The Executive's Guide to Corporate Events and Business Entertaining
How to Choose and Use Corporate Functions to Increase Brand Awareness, Develop New Business, Nurture Customer Loyalty and Drive Growth
1st Edition
Published on 9. February 2007
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-0-470-83848-8 (ISBN)
Description
An industry expert shows readers how to get the best return on investment from corporate events
Corporate events and business entertaining are a major part of a company's communication, marketing and public relations strategy. They are used by businesses of all sizes to solicit new business, create a corporate or brand image, and retain and build loyalty with existing suppliers and customers. They can also be used effectively to elicit peak performance from employees and produce camaraderie and teamwork among co-workers. The corporate event bar has been raised dramatically and the competition to craft something original that will help a business create public awareness as well as industry and media buzz is fierce.
Staged effectively, business functions can contribute to a company's success, standing, profitability and business development. But corporate events and business entertaining can also seriously damage a company's image and put the company and its management in potentially high-risk situations if not handled carefully, professionally, and appropriately. Corporate boards and chief executives are now seeing how company scandals played out in the headlines can estrange customers, sink stock prices, and end careers in a matter of minutes. And many of the transgressions that have been made public have been linked to corporate events and business entertaining.
The Executive's Guide to Corporate Events and Business Entertaining provides executives with all the information they need before they plan, host, sponsor, or attend corporate events. It gives rising and established executives the tools they need to move ahead with confidence in planning their next company function.
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Product info
GB
Edition
1., Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Paper over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 164 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
558 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-470-83848-8 (9780470838488)
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Judy Allen
The Executive's Guide to Corporate Events and Business Entertaining
How to Choose and Use Corporate Functions to Increase Brand Awareness, Develop New Business, Nurture Customer Loyalty and Drive Growth
E-Book
12/2009
Wiley
€18.99
Available for download
Judy Allen
The Executive's Guide to Corporate Events and Business Entertaining
How to Choose and Use Corporate Functions to Increase Brand Awareness, Develop New Business, Nurture Customer Loyalty and Drive Growth
E-Book
10/2008
Wiley
€18.99
Available for download
Person
Judy Allen is one of the world's leading authorities on staging, event and lifestyle design and the bestselling author of ten books for the professional, business and consumer markets. Allen, a master of creative design, has flawlessly executed successful special events-corporate, social, and celebrity-for up to 2,000 guests at a time in more than 30 countries around the world. She has designed and produced memorable events such as Disney's worldwide theatrical opening-night gala for Beauty and the Beast, and the orchestration of Oscar-winning director Norman Jewison's 25th anniversary celebration for Fiddler on the Roof.
Highly skilled in staging events that are strategically designed to be one-of-kind experiences and a master of transforming the energy of an event environment by engaging the senses with trademark primary design principles, Allen has worked closely with CEOs, CFOs, presidents and their executive staff around the globe to create, implement and oversee their corporate and social business events.
The many diverse events that Allen has designed and executed extend from complex one-day events to elaborate arrangements of theme productions taking place over the course of a week. These events ranged from very exclusive VIP events to multimillion-dollar, multimedia fantasy extravaganzas including seven new-car product launches and involved high-tech stage and show productions.
Allen, and her 2jproductions (www.2jproductions.com) partner, Joe Shane, are now bringing their dynamic creative energy, innovative style and perceptive insight to home, life and lifestyle design and world class resorts around the world through Sensual Home Living(TM) (www.sensualhomeliving.com) and other initiatives.
Content
Acknowledgments.
Preface.
Chapter One. The Evolution of Business Functions and the Ways They can Be Used to Successfully Drive Business Growth.
Section 1: Traditional Business Functions: What They Are and the Returns They Can Bring.
Section 2. Advanced Business Functions: What They Are and the Returns they Can Bring.
Chapter Two. How to Qualify Your Company Objectives for a Proposed Business Function.
Chapter Three: Selecting Events to Successfully Meet Specific Company Objectives.
Section 1. Traditional Business Functions.
Section 2. Advanced Business Functions.
Chapter Four. Taking Stock and Planning Ahead.
Chapter Five. Spending Your Company's Dollars Where They Matter Most.
Chapter Six. Identifying Potential Landmines.
Chapter Seven. Protecting Yourself and Your Company from Red-Flag Areas.
Chapter Eight. Benefiting from a Competitive Analysis.
Chapter Nine. Exceeding Expectations Through Execution.
Chapter Ten. Establishing Codes of Conduct and Setting Company Standards.
Chapter Eleven. Tracking and Analysing Your Results.
Conclusion.
Appendix.
Index.