by Cara O'Neill | Feb 5, 2016 | Meeting Planning, On-Site Management
The dawning of a new year is a welcome opportunity to look at your current vendor partnerships and seek ways to optimize how they can better work for you. It’s a perfect time to reflect on what you’ve done in the past when planning your events and then resolve to...
by Cara O'Neill | Sep 30, 2015 | Meeting Planning, On-Site Management
September Morn… ah, that’s one of my late father-in-law’s favorite songs. I can hear it in my head now even as I just say those words. Neil Diamond sure had it right when he sang about the feelings that a brisk September morning can conjure up. The whimsical freedom...
by Terry Matthews-Lombardo | Jul 14, 2015 | Guest Bloggers, Independent Meeting Planners, On-Site Management
If you’re new to temporary or On Site Management (OSM) work, you might think that working a few hours at a dinner program in a fancy restaurant is an easy-peasy assignment. And sometimes they can be, but other times, watch out! When you work a number of these...
by Terry Matthews-Lombardo | Mar 24, 2015 | Guest Bloggers, Meeting Planning, On-Site Management
By now, most of us on the planning side are aware of the sweeping changes that took place in the management of medical meetings since the passage of the Physician Payments Sunshine Act (PPSA), aka “The Sunshine Act.” Since 2009, small steps have been taken...
by Terry Matthews-Lombardo | Mar 10, 2015 | Guest Bloggers, On-Site Management
Yes, it’s tax time again. And if you lose sleep just thinking about a potential audit of your own personal income because you might possibly have stretched the truth just a teensy bit about some business deductions you made last year … well, consider yourself...
by Terry Matthews-Lombardo | Nov 3, 2014 | Guest Bloggers, On-Site Management
If you do any amount of temporary work at all, it’s bound to happen at some point, especially with the typical pharmaceutical sponsored dinner events. You show up at your hotel/restaurant/meeting venue only to discover there are multiple similar meetings going on at...
