How to Make Your Event Vendor Happy and Get More Referral
Event organizers in Nigeria, as well as event planners in Nigeria are beginning to understand the importance of referrals gotten through event vendors in Nigeria.
Getting referral through event vendors can help you achieve more with little effort. You are able to do this by making sure that every event vendor has a memorable experience with you at the event. These are some of the things you can do to make your event vendors happy…
Deliver Great Service
When you are working with an event vendor for your event, you need to also give them great service before, during and after the event. For instance, if you are hiring a caterer for your event you need to give them good space to setup in order to effectively render their service. This is usually the role of the event planner to ensure that all event vendors get whatever they need in order to perform their job excellently. This would increase referrals to the event organizers (making more event planners want to work with you) or event planners (this would make event vendors want to work with you any time you have an event to coordinate or plan). For you to get positive raves about your skills as an event planner or event organizer you must be ready to do good things as well. The whole experience that you give event vendors is what would make them recommend you to someone else.
Offer Constructive Suggestions
No matter how good we are at something, no one knows it all. As an event organizer in Nigeria or event planner in Nigeria find ways to offer constructive suggestions that can help event vendors perform their services better during your event. Rather than treating them like slaves, see them as partners. If you feel that there is something that they can do to improve the way they are going to render their services during your event feel free to communicate it with them. The issue with communication between event vendors and event organizers or event planners is not just what the person said but how it was communicated to the event vendor. Offering constructive suggestions that would help them render an effective service implies that you do care about what they do and about their progress in their chosen field. You will easily win their hearts over and they won’t think twice about either working with you or referring you to others to work with.
Give Accurate Data
Event organizers in Nigeria or event planners in Nigeria are sometimes guilty of not sharing accurate information with event vendors. For instance, if you are hosting or planning an event of 500 attendees and you tell the vendor 250 just to reduce the cost of the service, especially if the event vendor is charging per head, you are going to affect the planning and budgeting plans of the vendor. And this in turn would affect the quality of service that would be rendered to the extra 250 attendees that you failed to mention. If you do not have an accurate figure of event attendees, you should let the event vendor know, so that you both can work out an estimated figure that the vendor can work with. And if you have more than the estimated attendees, you both can work out how to cover up the expenses the vendor might have to incur to offer that service to the excess attendees.
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