FOCUS ON BEHAVIORS, NOT REWARDS Motivation Online (www.motivationonline.com) describes itself as being in the "behavior business." Its online performance improvement and rewards system, launched last January, was built from a foundation of...

New Products Need New Offers Every day, I'm cordially invited to learn about the latest in something: solutions, tools, partnerships, products, services, or techniques. My mailbox and in-box are swamped. Most of these offers are from energetic...

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 motivate your sales force, there's no cost at all. You pay only when...

BIGGER AND SMARTER IN SAN DIEGO-GO-GO A tech industry favorite races toward the expansion finish line. Every tech event and meeting manager knows the way to San Diego. Just since the first of the year, the San Diego Convention Center has played...

MeetingXpress aims to distinguish itself in the crowded online meeting planning space by narrowing its focus. Its concept is the same as many other dot-coms--a Web site where planners can search a database of meeting properties and send RFPs...

Four world-class resorts, a golf club, and the city of Indian Wells, Calif., have joined forces to offer a campus-style environment for meetings. The group includes Hyatt Grand Champions Resort, Indian Wells Resort Hotel, Miramonte Resort...

MEETUP ACQUIRED WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP COUNCIL PLANSOFT: NEW BRAND, NEW PRODUCT 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 Cleve-land-based PlanSoft...

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The incentive travel programs of the past that brought hundreds of people to the beaches of Waikiki to sip pina coladas and brag about their accomplishments have lost their appeal for today's employees. Managers must now motivate a widely...

These days you can practically count on several presenters needing access to the Internet. But when the hotel starts going on about, say, its Internet service provider's DSL system delivering 416 Kbps bandwidth, it's time to take charge. Is DSL...