1. How long have they been in business?

2. Do they have a business license?

3. What kind of education background that they have?

4. What type of professional experience do they have?

5. How do they keep up with the latest trends? Do they do continuing education?

6. Do they belong to a professional organization, if so which? Which you can verify.

7. Do they have references from the past 6-months to one year? They would then be current.

8. Do they have other coordinators available if needed? Important for back-up.

9. Do they provide a contract?

10. How are the fees structured? Do they get a flat-fee or percentage fee based on something?

11. Do they get commissions or referrals from the vendors they refer? Do they add a fee to the cost provided by the vendors? Do you make payments to their company or the vendors' company name?

12. Do they have only one or two vendors that they work with for each category?