PYM Advice & Best Practices

9 tips to keep in mind when booking speakers

How organizations use professional and industry speakers at meetings, conferences and other events is detailed in a recent survey from Tagoras and Velvet Chainsaw Consulting.
Consultants interviewed almost 250 respondents from 170 organizations, 80 percent of which hold meetings attended by at least 500 people. The report looks at how speakers are chosen, what is expected [...]

6 tips for innovative banquets

Don’t confuse “innovation” with “popular.” They are two very different areas.

Technology primer: Part 1 — Marketing with QR Codes

QR codes are designed specifically to direct users to a mobile-optimized webpage. They are great for both pre-event marketing and on-site event engagement.

Don’t worry, you can make your event ‘brain-friendly’

There are lots of things you can do to shock your attendees out of their stupor.

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Industry News

Colorado resort seriously green

Savannah convention center bumps up green strategies

U.S. News: Meeting planning among top growth jobs

9 tips to keep in mind when booking speakers

GBTA Europe to focus on personalization at September congress

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Planner's Corner

In Dallas, mastering 4 essential innovative behaviors, and more

PYM LIVE Dallas 2012 was special for a number of reasons. Jeff Hurt of Velvet Chainsaw Consulting led a fascinating session about how meeting planners can become more innovative. Zentila’s Jamie Murdock shared why hotels sometimes bump your business or won’t budge on your requested concessions. The discussion that followed really helped planners figure out [...]

Have a PYM-let for us? (VIDEO)

If you were watching HBO in the 1980s, you might remember comedian Rich Hall’s “sniglets.” These were words that should have been in the dictionary but weren’t. It occurred to us that there are lots of terms and phrases used by meeting planners that aren’t well known outside the industry, like “toilet-bowl foot massage” and [...]

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