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I had a meeting and it changed a life. My life. I hope that it can change a few more lives as well.

Last week, the day before the Thanksgiving Holiday, I met with Calum Maclean, a true Irish Gentleman, and we had a talk about how we could change a few lives working together. In turn, this has made me a crusader, thus changing my life. One meeting, one life changed.

We talked about an organization that he is involv… Continue

Here is the email.........UGG, they know no bounds!

Hello,

I am Mr. David Wright; Public Relations Officer (P.R.O) of Petra Energy Producing Plc. United Kingdom. Your restaurant has been approved by my company for dinner reservations for my workers visiting your area for a project, so i therefore want to book dinner for this group of workers.

They will all come for dinner in your place as from OCTOBER 6th, 7th and 8th, 2009 by 8:00pm each day. They are fifteen (15) in number.

**NOTE THAT… Continue

I posted this to my Corporate Event Thoughts Blog a couple of days ago, but wanted to post here as well because everyone needs to know what a great experience all of the SITE Chicago members had on our recent retreat!

Sitting here in the Dominican Republic, I am taking a minute to think of all of the things I need to do and catch up on. I owe you all updates from my recent trip to Frankfurt (IMEX 2009) and to Puerta Vallarta, Mexico (Meeti… Continue

Let me start by saying. I am a marketer, and I am a moron……

I once had a boss back in the boom boom 90’s that used to storm into the office and yell “are you in sales or are you a marketer”…….he thought that a sales person who used email and not the phone was a marketer. He was pretty much right, he would storm in and I would grab for the phone and once he left the office, go back to the way I was doing things……I was one of the top sales people, but I was a marketer. If he only knew….

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First, let me start with this before I get pummeled. I believe Las Vegas is an excellent meeting destination (I will be in Las Vegas next Monday for a client event). I think groups should look at and seriously consider Las Vegas for their events.......Now lets get to what I want to talk about. This is about the Mayor and what he has done to our industry. What were his PR morons thinking.

So, last night was a baseball exhibition game between the Chicago White Sox and the Chicago Cubs.

Th… Continue