Plan Your Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

The last 2016 issue of Plan Your Meetings is now online and, for the first time ever, includes the complete Meetings Outlook report of MPI’s quarterly survey. Plan for it, but let’s avoid it, OK? In those pages, you’ll uncover valuable findings for your work-life and career. can be impacted by local gun laws.

2016 28

2016 Meetings Site Selections Insurance 28

Conferences that Work

MARCH 28, 2022

I’m about to go on my first pre-con site visit since the Covid pandemic started over two years ago. My work at a pre-con is different from that of a typical meeting planner since I focus on the meeting’s design and facilitation. The traditional bread and butter of a meeting planner’s job.

Food and Beverage 421

Food and Beverage Meetings Meeting Design Site Selections 421

Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Brand X’s Property in Somewhere, USA is a client of ours, and I am working on an influencer campaign to help promote Property Z’s event spaces as ideal venues for conferences and corporate meetings. Brand X would love to have you–a known industry expert on event/meeting planning–involved in this campaign!

Marketing 120

Marketing Social Media Site Selections 2014 120

The Castle Group

AUGUST 23, 2022

As a result, meeting planners are experiencing short-staffed partners and/or less experienced personnel servicing their meetings. This doesn’t mean you cannot deliver a quality experience to your audience, but labor challenges should be addressed realistically and factored into your planning process. So how can you prepare?

Meeting Planning 52

Meeting Planning Meetings Food and Beverage Travel 52

Maritz Global Events

AUGUST 15, 2019

It affects everything from the site selection process right through to delivery. “Our budgets are going up in that line item [event security], but it affects everything,” said Gregg Talley, FASAE, CAE, President & CEO of Talley Management Group. “It Keeping Event Security Top of Mind.

Global Events 66

Global Events Site Selections Hotels Events 66

SmartMeetings

JUNE 27, 2017

As she presented a session at the Meeting Professionals International (MPI) most recent World Education Congress, titled “The Future of Healthcare Meetings,” Pat Schaumann made a telling comment. health-care events this year: It’s also affecting site-selection decisions for meetings scheduled over the next few years.

Healthcare 51

Healthcare 2013 Site Selections Government 51

Plan Your Meetings

JUNE 27, 2016

If you’re like many corporate meeting planners, planning meetings and events may only be part of your job and you learn as you go, without formal training. But if planning meetings and events are a passion of yours and you want to become a meeting professional, there are 33 skills you need to master.

Meetings 62

Meetings Food and Beverage Risk Management Contracts 62

Maritz Global Events

MARCH 3, 2020

With so many things to consider, site selection will challenge more and more and event planners. Rachel helps meeting planners grow their event attendance with results-driven event marketing strategies. They must weigh the needs and values of different stakeholders with the long-term environmental impacts of the event.

Social Media 90

Social Media Sustainability Site Selections Travel 90

SmartMeetings

AUGUST 24, 2017

The ability to see and hear what is being presented is critical to a successful meeting. Conference Care New Business Manager Gary Hutton, suggests asking to talk to the audio/visual team during a site visit. “A A site visit can often be an undervalued part of the site selection process. Test the Light and Sound.

Site Selections 56

Site Selections Negotiating Conference Venues 56

SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Planners and local governments both know that convention center capacity is a critical determinant of site selection. But what happens when a premier meeting city enters contract negotiations with its largest event client as its long-awaited convention center expansion faces an uncertain future? Despite the presence of the 2.6

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Negotiating Site Selections 2014 Hotels 40

Plan Your Meetings

JANUARY 5, 2017

In second-tier cities, convention and visitors bureaus (CVBs) will help you increase attendance at your convention and make your meeting planning easier. A more intimate airport also can work with meeting planners and airlines to ensure your conference travelers are looked after. Help marketing your event.

Airlines 38

Airlines Hospitality Travel Advertising 38

PCMA Convene

MARCH 1, 2018

A 30-percent drop in revenue will be devastating to the thousands of independent planners who serve association and corporate clients in the site-selection and event-planning process. On one side, site-selection companies allow hotels to run leaner. In no time, Conferon was Hyatt’s largest meetings client.

Site Selections 67

Site Selections Food and Beverage Contracts Negotiating 67

SmartMeetings

JUNE 22, 2017

Much of the meeting and event planning industry only recently began evaluating its impact on the LGBT community. Even though you might assume that your meetings and events are free of LGBT influence, there’s always an effect. The newly created LGBTMPA is a strong LGBT voice in the meeting and event planning world.

Meetings 69

Meetings Site Selections Negotiating Speakers 69

Bizzabo

DECEMBER 19, 2018

AlliedPRA creates local destination experiences for meetings, incentives and events that move hearts, minds and businesses forward to deliver unforgettable moments. BCD Meetings & Events. Maple Ridge Events, leads Nashville's event & meeting industry as an experienced innovative destination & event management company.

2019 78

2019 Sports Entertainment Advertising 78

SmartMeetings

JANUARY 18, 2017

It will be an event people will be buzzing about for years to come, which means it surely offers some important lessons that meeting planners will appreciate. Meeting and event planners probably don’t need a strategy that elaborate, but having a plan in place is paramount. Book early. More than 100 blocks, or 2.7

Transportation 40

Transportation Travel Contracts Site Selections 40