Tip 1: Agree on the goals for your meeting and get buy-in from senior management before proceeding with the planning phase Often the goals of a meeting are unclear, leaving the planning team with little sense of direction which results in an unfocused agenda. Work with the appropriate team members to ensure that you are…
Tip 0: Cutting Costs Without Cutting the Experience: Five Easy Solutions The biggest issue organizations and their meeting planners face today is how to reduce costs without negatively impacting the attendee’s experience. Here are five ideas for you to consider when planning your next meeting or event: Tip 1: It pays to shop around. While…
Tip 0: Hotel and Travel Costs Rise: Why It’s Happening and How to Cope and Prosper Tip 1: Choose Your Site For Maximum Effectiveness Oil prices are skyrocketing and this has a direct correlation to the cost of travel and other meeting expenses. The most obvious effect is in airline ticket prices as airlines cope…
September 27, 2007 – Sandy Reynolds, CMP, President of Meetings & Events USA spoke to attendees of the National Cooperative Business Association’s 13th Annual Conference for Purchasing Cooperatives about realistic techniques to boost meeting performance that can immediately be put to use. Her presentation, “How to Improve Your Member Meetings,” provided tools to help Cooperative…
Welcome to our site-we’re glad our mailer piqued your interest about our holiday party planning offerings. Attached is a brief sampling of the range of the parties we’ve produced. We look forward to discussing your holiday party or other meeting or event planning need. Contact us today so we can provide the best venue selection…
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Meetings & Events USA is back from Rome where we helped plan and manage the Kidney Cancer Association’s international version of its beneficial research symposium for the second year. The inaugural year, which we also had the pleasure to plan, was well received and this year’s attendance and satisfaction increased significantly prompting the association to…
The national organization of print and digital media companies gathered at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas for a week of education, exhibition, awards and networking. Meetings & Events USA was proud to work with the association to ensure the attendees and exhibitors had a great experience at the meeting as well as all the related…
A MESSAGE FROM ROGER DOW, U.S. TRAVEL ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT & CEO “During the past 11 months the U.S. Travel Association has engaged with other associations to mount an effective campaign to promote the value of business travel, with a particular focus on supporting meetings, events and incentive programs. While we can count numerous successes, including…
Join Sandy Reynolds and an esteemed panel as the speak on “Ethics in Today’s Economic Climate: The Relationship Between Planners and Hoteliers” at Destination Showcase in Chicago on June 14, 2009
Join Sandy Reynolds, CMP, president of Meetings & Events USA as she presents “Innovative Meeting Solutions: Uncovering the Power of Wow!” at Destination Showcase in Chicago, June 25. This how-to workshop is designed to help bring innovation to your organization’s meetings through creativity. Learn how to add a “wow” factor that will elevate the overall…
Join Sandy Reynolds at the Association Forum Meeting Planning SIG, May 12, 8:30 to 10:00am to learn about the power of forms Forms – They are a necessary part of planning meetings and events. We use them to send RFP’s and help us evaluate hotels and venues during site visits. We have forms for budgets,…
Sandy Reynolds, CMP, Meetings & Events USA President, teaches Essentials of Meeting Planning at Association Forum with co-presenter William R. Host, CMP Assistant Professor of Hospitality & Tourism Management at Roosevelt University. The ½ day class is meant to strengthen knowledge of meeting planning for individuals in the beginning stages of their meeting planner specialization…
Armed with donations from our customers, partners and friends, doubled by the company match, Sandy Reynolds, Daniel Morris and Calvin Gale delivered $4400 in toys and gift cards to the children at St. Luke’s Regional Medical Center in Boise, Idaho. Sandy Reynolds, CMP, President of Meetings & Events USA formed a close relationship with the…
Visitors from across the globe came to Chicago for the international symposium of researchers, physicians and students to share information on this integral component to disease management and drug development while enjoying many of Chicago’s great sights. Many of the attendees came to America for the first time and Meetings & Events USA was proud…
Chicago, March 01, 2007 — Meetings and Events USA, a local third party meeting planning firm has gone from specializing in “all things Chicago” to successfully coordinating meetings across the country and around the world for its growing list of clients. “We’ve seen tremendous growth in the industry in the past few years and our…
Meetings & Events USA’s president, Sandy Reynolds, CMP, along with Charles J. MacFarlane, FACHE, CAE, Vice President, Learning for the Joint Commission Resources, taught Association Forum’s Association 101: Orientation for Association & Nonprofit Professionals program. The class covered the essentials of association management from an issue-by-issue format and through a case study so students could…
Edina Lessack, CMP, Meetings & Events USA’s founder, designed an Association Forum special course, “Essentials of Meeting Planning,” with Bill Host, CMP. The interactive half-day course is debuting in Chicago on March 27th and will provide an overview of the meeting planning process geared to new meeting planners and assistants. Participants will be provided with…
Meetings & Events USA donates to the Childhood Leukemia Foundation on behalf of its clients and vendors this holiday season. When discussing how to honor its relationship with its business associates, Meetings & Events USA decided to give to an organization dedicated to helping children and their families living with cancer experience a better quality…
When the Society of Decorating Professionals decided to launch an annual conference in response to massive growth in the redesigning, staging and decorating industry, they chose Meetings & Events USA to help make the first meeting set the stage for many successful conferences to come. The gathering, dubbed “Winds of Success,” will bring together top…
TCN Worldwide Real Estate chooses Meetings & Events USA as their meeting planning partner for their national meetings. Our first major event together will be in Las Vegas in May 2007 for their spring convention. TCN Worldwide Real Estate is a national consortium of 44 member firms offering comprehensive commercial real estate transaction, management, and…
Attendance at Farm Journal Media’s Top Producer Conference grew 10% over 2006 numbers. The annual gathering of the top producing farmers in the nation was held in January in downtown Chicago. The event has become the must-attend of the year. Repeat attendance was at an all-time high with additional attendees drawn in to the gathering…
Meetings & Events USA is Platinum Sponsor for Treasure Valley Downs Syndrome Association Buddy Walk. The Buddy Walk is held annually to further the group’s mission of promoting awareness and inclusion of people with Downs Syndrome. Meetings & Events USA President, Sandy Reynolds CMP, is personally vested in this issue as her nephew has Downs…
Meetings & Events USA will be publishing a Tips article series packed full of relevant meeting planning information compiled by our team. We will distribute the article via e-mail and in the “Tips” section on our website. Our first issue is available on the site now. If you’d like a specific topic covered, feel free…
From pinch hitter to manager, Meetings & Events USA stepped in to help a non-profit whose internal meeting planner left mid-way through planning their annual conference. Meetings & Events USA received a call from the management of a regional non-profit panicked because their internal meeting planner left the organization with only 2 months left before…
Exponential growth! When tasked to grow a meeting for a national trade organization, Meetings & Events USA steadily increased new and repeat attendance. A major trade organization wanted to grow attendance at its annual meeting, but was having trouble doing so due to a naturally small, elite target audience. Meetings & Events USA team members…
We took national success global. A US-based medical association asked Meetings & Events USA to create an annual European meeting to further its North American efforts overseas. When a national medical association wanted to bring its meeting series overseas for the first time, it looked to the team at Meetings & Events USA to plan…
Cutting budgets can be necessary and we know where the cuts can be made. When a media association needed to slash its budget, they turned to Meetings & Events USA. We needed to cut $200,000 out of a media conglomerate’s budget for their national convention without impacting attendee’s experience. Knowing what and how to cut…
Meetings & Events USA worked through a national association’s massive change to ensure their meeting series and annual symposium happened without missing a beat. A national association client underwent a complete management overhaul laden with strife due to resignations, illness, and overall discontent with the internal direction of the association. The team at Meetings &…
