How Placemaking Works from Authenticity
I love the free time I seem to have this week, although I look out the window and see the first part of nine inches of show that’s due to come down before 6PM…. Anyway back to the subject at hand… The book continues using The American Girl stores as the shining example of products […]
Post Xmas week
I both and love the week after Christmas. Love it because you seem to have alot of extra time to get to those things that you’ve put off. Hate it because noone else is around and if your work counts on others then you are dangling….plus who wants to work when no-one else is? Since […]
The Politics of Dancing
Last Friday was my birthday, a good time to look back on the past year and see what progress I’ve made. What can I say? I’ve had a number of happy customers this year, despite the economy; I’ve written over twenty SISO articles about the events business, and like this blog I actually have quite […]
Beyond buy-sell in exhibitions
I had a superb interview for the SISO column with with Peter Eelman, the VP of Exhibitions for the Association for Manufacturing Technology last week on the subject of ‘beyond the buy sell equation’ in events. You would imagine that an association in manufacturing might be ‘pulling in their horns’ given the what’s happening to […]
Back in Boston
Wow it’s great to be home. After two weeks on the road(my grandfather’s funeral in England and a client event in Baltimore), and having that hacking cough the whole time which seems to be going around, it’s nice to be getting back to the familiar. I certainly feel bad for you road warriors out there…. […]
End of an Era
I hate having to meet hard deadlines when I’m sick. I am in a busy period as well, two client events in a month, punctuated by a trip to England to attend my last grandparent’s funeral. Attending the client events is a sign of success, so I am really pleased to be busy, but a […]
Here we go again
As I mentioned before, the current downturn or ‘recession’ hasn’t affected my business, in fact my business has increased over last year. Except for companies ‘high in the pipeline’ perhaps, ie that don’t have immediate needs, I am seeing a fruitful landscape. What I am seeing however is that discretionary spending and travel is being […]
Retaining the old, bringing the new
I guess I am getting old, as I am starting to appreciate stuff from the past much more than I used to. The ‘new me’ flys into a place for a couple of days and then back to the office immediately(the ‘old’ me in my corporate job would be in a location for a week […]
Getting closer to customers
In my business I am constantly reminded that it’s good to be in the position of the customer occasionally. Why do I bring this up? Well for one I currently have a short term project helping one of my customers get conference attendees to an event coming up. How pleasant is to get my call […]
Summer turns to fall
Wow, it’s been so busy in the past month, I’ve barely had a chance to breathe! I learned long ago in the events business, that you can be busy in the dog days of summer or in Christmas, depending upon when your client’s event is on the calendar. The most interesting things I’ve heard in […]