01 Feb 10 Branded Gifts Serve Many Purposes
Branded merchandise is a great addition to incentive travel packages and meeting planning. For those of you who provide meeting planning services to corporate clients, promotional products are a way to increase awareness of your brand, or you can offer products imprinted with your client’s information as an additional service. If you plan meetings and incentive travel for your employer, you can incorporate promo gifts into your planning as pillow gifts, or as functional items to be used during your event.
Here are several examples of branded gifts that can add value to your incentive travel packages or meeting planning services:
• Luggage tags
• Travel wallets or document holders
• Sunglasses
• Beach towels
• Toiletry bags
• Conference folders
• Conference bags
• Stadium blankets
• Laptop bags
• Key chains
• Luxury personal care kits and bath products
• Carry-on luggage
• Golf towels
• Divet tools
• Ball caps
• Sweatshirts, polo shirts or jackets
• Umbrellas
• Travel sewing kits
• Manicure kits
• Shoe shine kits
By gifting one or more of these branded items to your attendees or incentive travel winners, you will enhance their experience, while providing meaningful, useful business gifts that also promote company pride and increase brand awareness. The multiple benefits to you, your clients or employer and your attendees or winners are certainly reason enough to consider including branded gifts in your planning process.
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29 Jan 10 Four Tips for Saving Money on Lodging
Whether or not you are planning an event on a limited budget, getting a great deal is always a bonus. When you can save your employer or corporate clients money on expenditures like lodging, they are sure to take notice and will be delighted to know they can trust you to work the best deals possible when planning their events, meetings or incentive travel packages.
Here are four tips to help you same money on accommodations when planning your next shindig:
1. Be flexible. If you can be flexible on dates and days of the week, you can usually negotiate a better room rate for your attendees’ lodgings.
2. Limit Attrition. Do your best to get a solid grasp on how many attendees you expect. This will help you reserve the correct amount of rooms, avoid promising room blocks that you might not be able to meet, and establish a good relationship with hotels you may be using again in the future.
3. Opt for second-tiers and suburbs. By avoiding the top destinations, you will find that rates are much more affordable just a few miles away, or in suitable cities that just happen to not be on the A list.
4. Negotiate reservations for multiple events at the same time. If you have several clients interested in using a particular hotel for their meetings, or if your employer plans to return for an annual meeting year after year, this gives you more negotiating power when it comes to room rates.
5. Consider an all inclusive cruise event which will provide luxury accommodations, and include other amenities including gourmet meals, entertainment and top-notch meeting facilities.
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