You know the drill. There's a meeting, there's a budget, and you need to find the most effective venue to deliver the message. One of your first decisions is whether to hold the meeting offsite. There are lots of advantages to doing so, says Holly Froumis, Director of Business Development at Grand…
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When you think about a traditional meeting, you might picture a large ballroom room at a hotel, brimming with rows of round tables or staid, stack chairs all facing the speaker at the front of the…
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Why argue with free? CVBs and DMOs offer a wide variety of free services to help meeting planners make their events successful. Why? It's in their best interest - a happy customer is a repeat…
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Amy Young has been a meeting planner for more than 20 years, but she never runs out of ideas.That's because she sees the world differently. "Pay attention to the world around you," said Young…
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One form of interaction that is important to include as a teaching and meeting tool in all industries is the webinar. Webinars are, by definition, a web-based seminar that allows for presenter and…
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"In a banquet setting, we can't prepare fifty different meals," says Joyce Miller, Director of Conventions at the luxurious Amway Grand Plaza hotel in downtown Grand Rapids, "but we still want a…
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As president of both the National Speakers Bureau and the International Association of Speakers Bureaus, Brian D. Palmer is a magnet for stories. "People who plan events love telling about things…
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Networking is a valuable business activity when done correctly, but it takes work. Too often networking events can be dominated by forced, awkward interactions and banal banter while exchanging…
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Every event planner has that moment - possibly daily = when they wish they could clone themselves to get more things done. One possible solution arrives every summer in the form of a fresh crop of…
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Ben Stein's portrayal of a monotone high school economics teacher in the iconic 1980s movie Ferris Beuller's Day Off is likely used by teachers everywhere as a prime example of what not to do. But…
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