- WHY PARTNER WITH SLOW DREAMS - Reinventing Weddings in Italy?
- CLIENT BENEFITS
- EVENT PLANNERS
- VENUE OPERATORS
- SERVICE PROVIDERS
The primary purpose of this Slow Dreams system is to provide event planners, service providers and venue operators with an innovative supplemental global marketing, sales and fulfillment channel.
Slow Dreams is the first to fully leverage the power of the internet and ecommerce to radically reduce the effort, time and frustration of delivering complex events such as weddings and business events, not just for Slow Dreams, but, also for the clients, venues and service providers.
Unique to Slow Dreams, we have automated, extensively, the cooperation among all event participants including the client. Great events require great vendor cooperation.
The links below details what we are looking for and what advantages we bring to you.
If interested, please CONTACT BMCFADYEN@SLOW-DREAMS.COM.
Drastically lowers the time, cost, aggravation and disappointments of creating and managing complex or even simple events.
- Find, design, plan, cost, multiple complex events/experience in minutes - make changes in seconds and watch budget impact.
- Highly categorized venues and service providers
- Google Maps showing where all venues and service providers are located
- All costs are detailed; total costs tabulated in real-time.
- Event plans can contain any number of events in any number of locations.
- Compare several plans at a glance.
- Leverage the capabilities and aesthetics of local professional event designers/planners. Aesthetics are essential to events; no computer will ever replace the talented designer.
- Comprehensive guest management
- Guest list creation and management – can be updated and reused for life (for subsequebt events - e.g., birthday parties) – can be imported from existing spreadsheets.
- Automated communications for any king of event (invite, save the date, cancellation, etc.)
- Room and table assignment driven from guest list
- Customized meals (version 2) or fixed price.
- Guests can design and manage their own event (s) within the context of the main event. For example, for a wedding with a minister, guests could take advantage of the minister and plan their own vow-renewals at a different time or even place.
- Multi-lingual (version 2 will support Italian)
- Client personal wedding web-page automatically generated but easily subsequently modified by client - provides info/photos on venues, events, schedule, meal choices, seating arrangement, how to get there, etc.
- Instalment payments over a variety of payment methods - credit cards, wire transfer, PayPal .
- Trust – Slow Dreams has had very successful track-record for "weddings in Italy" since 2003.
What We Are Looking For
- Verifiable track-record of successful event management - this includes, but is not limited to weddings and business events.
- English language proficient
- Computer savvy - ability to enter and maintain detailed web pages of the venues and services they offer.
- Highly responsive to clients and Slow Dreams
Event Planner Benefits
Drastically lowers the time, cost, aggravation and disappointments of creating and managing complex or even simple events.
- Find, design, plan, cost, multiple complex events/experience in minutes - make changes in seconds and watch budget impact.
- Highly categorized venues and service providers
- Google Maps showing where all venues and service providers are located
- All costs are detailed; total costs tabulated in real-time.
- Event plans can contain any number of events in any number of locations.
- Compare several plans at a glance.
- Leverage the capabilities and aesthetics of local professional event designers/planners. Aesthetics are essential to events; no computer will ever replace the talented designer.
- Comprehensive guest management
- Guest list creation and management – can be updated and reused for life (for subsequebt events - e.g., birthday parties) – can be imported from existing spreadsheets.
- Automated communications for any king of event (invite, save the date, cancellation, etc.)
- Room and table assignment driven from guest list
- Customized meals (version 2) or fixed price.
- Guests can design and manage their own event (s) within the context of the main event. For example, for a wedding with a minister, guests could take advantage of the minister and plan their own vow-renewals at a different time or even place.
- Multi-lingual (version 2 will support Italian)
- Client personal wedding web-page automatically generated but easily subsequently modified by client - provides info/photos on venues, events, schedule, meal choices, seating arrangement, how to get there, etc.
- Instalment payments over a variety of payment methods - credit cards, wire transfer, PayPal .
- Trust – Slow Dreams has had very successful track-record for "weddings in Italy" since 2003.
- Enabling Innovation is perhaps the key innovation of Slow Dreams . Creating a great event or experience is highly similar to creating a great meal. An area, e.g., Rome, with many chefs with access to a wide range of ingredients and facilities will have a great food scene; whereas, other areas with very limited access to ingredients will have a mediocre food scene at best. Our goal, area by area, is to increase access for local businesses to a wide range of facilities and services enabling a wide range of innovative, events and experiences. As an example of innovation, the system enables the on-line selection of restaurant menu items and seat selection.
- Automatic scheduled payment of deposits owed.
What We Are Looking For
Venues can be any structure or location ideal for weddings anywhere in Italy. Venues with these characteristics are most likely to be successful:
- Within 90 minutes of major international airport
- No or minimum limitations of length of stay
- Know of local wedding regulations and processes
- Good reviews on TripAdvisor.
- Just simply stunning looking.
- Verifiable track-record of successft
- English language proficient
- Computer savvy - ability to enter and maintain detailed web pages of the venues and services they offer.
- Highly responsive to clients - we expect client reponses in minutes or hours, not days nor weeks.
Venue Operator Benefits
It provides two important functions – automation and innovation:
- Automation
- Build new venue content in minutes - seconds to leverage existing services and other vendors.
- Clone venues in minutes, clone groups of venues in minutes – ideal for multiple venue owners (e., hotel chains) and wedding planners who manage events at multiple venues.
- Update/delete content for groups of venues in seconds
- Free of charge venue booking system – a very sophisticated booking system. Ideal for small hotels, B&Bs, vacation rentals, room rentals, and restaurants. (version 2)
- Universal pricing engine - prices can be set for one of or combinations of – time of year, day of week, week-end, time of day, levels of guests, location.
- “Add year” app which takes existing room rates and dates and automatically generates the room rates and dates for the next year. Allows for automatic prices adjustments for the added year.
- Ability to allow 3rd party service providers to add services unique to venue’s content (with permission).
- Ability to import existing lists of services (e.g., photography services) and menus to automatically generate service content.
- Enabling Innovation is perhaps the key innovation of Slow Dreams . Creating a great event or experience is highly similar to creating a great meal. An area, e.g., Rome, with many chefs with access to a wide range of ingredients and facilities will have a great food scene; whereas, other areas with very limited access to ingredients will have a mediocre food scene at best. Our goal, area by area, is to increase access for local businesses to a wide range of facilities and services enabling a wide range of innovative, events and experiences. As an example of innovation, the system enables the on-line selection of restaurant menu items and seat selection. Prospective diners surfing menus at home or wherever, instead of seeing just text or even photos, the system allows video (e.g., of the chef making the dish) - this making dinner reservation for resurrections or room service more of an experience.
- Automatic scheduled payment of deposits owed.
What We Are Looking For
- Verifiable track-record of successful events
- Excellent web-site
- English language proficient
- Computer savvy - ability to enter and maintain detailed web pages of the venues and services they offer.
- Highly responsive to clients - we expect client reponses in minutes or hours, not days nor weeks.
Service Provider Benefits
Provides the ability to:
- Describe and price your services in minutes.
- Easy import of services from existing service descriptions.
- Universal pricing engine - prices can be set for one of or combinations of – time of year, day of week, week-end, time of day, levels of guests, location.(version 2)
- Takes seconds for venues and event managers to include you services for their offerings.
- Takes seconds to change updated service descriptions to all venues that are using them.
- Automatic scheduled payment of deposits owed.