March 2009 CMI
Features
Get Your Company to Use Your SMMP
In the midst of uncertainty and economic calamity, Louann Cashill, CMP, CMM, meeting services manager, Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A. Inc., Torrance, Calif., is one meeting professional who's having a lot of fun. Why? Every day she comes to work, she's saving her company money through her SMMP...
How to Find Those Meeting Planners
Rounding up the nonprofessional meeting planners scattered throughout a company is an ongoing challenge. Betsy Bondurant of Bondurant Consulting, has a few tricks up her sleeve...
Stand Up and Tell Your Story
Last June, the 3,200+ associates at the headquarters campus of Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A. Inc., in Torrance, Calif., got the message that cost-savings...
Have a Question on Savings? Ask the CSMs
No one understands your meeting better than the hotel convention services manager. A truly top CSM has a hands-on relationship with every department in a hotel. Whether it’s having chefs meet with planners to create meals using alternative, less costly ingredients or recommending events that can be held on property to save the expense of transportation, they know how to save your meeting money....
Elegant Doesn't Have to Be Expensive
Whether it’s trading in chicken for “those other white meats”—pork and turkey—or cutting back on the menu but splurging on an elegant dessert, caterers share their ideas on creating a classy menu on a budget....
Keynotes
MeCo Man
Corporate Meetings & Incentives: Why has MeCo decided to move to an association structure? Jim Louis: One reason is liability. We'd like to broaden our...
Taking Control
Congress inserted rules on executive compensation into the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, signed by the president February 17, which included...
Sign Here to Support Meetings
Negative publicity continues to churn in the media around the meetings and incentives industry, as a result of the assumed inappropriateness of events...
From Bad to Worse
When Meeting Professionals International first brought a panel of industry experts together for a frank discussion on the meetings market last August...
Present Global, Meet Local
Corporate training managers have it tough. It's not just the rising cost of flying the salesforce to workshops and putting them up in hotels. It's the...
Breakouts
An Interview With Bill Marriott
At age 74, you wouldn't think it would be on the top of his to do list to start a blog. Yet that is exactly what J.W. (Bill) Marriott, chairman and CEO...
Checklist: 35 Money-Saving Meeting Tips
Checklist RELY ON THE LOCAL CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU. Many of their services are free. BE UPFRONT WITH YOUR CONVENTION SERVICES MANAGER. The more...
Why Not Renegotiate?
With the U.S. lodging industry in the midst of one of the deepest recessions in its history, and the number of meetings declining dramatically, it's not...
Sites
So Sophisticated
Jamaica's newest luxury resort, Sols The Palmyra Resort & Spa, is set to open in Rose Hall this June, marking the brand's entry into North America. The...
Texas
Many of the big hotel and meeting- and convention-related projects under way in Texas continue to forge ahead, despite the recession. In Arlington, Dallas...
Departments
Recession Predictions
Everyone keeps asking these days: How bad is this going to get? My answer: You ain't see nothin' yet. Every week we're being hit with new layoffs and...
Dan Parks
President/creative director, Corporate Planners Unlimited Inc.; creator, Virtualis Convention & Learning Center; co-founder and moderator on the MeCo...
What the Coalition Approved
General policy statement: The CEO shall be responsible for implementing adequate controls to assure that meetings, events, and incentive/recognition travel...
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