March 1, 2006 CMI

Cover Story

Inside the Inc. 500

Mar 1, 2006 12:00 PM

Each Year, Inc. magazine makes headlines by choosing the 500 fastest-growing private companies in America. These small, agile companies are leading the...

AdminServer's Mystery Trip

Mar 1, 2006 12:00 PM, By Bob Andelman

Being the meeting planner at Chester, Pa. based software solutions company AdminServer might be a really fun job. That is, as long as you don't mind that...

Upfront

Make $20,000 a Month As an Event Planner

Mar 1, 2006 12:00 PM, with Barbara Scofidio

That's the title of an e-mail promotion that Web Enterprises has been circulating. “That's right, dear friend,” it goes on. “There are huge profits being made in this business every single day! … All you have to do is organize one event a month … You can make your own schedule … live your own life … do what you want to do, when you want to do it! And you'll have the money to enjoy it!”

News & Info

MPI Meeting Supports N.O.

Mar 1, 2006 12:00 PM, Edited By Susan Hatch

The recovery of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast was a topic of discussion throughout Meeting Professionals International's Professional Education Conference...

MPI's PEC-NA: Meetings' Strategic Role

Mar 1, 2006 12:00 PM, Michael Bassett

The continuing effort to define meeting planning as a profession and to establish it as an important strategic cog in the corporate machine was front...

Air Security Programs Face Hurdles on the Hill

Mar 1, 2006 12:00 PM, Michael Bassett

Two air security programs the Registered Traveler Program and Secure Flight while still on track for eventual launch, face a few hurdles before they fly....

going overboard?

Mar 1, 2006 12:00 PM, Edited By Susan Hatch

Royal Caribbean International will take the biggest-ship-ever title from Cunard's 2,620-passenger Queen Mary 2 when it launches the 3,600-passenger Freedom...

Online Chat Ain't What it Used to Be Yet

Mar 1, 2006 12:00 PM, Edited By Susan Hatch

In January, the meeting industry got two new Google Groups discussion forums MiForum and MeCo but online meetings chat still isn't up to the volume of...

Take 5

Mar 1, 2006 12:00 PM, Edited By Susan Hatch

If you could be anywhere in the World, Where would you be? In Thailand next to the golf course, with a few of my very best friends on the veranda of my...

WTMI Adopts StarCite, Drops Plan2Attend

Mar 1, 2006 12:00 PM, Edited By Susan Hatch

Chicago-Based WorldTravel Meetings &Incentives, an operating unit of travel management giant WorldTravel BTI, has announced that it is adopting the StarCite...

Leaving so Soon? Early Departure Fees

Mar 1, 2006 12:00 PM, By Tyra W. Hilliard

Clause In the event that any Group guest checks out prior to the reserved check-out date, the hotel will charge an early departure fee of $X. Effect Early...

Meetings

Revving Up the Engine

Mar 1, 2006 12:00 PM, Dave Kovaleski

I see meetings as the engine that drives the organization, says Barbara Burgess, chief executive officer, Pathways Home Health, Hospice, and Private Duty,...

Swimming for Vowels

Mar 1, 2006 12:00 PM, Edited By Dave Kovaleski

Rainy days are great for board games like Scrabble, but at the Ritz-Carlton Golf and Spa Resort in Rose Hall, Jamaica, the classic word game is best enjoyed...

ROI is hot topic

Mar 1, 2006 12:00 PM, Edited By Dave Kovaleski

When talking about return on investment at their companies, 61 percent of respondents to Meeting Professionals International's 2006 FutureWatch survey...

12 simple and effective ways to shave meeting costs

Mar 1, 2006 12:00 PM, Edited By Dave Kovaleski

When it comes to saving money on meetings, Bonnie Wallsh, chief strategist at Bonnie Wallsh Associates LLC, Charlotte, N.C., knows her stuff. Here are...

How to Save in a Seller's Market

Mar 1, 2006 12:00 PM, Dave Kovaleski

Finding good deals on hotel rooms and meeting space is more difficult in a seller's market, but it's not impossible. It starts with knowing the value...

Is There Life After Meeting Planning?

Mar 1, 2006 12:00 PM, By Bennett Voyles

For years, meeting-planning jobs have been positioned by the industry as leading to a chance to rub elbows with the movers and shakers of a company. Do...

New Career Tool From MPI

Mar 1, 2006 12:00 PM, Michael Bassett

As part of its continuing quest to put meeting planning on the professional map, Meeting Professionals International rolled out a Web tool known as Member...

Incentives

The New Buzz: The Demand Chain

Mar 1, 2006 12:00 PM, Edited by Barbara Scofidio

The buzz in the performance-improvement arena these days is all about the Demand Chain, where companies begin their product or service development by...

Live Like a New Yorker

Mar 1, 2006 12:00 PM, Edited by Barbara Scofidio

Although incentive groups visiting New York want to experience the sights the city is known for Rockefeller Plaza, Broadway, the Empire State Building...

cancun bound

Mar 1, 2006 12:00 PM, Edited by Barbara Scofidio

The Society of Incentive & Travel Executives has chosen Cancun as the site of its Executive Summit on March 6. SITE members will travel to Cancun to witness...

Coming Next Month

Mar 1, 2006 12:00 PM, Edited by Barbara Scofidio

Our special April issue is dedicated to mixing golf and spas with the meeting experience and not going broke in the process. GOLF FOR LESS Are companies...

Driving Force

Mar 1, 2006 12:00 PM, By Bob Andelman

When MotivAction LLC won a 2005 Crystal Award from the Society of Incentive & Travel Executives in November, it brought the company's tally to a historic...

Last Word

centralization

Mar 1, 2006 12:00 PM

It's about purchasing, not planning in today's world of strategic meeting management programs, or SMMPs, a centralized approach to meetings doesn't typically...