software provides the survey management, data collection and reporting tools you need to get the most out of your organization’s budget and staff.
Cvent provides event planners with a complete solution to increase event attendance and decrease event costs. By automating the event planning and management processes, our software enables you to focus your time on strategic decisions rather than repetitive, time consuming tasks.
Cvent Event Management encompasses a flexible assortment of all the tools necessary to take your events and meetings to the next level of success, no matter how large or small your needs may be.
The Cvent Supplier Network is a revolutionary site selection and request for proposal (RFP) tool for meeting and event planners. Planners have the ability to search our database of event suppliers for the ideal meeting space and event services. Featuring over 75,000 event suppliers, the Cvent Supplier Network helps planners compare hotels, conference centers, restaurants and other event venues. Planners can also search for service providers, including caterers, audio visual services, exhibit supplies, transportation and other event needs.
The Cvent Supplier Network connects planners to event suppliers. Meeting planners have a new way to quickly and easily source events. Venues and service providers can reach out to thousands of potential customers.
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