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Business Meeting Incentives
- Seasite.com Launches Version 2.0Business Planners Can Now Search Cruise Choices and Submit One Request to Five Cruise Lines Simultaneously Seasite.com, the first online portal for cruise meetings and events, launched version 2.0 that provides business and event planners direct access to major cruise lines. With the new electronic Request For Proposal (eRFP) feature, planners can send cus […]
- Not Enough Hours in the Day?What Meeting Planner hasn’t wished for just a couple more hours in the day to get more work done? With all the details and planning involved in orchestrating a successful corporate event, its no wonder sleep falls to the bottom of the totem pole in so many cases. The thinking is always, “I’ll get some rest after […]
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Can Your Business Afford to Skip Incentive Travel Options?
In today’s global business environment it is important to squeeze every single iota worth of energy and loyalty out of employees without spending a lot of money. The balance between expenses and employee output is a tenuous one at best, but many companies have discovered that incentive travel works very well. In fact, it works so well that companies that... »
Meetings at Sea
A cruise ship is a incomparable setting for a corporate meeting, incentive trip, sales conference or board meeting. Although you may discover that shipboard conference planning requires a little flexibility and “out of the box” mind-set, that’s just the kind of creativity a meeting at sea will inspire in your meeting participants. Here are a number of reasons why more... »
Corporate Meeting Planners Are Moving Up
The importance of corporate meetings and events continues to increase, especially as the current economic slump seems set to continue unabated. The result is that meeting planners are moving up from dealing with middle management to dealing with executives, and those same middle management staffers are now in the unemployment lines or moved up in the company themselves. Here are... »
Powerful Invitations
Meetings and events often start with planning from the perspective of the host(s), but it is the invitation that grabs the attention of participants. For the participants, the invitation really is the start of a meeting or event, it puts that event or meeting on the horizon. How any given invitation looks plays a major role in the efficacy of... »
Tips From Successful Meeting Planners
Learning how to become a successful meeting planner is something that many struggle with, especially in their first few months on the job. There seems to be so much to balance between the often complex yet subtle social interactions and the finite scheduling that forces both sides of the brain to work at once, sometimes going in different directions. Here... »
Why Incentive Travel is Important
For companies that desire to retain top-talent, paying employees a reasonable salary is simply not enough. Employees need to know that they are valued as people, not simply as workers. Therefore, it is essential that organizations wishing to recruit and retain skilled and capable employees reward top-earning employees with things such as incentive travel. Incentive travel, such as group cruise... »
Live an Exciting Life as a Cruise Meeting Planner
A cruise meeting and/or event planner is a special job that only some people are suited to. The job can be exciting, but it also involves very serious aspects too. Those who can walk the fine line between playing hard and working hard can make a good living. Those who only want to be defined as ‘hardly working’ will probably... »
Mark On Call –iPhone App for Meeting Planners
Mark On Call (MOC)is a custom floor planning application for the iPhone. It’s easy to use and gives the meeting planner, wedding planner, or event coordinator the ability to create, optimize, or change a floor plan on the fly. A presets palette is available for the application giving the user different options for different stone, color, or wood patterns. It’s... »
New Life for Old Banners
Meeting planners spend a great deal of time and expense into creating eye-catching banners for their events. The sad fact is that most of these vinyl beauties are simply tossed into the trash after the convention is over. A green solution is available through priorLife. When meeting planners mail used banners to priorLife, something magical happens. The company gives the material... »
Continuing Education at Sea
Cruise ship bookings are up all across the board, for leisure, as an incentive, and for corporate meetings. A relatively new market for cruise booking is as a host site for continuing education classes, particularly for medical professionals. Attendees earn continuing education credits and enjoy the benefits of a cruise. Norwegian Cruise lines have noticed that many of these groups include... »