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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!

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

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

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!

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

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

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

Beginners guide to Social Media

Are you unsure what do with social media? You’re not alone. Many meeting professionals feel overwhelmed by the idea of establishing a presence in the social media world. Social Media Marketing is on the tip of everyone’s tongue these days. Most though are unsure how to use these new mediums and struggle with understanding where to get started. Fortunately, it’s easier than you think. Meeting professionals that want to increase [...]

by Mark Ley on December 22, 2009

New Technology changing the Face to Face Meeting

One of the great joys of our business is the development of new technologies that transform and enhance the landscape of our industry. The development of FaceTime was one such technology. From it’s inception for our own use at the Elite Meetings Alliance through the most recent IT&ME, we have seen it change the way that suppliers and buyers interact. It has provided a space for more open communication and [...]

by Mark Ley on December 1, 2009

How to build and promote and event on LinkedIn

LinkedIn is the “Go To” network for today’s professionals. It provides a solid platform for networking and endless possibilities for business development. With over 50 Million members it has passed the infancy stage breezed through puberty and is now into it’s life as a young adult. With so many members it only makes sense to use it as a platform for driving attendance to your event and cementing buy in [...]

by Mark Ley on November 25, 2009

5 Reasons every hotel should adopt FourSquare

When asked about FourSquare, Dennis Crowley (a founding member), described it by saying “What we wanted to do is turn life into a video game. You should be rewarded for going out more times than your friends, and hanging out with new people and going to new restaurants and going to new bars–just experiencing things that you wouldn’t normally do.” Having just read that statement, you’re probably now wondering. “Why [...]

by Mark Ley on November 25, 2009

PhoCusWright Conference 2009 – Travel Innovation Summit

We really didn’t know what to expect when we entered the Travel Innovation Summit this year. Would we be chosen as one of the 32 presenters that are able to demonstrate their latest technologies? If so, how could we possibly pack everything we had to say into only 10 minutes of a presentation? We were about to find out. Word was delivered that we were chosen to present and we [...]

by Mark Ley on November 18, 2009

Tomorrow’s Tools

“You can’t expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday’s tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.” As Meeting and Event professionals it is easy to get caught up in the world that we know. We spend a great deal of time managing, or better yet, taming, the chaos of the group mind. The process of planning an event is time consuming and challenges us to be creative [...]

by Mark Ley on November 11, 2009

SpeedRFP in the News

Here are a few quick links to learn more about SpeedRFP and our coverage within the industry! Elite Meetings International to Present SpeedRFP™ at the Travel Innovation Summit@ The PhoCusWright Conference SpeedRFP™ is Introduced at the 2009 Motivation Show Press Conference – 2-minute Highlight Video Full Press Conference Video Article & Mentions Elite Meetings International Introduces SpeedRFP Speedier E-RFPs? Frequently Asked Questions SpeedRFP FAQs

by Brad Pirman on September 4, 2010

SpeedRFP.com

Search on — EliteMeetings.com!

Is your RFP form APEX compliant?

SpeedRFP Spotted In The Wild!

SpeedRFP Changes – ver. 0.5.1

Top Four Reasons to Add SpeedRFP to Your Hotel Website

SpeedRFP to Integrate with MeetingBroker!

SpeedRFP Update: Week 2

It’s Alive

Coming up to the Starting Line

New Technology changing the Face to Face Meeting

How to build and promote and event on LinkedIn

5 Reasons every hotel should adopt FourSquare

PhoCusWright Conference 2009 – Travel Innovation Summit

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