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Sponsorships: What Do Meeting Organizers and Exhibitors Want?

Associations Now

A new study reveals what meeting sponsors and organizers are looking for from these partnerships. Most of you already know that associations generate a lot—if not the majority—of their nondues revenue from meetings, tradeshows, and conferences. Many association meetings wouldn’t be successful without sponsors.

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Steve Jobs and the Focus of the CEO

Jamie Notter

The company does a great job, innovates and becomes a monopoly or close to it in some field, and then the quality of the product becomes less important. The product starts valuing the great salesmen, because they’re the ones who can move the needle on revenues, not the product engineers and designers. But here’s the problem.

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Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects: Seen Elsewhere: Building Creative.

Idea Architects

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. Books like The Medici Effect , by Frans Johannson, and Where Good Ideas Come From , by Steven Johnson, confirm what weve long known: innovation in one field often occurs when an idea from another is associated into a new context.

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Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects: My Simple Business Blueprint

Idea Architects

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. I dont try to get a certain # of clients or hit certain revenue targets. Nov 2005 (1). Oct 2005 (1). Sep 2005 (2). Aug 2005 (1). Jul 2005 (2). Jun 2005 (1). May 2005 (2).

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Ignoring the Impossible

Jamie Notter

They do $700 million in revenue a year, so this is not a small company. Management is a relatively new phenomenon, and in its short history it has seen very few changes or innovations. Humanize: How People-centric Organizations Succeed in a Social World takes on the topic of trust in great detail. December 2005 (5).

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Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects: Making Sponsorship Special Again

Idea Architects

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. in order to generate extra revenues. And that has become a very real problem for organizations that. Sure, some organizations aren’t. So organizations used to a sponsorship gravy train are really.

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What Smart Associations Do Differently

Association Adviser

Technology is not synonymous for innovation; some associations are having breakthroughs by going back to old tech. “It’s changing from a traditional, bricks-and-mortar, membership-and-committee-based organization to an online and multimedia-based structure.” It starts with one of their toughest competitors—the Internet.

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