Carina Bauer is CEO of IMEX Group, which produces two major exhibitions annually focused on incentive travel, meetings, and events. Bauer has a close eye on the global meetings industry and shares her top trends for the coming year—personalizatio...
1. Don't be afraid to ask. Negotiators often fail to raise an issue because they don't think they have a chance of success. Don't be afraid. Not only do good negotiators ask for everything they want, they also make sure they don't...
A regular feature in the monthly MeetingsNet magazine is advice from Audrey Thomas, known to planners, meeting attendees, and clients as Organized Audrey. The productivity expert’s presentations and workshops cover everything from little...
Some meeting planners’ budgets are so scrutinized that they have to justify every expense. Every dollar must be accounted for and needs to get a return on investment. Some planners, therefore, will dismiss paying $5,000, $10,000 or $20,000...
The Convention Industry Council, Meetings Mean Business, and Social Tables are collaborating on a five-city roadshow this spring with an educational agenda focused on how meeting planners and properties can work together to make meetings better...
A new research report from the Center for Exhibition Industry Research and the Society of Independent Show Organizers, the 2015 Young Professional Exhibitor Needs and Preferences Study, found three key things exhibition organizers need to know ab...
You can’t always predict when storms or unforeseen events will affect your meetings, but you can protect yourself with a good force majeure clause.
Force majeure, meaning a superior or irresistible power, is the name of a contract provisi...
Event producer Tahira Endean, CMP, talks about the return meeting professionals can expect from investing time, energy, and resources into elevating their meeting design. Great meeting design, she says, not only sparks attendees’ curiosity...
