GCG’s Meeting Industry Insights Blog
Waiting To Hire Temporary Event Staff Can Be Costly (And Not Just Because Of Rush Charges)
Are Temporary Event Staff Always Readily Available?In a recent survey of meeting planners, over 58% of respondents claimed they were concerned with the availability of On-Site Professionals (OSPs) as event dates drew closer. That, however, means almost 42% were not...
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 can often be reduced by hiring local staff and third-party vendors. Yet these scattered teams only succeed if the leader...
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 $1.07 trillion and drew 1.5 billion participants which based on a study completed in 2018.Now whether you are a Strategic...
An Event Planner’s Road to Earning A CMP; Meet Emily Mathews
In recent months, our team has been well entrenched in learning more about the Certified Meeting Professionals within our network and gaining perspective into their roadmap with having earned the designation. It is our hope that by sharing some personal experiences,...
GCG’s Certified Meeting Professional Survey – The Results Are In!
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 professionals are and learn about their experiences with becoming a CMP. It’s extraordinary to think that over 63% of...
Earning Your CMP Certificate; Everything You Need to Know – Updated June 2019
Did you know that according to the US Department of Labor, occupations within the meeting and conventions industry are projected to undergo the highest percentage of growth compared across all industry types within the next decade? Incredible news, right? Well, maybe...
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 is generally thought of as a European problem since it was a rule put into force by the European Union. But don’t be...
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 with performance enhancements and metric matching integration across a wide variety of digital platforms....
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, father and brother that set her on a path to begin her own journey. In 1989, Lori decided the timing was right to leave...
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