03 Feb 10 How to Hire the Perfect Keynote Speaker
The success of your meeting or event could hinge on how good your keynote speaker is. Meeting and event planners need to have a good plan for finding great keynote speakers. Here are some tips:
- Establish the date, location and budget of your event. These factors will play an important role in determining the pool of keynote speakers available to you. Your date, for example, will affect which keynote speakers are available, whereas your budget will limit whom you can and can’t afford to hire. In order to save on the cost of the keynote speaker’s travel, you may want to consider the distance between where he or she resides and where your event will take place.
- Determine the type of presentation you want and the time of day when it will take place. Some speakers are skilled at delivering workshops, while others excel at providing keynotes. After-dinner speakers should incorporate humor into their talks, where morning speakers should be energizing. (more…)
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20 May 09 Big Fish and Bigger Fish: When Scheduling Meetings Can Lead to Catastophe
We live in a society where competition is supposed to be a good thing. Generally, that is true. But what about when an organization schedules a large meeting for their members and clients, and a competing group suddenly comes up from behind and schedules an identical event in the same general geographic area? In a time when almost all organizations have an overlap of members with another institution, preventing this sort of competition is critical to success of an event–and sometimes of the group itself.
Although it can happen quite by accident, sometimes a group will schedule its meeting earlier–but after the competing group has made its event announcements–simply to quash the other group’s membership numbers. The group that now has the later date will not have the same attendance numbers, the same booth rentals, or the same energy from those who do attend.
What can you do in the planning stages to prevent this competition? You are a potential client of a hotel, its facilities, and possibly an entire event center–use financial clout. (more…)
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