Excel – a meeting planner's essential tool, but is it? We send out meeting invitations through email, copy the responses into Excel, sort the list of registered names, pair up the shared rooms, categorize by selected activities, and filter the non-respondents. Next, we email our Word or Excel created RFPs, receive the hotel responses, print out the prices, lay the documents on our desk and floor, copy and paste information into our Hotel Cost spreadsheet so that we can evaluate the hotel responses. Geez-o-pete! (I can use that term because I'm from Michigan). I'm tired just typing the steps that we frequently take to get our meetings planned. Didn't even start on our budgets yet!
You are ready for a meeting management technology! Please feel free to Download Meeting Management Technology RFP and price template. Go to Market now! Send your RFP to StarCite, Cvent, Lenos, Arcaneo, SignUp4, Lanyon, eTouches, Certain, and Meeting Evolution. Good luck and if you want any help with your evaluation, contact me.
Debi Scholar
(908) 304-4954
[email protected]
www.smmbenchmark.com
www.BankWithDebi.com
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.
Thank you for visiting the T&E Plus Blog on expense management, travel management, business meetings, events, incentives, strategic meetings management, entertainment, virtual meetings, tickets, hotels, airlines, ground transportation plus more...
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)
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
• StarCite Webinar, "Financial Controls Chaos: The 3 Biggest Mistakes
that C-Level Leaders make regarding Meetings" April date TBD
• Business Travel Association, Jacksonville "Strategic Meetings Management topics," April 25, 2013
• Business Travel Association, Georgia "Strategic Meetings Management topics" May 7, 2013
• Cvent Corporate Meeting Summit, June 5-7, 2013
• Business Travel Association, Arizona "Strategic Meetings Management topics" June 12, 2013
• Meetings and Conventions Magazine webinar, "Strategic Meetings Management Basics" June 19, 2013
• Global Business Travel Association, 2 sessions, August 4-7, 2013
Comments