Last year we brought you our tips for how to plan a successful business meeting (if you missed it, click here to read!  http://starfish-events.com/blog/?p=40 ) .  Now here are additional tips on how to spice up that meeting with add-ons that elevate your company gathering to that next level.  
Create customized music.  Hire a professional [...]

Hi all,
I came across this posting on Mashable and I thought it was such a wonderful resource that I decided to post it here, for our audience to enjoy as well. It’s written by Jason Keath, founder of Social Fresh, a social media conference for marketers.  The original posting can be found here:   http://mashable.com/2009/12/13/event-planning-tools/ [...]

October is a month full of ridiculousness – unpredictable weather, outlandish costumes and elaborate celebrations.  Thus, SCE must not disappoint, with another list of ridiculously cool things we discovered lately:
 
Saddlerock Ranch at Malibu Family Wines
This venue may be one of Southern California’s best kept secrets, and we’re on a mission to spill the beans.  Nestled [...]

Business meetings are a sure way to impress your colleagues, clients, or potential new business. A professionally run meeting will certainly leave a great impression on your meeting attendees. A badly run meeting will resonate in their heads for years down the road, and will reflect in their judgment of your work performance. [...]

As a constantly budget-conscious planner, I’ve honed in on a few tried-and-true ways to save costs in any convention or meeting event that are guaranteed to go un-noticed to all those in attendance, leaving you with a longer stretch of the dollar and completely happy and unfazed guests.
1.) Use second-tier cities. Instead of New York [...]