by Lois Creamer | Lois Creamer's Blog, Market Intelligence
A couple of years ago, I wrote a post about emerging from the depths of a pandemic-induced shutdown and stepping into the exciting unknown. At that time, we all shared the feeling that we couldn’t always predict what lay ahead. It was an unusual realization to...
by Lois Creamer | Lois Creamer's Blog
You’re going to love 2024! The outlook for our industry continues to be optimistic. Summarizing reports from Northstar Meetings Group, AMX meetings, and Knowland: American Express Global Business Travel reports 82 percent of respondents to their survey are optimistic...
by Lois Creamer | Lois Creamer's Blog
The big winner location-wise in the meetings industry is Nashville. Events grew an incredible 30% in September, with Los Angeles/Long Beach coming in at 22% over last year. According to Knowland, an event intelligence group, Oahu, Las Vegas, and Denver rounded out the...
by Lois Creamer | Lois Creamer's Blog
The business of speaking is a lot like acting. A lot of rejection. It takes many “no’s” to get to a “yes.” That’s the norm in speaking. I tell new speakers to be prepared for a first year that may look like this: “Be prepared to spend 98% of your time selling yourself...
by Lois Creamer | Lois Creamer's Blog
Consider these remarkable statistics gleaned from MeetingsNet. • In just 12 months, the median number of room nights booked for meetings and incentives by MeetingsNet’s top 25 companies increased fivefold. • The median staff size for these companies grew from 95...
by Lois Creamer | Grow Your Speaking Business: Sales and Marketing, Lois Creamer's Blog
There is an interesting article (via MeetingsNet, link below) on Force-Majeure and meeting planners. Thinking about speakers and this subject is interesting with COVID in the rearview mirror. (Hopefully.) I don’t remember hearing much about Force Majeure before COVID....
