On Sept. 3, Tuscon, Ariz.-based The Windsor Consulting Group launches RFP-Direct, a new free Internet-based service for meeting and event planners. Planners can use RFP-Direct, accessible through the company's Web site, to send requests for...
EVERY DAY PEOPLE OPEN their mailboxes to sift through stacks of bills, solicitations, magazines, ads and perhaps an invitation to one of your events. How can you be sure that your invitation will get noticed among all those other envelopes? Four...
Kathy Whalen puts floral in its place: at the center of event design She may have started her career providing floral for fashionable events, but Kathy Whalen soon discovered she wasn't satisfied with a focus on flowers alone. Her Basking Ridge...
For its 20th anniversary, which takes place next year, Special Events Magazine is working on a retrospective of companies and professionals who have been around for 20 years. Do you qualify? Contact Special Events Magazine editor Lisa Hurley via e...
The name Special Events Magazine has great significance in the special event industry, and we're not about to change it. But we are changing an aspect of our parent company's name. No longer are we part of the Intertec Publishing subsidiary of...
WHAT MAKES A SPECIAL EFFECT “SPECIAL?” Successful effects have less to do with making the loudest noise or using the brightest colors than you might think. While modern equipment and expertise mean that flashy effects are more over the top than...
EVENT COMPANIES THAT hitched their wagons to the fast-rising dot-com stars of the late '90s, only to discover them crashing like meteors soon after, at least learned an important lesson: It's folly to put all your eggs into one basket when it...
