Welcome to the inaugural post in my exciting new blog about the corporate events business.
I decided to start this blog within my website in order to have closer contact with my clients and to engage in an ongoing conversation with as many people as possible about this strange business we all love so much.
Most of my clients are production companies who specialize in staging corporate events of all shapes and sizes, from mega events like new product launches which bring together as many as five thousand employees, to small management meetings comprising of a few senior executives.
These meetings, as well as other events like trade shows, form the backbone of the multi-billion dollar meetings and conventions industry. As a freelance creative director and a writer, I have often felt that an industry which depends so much on freelancers could use a vehicle for sharing the varied experiences of its members. The same vehicle could also serve as a forum for discussing some of the important issues facing the industry today.
Hence this blog.
I hope to post once a week on issues that are timely and important from an industry perspective, as well as feature individual stories that are enlightening, thought-provoking and occasionally amusing. It will be mostly coming from my pen but I hope that you, my readers, will eventually supply me with a steady diet of material from your own experiences. From time to time I also hope to feature entries ghosted by prominent members of the business.
So please sign up and we’ll begin that conversation. And sorry Mr. President-Elect for raining on your parade.
