by Lori Gershaw | Jul 24, 2014 | Independent Meeting Planners, Meeting Planning, On-Site Management
It’s hard listening to the news these days with everything going on in the world. As a meeting planner, my heart goes out to the people traveling to the AIDS Conference on the downed Malaysia Airlines flight. I’ve certainly handled my share of emergency situations...
by Lori Gershaw | Jul 14, 2014 | Independent Meeting Planners, Meeting Planning, Vendors
As Independent Meeting Planners, we’ve all had to hire vendors. But how do we know they’re any good? Just taking their word for it may get us more than we bargained for, so we ask for references. Whether they are a caterer, an on-site staffing agency, an...
by Susan Suarez | Jun 12, 2014 | Independent Meeting Planners, Meeting Planning
I once heard a story that the lead singer in a famous rock band always had to have a bowl of M&M’s in his hotel room but without the blue ones. The meeting planner negotiating the contract skimmed the contract and never noticed the bit about the blue M&M’s....
by Terry Matthews-Lombardo | Mar 19, 2014 | Guest Bloggers, Independent Meeting Planners
As most of you know, there are many times when your client requires you to participate in a pre-event conference call, and sometimes these are done in very large groups that can make logistics quite challenging. But regardless of the size, there is some basic...
by Lori Gershaw | Mar 5, 2014 | Independent Meeting Planners, Meeting Planning, On-Site Management
You’ve sent your resume out to thousands of employers, been on hundreds of interviews, and still no job offers, why?? Must be the economy, right? Maybe not. Yes, there may be a lot of competition out there, but there’s only one you. Let’s stop blaming everyone else...
by Terry Matthews-Lombardo | Jan 3, 2014 | Guest Bloggers, Independent Meeting Planners, On-Site Management, Small Business
What does your “uniform” say about you? What’s that, you ask? Didn’t know you were even wearing a uniform? Well, think again, because like it or not, what you wear to every assignment is viewed as a standard industry uniform by anyone who hires you, and you will...
