IMAGINE PUTTING ON a small meeting without writing a check. Organizations that use barter to secure meeting space have found that it's simple to use, efficient, and especially suited for small meetings...
UNION LESSON ONE: It's not the rates; it's the rules. When meeting organizers bring their events to cities with unionized convention labor, their biggest challenge to keeping exhibitors' costs down and satisfaction high isn't usually the labor...
"In today’s economy, companies cannot afford to have a controllable expense go uncontrolled. There’s a focus on procurement, on tracking the meeting, and on tracking cost savings," says Jay Roseman, vice president of corporate meeting solutions...
AS THE STAFFERS FILED into the conference room, some joked, others spoke in hushed tones, and a few buried their faces in their PDAs. This was to be a routine meeting, nothing special, nothing earth-shattering. Just another day...
Log on to meetingsnet.com to get the results of our just-released Managing Corporate Meeting Spend 2004 Benchmark Survey, which looks at the use of meeting consolidation tools and policies and their effectiveness according to readers of Corporate...
The Council of Insurance Agents and Brokers found its 91st Annual Insurance Leadership Forum interjected into this year's presidential race when keynote speaker L. Paul Bremer, the former administrator of the United States — led occupation...
SOME SIMPLE EDUCATION or the right kinds of incentives could have a significant effect on attendees' likelihood of booking inside the block. That is among the conclusions one can draw from a survey of attendee behavior conducted as the second...
