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Success Story: An Incentive-style Executive Retreat, Sonoma Valley, California

Blue Spark Event Design

The Client’s Objective: Utilize a professional creative event agency to produce an incentive-style executive retreat offering multiple days of leadership training, bonding opportunities, and local and exclusive experiences in the selected destination. Managed all banquet event orders on behalf of the client.

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Sky-High Airfares Plus Delays Mean Fewer Attendees, Say Planners

MeetingsNet

And when it comes to site selection, 52 percent said that high airfares are affecting their choices in one of two ways: They are only considering cities that offer more carriers and flights (60 percent) or they are opting to hold regional meetings to minimize air travel (40 percent). “We Specifically, 69.2

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Inside the Incentive. A Focus on Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Blue Spark Event Design

While travel restrictions may be preventing us from actually visiting our favorite international cities, we’re taking a fond look at some of our favorite incentive destinations. For many in the northeastern US, it’s a half-day’s (or less) drive to the city center, or train ride to Gare central. Selecting a Hotel is Pretty Easy Too.

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Outsourcing Your Corporate Event Might Be the Best Decision You Ever Made.

Blue Spark Event Design

Corporate events are a great tool for incentivizing your sales team, training your employees, connecting with your clients, strategizing with your board members, building bonds between departments, levels, remote workers, etc. If you’ve successfully energized the sales force, how about planning an incentive trip to reward them?

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The Inc. 5000 List Gives Insight into Meeting and Event Trends

MeetingsNet

Gallery Slide description: Provides meeting logistics, event marketing and promotion, sales training meetings, user conferences, and more. Gallery Slide description: Offers service and logistics to corporate meetings, incentive travel programs, and conventions in New Orleans. Gating level. anonymous user. DataTable subpages.

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How To Select the Right Event Location for Your Corporate Event

Blue Spark Event Design

It can be overwhelming to planners when the executive team says, “Find the best location for our next event (insert also conference, incentive trip, board retreat, etc.)!”. Relevant: Sales increase by 1% from the sales professionals that win the incentive trip. Is it accessible by trains, air, car or by foot? Event Goals.

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Dariel Curren on the Benefits of EDO-DMO Collaboration and Smart Place Branding Initiatives for The Place Brand Observer

DCI

For our economic development clients, we survey corporate executives in targeted industries and site selection consultants, as well as prospective talent from prime feeder markets. Their work resulted in thousands of inquiries from talent and spiked traffic in both Vermont’s tourism and economic development sites.