eVenues Blog

Another good blog post by Max Kalehoff, writer for OnlineSpin, who lays out a good argument for including customers for planning any offsite meeting.

"Bottom line: customers are required to execute the most meaningful and effective management offsite meetings. They are the lifeblood of your business, so be sure to include them and make them central." - Max Kalehoff

Now, we just inspire management to come up with an effective venue!

http://www.mediapost.com/blogs/spin/?p=1376

Below is a short but great piece by Max Kalehoff, VP at Clickable, on how to plan for a great conference or event. Because of the mass of information now available on the internet, there's an argument we should all be trying to physically get together more. Hmmm, go figure. <g> The artcile covers the basics, but also gets into the importance around planning the goals and purpose of your event, which are often overlooked, such as these:

4. Enforce points of view - otherwise known as manage your speakers; make sure they present with a theme that's related to your objectives;

6. Showcase more new smart faces - bring some new people and ideas to the stage other than the regular Dilberts;

8. Serve good food - change it up from regular grub; try BBQ ribs and get messy!

However, Max eliminates one very important tip - that which I will pronouce Tip #11 in this blog - being 'Pick a great venue!' Picking the right venue can be the difference between a good piece of news or being labeled a dud. Now, we don't want that if we are a planner. So, why not make it an experience!

We at eVenues like to hear all this as many of us are trying to find or plan the next best conference. More importantly, many of us just might be sitting in a venue worth renting out!

http://blogs.mediapost.com/spin/?p=1306