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Tara D.

Windermere, Florida

$85/hr
4.9
37 jobs

A results-driven professional with a resourceful approach, I hold certifications as a Certified Meeting Professional, Global Travel Professional, and Certified Autism Travel Professional. Renowned for my meticulous planning and leadership skills, I have a proven track record of successfully managing events. My expertise encompasses creating bespoke, high-quality corporate travel plans that surpass expectations in both travel and event management. I consistently deliver impressive outcomes, especially in tourism and hospitality services, by fostering long-term vendor relationships and negotiating substantial contracts with travel providers. With proficiency in Concur, CrowdCompass, Cvent, Apollo, and Sabre Global Distribution Systems, I bring a high level of technical expertise to every project.

  • Event Planning
  • Corporate Event Planning
  • Event Management
  • Travel Planning
  • Strategic Plan
  • Budget Management
  • Account Reconciliation
  • Logistics Management
  • Apollo.io
  • Microsoft Teams
  • Hospitality & Tourism
  • Microsoft Office
  • Project Logistics
  • Project Plans
  • Sabre
  • Zoom Video Conferencing
Kelley P.

Panama City Beach, Florida

$50/hr
5.0
19 jobs

Professional Summary As a distinguished marketing and event management leader with over 15 years of proven success, I am renowned for my meticulous attention to detail and exceptional ability to orchestrate multiple high-impact projects simultaneously. Holding the prestigious Certified Meeting Professional (CMP) credential since 2002, I have consistently leveraged advanced event strategy and execution skills to deliver outstanding results across global markets. My portfolio includes the end-to-end management of world-class events—ranging from Executive Forums (C-level), international trade shows, and industry conferences to exclusive client engagements and dynamic roadshows. I have executed events in major U.S. cities such as New York, Washington D.C., Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco, and Boston, as well as internationally in Dublin, London, India, and Madrid. My comprehensive services encompass speaker acquisition and management, ensuring every event exceeds stakeholder expectations. I am highly adept with cutting-edge technology, including the Microsoft Office suite, leading event management platforms like Cvent, and a variety of social media tools. My experience spans both remote and in-person environments, collaborating with diverse audiences and driving engagement across multiple channels. I excel in time management, business communications, and strategic writing, consistently delivering value in fast-paced, high-stakes settings. Confident in my ability to make an immediate and significant impact, I am ready to contribute my expertise and leadership to your organization. Thank you for your consideration!

  • Event Planning
  • Event Management
  • Business Writing
  • Writing
  • Copy Editing
  • Newsletter Writing
  • Event Marketing
  • Communications
  • Program Management
  • Meeting Agendas
  • Virtual Assistance
  • Trade Show Design
Kandace M.

St. Petersburg, Florida

$45/hr
5.0
1 jobs

As a dedicated virtual assistant, my mission is to provide reliable, efficient, and personalized support that empowers individuals and businesses to focus on what matters most. I strive to anticipate needs, streamline tasks, and deliver exceptional service with integrity, accuracy, and discretion—helping clients achieve their goals with confidence and peace of mind. I'm a problem solving and detail-oriented professional with over 12 years of administrative experience. I'm a self-starter who is highly organized, detailed oriented, with the proven ability to multitask and meet tight deadlines. Relied upon to bring order, strategic planning, and solutions to problems. EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS: 12+ Years in Administrative Support 8+ Years in Management 5+ Years as a Freelance Event Planner Bachelors Degree in Communications I have experience with the daily nitty-gritty details of running a business: customer service, communications, bookkeeping, social media, web development, content writing, logistics, troubleshooting, developing and writing manuals, etc. Having worked in various administrative support and event management roles, and being married to an entrepreneur, I've had to wear many hats. I have experience with the daily nitty-gritty details of running a business: customer service, communications, bookkeeping, social media, web development, content writing, logistics, troubleshooting, developing and writing manuals, etc. SERVICES & EXPERTISE: Administrative and Business Support Calendar Management Email Communications Social Media Management & Email Marketing Online Course Organization Event Planning Transcription Audio Editing Podcast Support Platforms: Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 Asana, Trello, Slack, monday.com, Todoist Mailchimp, Flodesk Kajabi, Teachable Canva, Wordpress, Squarespace, Showit Capcut Quickbooks, ZoHo, Salesforce, Honeybook, StudioEnterprise

  • Event Planning
  • Virtual Assistance
  • Audio Editing
  • Podcast Editing
  • Social Media Content
  • Data Entry
  • Canva
  • Email Communication
  • Communications
  • Administrative Support
  • Personal Administration
  • General Transcription
  • Customer Support
  • Calendar Management
  • Email Marketing
Shameka A.

Orlando, Florida

$75/hr
4.8
20 jobs

Charismatic event management leader and planner with eleven years’ experience managing 1200+ events for distinctive global clients. Leader with contagious enthusiasm adept at inspiring and motivating diverse teams of planners, operations and delivery staff, vendors, and contractors to cohesively deliver superior results. Masterful at surpassing client expectations through strategic engagement, acute attention to detail and keeping abreast of client business developments and industry trends. A consummate professional obsessed with providing “white-glove” service in alignment with the organization’s culture, mission, and vision. Passionately committed to protecting the brand through structured policy development, strategic communications, proactive on-boarding and training of global meeting planners, risk mitigation/management, and high-scale budget management.

  • Event Planning
  • Event Management
  • Zoom Video Conferencing
  • Project Risk Management
  • Vendor Management
  • Contract Negotiation
  • Project Timelines
  • Training & Development
  • Business Consulting
Stephanie N.

Tampa, Florida

$65/hr
5.0
52 jobs

As a results-driven Event Marketing Strategist with over 12 years of experience, I specialize in turning events into high-performing revenue channels. My work spans B2B trade shows, industry conferences, executive summits, and international events, where I don't just manage logistics, I build programs that move pipeline. With a 100% Job Success Rate and Top Rated Plus status on Upwork, I've contributed to $3.6M+ in combined year-over-year revenue across the events I've led through strategic sponsorship positioning, targeted pre- and post-event engagement, and data-driven campaign execution that converts attendance into measurable business outcomes. My background bridges both the strategic and the operational. I develop event marketing roadmaps, manage cross-functional teams and vendor ecosystems, and align event programs with broader go-to-market goals, whether that's brand visibility, lead generation, or account-based engagement. Core areas of expertise include: - Event marketing strategy & campaign planning - Trade show and conference program management - Sponsorship evaluation and ROI analysis - Pre/post-event email cadence and lead nurture - Vendor management and exhibit coordination - ABM-aligned event execution and pipeline reporting - Cross-functional team coordination and stakeholder communication I'm fluent across tools including HubSpot, Salesforce, Cvent, Zoom Sessions, Monday, Asana, Notion, Canva, Google Suite, Mailchimp, Slack, and more. I'm able to plug into your existing stack quickly and operate with minimal ramp time. If you're looking for someone who treats every event as a strategic growth lever, not just a date on the calendar, let's talk.

  • Event Planning
  • Corporate Event Planning
  • Event Management
  • Budget Management
  • Digital Marketing
  • Event Marketing
  • Delphi
  • Marketing
  • Events & Weddings
  • Management Skills
  • Event, Travel & Hospitality Software
  • Vendor Management
Brooke O.

Jacksonville, Florida

$135/hr
4.8
31 jobs

Most CRMs end up half-built, half-used, and fully ignored. I build the kind that don't. I'm Brooke — a CRM and operations strategist helping founders, agencies, and small teams move from scattered tools and reactive workflows to one streamlined system that runs the back end of their business. Not a template dump. Not a half-finished automation. A real system, designed around how you actually work. Most clients come to me after one of three things: → They've tried to DIY a CRM and hit a wall → They've hired someone who left them with a half-built mess → They've outgrown the duct-taped systems they started with What I do differently: I think strategically before I build. Every engagement starts with a system audit and tech stack review — because the wrong platform sets you back six months, and the right one sets you up for years. Before we build anything, I make sure you're in the right place from day one. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHERE I SPECIALIZE CRM Setup & Optimization HoneyBook · Dubsado · Aisle Planner → Full account setup, branded client-facing materials, lead forms, scheduler integration, proposal/contract/payment automation, email templates, and workflow mapping. These are my home base — the platforms I know inside and out, the work I do best, and the projects I get most excited about. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHERE THINGS EXPAND A CRM is rarely the whole story. Most projects grow into broader operations work as we uncover what's actually breaking behind the scenes: Project Management Systems Asana (preferred) · Monday · ClickUp → Workspace architecture, SOPs, recurring task workflows, team onboarding, and integration with your CRM. Automation & Integration Zapier · Flodesk · Google Workspace → Connecting the tools you already use so your back end runs without you babysitting it. Scheduling & Admin Infrastructure Acuity · Calendly · Google Workspace (Gmail, Drive, Calendar) → The everyday tools that connect your CRM to your calendar, inbox, and file system — configured to work as one. Operations Strategy & Process Design → Client journey mapping, workflow audits, and the strategic thinking that makes the build actually work. Often the best work happens when we go deeper than the original scope. If your project starts as a CRM setup and grows from there, that's normal — and welcomed. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHO I WORK BEST WITH Agencies and small teams are my favorite challenge — when multiple people need to use the same system, that's where strategic system design really pays off. I also work with established solo founders who are scaling toward a team and need infrastructure that can grow with them. Industries I know well: → Wedding & event professionals — venues, planners, photographers, florists, makeup artists, and event designers → Coaches & consultants → Creative service providers — social media manager, brand designers, web designers, copywriters, videographers, interior photographers → Online service businesses → Accountants, educators, and agency owners If you've been running your business out of a mix of inboxes, spreadsheets, and "I'll fix it later" — let's fix it now. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT → A system audit and tech stack review before we build anything — so you're in the right place from day one → Real check-ins and full transparency on where we are in your project and what I need from you → A shared portal that keeps everything in one place — perfect for teams who need quick access to project status, deliverables, and resources → Magic-link access straight from your inbox (no passwords, no friction) → A system designed around your workflow, not someone else's → Team training and documentation included — so your team knows how to use what I build, and you're not the one stuck training them later → Ongoing support so you don't get stuck three weeks in ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ A FEW THINGS TO KNOW BEFORE YOU REACH OUT → I typically work hourly with manual time tracking → I require a 6-month scheduled rate increase clause If your CRM is a mess — or your whole back end needs an overhaul — send me a message. Let's talk about what real systems could look like for you.

  • Project Management
  • Dubsado
  • 17hats
  • Gmail
  • Acuity Scheduling
  • Project Workflows
  • Automated Workflow
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Business Operations
  • CRM Automation
  • CRM Software
  • Google Calendar
  • Events & Weddings

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