“The Pleasure Principle” is the name of a Janet Jackson song from 1986, and it’s also the title of the 2015 Trends Report from Andrew Freeman & Co., the hospitality marketing and public relations agency that each November...
Most of the more than 2,900 exhibiting companies in the IMEX America trade show gave away something. Marketers came to the Sands Expo in Las Vegas with everything from logo pens and candies to the popular fruit-infusion water bottles at the Visit...
Attendees at the annual IMEX America trade show, held earlier this month in Las Vegas, walk miles along the trade show aisles. They get piles of invitations to events that happen all day long and into the night—snacks at booths, receptions at hot...
Creative venues can yield creative thinking. But how to know what’s out there beyond the hotel breakout room? One way is to search EVENTup, a Web site listing unique offsite venues in cities across the U.S. The roster already has surpassed...
The grounds for creating a mobile meeting app are quite different depending on whether the app is for an association or a corporation, according to a new Meeting Professionals International/DoubleDutch survey.
A quarter of association meeting pr...
There's an interesting article in Forbes called, "Leadership Style: If You're Going to be a Jerk, Be One All the Time," that explores how even a predictably bad situation can make people feel more secure and happy than one where people don't know...
In two books and more 500 presentations around the world I have spoken about the new age we are in, the Shift Age. Every age has its own characteristics and forces that shape humanity. Aligning with these forces facilitates growth, understanding...
