Reply to the event inquiry while the planner is still comparing venues
Say a planner emails at 9:40 on a Friday night about a rehearsal dinner for 60 in October. She sent the same note to four other venues. In Scoped, whoever sees it first adds it to the board in under a minute: the client, the date they asked about, the headcount, where they found you. Saturday morning it’s sitting in Inquiry with an owner on it, not in a shared inbox where three people assumed someone else replied.
Name the stages the way your private event sales team already talks: Inquiry, Site tour, Proposal sent, Confirmed, or Tentative and Definite if that’s your house. Each card carries the proposal amount, so you can see there’s $79,300 in proposals out and that the $36,500 wedding weekend has been quiet for eleven days. The proposal, the contract, and the deposit go through the tools you use today. The amount and the history live on the card.
When the company that held its offsite with you last spring calls about a holiday buyout, the client’s page and every past event are one click away: the room block they took, the menu they picked, the note that the founder is allergic to shellfish, how the night went. You answer like you remember them, because the record does.
Next Tuesday. The inquiry from Monday night has an owner before 9, your proposal is out before the other venues reply, and someone has already called about the wedding weekend that went quiet.
See the sales pipelineTry it: drag the $42,800 card to Confirmed.