1.22 Researching Viability – Event Manager Cost Estimates
If you want to hire an organizer for your events, then you need to have the right places to look for. I would also advise you to keep a check on the market rates of event management to make sure that you don’t end up giving away too much for too little.
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1- You can look at the LinkedIn Professional Directory to see if you can find any event management services there. If you can’t find organizers here, then search for them in Groups or directly in Linkedin. Event Managers network a lot so you are bound to come across good choices there.
2- If you met some organizers, but you can’t seem to find them online. You can search for them using zabasearch.com. Its a search engine for public information. You can also limit your search results according to States. Its very simple to use and gets back to us with contact information and even email addresses.
3- If you have shortlisted event managers, you can have your preliminary interviews online using VOIP based conferencing or chatting solution skype.com. Its a small software that takes a few seconds to download and runs smoothly in the back without effecting your systems speed.
4- If you have already been networking with event organizers and have them in different instant messaging systems, then you can easily bring all of your contacts together using Pidgin.im. Its great to have one common place for all the contacts rather than having to parse through different messengers looking for the right people.
5- Whether you are hiring managers on a contractual or permanent basis, you still need to look into the salary structures of the industry. You can go over the SalarySurveySource.com to dig up the salary ranges for the work to get a better feel for the market rates before offering your terms.
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