Vision Down Under As soon as we announced Australia as the conference site, excitement was high," says Jill Stoffield, meeting/conference planner at Brookfield, WI-based HPS Select Brokerage Services, "but to keep that charge going, we needed a...
Participants in a recent roundtable discussion held by Doubletree (front row, left to right): Barbara Mulligan, Helms-Briscoe; Elizabeth Campbell, Discovery Toys; Kathy Knox, Meeting Sites Resource; and Lisa Austin, PRC, Inc.; (second row) Scott...
* Do your agents know variable products? In a recent issue of National Underwriter, columnist and Chatham, MA­p;based attorney Hill Gallagher predicted the next life insurance scandal will come about because of how variable-life products...
* Insurance firms present on family-friendly lists. Several insurance companies earned recognition for their family-friendly policies in two national magazines this fall. Appearing on the Working Mother list of the 100 best companies for working...
On the flight up the Australian coast from Sydney to Brisbane, the view is remarkable, just one giant crescent of sand after another for the entire 75-minute trip. The east coast's endless beaches were just the beginning of the extraordinary...
The companies spending some $8.4 billion annually on incentive travel programs are spread across business sectors, from manufacturing to service. Still, nearly three quarters of the nation's ten million businesses are not using travel or...
R.J. (Jim) Henderson has been promoted to vice president of sales and marketing at the Anchorage (AK) Convention & Visitors Bureau. He had been director of convention sales...
What's great about PlanSoft's Ajenis software is not that you can quickly and easily create documents like meeting resumes and banquet event orders on your computer. It's that the documents you create can be sent back and forth electronically...
