Special Events

PRA's Patti Roscoe on Tough New Climate for DMCs

DMC pioneer Patti Roscoe, founder of the franchise system that has since grown to become industry powerhouse PRA/Allied International, looks at both good and bad developments in her business as trends change and the economy contracts. ...

Confetti: AOM Events Creates Wild Winter Vignette

Elizabeth Arnold

Baby, it's cold inside. When Dan Vazquez, CMP, president of Miami-based AOM Events, was tapped to design an 18-day holiday showcase for the Seminole Casino...

Canceled Meetings: Business Decision or PR Ploy?

Some 68 percent of respondents to an online poll from Special Events last week say that recent moves by corporations to cancel incentives and other meetings are PR ploys to avoid the "AIG effect."...

Event Professionals Deliver Events on Tight Budgets

By Lisa Hurley

Show me the money is no longer the host's call, as the sour economy makes lavish events obsolete. Today, save me the money is the event professional's...

Galas: Branduin Creates Mind-game Appreciation Event for Adobe

By Natasha Garber

Adobe Systems' November customer-appreciation event in San Francisco had more than one thing going for it in fact, it had two. Staged at the new California...

Guest Room: AARP's CB Wismar Sees Both Sides Now

By Lisa Hurley

CB Wismar's resume is blue-chip all the way. After stints at some of the biggest names in the business Carlson Marketing, PGI he joined 40-million-member...

Confetti: Rock 'n Roll Fantasy Camp

Los Angeles-based Corporate Rock 'n Roll Fantasy Camp allows co-workers to live out their rock-star dreams while strengthening teamwork and collaboration...

GEP DMC Survey Gives Peek into Year Ahead

GEP's annual DMC survey results are in...

Guest Room: GPJ's Robert Vallee on Experience Marketing

By Lisa Hurley

It's hard to picture one of the largest event marketing firms in the world as the family business, but for George P. Johnson CEO Robert G. Vallee Jr.,...

Holiday Party Outlook Grim; Are You Discounting?

Although yesterday's U.S. presidential election will calm some of the general uncertainty nagging at financial markets, the outlook for the corporate holiday party business remains bleak....