JASON JOHNSON, director of sales and marketing, The Coeur d'Alene Resort, Idaho, and Julie Stovroff, regional vice president of sales, Hinton & Grusich, hosted a pre-ICPA fam in early November at The Coeur d'Alene Resort in Coeur d'Alene...
I RECENTLY HAD the opportunity to emcee the annual meeting of the Insurance Conference Planners Association in Seattle and got to meet many of you. For those of you who did not make it to the conference, let me just say that you missed a lot. Here...
Never before has the incentive supplier-buyer relationship been challenged more, according to members of a panel at SITE University, held December 8 to 12 in Miami Beach by the Society of Incentive Travel Executives. The panel, moderated by Bruce...
THE HISTORY OF online incentive program management is not a long one. In the mid-1990s, pioneers began hammering together Web sites where participants could read contest rules, view their qualification progress, search online merchandise catalogs...
I ADMIT IT, I'm a fan of public radio and one of its most frequent pundits, economist Robert Reich. So I was excited to hear the former Secretary of Labor speak at the annual LIMRA International conference in Boston in late October. He didn't...
The most important — yet often undervalued — components of any company are human resources and employee training, believes Howard Schultz, chairman of Starbucks Coffee Co...
FOR SEVERAL DECADES, the language used in speakers bureau contracts has been largely based on the legalese that makes up standard entertainment law. This is because the industry never had a standard contract from which to work. Until now...
The Insurance Conference Planner’s Association Annual Meeting in Seattle, November 3 to 7, drew a record crowd of 195 planners and 336 hospitality partners. Best pre-meeting detail: easy online registration and up-to-the-minute conference...
ONE OF THE BEST WAYS TO answer the question, “How's business?” as it applies to the meeting and incentive industry is to stroll the aisles at the annual IT&ME Show in Chicago. As we did just that this September, it was clear that business was...
