You Pay Only If It Works Salesdriver.com Creates Online Contests If you want a quick sales boost, log on to Salesdriver.com's Web site and you can create an incentive contest lickety-split. There's no upfront cost--and if the contest doesn't...
Ask Intel employee Yvette Maldonado what her favorite thing about the company's Diversity Days celebration is, and she at first mentions the many new, spicy foods served in the cafeteria. There's a pause. On second thought, maybe it's the dances...
Some companies are doing more than talking about how much fun they are to work for: They're having fun! "Fun days" are the the latest thing to come along since dress-down Fridays. Joanne Brooks, president of Creative Impact Group, a production...
New Orleans, Tunica, and Detroit have joined Las Vegas, Reno, and Atlantic City as gaming destinations offering not only first-rate casinos and entertainment, but the necessary infrastructure to host groups. Here is the latest on acquisitions, new...
PlanSoft Renames, Redesigns Web Site PlanSoft's completely redesigned meeting planning Web site has a new address: www.mpoint.com. The updated site is one of a host of products from Cleveland-based PlanSoft Corp. that are in "advanced stages of...
For meeting planners, the time-proven threat of being outsourced now has been joined by the double whammy punch of mergers and acquisitions. The latter often result in downsizing, staff reviews, and you guessed it--outsourcing...
EIBTM Sponsors New Incentive Contest The European Incentive & Business Travel & Meetings Exhibition (EIBTM) has launched an incentive contest to recognize corporate events for innovation and creativity. Winners will be drawn from 10...
GETTHERE, B-THERE, ANYWHERE The latest dot-com pairing will have Westport, Conn.-based b-there.com (www.b-there.com) offering its meeting planner users the opportunity to add a direct link to the air-booking capabilities of Menlo Park, Calif...
Dear Fellow ICPA Members: In addition to filling my role as Program Chair for this year's annual meeting, my next biggest challenge was an e-mail from Alison Hall asking me to write the President's Message before I'm officially President! The...
