What’s the coolest thing about being a meeting planner?
“When I see the outcome of my work has accomplished my client’s objectives and everyone, or almost everyone, is happy. And then they renew my contract—that’s really cool.
—Angela C. Caraway, TCMG Inc.
“It’s seeing the look in people’s faces as they experience the result of all the planning, knowing they will have positive memories of the event long after it is over. Very rewarding.”
—Stewart Hall, Rock the Stars
“Having the opportunity to provide a one-of-a-kind experience to someone, hopefully one that they will remember for the rest of their life.
—Zac Cole, The Delta Chi Fraternity Inc.
“Doing things differently year to year so that you continually hear, ‘This was the best meeting ever!’”
—Patty Preston Olejnik, Association of Legal Administrators
“When the host says, ‘Wow, that went so smoothly!’ and only I know about all the hiccups along the way.”
—Amy James, HelmsBriscoe
“Learning—always learning from every meeting, person, situation, and then taking that learning to the next programs [or] situations.”
—Joan Eisenstodt, Eisenstodt Associates
“I would say seeing a project from initial concept to finished product. It is so exciting to see all the pieces come together to create a successful event. It is very rewarding.
—Kelly Snyder, CMP, Datanet Engineering Inc.
The creativity of meeting planning fuels my energy for this business. There are endless new tools and technologies that enable unique and valuable meeting experiences.
ROI, WOW FACTOR, ADMIRATION…nah! It’s living like a ROCK STAR! Staying in Presidential Suites, limos, champagne, front row seats, expansive waist lines from eating lavish six course meals with heads of hotel chains. politicians and others. And not once, might I add, but over and over and over in venues ALL over the world. Now THAT’S what cool, no SUPER COOL about being a meeting planner!
Seeing everyone who has said they will be there do do xxx actually there and doing it, and doing it well! It take a LOT of people to put on a meeting. Everyone in the industry is so wonderful to work with, with very few exceptions.
Building relationships with a wide variety people and being able to work with them year after year assisting them in making their objectives a reality.