Sign Event Vendor Contract Online

How to eSign a document: Sign Event Vendor Contract online

welcome to event planning blueprint TV today we're speaking with Rob Schenck from wedding industry law in this video you'll learn how to protect your intellectual property why you should or shouldn't sign vendor contracts on behalf of your clients how to get paid as an event planner will talk about non-refundable deposits and so much more Rob's company wedding industry law focuses on educating wedding professionals as an author Rob's expertise has been featured in Time magazine pedda pixel Huffington Post weddings the knot wedding market chat above the law and mobile beat he regularly speaks at wedding industry conventions nationwide on various legal topics which include wedding MBA mobile beats Las Vegas W PPI and the wedding market Expo Rob welcome to of M planning blueprint TV and thank you so much for joining us today hello Melanie thanks for having me yeah we are very excited about this conversation for many reasons but I often hear you know people complaining or talking about people stealing their intellectual property their IP what's the deal with non-refundable deposit so let's let's just get into it because I know people are really anxious to know how do they protect themselves so really I guess at the end of the day that's what we're talking about right we're gonna how do you protect yourself as if not just a wedding planner but an event planner very good excited from a broad standpoint Melanie I mean one of the principal things that you can do is as an event planner is to have a written contract that both expresses the basic legal protections but also expresses a lot of the nuances and intricacies of your particular business so one event later is not going to function the same it's not going to do the same things as the next event planner and that should be reflected in the actual written vehicle that you provide the client second thing is you know to stay out of trouble to what should have been planners do is to watch the conduct be cool communicate with the client openly if there's a problem and those are two of the broad basic strokes that I see in my experience of what leads into trouble not having a contract that's expressive of the things that it needs to be expressive of and event planner is disappearing or being in total jerks I love that you know communication is often overlooked especially when it gets into a heated situation or money is involved you know everyone gets very protective all of a sudden gets their back up but also I like that you just said you know not all contracts fit all event planners and you know I think often especially if people are just getting started or they're just maybe they've been in the event industry for a while but they're starting their own business and so they have to get those contracts for the first time or...