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Four Ways That Corporate Meeting Planners Can Trim Budgets

Master the Event

Corporate meeting planners are always looking for creative ways that they can trim their meetings budget without losing too much of the overall program. Today, corporate meeting planners have a tough job. Of course for many corporations and associations meetings are a vital part of their operation.

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How Walmart and Sam’s Club ‘Connected Together’ at 2022 Associates Week

Smart Meetings

Home of the University of Arkansas’ men’s and women’s basketball teams, Bud Walton Arena hosted the Sam’s Club Associates Meeting, Walmart U.S. Associates Meeting, and the legendary Associates Celebration to wrap up the week. Sam’s Club Associates Meeting. Associates Meeting.

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Peer Conferences Deep Dive—Meeting Doctors transcript and video

Conferences that Work

Adrian Segar: That group, for example, over 30 years has come up with several initiatives outside the conference. “We For example, at a first-time conference, people might say, “We have to do this again! Let’s meet next year” Adrian Segar: So that’s the big picture. What should we do now? There are always some vague edges.

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Convene’s 27th Annual Meetings Market Survey

PCMA Convene

Moving on to a broader analysis, on the following pages, there are more than a dozen places where we’ve included Annual Meetings Market Survey results from 2007 (published in the 2008 March issue of Convene ) up to present-day results from the survey conducted in late 2017 — a broader overview we started last year. million in 2007 to $6.6

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Convene’s 26th Annual Meetings Market Survey

PCMA Convene

Remarkably, some metrics in 15 key areas have held steady during the past decade — for example, meetings and conventions have consistently contributed to around one-third of their organizations’ total annual revenues — regardless of the economy. Greater forethought — The average booking window for large meetings is 2.5

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