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Tomorrow. 12:00pm EST.

Two industry lawyers. One honest conversation about AI and event contracts. 📝

If you're a planner using AI tools in any part of your workflow — especially anything touching contracts, proposals, or legal documents — this one is for you.

Kelly Bagnall · Holland & Knight LLP
Barbara Dunn · Barbara Dunn Law

Free to attend. Register now before seats are gone: https://hubs.li/Q04lLBN-0

Sponsored by SITE Florida and Caribbean

Word of mouth is the best kind of marketing. 📣

Glenn Blind, Director of Events and Meetings at COSSBA, tells every planner he knows to use Hopskip.

Cost-effective, high value, no complicated pitch needed.

That's the kind of endorsement we work for every day.

Book a demo and see why planners keep recommending us: https://hubs.li/Q04r2YbF0

Every proposal shouldn't start from scratch. 📋

Hotel sales teams are retyping the same concession language, contract terms, and question responses on every single RFP, with slightly different wording each time.

We built something about that.

Proposal Response Templates on Hopskip lets you save your best responses and apply them in one click, directly inside the proposal builder. Build the library once. Use it every time.

Your best proposal language is already written. You just haven't saved it yet.

Get started at https://hubs.li/Q04mHTqM0

Hoteliers, we released four new major features you're going to love.

Four new features, one quick watch:

📊 Market Insights Dashboard — real time demand trends and rate benchmarks, so you walk into negotiations knowing your market instead of guessing at it

🎯 Promotions 2.0 — a fresh promotions experience built to actually stop a planner's scroll

⚡ Proposal Response Templates — save your best lines once, apply them in one click, stop
rewriting the same RFP responses

👥 Admin Roles + Permissions — finally, real control over how your team is set up

Watch it on demand, whenever works for you: https://hubs.li/Q04qRmwp0

Planners, we're heading to Toronto this August. 👋

Hopskip will be exhibiting at the Canadian Meetings + Events Expo, August 11–12 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.

If you're a planner drowning in RFP spreadsheets and chasing hotels for proposals that never come back on time, come find us at booth 633.

We'll show you what sourcing looks like when it doesn't eat your entire week.

Want guaranteed time with us instead of hoping you catch us between sessions? Book a demo slot before the show. 👇

Book a demo: https://hubs.li/Q04nDl4J0

See you in Toronto.

13 years. 1,100-person conferences. A company restructuring that hit mid-planning cycle.

Kelsey Dunn didn't find the events industry, it found her through a recruiter and a pharmaceutical company job description.

What she's built since then is a career-long framework for making complex events work even when everything around them is shifting.

In our latest Planner Perspective, Kelsey shares:
- How she got ahead of a restructuring before anything dropped
- Why she talks to attendees from multiple tenure segments before designing anything
- The KPI framework she uses for a 1,100-person user conference (vs. third-party sponsorships)
- And why budget misalignment almost always starts before the planning phase.

Read the full post: https://hubs.li/Q04qjQ8-0

Free ticket to CMEE? Yes, please. 👍

Hopskip is exhibiting at the Canadian Meetings + Events Expo, August 11–12 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, and we want you on the floor with us.

Use code HOPSKIP at registration and your ticket is on us.

Come by booth 633 and tell us about your worst RFP experience. We've heard some wild ones. Or skip the wait and book a demo slot ahead of time so we can dig into your sourcing process properly.

Register free with code HOPSKIP: https://hubs.li/Q04nDJ3v0

Book your demo: https://hubs.li/Q04nDG0r0

Toronto planners, this one's for you.

Sourcing a venue shouldn't feel like a second job. 🏨

We sat down with DMI Hotels, a destination sales team representing 100+ independent hotels and resorts, on how planners can source smarter and get better value.

A few takeaways worth stealing:
→ Value beats price. The cheapest proposal rarely makes the best meeting.
→ One point of contact can replace 20 separate hotel emails.
→ Independent hotels often mean more flexibility on rates and concessions, plus a 10%+ commission minimum.

Whether you're planning a corporate, association, medical, or incentive program, the right sourcing partner changes everything.

Read the full story 👇
https://hubs.li/Q04pF9yP0

Most planners think their job is booking venues. 🏩

Kim Elpers thinks it's building operating systems.

The founder of CorConnections built a woman-led, minority-led event production and fulfillment company on one idea: stop producing one-off events and start building scalable ecosystems that run all year.

In our latest Planner Perspective, she breaks down the playbook:
→ Why your vendor network is your real product
→ How to design attendee experiences as a journey, not a highlight reel
→ The trend that's quietly reshaping the industry (hint: it's not just AI)
→ The work-life balance advice every planner needs to hear

Read it here 👇
https://hubs.li/Q04pl1sW0

Most agencies grow by saying yes to everything.

Nicole Athanasopoulos, Founder & Creative Director of Nulink Events, grew hers by learning exactly when to say no.

In our latest Planner Perspective, Nicole shares:

→ Why turning down misaligned clients sharpened her brand (and her pricing)
→ How one vendor relationship saved an event during a last-minute logistics crisis
→ Why sensory design (lighting, sound, pacing) shapes attendee experience before anyone notices the visuals
→ The wild client ask that became the defining moment of an entire event

Read the full story here:

Why Saying No Can Grow Your Event Business | Planner Perspective | Hopskip Welcome to the Hopskip Planner Spotlight Series, where we feature amazing planners and highlight their tips. Nulink Events' founder shares how selectivity, sensory design, and vendor relationships shaped a stronger event agency, backed by data every planner can use.