When it comes to negotiating, meeting managers have long relied on relationship-building and getting to “win-win” with hotel sales staff. But is it in your organization's best interest to provide all your meeting specifications up front in the...
If you’ve ever wondered what to do with those pens, calendars, T-shirts, and unused banquet food that’s left over after a meeting or trade show, wonder no more. There’s a new nonprofit organization, CharityDirect, that can connect the meetings and...
When it comes to foreign contract negotiations, being a “bull in a china shop” is a really bad idea, advises Laurie Fitzgerald, convention manager for Smith, Bucklin and Associates Inc., Northbrook, Ill. As manager of the International DB2 Users...
The key to preparing for a potential crisis at a meeting is to develop strategies for fast, accurate communication, says Nancy L. Elder, CAE director, meetings and expositions, American Society for Microbiology, Washington, D.C. Here are the...
