GAL Meeting Services, LLC is a full-service meeting planning, consulting, woman-owned business. Complimentary consultations cheerfully provided!

Budgeting

  • Budget to minimize risk
  • Budget to predict a registration fee
  • Budget to understand your meeting

    Calls for Abstracts, Posters, or Presentation Proposals

  • Effective, timely call-for solicitation and reviewing plan
  • Receive and organize submissions for review
  • Notify submitters of receipt and subsequent acceptance, rejection, or change requests, and maintain communications
  • Organize resulting workshops or poster sessions

    CEUs or Continuing Education Credits

  • Apply for CEUs
  • Maintain rosters of participants and issue certificates as appropriate

    Consulting and Advising

  • Adult education methods and practice
  • Feasibility
  • Content and agenda layout
  • Budget
  • Financial Management
  • Grant research, writing and management
  • Marketing
  • Site selection

    Delegate / Participant Books

  • Collect materials and organize
  • Design and Edit
  • Research printers, obtain proposals (quotes)
  • Print
  • Deliver

    Evaluation Design and Processing - Exhibits / Trade Shows

  • Assist in determining exhibit potential
  • Design, print and distribute exhibitor prospectus
  • Organize exhibits effectively into program agenda
  • Follow up leads initiated by program sponsor
  • Manage exhibit income and expenses
  • Manage logistics of the exhibit hall including decorator, assignment of space, move-in/move-out, and shipping

Financial Management

  • Deposit income to your bank account or ours
  • Regular reporting of income
  • Regular reporting of expenses
  • Strict adherence to budget
  • Arrange approval system for expenses outside of budget
  • Easy-to-understand financial reports
  • Timely payment of bills

Logistics

  • Advise and coordinate: food service, AV and equipment needs,
    room set ups & transportation
  • Interface with venue staff on all logistical issues
  • On-site management

    Marketing and Promotion

  • Assist program sponsor in understanding the potential market to design a successful marketing plan
  • Research and obtain mailing lists
  • Design, produce, print, and mail professionally designed marketing pieces
  • Develop advertisements
  • Publish materials to the web
  • Accept inquiries and maintain mailing lists

    On and Offsite Special Events Management - Registration

  • Registration services on the web, by phone, FAX and mail
  • Deposit to your account or ours
  • Confirm and provide receipts to all registrants/exhibitors
  • Provide participant rosters at regular intervals or on the web
  • Timely financial reporting
  • Name-tag and participant materials handling for registration purposes
  • On-site registration management

    Site Selection and Vendor Negotiations, Contracting, and Management

  • Request quotes, provide summary to program sponsor, negotiate to benefit the program, obtain and process agreements and contract

    Speaker Management

  • Formally confirm speakers in writing following verbal invitation by program chair or committee member
  • Collect materials from speakers
  • Maintain speaker communications
  • Manage speaker travel and reimbursements
  • Edit speaker submissions for publication/marketing

    Tote-bags, Promotional Products, Speaker Gifts, etc.

  • Research suppliers and obtain proposals for service
  • Work with designer for logos and other art work
  • Order and track delivery
Other services are negotiable

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