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Incentive Lessons from SITE

Smart Meetings

Gregg explained the definitions and the differences—hard power refers to the tangible financial benefits and promoting company policy that can increase by “dangling the carrot” of desirable incentive rewards, while “soft power” is a more humanitarian approach to incentives.

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Incentive Lessons from SITE

Smart Meetings

Gregg explained the definitions and the differences—hard power refers to the tangible financial benefits and promoting company policy that can increase by “dangling the carrot” of desirable incentive rewards, while “soft power” is a more humanitarian approach to incentives.

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Canada Unveils Financial Incentives to Draw Conventions, Exhibitions

MeetingsNet

The following conditions apply: • The event must be related to one of six business sectors: advanced manufacturing, agribusiness, digital industries, natural resources, life sciences, or finance/insurance. • There must be sufficient information to determine economic benefits to the region for hosting the event. . •

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Carpocalypse: How to Prepare for Rental Car and Rideshare Price Surge

Smart Meetings

Chip manufacturers largely switched from making auto chips to making the kind that were in demand mid-pandemic, like those that power laptops, cell phones, home appliances and gaming systems. If a new driving job or unemployment benefits are paying the same or more, why return to rideshares? The Workaround.

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Discover the Booming Business Community That Awaits in San Antonio

Convene by PCMA

San Antonio’s diverse business environment is also expanding exponentially and that provides big benefits for meeting and convention groups. The major industries include information technology and cybersecurity, advanced manufacturing, bioscience, aerospace and financial services.

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The Overlooked RFP Asks That Could Save The Planet

Smart Meetings

Those Secret Asks In another webinar, our Smart Meetings host learned that carpet has a surprisingly large carbon footprint due to its manufacturing, shipping, installation and disposal. If a meeting organization booked 500 room nights in Kissimmee through our incentive, we are going to plant 500 trees [on their behalf].”

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Hybrid: Two Strategies, One Powerful Marketing Product

Smart Meetings

As the world opens up and Covid restrictions are lifted, we will not return to business as we knew it before, largely because of lessons we learned about the benefits of communicating digitally. Leverage VR to take attendees beyond a product demonstration and create a product experience.