Do you know that you can automatically consolidate meeting data from your meeting management technology, Global Distribution System, expense management, social media tools, Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, contracts, and PDFs to produce live dashboards and reports? Learn how to consolidate data from anywhere to produce M3…Meaningful Meeting Metrics with the new Meetings Suite. This is a hot topic and yes, ladies and gentlemen, it can be done!
Do you know that you can save 5 hours or more per meeting on automating attendee management? And another 4 hours or more per meeting on preparing and comparing RFPs? What would this do for your efficiency?
Do you know that there are at least 10 ways to price meeting management services from suppliers?
Do you know the 6 key risk exposure areas of travel management? And, how to mitigate those risks?
What about meeting / events risk exposure? Want a roadmap on how to mitigate the 7 key risk areas?
Do you know that more money can be squeezed from your travel and meetings budget by managing your food and beverage / restaurant spend? How about getting some money rebated to your organization for … eating?
These are some of the topics that we will discuss this week, next week and into December in several sessions. And, I'd love to hear your perspective on these topics! Please feel free to share your best practices or questions.
This week, I hope to see you at the ISM / GBTA Conference in Los Angeles at the Omni Hotel on October 23 and 24. Also, register for the EMC Venues webinar on October 25.
Next week, I hope to see you at the Meetings Technology Expo in Rosemont, Illinois on October 30. Meetings Technology Expo is one of my favorite conferences and I have looked forward to it for years. Paul Paone always does a great job of bringing new technology to meeting professionals and he arranges for great education.
Thanks to Maxvantage .... San Jose, here we come! Join us on November 14 for Reality Check: The [real] truth about meetings management! Can't wait for this exciting day for all of us to network and share industry best practices with meeting professionals. Get ahold of me if you want an invitation to this great event!
More webinars in November from Scholar Consulting Group and through GBTA SMM Webinar series. Our November webinar is timely as Travel Leaders are in the midst of the Hotel RFP season. It is on Leveraging your Transient and Meeting Spend. Join us for this buyers-only webinar. This is also the topic in the November issue of Business Travel Executive magazine.
And, suppliers, look for a special webinar for you on "Speak their Language: Learn how to sell more SMM Services" coming up on December 13. Do you want to win more bids, contribute more to your clients, offer the expertise that you know you have, and gain more stability in your approach? This webinar is for you!
Next year, I'm proud to be leading a closed door session at the PhRMA Forum conference…so much going on in this complex environment. If you are in this industry, join us for quite a few exciting sessions!
Thank you to Susan Losurdo, Vice President of Scholar Consulting Group, who is a tenured meeting professional leader that provides meeting sourcing, planning and consulting services with our clients. To learn more about Susan, visit her LinkedIn page. She has worked with me for years and I'm so humbled by her extensive knowledge in the industry and proud to be working with her on our client engagements.
Broadening our Scholar Consulting Group scope … we are working with Partnership Travel Consulting (PTC) so that we can help more clients manage travel and meetings. We are your trusted advisors for the Travel and Meetings market.
Goodness...where did 2012 go? Are we seriously almost to 2013? This year has been challenging for me with the loss of mom, and exciting for me with new business and partnerships. Learning to live with the peaks and valleys is part of the "puzzle pieces of life" as my son tells me. Hoping that your puzzle pieces are aligned.
Debi Scholar
A BIG THANK YOU to all of the meetings and travel leaders who continue to support me through the T&E blog, LinkedIn groups, client engagements and most important, your friendship.
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Debi Scholar, GLP, GTP, CMM, CMP, SSGB, CTE, CTT, CBST
• Author,
Strategic Meetings Management: The Strategy Quick Reference Guide (2011)
• Co-Author, Strategic Meetings Management Handbook (2011)
• Meetings Management Mover and Shaker as selected by Corporate and
Incentive Travel Magazine (2010)
• Top 20 Changemaker who influenced the meetings management industry by
Corporate Meetings and Incentives (2008)
• Best Meeting Practitioner as selected by Business Travel News (2007)
• PwC Florham Park All-Star Coach Award (2006)
*Debi is
proud to be a regular contributor to Business Travel Executive Magazine.
*Debi is proud to be one of only seven 2011 Editorial Board members for Hotel
Business Review at http://www.hotelexecutive.com/ for Conferences
& Meetings.
*Debi created two LinkedIn groups (GBTA SMM and T&E Plus) that
now claim over 2,000 worldwide members combined.