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SpeedRFP reaches 10,000 buyer members!

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I’m very proud to share that the SpeedRFP buyer community reached member # 10,000 today. It is important to point out that to be qualified as a member, they must have submitted at least 1 RFP using the system. If you take in to consideration that each of these members likely plan multiple meetings and events on an annual basis, they represent millions of hotel guests each year. This active [...]

by Kelly Foy on November 3, 2011

See you at IMEX America!

The team is preparing to head to Las Vegas for the highly anticipated IMEX America, and we hope to see you there. If you plan to attend, drop by the Elite Meetings International booth (#1068) to get a sneak peak of EliteMeetings.com 4.0! In fact, you might even be able to provide a helping hand in developing some of its new features. After all, we built the site for you, [...]

by Kelly Foy on October 5, 2011

How to Assign and Respond to an RFP for Hoteliers

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We’ve recently updated how RFP recipients can manage their RFPs by adding the ability for lead coordinators to assign an RFP to other colleagues. How-to Assign an RFP for Hoteliers: To best incorporate SpeedRFP into your workflow, we’ve built “Assign RFP,” which allows a hotelier to assign an RFP they’ve received to a colleague, prompting them to respond. Here’s how to assign an RFP: View the incoming RFP by clicking [...]

by Martha Brooks on August 24, 2011

SpeedRFP…its Popping Up Everywhere!

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I started out my day today wondering just how many hotels are now capable of receiving SpeedRFPs, and was very pleasantly surprised when I learned planners can now use SpeedRFP to submit eRFPs to nearly 3,000 hotels worldwide. It seems that every day we see a handful of new hotels and resort adopting this time-saving technology, and we see exponential growth on the horizon. Our objective when creating SpeedRFP was [...]

by Kelly Foy on June 21, 2011

SpeedRFP 1.0 is here! More Time-Saving Enhancements on the Horizon.

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We have some great news for all of our SpeedRFP integration chain and independent hotel partners, as well as our 4,200+ (and growing) meeting planner members. Starting today, you’ll see some fantastic enhancements to the SpeedRFP system as we have released version 1.0. Here is a peak at the new features released today, and other great features coming in May. April Enhancements External Response System – This new feature allows [...]

by Kelly Foy on April 26, 2011

SpeedRFP turns one today!

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Today marks a big day in Elite Meetings’ history – SpeedRFP is a year old! A little over a year ago, the concept of SpeedRFP was just an idea that was put into the planning and engineering stages on the back-end of the company. In fact, when it first started, it was a top-secret project referred to only by codename (I’m not kidding). The logo and concept were first unveiled [...]

by Amanda Smith on April 1, 2011

SpeedRFP Works for Weddings

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It was only a matter of time I guess that someone at a hotel figured out that they could use SpeedRFP to consolidate their wedding RFPs (Requests for Proposal) as well as their meeting RFPs. Now we’re seeing it happen on multiple hotel web sites. The most notable example so far can be seen on Paradise Point’s website. The San Diego resort has created a second SpeedRFP form just for [...]

by Brad Pirman on October 26, 2010

SpeedRFP Integrates with MeetingBroker & Delphi

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Deep within the SpeedRFP labs, we’ve been very busy behind the scenes with a few major enhancements. The biggest of which has been the completion of an integration with a few products from Newmarket International. Soon hotel’s utilizing MeetingBroker, Delphi, Delphi.net, and Daylight will be able to have all of their SpeedRFPs delivered to their preferred system. So what exactly does this mean to you? Well, for you hoteliers, it [...]

by Brad Pirman on October 25, 2010

Let Your SpeedRFP Button Shine!

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As the SpeedRFP community continues to grow, we’re hearing more and more feedback. We couldn’t be happier about that. One of the most recent inquiries was in regards to button styles. While we make efforts to brand the usual “Request Proposal” button, we understand that it doesn’t fit the style of every website out there. A New Button: “Send a SpeedRFP” Now by inserting one line of code into your [...]

by Brad Pirman on September 21, 2010

Is SpeedRFP Right For Your Website?

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So your interest is piqued and you’ve heard a bit about SpeedRFP® from colleagues or meeting professionals. Perhaps you’ve received a few SpeedRFPs and you’re ready to really harness the power of our technology on your own website but you’re not quite sure how to get started. Below, we’ve quickly answered some of the most common questions from hoteliers.. Is SpeedRFP Right For You? We understand, you don’t want to [...]

by Brad Pirman on September 17, 2010

Search on — EliteMeetings.com!

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We’re pretty sure that many of you already know what Elite Meetings does but here’s a little video created by our Marketing goddess, Amanda Smith, that should help clear up any confusion! Cheers Amanda!

by Brad Pirman on August 11, 2010

Is your RFP form APEX compliant?

For more than 10 years, the Convention Industry Council (CIC) has been encouraging adoption of standard terminology, forms, and other elements of the business process for meeting, event, and incentive travel through its Accepted Practices Exchange (APEX). The Accepted Practices are voluntary standards designed by the meetings, conventions and exhibitions industry with the goal of streamlining business processes and creating efficiencies. Did you know that by simply using a SpeedRFP [...]

by Kelly Foy on August 4, 2010

MPI and Vancouver…an Excellent Combination!

Did you attend MPI’s World Education Congress in Vancouver? If you did, your days were likely packed with great presentations by industry speakers, fabulous meet and greets in the exhibit area, and just an all-around sense that the meetings industry is back on track again. Vancouver is one of my favorite places, and they played an excellent host of the event. I’m certain Vancouver made quite an impression on everyone, [...]

by Kelly Foy on July 29, 2010

SpeedRFP Spotted In The Wild!

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Ever since the release of SpeedRFP into the wild, we’ve been on the lookout for websites that have created a home for SpeedRFP forms. A form is pretty easy to create and immediately “APEX-enables” the hotel that posts it. While we’re not working hard to improve SpeedRFP based on user feedback, we’re busy tracking SpeedRFP to find all of the hotel and hotel chain websites where it may be hiding [...]

by Brad Pirman on July 8, 2010

SpeedRFP Changes – ver. 0.5.1

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Just recently we released an update to SpeedRFP.com. While there were lots of changes, some of the more notable ones are described below. Please remember, many of these changes are based on feedback that we get from our user community. Please don’t hesitate to use the “Feedback” tab on the right side of SpeedRFP.com to give us your ideas. We’ll probably incorporate them into future updates. Read more about the recent changes to SpeedRFP…

by Brad Pirman on June 14, 2010

Top Four Reasons to Add SpeedRFP to Your Hotel Website

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The team here at Elite Meetings has spent the past year and a half building SpeedRFP, and now it’s here, ready to use! To make it the best it can be, we surveyed our community of meeting professionals for their challenges, spoke with industry experts to determine standards, and tested the program mercilessly to ensure SpeedRFP was intuitive and easy to use. What emerged is a tool that has been [...]

by Therese Adams on May 8, 2010

SpeedRFP to Integrate with MeetingBroker!

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Kelly Foy and Brad Pirman are in Las Vegas today at a very exciting event, making a very exciting announcement. Did I get your attention yet?? Newmarket International, Inc. (www.newmarketinc.com), the leader in sales and catering software solutions for the hospitality industry, and Elite Meetings International, a leading provider of integrated solutions that enhance the performance of meeting and hospitality professionals, announced the integration of their market-leading technologies at the [...]

by Mark Ley on May 7, 2010

SpeedRFP Update: Week 2

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Well, SpeedRFP has been out for about two weeks and we’re getting lots of useful feedback from you. We’re hearing about some great possible features and some absolute must-haves. Our development team typically works in month-long cycles but we’ve integrated a couple of key features for you that we know were sorely missed at launch. As always, please let us know what you think of these features and if you [...]

by Brad Pirman on April 16, 2010

It’s Alive

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Updated: Please check out the “SpeedRFP Launches” press release for more information. I’m like a proud, yet mad, scientist (picture Gene Wilder in Young Frankenstein) who’s spent months in the laboratory with a team creating what will hopefully save people countless hours of wasted time. SpeedRFP.com was conceived about 15 months ago and it’s now public for you to use. The concept was born from our truest intentions to provide [...]

by Brad Pirman on April 1, 2010

Coming up to the Starting Line

It’s Friday night, I’m more than halfway through a bottle of Zinfandel, music’s playing, and I’m chipping away at the few remaining open issues for the beta version of SpeedRFP. Our entire team is excited to see SpeedRFP hit the racetrack and perhaps no one more than me. Years ago, a friend of mine imparted a morsel of wisdom, “We can make more money, we can buy more things, but [...]

by Brad Pirman on March 26, 2010

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