eSociety: Getting Burned, Lessons Learned It was the first dot-com portal builder to target associations, and it appears eSociety.com, the Bellevue, Wash. - based Web house, is the first to flame out. A letter was posted on its Web site on...
The Center for Exhibition Industry Research's first-ever census puts the number of annual exhibits held in the U.S. far above any previous estimates...
What does it take to build a successful career in association meetings? Here's a look at the paths of three top achievers, and a game plan for advancing your own career...
"I've done everything I could do in meetings, but I didn't want to get out of the association business." When you're Jacy Hanson, a 17-year association veteran, with 10 of those years as national meetings services division director for the...
Even though I'm a complete klutz as a do-it-yourselfer, my weekend misadventures in home repair have taught me a few valuable lessons. For instance, when you're hanging a door and you don't have a chisel handy, you can try to use a screwdriver...
Dot-coms Align, Emerge, Even Give It Away The latest dot-com pairing will have b-there.com (www.b-there.com) offering its meeting planner users the opportunity to add a direct link to the travel booking capabilities of GetThere (www.getthere.com)...
It's an 'Up-selling' World, So Get Creative "With this seller's market [in convention center space], there's been a spate of up-selling," says Douglas L. Ducate, president and CEO of Chicago-based Center for Exhibition Industry Research. "To quote...