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- 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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Measuring Your Work Performance
It is essential for a meeting planner to measure the performance of their work. A meeting planner will want to ensure that they are meeting client's expectations, and one way to assess this is to determine if the purpose of the event was achieved. It will be vital to know not only if the event's purpose was achieve but also... »
Why do Meetings Get Such a Bad Rap?
Unproductive, ineffective meetings seem to be the norm – particularly if you ask the professionals that, on average, attend more than 60 of them each month. While meetings can be the most effective way to move a business forward, increase sales, disseminate important information to large groups of people and brainstorm for new ideas, they can also be a huge... »
How To Keep Those Snoring Sounds Out Of Your Business Meeting
People who are new to meeting planning will often make the mistake of setting the meeting room up like a classroom. They assume that the key personnel will want to give the meeting participants important information to consider about a project. The difference between a business meeting structure and a classroom set-up is that everybody at the business meeting is... »
Web 2.0 and Meeting Planners
What is Web 2.0 and how will it affect how meeting planners do their jobs? Don’t worry; the World Wide Web isn’t going anywhere – at least not anytime soon. Web 2.0 refers to the interactive part of the Internet that meeting planners are already utilizing. Social networking like Facebook and LinkIn, video sharing sites such as YouTube, and photo storage... »
Meeting Planners’ Little Helpers
One of the old clichéd images of meeting planners at an event was frazzled people covered in clipboards with pencils behind their ears and their pockets stuffed with everything from enormous amounts of pay phone change to walkie talkies. Although those days are long gone, it’s amazing just how many tools a meeting planner really uses. Here is a short... »