Planner Threatened with Lawsuit Over "Oscar-style" Decor. The Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, site of the Oscar ceremonies. Photo courtesy Kodak Theatre. An event planner in Atlanta reached an out-of-court settlement last month with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences over her use of 7-foot gold award statues, which—attorneys for the academy said—infringed on the copyrighted "Oscar" statuettes.
While she is prohibited from disclosing complete terms of the settlement, Terry Singleton, CSEP, tells Special Events that her attorney fees alone topped $2,000. Singleton, president and chief operating officer of Atlanta-based CCP Events/EventScapes, says the academy sent her a letter in December stating her decor statues were "identical or strikingly, substantially or confusingly similar to the Academy's 'Oscar' statuette. " Based on her research on the topic in the event industry, Singleton says she decided her only option was "to comply. " Both Singleton and her attorney, Glenn M.
Singleton notes that all tussles with lawyers are challenging. Hotel Shows Off Tats « Smart Meetings. In Brief: Event Planner. CareerBuilder.com Job title: Event Planner The work Organize and detail events, including everything from charity fundraisers and black-tie affairs to conferences and seminars. As an event planner, you'll arrange every detail of an event, such as catering, decorations and security, and make it look as memorable and interesting as possible within the client's budget and guidelines. What it pays The median annual salary is $35,000. The hours The hours are very flexible and include weekdays, weeknights and weekends, revolving around what types of events are being planned. What you need Most event planners today possess a bachelor's degree in business administration, marketing, hospitality or a related field in addition to having industry experience.
The perks In addition to having the opportunity to set their own hours and meet a lot of different types of people, Stark includes the large opportunity for growth, networking, and travel as being some of the bigger benefits of the job. Editor. Marketing Your Meeting: Back to Basics. Marketing is the business tool that brings a coordinated approach to the hundreds of techniques available to achieve your meeting's objective. Have you ever received several marketing pieces for a meeting and thought to yourself that one was all you needed? What a waste! Have you ever attended a meeting that had multiple marketing messages and you said to yourself, “I still don't know what the purpose of the meeting is.”? This is where attention to a thoughtful marketing plan saves the company money and pays off in the long run. In many cases, companies that defined their marketing and communications strategies through meetings and events in the late 1990s are now having to rethink those strategies.
Once you've determined that a face-to-face meeting is the best fit for your communications needs, you need bodies to make it happen. TIP No. 1 Why Are We Meeting Like This? Avoiding conflicting objectives and messages is critical to your marketing success. TIP No. 2 Getting to Know You. The hotel sales office of 2011. Those hotels that are waiting for the recovery to make phones ring with inquiries will not be the market leaders in this economic recovery. The processes of the sales office of 2011 and forward are not the sales office processes pre-recession. By Carol Verret Those hotels that are waiting for the recovery to make phones ring with inquiries will not be the market leaders in this economic recovery. Those that are aggressively using new processes to stimulate sales will be the winners. Steve Rushmore, President and Founder of HVS predicts that April 08, 2014 Google to licenses Room 77 software in mobile travel-booking push The biggest Internet-search company is licensing hotel-booking software from Room 77, a startup backed by Expedia.
Read more Hotel website satisfaction higher than overall satisfaction Read more For airlines, social media unrivaled in its efficiency Read more Kuoni experts plan regular annual business mission for hoteliers Read more Condé Nast tries its hand at social ads. Professional Convention Management Association (PCMA): Innovative Meetings. Mobile Apps for Meetings. Share by Michael J. Shapiro | September 01, 2010 Some of the data required by typical mobile apps for meetings is venue-specific, such as meeting-space maps and F&B information. Therefore, it makes sense to investigate whether the host venue already has an app in place. Las Vegas-based MGM Resorts International, for one, is gradually rolling out apps for all of its Las Vegas properties. "We give a planners the opportunity to provide us with data that, through password protection, can be used to service their attendees," explains Scott Voeller, MGM's vice president of brand strategy and advertising.
MGM currently offers the customized app as a complimentary service. Read more Bill Kilburg was wowed by an event app he used as an attendee last winter. Kilburg is chairman and CEO of HPN Global, the Scottsdale, Ariz. While many of HPN's clients haven't thought to ask for such technology yet, HPN is trying to stay one step ahead of the trend.