Planning With Short Lead Times

Planning With Short Lead Times   Smart strategies for arranging meetings and events in a matter of weeks — or days!   By Louise M. Felsher, CMP CMM How short can lead times go? According to several national sales representatives…

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Four Tips for Fewer Travel Troubles

  With airport security hassles and overcrowded flights a fact of life for on-the-go meeting professionals and their attendees, we caught up with Peter Greenberg, travel editor for NBC’s “The Today Show,” to get his four best tips for reducing…

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Checklist: 35 Money-Saving Meeting Tips

Here’s another helpful checklist from MeetingsNet. HIGHLIGHTS The decisions you make in the first stages of site selection and contract negotiation will be the ones that save you the most. CHECKLIST RELY ON THE LOCAL CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU. Many of their services…

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Saving Sand Dollars

“Everyone is sick to death about the boy who throws the sand dollar back into the ocean.* “The naval ship that keeps requesting the lighthouse keeper to move to avoid a collision is about as old.  They were poignant and…

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