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Wednesday,October 28th, 2009

Hotel Reviews, Are They Always Fair?

Recently it was brought to my attention that a client removed a hotel from their short list for a 2014 annual meeting location due to numerous negative comments posted regarding that property on Trip Advisor.  It’s my impression Trip Advisor is a tool used more often by leisure and transient travelers, than by [...]

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Thursday,September 17th, 2009

Earn It: Remembering Life’s Mentors, Cheerleaders and Tour Guides

The road forward is not lonely.  Whether someone walks alongside of you – keeping you company – pushes you, pulls you, shouts out words of encouragement or whispers words of wisdom from the edge of the road, you will continue to move  forward – in some direction – and watch as new vistas [...]

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Wednesday,August 19th, 2009

ASAE 2009 — A Virtual View From the Cheap Seats!

This week I attended the ASAE Annual Meeting in Toronto, but the cool thing is I didn’t have to fly there.  I was a virtual participant!

While I obviously was not able to experience the normal networking and social opportunities that go along with physically attending a conference I was able to at [...]

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Tuesday,August 11th, 2009

We Are The Faces of the Meetings Industry

Just got back from e4 – what a terrific time we had networking with clients, partners and colleagues. I learned a lot too. For instance, I learned that people really will follow me on Twitter, even though I’m not exactly sure why yet. I learned that I need more than five hours sleep [...]

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Wednesday,July 1st, 2009

State of the Industry

How many times have you read or watched news shows about the economy in the last several months?  If you Google economic conditions in the United States you will get more than 37 million hits.

The reason I talk about this is that the Exhibition Industry is not immune to the economic restraints we [...]