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Waiting To Hire Temporary Event Staff Can Be Costly
Are Temporary Event Staff Always Readily Available?In a recent survey of meeting planners, over 58% of respondents claimed they were concerned with...
How to Manage Virtual Teams
Event Managers must rely on a great team to successfully execute their events, sometimes across time zones and countries. Moreover, client expenses...
What Exactly is a Strategic Meeting Planner?
Meetings and events are designed, launched and attended worldwide and the Events Industry Council claims that in 2017, events generated more than...
An Event Planner’s Road to Earning A CMP
In recent months, our team has been well entrenched in learning more about the Certified Meeting Professionals within our network and gaining...
GCG’s Certified Meeting Professional Survey Results
Last month GCG created a survey to poll those members in our network who hold a CMP designation. Our goal was to gain greater insight into who these...
Earning Your CMP Certificate; Everything to Know – Updated
Did you know that according to the US Department of Labor, occupations within the meeting and conventions industry are projected to undergo the...
GDPR – One Year Later and Where Do We Stand?
It was enacted in May 2018 but to this day there is still a whole lot of ‘head scratching’ going on over the GDPR. Why? For starters, because it...
The Evolving Role of “Temporary Event Staffing”
The profession and its role have evolved exponentially over the past few decades. Meeting Planners, Event Professionals and On-Site Assistants are a very small sample of titles of Temporary Event Staff.
2019 Event Tech Trends
Technology represents ingenuity and innovation in today’s meeting and event market. It’s safe to say that the trend will continue to advance in 2019...
The Making of GCG Event Partners – 30 Years of History
You can say entrepreneurship runs in the Gershaw family. For Lori Gershaw, it’s her long lineage of business owners beginning with her grandfathers,...
Wondering Where to Host Your Next Event? Think Experiential!
Are you looking to transform your next event into something that will excite your attendees and leave a lasting impression? Think “Experiential”…...
Meet Our Member: Maryland’s Own Tara S.
Located just south of the Mason-Dixon Line, Tara has managed hundreds of meetings and events for GCG Event Partners. Having joined our membership in...
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