Résumés and work orders — the key documents that define your meeting for a hotel or convention facility — have been under the microscope of the Convention Industry Council's Accepted Practices Exchange (APEX). And now it's your turn. After...
If you want your incentive programs to appeal to independent agents, think younger than in the past. The demographics of individuals leading independent insurance agencies are changing, says the 2002 Agency Universe study. The study, released in...
I've rarely encountered as savvy and experienced a group of insurance and financial services conference planners as those who attended the KSL Insurance Advisory Board, held at the Doral in Miami in late October. So when they talked, I listened...
When did you start managing meetings online? Registering attendees via the Web? Holding virtual conferences? Or more to the point, what online meeting technologies were you using before December 30, 1997...
Alan F. Reichbart has been appointed director of sales at the Pierre New York, a Four Seasons Hotel. He will oversee direct sales activities of the staff, and be directly responsible for managing group business from the Chicago, Los Angeles, and...
Business golf requires proper etiquette on the course if you want to accomplish your goals, says Richard Brasser, owner of Targeted Golf in Charlotte, N.C. (www.targetedgolf.com). Here are his top “Don'ts” for executives on the links...
The 295-room Doral Eaglewood Conference Resort Spa, Itasca, Ill., opened in September. The IACC — certified conference resort has its own 18-hole golf course and a 10,000-square-foot health spa. Located 35 minutes from downtown Chicago and 21...
