The Exhibition Industry posted its fourth straight year of growth in 2006, with all the major metrics pushing past pre-2001 levels, according to the 2007 edition of the CEIR Index, an annual measure of industry performance developed by the Center...
Anyone who would select “When The End Is Not in Sight” as a title must be in the midst of something and not be able to predict or see the ending of it...
Marketing-wise, your potential attendees are a lot more sophisticated than they used to be — they've been trained by business-to-consumer companies to expect a high level of personalization, very targeted content, and, frankly, great design. Do...
Innovation has to be a strategic priority for associations because our organizations don't just serve a set of members/customers. Every association is the champion of a set of core beliefs that make a real difference (or don't, if you get my drift...
In 2002, coming off an annual meeting where it lost $700,000, the brain trust at the Employee Relocation Council made a move that probably seemed counterintuitive at the time but, in fact, was two steps ahead of their competition — they went...
When the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association holds its annual convention, a significant number of the 10,000 or so attendees don't worry about airfare, lines at security, or sitting in the middle seat. That's because they fly their own planes...
As the hotel market turns in favor of the sellers, hoteliers and groups are starting to look at the problem of attrition through a different lens and basing attrition on revenue, not room count...
