{"id":1447,"date":"2025-09-25T08:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T07:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/corporateeventsplus.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1447"},"modified":"2025-09-25T08:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T07:54:09","slug":"is-there-a-race-to-the-bottom-going-on-in-our-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/corporateeventsplus.co.uk\/blog\/uncategorized\/is-there-a-race-to-the-bottom-going-on-in-our-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Is there a race to the bottom going on in our industry?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Being competitive is different from buying work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Buying your work is not sustainable \u2013 some would say if you compete in that race it is a race to the bottom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have seen this before \u2013 the end client awarding business on cost not quality of delivery of the project. But 5 events recently have been lost by 3 London agency\u2019s we work with and by ourselves by not being cheep enough  even though we have been delivering successful past events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This month has seen us meeting at venues for future work and getting our ducks in a row for projects in November, February and March next year. Next month we will be back in Barcelona having supplier meetings for projects next year, really looking forward to that I can almost taste the Paella.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/corporateeventsplus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_1714-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/corporateeventsplus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_1714-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1448\" srcset=\"http:\/\/corporateeventsplus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_1714-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/corporateeventsplus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_1714-300x225.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/corporateeventsplus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_1714-768x576.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/corporateeventsplus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_1714-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, http:\/\/corporateeventsplus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_1714-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being competitive is different from buying work. Buying your work is not sustainable \u2013 some would say if you compete in that race it is a race to the bottom. We have seen this before \u2013 the end client awarding business on cost not quality of delivery of the project. But 5 events recently have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/corporateeventsplus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/corporateeventsplus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/corporateeventsplus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/corporateeventsplus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/corporateeventsplus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/corporateeventsplus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1449,"href":"http:\/\/corporateeventsplus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions\/1449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/corporateeventsplus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/corporateeventsplus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/corporateeventsplus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}