Are you hosting a Denver Convention?

Corporate seminars are not inexpensive. They can make a huge impact and comprehensive planning is necessary. Not only are theconferences expensive for the promoters, but also for the participants. Participants and companies are not easily separated with their dollars and they want to be assured and reassured that they have expended their time and funds well. Post assessments show that modest details make a major difference. Throwing a conference or convention together without focus to the littlest details can spell disaster. So the steps to take as a promoter and host for the conference/convention are to find a great destination. Knowing your prospective attendees is major whether you choose a location that is a short distance for them to drive or choosing a great getaway for companies to see and experience a new city. Check out the cost of the venue and ask for details. Do not choose busy times of the year for holidays, family vacations or a busy time for the businesses targeted. For example, as retailers do their buying for summer sports equipment, late spring and early summer or not the time to entice them. They are busy and they have already obtained their items for the year. Next you must look at the schedule to be sure the timing is good. If you overbook they may not have spare time to enjoy themselves. If you do not offer ample workshops or variable schedules of interest, they will not feel they gained anything from the conference or convention. Try to get a keynote speaker or two to draw a crowd. Advertise early to get them to lock into your event first on their calendars. It even works to offer a discount incentive for early signup. Do assign an professional to offer all information the convention goer will need from airport transportation to hotel registration and maps. Of course your huge concern will be the conference content itself. So plan to keep it moving, keep it efficient, keep it interesting. It is better to have more concise sessions with question/answer free time to chat and interact than to have participants leaving lengthy sessions because they are tired or feel they are hearing repetitive information. The first impact will make a huge difference. Efficiency and getting info to help airport/hotel/conference center logistics run efficiently will set off the tone of the convention. It is also important that when they arrive there are plenty of welcome folks available to set that upbeat positive tone and answer questions. The sign-up table should include all the information they will need. And you always must be willing to put out the money for freebies. Our company attended a conference in a small city in a mid-western town. It was obvious they were trying to save money and got the conference center and food cheap. We paid a bundle for a rental car to drive the 2 hours to the locations and stay in a small 2 star hotel/motel conference center. The pretzels and vats of bad coffee set the tone for a lengthy two days ahead. The next year we chose to go to the Denver Convention Center and what a significant difference. Flying into DIA was so impressive with those beautiful mountains as a backdrop. Our hotel was attached to center and there were all kinds of restaurants, night life, shopping nearby. We found a cool Conference Gourmet Gift Basket from a local basket company in Aurora. It was a box with all sorts of Colorado snacks. That convention rocked and we will go again next year.

Football Beer Gift Tubs for a frustrated fan!

So how is your favorite team doing this season? It is football time again and for those of us who enjoy football we live for this time of year. Not only is it beautiful weather to go to games but we covet the fact it has been a lengthy dry season in the sporting world since Superbowl time last year. Hopefully each of us is looking at the teams, playing fantasy football and making predictions. For guys it supplies a piece of conversation for any place we find ourselves. There is also the unfamiliar and best hopes for our popular football team to do well this season. Everybody seems to be talking about the replacement refs and how soon will normal football refs be back on the fields. It is way too effortless to get so upset about it that you find yourself ranting and raving. That is what has been happening at my condo. I whine and moan and groan and am short tempered with my wife and she does not deserve that. She is such a smart football wife that to get mad is not the way she handles things. She incredibly uses good will and humor. I am so blessed. After this weekend and my horrible mood I did not rightfully deserve to get anything for my birthday yesterday. I was in Denver and she had a Budweiser beer gift basket from Baskets by Rita delivered to my hotel. Since one of my favorite teams was the Denver Broncos the tub she ordered was a Bronco one and she wrote a terrific message using her awesome humor to help get me level-headed. It was great. I called her and made the decision to have flowers sent the next day. I always do that. So since I'm gone for a week, I called the lady at baskets by Rita and she's sending a gourmet wine basket to my wife. Good move on my part cuz my wife will not expect it. Us guys are not very creative or good about gifts but I am pretty darn happy and pleased with myself. My stepfather is a diehard Green Bay Packers fan so I sent him a sympathy basket. He will really like it and really get a kick out of it. My mom was raised and is loyal to the Giants, have been raised in NYC, so I'm having a Congratulations basket sent to her arriving the same day. Can hardly wait to speak to my parents. They are always coming up with gifts and ways to help my wife and me so this would be great. This ref strike has certainly got everyone talking. The good news is that it gives friends something else to talk about besides politics. Our secretary really gets on all of us though and she says we should be feeling sorry for those poor replacement refs. Without them we couldn't watch any football at all. I guess that is true because) they don't have the training and we should probably be offering them some thanks. So since I have done my part I think people who know any replacement refs should give them some sympathy and probably send a good luck gift.

Special baby gift

Excellent idea for mailing a unique, cute, adorable and unusual baby gift is to order a baby girl or baby boy welcome wagon. The cute little red wagons hold lots of baby gift goods that are practical for recently born babies. Knowing that it is always exciting to send something uncommon for the new baby is a challenge. Usually individuals call the medical center gift shop for the same, mundane gifts they have. They have the usual blue and pink flower arrangements which are nice but do not last and are difficult to transport home. That type of baby gift is soon forgotten. They also have baby gift baskets but you may find that the parents have already gotten at least one or more from the hospital gift shop. Asking the gift shop worker does not assure you that visitors have popped into the gift shop and picked up the same gift. I was embarrassed to stop in and purchase a cute basket and went up to her room to see two identical baskets from other people. That meant I had to go back down and switch it for something really common in the gift shop. The worst part was that it definitely took the excitement of my gift giving away. They were apologetic as was I apologetic and embarrassed. When the the gift shop clerk just rolled her eyes about wanting to exchange it, I had just had it and told her I wanted a refund. In the parking lot of the Denver hospital I met a gentleman and gal carrying in these adorable pink baby girl and blue baby boy gift red wagons. That is exactly what I had wanted to walk in with something that caused the couple to ooh and aah about. I just flat out halted them and asked where they got them. They had ordered them from a basket store near the Denver hospital called Baskets by Rita. Cut little welcome baby wagon that were the wonderful birth gift. They were definitely different baby gifts and pragmatic and enjoyable. They told me Baskets by Rita also has a big brother/sister line of baskets that they gave one time. I got on my iphone and without delay called Baskets by Rita and ordered one of the little red wagon as a baby welcome gift for the new child. It was simple to arrange to have it delivered to their house when they got home from the hospital. When they got home with the new baby and got the Baby Girl Bassinet Gift Basket, they immediately called me and said I just had to come over to see the new baby and the adorable wagon. So from now on the hospital gift shop will not be my first selection for sending gifts or flowers.