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Innovation: Key to Boosting Meeting Attendance

Associations Now

The onsite conference market and the new generation that an association like ours is trying to reach are not connecting. Earlier this week, it announced it would postpone its 2013 Publishing Conference scheduled for later this month in Los Angeles. I can see how a grand challenge spurs real movement in the market,” Culkin said. “By

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Overcoming the association value gap: part I

Principled Innovation

This post originally appeared on the Associations Now Leadership Blog on March 7, 2013. In a recent post , Associations Now blogger Joe Rominiecki shared what both he and I regard as a startling fact: 53 percent of associations surveyed in 2011 had raised their dues in the previous three years.

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China Market Insight – Pushing to Become an Advanced Economy

GlowGlobally

In 2013, MCI will be bringing you a new feature to GrowGlobally.org called “Market Insight” that will offer information on select emerging market countries. The focus will be on data that could be useful to help improve market intelligence and help make business decisions. Sales & Marketing.

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Thanks For Playing: Looking into My Crystal Ball

Thanks For Playing

” They asked each speaker to answer (in 75 words or less) the question: What development, trend, or marketing innovation do you predict will be in place by the fall of 2012 to influence every direct marketer’s year-end planning? Start With the "Why" Always the Last to Know: 50 Most Innovative Compan.

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Immersion Studies: Hotel Execs Plan Deep Dive in India

Associations Now

Rapidly growing markets and a more interconnected world are bringing high-end travelers to new markets like never before. He also noted the country’s renewed focus on travel infrastructure, its increasing technological innovations, and its growing middle class, which will likely lead to more travelers.

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Retail Groups to Congress: Don’t Let Patent Reform Fade

Associations Now

patent-infringement lawsuits in 2013, according to Lex Machina statistics reported by Reuters. That’s despite the passage of a 2011 law, the America Invents Act, that significantly reformed the patent system. A House version of the bill , the Innovation Act, passed last year. 12.4 % The increase in U.S. Quite possibly.

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Three Free Event eBooks You Should Read

Velvet Chainsaw

Disruptive innovation is the name of the game. The 2013 Speaker Report: The Use Of Professional And Industry Speakers In The Meetings Market. This second report carries the 2011 findings forward and offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date information available on how speakers fit into the educational landscape.

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