Planning
The first stage in organising any conference is planning. Your plan should start with these questions:

• What do we want our audience to go home and say about the meeting, apart from the fact that they had a great time?
• What is the key message we want our audience to remember?
• What action do we want our audience to take after attending this confer
  Message-On-Hold - A Powerful Marketing Tool
  What is Messaging On Hold? Message On Hold is a customized recording that callers will hear when they are placed on hold. Now one might think that that is just another fancy way to keep your callers entertained. But truth is, Messaging On Hold is far more than just helping callers kill time while they are on hold. Messaging On Hold is actually a highly effective marketing tool. It is basically an infomercial about your business. Yes, it will keep your callers entertained avoiding that they hang up. But most importantly, it will help to sell the products and/or services that your business has to offer. Studies conducted by major telecommunication companies revealed that approximately 20% of callers that are placed on hold will actually make purchase decisions based on what they hear while they are on hold.Here are some interesting Message On-Hold statistics:Results of studies performed by 3 of the major telecommunication companies:AT&T REPORTS: An estimated 70% of business callers are put on-hold. An estimated 60% of business callers put on-hold hang up. An estimated 30% of these callers don't call back!A NATIONAL STUDY PUBLISHED BY NORTH AMERICAN TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION REPORTS: Callers with SILENCE-ON-HOLD will abandon their calls in less than one minute; 90% hang up within 40 seconds. Callers with MUSIC-ON-HOLD will stay on the line 30 seconds longer than with only silence. Callers with INFORMATION-ON-HOLD will stay on the line for up to 3 minutes longer. US WEST COMMUNICATIONS FOUND THAT INFORMATION-ON-HOLD RESULTS IN: 40% increase in retention of callers on-hold 15% increase in inquiries 12% increase in requests for products and services mentioned on-hold MORE ON-HOLD FA
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  Planning
  The first stage in organising any conference is planning. Your plan should start with these questions:

  • What do we want our audience to go home and say about the meeting, apart from the fact that they had a great time?
  • What is the key message we want our audience to remember?
  • What action do we want our audience to take after attending this confe
    Involve Your Audience
    The best ads don’t talk at the audience, and they don’t talk down to them either. In fact, the very best and most effective ads don’t talk to an audience at all. They talk to a person, one person.Although we use mass media to distribute our advertising messages, you must never forget that you are talking to one person at a time. Your advertising must be able to connect on an intimate, personal level with each person who comes in contact with it.I personally have no idea how to write an ad to an audience of 18-25 year-old single females who earn $22,000 to $25,000 a year, drive two-door cars and live alone in rented apartments.But I know how to hold a conversation with one of them. And if I can create an ad that has this same conversational feel that touches them on an emotional level, they will most certainly pay attention.This really isn’t that difficult. Your ads should be conversations, not lectures. The problem with most advertising is that it talks down to the audience. Frankly this happens when you try to talk to an audience and not a person. This way of thinking forces you to get down to the lowest common denominator by dumbing down your ads.No wonder most ads are ignored. Why not use your ads to raise the bar. If you show respect for your audience, they’ll respect you for it. Why not let them finish a thought that you start? Maybe let them fill in a blank. And certainly you don’t have to be so literal!Here’s the problem—when put in a position to create or approve an ad, a funny thing happens to many people. They stop thinking like a normal person and begin thinking like they believe they should. They become too professional, too rigid, too analytical.They stress over the meaning of a single word in the body copy. They spend hours thinking about what might be wrong with the advertising. Think like a consume
    rganising any conference is planning. Your plan should start with these questions:
    • What do we want our audience to go home and say about the meeting, apart from the fact that they had a great time?
    • What is the key message we want our audience to remember?
    • What action do we want our audience to take after attending this confe
      Learn To Be A Home Inspector And Have A Profitable New Career
      If youd like to offer professional home inspection services there are a number of training programs and courses you can take - some of them online. From one online home inspection training provider we found the courses that teach the creation of a home inspection report.Included in this report are the overall condition of the home, with specific attention to the plumbing and electrical systems, the heating and cooling equipment, the siding and the roof, the foundation and the homes frame. This particular home inspection certification program is offered as a partnership with numerous colleges and universities that oversee the various course materials and curriculum.The home builders organization offering the online home inspection courses was established twenty years ago. Its mission remains to offer home inspection education, occupation training, as well as construction and home inspection technical support.The programs include classroom training, field training, seminars, and continuing education courses in addition to the Internet-based program.More than 2000 home inspection professionals have now graduated from the associations training program, in various parts of the United States and Canada. While any of the home inspection classes are open to the general public specific organizations or groups can arrange their own private training sessions as well.Many reputable home inspection-affiliated organizations have endorsed these training programs. These include the National Association of Home Inspectors (NAHI,) the American Society of Home Inspectors (ASHI,) and the California Real Estate Inspectors Association (CREIA).More than 15 agencies of the federal or state governments in the U.S. and Canada and other affiliated associations have approved these home inspection courses for continuing education credits or credits
      ce to go home and say about the meeting, apart from the fact that they had a great time?
    • What is the key message we want our audience to remember?
    • What action do we want our audience to take after attending this confe
      You Could Learn a Lot from a Fairy Godmother - How Disney Renewed my Faith in Loyalty and Marketing
      I recently was fortunate enough to sit in on a Disney Institute session on loyalty. Not knowing what to expect, I was shocked and delighted when a fairy godmother descended on the room (or rather burst through the doors) and began spouting off interesting information about Disney.Of all the meetings I have ever attended, I have to say, this is the one that I will always remember.But aside from all the “wing and bling” she spread around the room, I learned a lot about how Disney does marketing. My respect for the company has grown tenfold since the meeting. Here are some helpful tips I picked up:• Exceed customer expectations. If you’ve been to a Disney theme park, you probably don’t remember anything particularly eventful about your interaction with a Disney Cast Member. But that’s the goal. Disney strives to make your experience with them seamless and enjoyable, and they succeed.I realized I often go into places of business expecting to be disappointed. After all, I’ve been on hold for inefficient customer service for an hour, been served a poorly prepared meal, and have received subpar products one too many times to not be jaded. I realized Disney is the only place where that doesn’t happen. I can actually have high expectations and they will still exceed them. As small business owners, we may not have the marketing budget Disney has, but we can definitely strive to exceed customer expectations.• Identify core values. Your core values are often tied in to customers’ expectations. What does your company do well? Flaunt it! After all, not everyone can do what you do!• Create an experience. Even if you sell shoes online, there is an experience to be had prior to your customer putting on the pair of shoes. Make every point of contact pleasant and make your customers enjoy doing business with
      age we want our audience to remember?
    • What action do we want our audience to take after attending this conference?
    In other words, start your planning with your meeting’s overall objectives. Write these objectives down and ensure that everyone involved knows them - from people who hand out the coffee to the speakers themselves. The answers to these questions will be your mission statement for the meeting. You must have a clear set of simple objectives for your meeting otherwise it will fail.

    Having set your objectives you will need to work out how you will ach