This month, ConventionPlanit.com celebrates 20 years of providing direct access to meeting professionals. Twenty years ago, we began as a simple search directory. Fast forward 20 years and we offer a variety of services for meeting professionals, including our cost-free and template-free RFP Valet amenity with white glove service.
Our goal has always been to serve our meeting professionals by providing free resources and a direct conduit to the seller. With a rebound in group business and budget season upon us, below are our tips to circumvent staffing issues and experience greater sales production 2024.
ConventionPlanit.com uniquely produces pre-qualified and unduplicated RFPs that are narrowed to a short list for a higher conversion rate and spin-off business.
Empower your sales team to work with today’s buyers.
Spoiler Alert, and a unique opportunity, too! Gary Hernbroth of Training for Winners, our frequent contributing author on sales tools, tips and coaching, has just informed me that his first book is due out in the first quarter of 2024 and will be titled “Twist the Familiar.” How cool does that sound? It’s about achieving success by doing things in new ways, of thinking differently, of unleashing your innovative, creative spirit, whether in sales, leadership or running your own business. Gary shares some keys for training, prospecting, and making big impacts in the coming year:
“Challenge yourselves to do things in new ways. Even familiar products can and should be presented in different ways since things change so fast, and audiences look for something new. What is new about your company or product? What new stories do you have to tell? What new testimonials can you share? What new problems can it solve? Customers are changing, too, so don’t be afraid to turn over new rocks and “twist the familiar.”
Special Offer: Gary is extending a 20% discount on his training/facilitation, one-on-one coaching, and speaking fees for 2024 exclusively for ConventionPlanit.com members who mention it.
Phone: 925-736-9392/email: gary@trainingforwinners.com
Reach today’s new meeting professionals.
Today’s meeting professionals can no longer be pinned down to any specific location. Commission-free, ConventionPlanit.com attracts 47% of salaried meeting professionals with associations (55%), or corporate (35%) and SMERF/Government (10%). Many of them work hybrid. A whopping 37% are independent meeting professionals who reside in a variety of locations and book anywhere for any market segment.
- Showcasing an annual listing positions you in front of decision-making meeting professionals when they’re buying! Banner Ads are perfect for exciting announcements.
- Our curated database provides a continuous feed of new prospects for e-Mail Marketing Campaigns, in which planners can interactively request your follow-up!
- Messaging is particularly difficult in a cluttered marketplace, yet our e-Newsletter achieves a 52% open rate.
- Does your data need a makeover? It does if it’s 3 years old. Due to the pandemic, we witnessed a 40% turnover. Why not get your data updated and organized to make sure you’re pursuing the right clients?
20 for 20 Special Offer: Learn how to customize a plan to reach more buyers with cost-effective efficiency. To commemorate this milestone, we’re offering 20% off all listing, banner ads, e-mail marketing and e-Newsletter ads and advertorials.
Info@ConventionPlanit.com | 240 347 4459
ConventionPlanit.com members can maximize their presence for free!
Reach out planners where they can also find you. If you’re already a member of ConventionPlanit.com you can take advantage of our free offerings, as follows:
- Unlimited Notices & Special Offers may be posted in the Special Offers section, Meeting professionals will also view it on five more channels – annual listing, e-Newsletter promotion, and our Blog for social optimization in LinkedIn and Facebook.
- Update your listing with the latest data, verbiage, and graphics.
- Does your hotel have a conference center or special event venue? ConventionPlanit.com will duplicate your listing, to appear in these key categories.
- Sponsor a prize for a contest to obtain lots of free promotions!
- Renewing clients will obtain a “This Just In” advertorial to announce breaking news.
- Planner members of Alliance for Independent Meeting Professionals (AIMP) obtain a free annual listing when submitting an RFP through our complexly free RFP Valet sourcing channel.
- To request the Special Offers link or for any of the above submissions, please email Muzette Randall, Director | Marketing Services. Info@ConventionPlanit.com
