Affordable Meetings West - June 11-12, 2008 - (Page 12)

Thursday, June 12 Champagne on a Beer Budget: Food & Beverage Cost Cutting Techniques Room 102 Vicky Betzig, CMP President Meetings Industry Consulting Brookfield, Wisconsin One of the greatest challenges you face as a meeting planner today is doing more with less – spending less of your organization’s dollars while still providing attendees with memorable and highly successful meetings. And when it comes to food and beverage functions, the question is how can you plan events that sparkle and yet stay within budget? This seminar provides techniques that will help you establish cost controls in the area of food and beverage, including accurate quantity and guarantee controls, menu planning, and negotiating tips. Many “tricks of the trade” will be presented to help you keep the bottom line “in line” and yet provide stellar cuisine. Industry Partners Taming the E-mail and Information Overload Beast Room 104B Randall Dean President Dean Consulting and Training East Lansing, Michigan It seems that every day, managers and professionals are getting buried deeper and deeper under a continuing stream of useful and useless information. Without a system for getting “control of the beast,” many people spend much of their work (and personal) time spinning wheels and feeling highly unsatisfied, simply due to too much information coming too fast with no place for it to go. If you would like to get control of “the beast” of information overload, attend this dynamic session. You will learn how to tame your e-mail account with proven strategies for keeping your inbox efficient and under control; and how to reduce the mess on your desk by having “natural” places for all of your papers, project folders, items to read, etc., to go. You will discover how to get rid of all of the annoying “little stuff” once and for all, and then keep it under control for the ongoing future. This session will leave you feeling on top of the information that you are responsible for, rather than feeling that it is on top of you. Prize Drawing - 4:00 pm Registration Area 12 Your e-badge will arrive via email prior to the show.

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