The paperwork behind the event.
LADLE drafts the production timeline, writes the vendor brief, and keeps clients updated. You stay on the phone with the actual people.
The 8-week backwards plan.
Give the event date + type + scale. Get a production timeline that walks backwards from event day with the right milestones.
The email vendors respond to fast.
Draft the RFP or vendor brief with the specific info vendors need to price accurately. Ambiguity kills fast quotes.
The Sunday-night update.
Weekly status update to the client. What's confirmed, what's outstanding, what needs their decision this week.
Event planning is coordination and writing. LADLE handles the writing. $8/mo of your subscription is earmarked into a meal fund on the road to a real partnership with the hunger-relief charity we select.
Questions.
For preparing your position (understanding fair market rate, identifying leverage points), yes. For actually negotiating, that's a relationship game — LADLE preps you, doesn't do it for you.