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MEETING SITE SELECTION AND CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS

WHAT DAVE AND CAROLYN CAN DO FOR ME

Dave O'Connor

Fast & thorough searches for venue options matching your event’s Business Impact Objectives, then purchase of your choice at the lowest market price available.

Facilitate property decisions with easy to digest analysis of each venue’s pros and cons of specific interest to you.

Limit and eliminate organizational risk through careful meeting contract structure.

Take out the trash! Help solve problems that arise before, during and after your event.

PHILOSOPHY

Dave: A meeting’s market value is in the eye of the beholder and as such a meetings’ value needs to be “sold” to potential suppliers just like hotels and resorts are sold to Organizations.

 Carolyn: Why would organizations spend valuable time on endless details when pros with 30 + years in the industry will do their bidding at no cost to the budget?

Dave: 35, all but the last 13 deeply entrenched on the hotel side of the bargaining table. The last 13 have been the most fun.

Carolyn: 35 too, but I am still younger than Dave!

Dave: Certified Meeting Professional (CMP) designation earned in 1999 and recertification in 2004. Certified Hospitality Marketing Executive (CHME) designation earned in 1992. Director of Member Care, VP Membership for Georgia Chapter of MPI (GaMPI), Chapter Leader of the Year 2005-2006 GaMPI, Shining Star GaMPI 1999 and 2001, member Green Meetings Industry Council (GMIC) and GMIC Atlanta.

Carolyn: MPIGNY Supplier of the Year 1197/1998, VP MPIGNY 1992-1997 Founding Chair MPIGNY International Relations Committee, ASAE International Section Council. Featured speaker MPI, ASAE, NBTA, Beyond Borders and several international forums

ONE THING TO KNOW ABOUT DAVE:

He never gives up. The boy’s tenacious about meeting his clients’ needs…to the extreme.

ONE THING TO KNOW ABOUT CAROLYN:

Carolyn cuts to the chase – your meetings are important to you, and so, to us. We want your business again and again . . .

WHAT NATALIE CAN DO FOR ME

Event and association management. Specialties include:

• Management of all-size trade and professional associations
• Management of association, corporate and not-for-profit events, meetings, tradeshows and conferences

PHILOSOPHY

There is no challenge without a solution. Whether the solution is ours, or the client’s, we will always be proactive in finding the best solution possible for any situation.

12…and it just keeps getting more rewarding.

2009-10 President-Elect of Meeting Professionals International Georgia Chapter (GaMPI)
2006 – Received Meeting Professionals International’s (MPI) Tomorrow’s Leaders Award
2006 – Recipient of GaMPI’s 2006 Planner of the Year Award
CMP – Certified Meeting Professional since 2003

She is passionate about anything she spends time on – family, friends, clients – and gives no less than 110%. She is a proud mom to one son and five beautiful felines. Bicycling on the back of a tandem with her husband is where you can find her on a sunny day.

Event marketing campaigns that drive attendance and engagement.
ROI analysis that proves the value of your event.

Listen. Think. Act.
Those words are in that order for a reason – and “slow” isn’t one of them.

YEARS OF EXPERIENCE:

  19 – The first 4 were the longest. After that it got easier.

AWARDS/AFFILIATIONS:

Top Event Marketer 2008 by Event Marketer Magazine, Director of Communications for Georgia Chapter of MPI, Board of Directors of BMA-Atlanta, Member of AMA, PCMA, SITE, IABC, Georgia Women’s Business Council, Marketing expert blogger for Catalyst Magazine Meeting Planners to Watch 2008 and 2009 by Convention South Magazine, Certified Meeting ROI Professional by the ROI Institute.

ONE THING TO KNOW ABOUT STACEY:

She is an entrepreneur at heart, passionate about helping businesses of all sizes do more by meeting and marketing effectively.

WHAT KATE CAN DO FOR ME:

• Strategic Meetings Management solutions that work for YOUR organization.
• Business Intelligence that empowers you to drive your organizations decisions about meetings and events utilizing fact, not feeling.
• The power to budget-proof your meetings and the staff that support them.

PHILOSOPHY:

Business intelligence and an understanding of the desired outcome is the best way to make a sound business decision in today’s marketplace.

YEARS OF EXPERIENCE:

18 years of in-depth marketing and event experience.  10 years meetings consolidation and SMM experience.

AWARDS/AFFILIATIONS:

President of the Georgia Chapter of Meeting Professionals International 2009-2010, Guest Lecturer at Georgia State University, Lecturer at Kennesaw State University in the Meetings Certificate Program, Meeting Planners to Watch 2009 by Convention South Magazine, Certified Meeting Professional (CMP), Global Certification in Meetings Management (CMM).

ONE THING TO KNOW ABOUT KATE:

Kate’s strength lies in building the better mouse trap.  By utilizing 360°assessments of your business challenges, solutions are created effectively and efficiently.