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It Is Time To Reinvent The Meetings Industry And The Meeting Professional

Tweet I think the meetings and conference industry has reached a plateau. For years the industry has focused on the logistical side of the meeting including registration, food and beverage, contracts, venue space, room sets, schedules, SMMP and more. The industry has matured and many meeting professionals have become very good at the details. Yet,…

Four Essential Elements To An Incomparable Face To Face Conference And Tradeshow Experience

Tweet What type of experiences do you crave? Have you ever had any of those types of experiences at a conference or tradeshow? Conferences and tradeshows have a long way to go to merge the experiences we crave and want with those that actually occur at the event. Four Critical Elements To Success The recent…

Are You Using Your Headlights Effectively To Guide Your Future Meetings?

Tweet When you drive on a road at night, you depend upon your headlights to help you see. Without those headlights, you would depend upon the light of the moon or street lights to guide you. Frequently, neither of those is available and without headlights you would crash. With low beams, you can see a…

Three Guaranteed Ways To Kill Your General Session Attendees

Tweet Is your general session like bug repellant only repelling attendees and attracting crickets? Is it a sure-fire way to keep attendees in their hotel beds? Here are three fail-safe strategies that are guaranteed to kill your general sessions and create the walking dead! 1. Be A Chest-Thumping Legacy Gorilla Male gorillas beat their chests…

You Have The Power To Super Charge Your Attendees’ Brains

Tweet What if you as a conference organzier had the magical ability to literally change your attendees’ brains for the better? Guess what! You do have that power. Wow, that’s an awesome responsibility and one that should not be taken lightly. Our Brain’s Plasticity For more than 400 years, mainstream medicine and science believed that…