Registration is open for MACE! 2012!

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Registration is open for MACE! 2012! Now is the time to make the next move in your career, and MACE! is here to help you put the pieces into play. Planner Early Bird Registration ends January 13, 2012! Register today!

Get your game plan together with MACE!’s educational tracks. Now more comprehensive than ever, you’ll find the missing pieces of your career puzzle to stay on track and progress in the industry.

Director Track: Focused on helping the most senior level attendees address their needs. You’ve mastered the logistics, contract lingo and AV coordination, but now you need to focus on managing volunteers, strategic leadership and having a successful business plan. Sessions include:

•  Getting to the Heart of Member Satisfaction
•  Business of Meetings: Meeting, Event, and Tradeshow Assessments
•  Create Outrageously Effective Marketing Materials
•  Volunteer Management: Tips, Tricks, and Tools for Ensuring Success

Senior Planners: You’ve moving up in your career, and MACE! wants to give you the education needed to continue your climb to the top. Senior planners sessions will cover:

•  Getting More Bang for your Buck
•  Writing your own master agreement with major hotel chains
•  Meetings and the Law: Creating and Managing a Risk Management Plan - Track A (Identifying Risk)
•  Meetings and the Law: Creating and Managing a Risk Management Plan - Track B (Writing Plan)
•  How to sell your unattractive meeting to a hotel

Student and Junior Planners: You’re the future of our industry, and MACE! wants to help you find the building blocks to start your career in the right direction.

•  Contracting Building Blocks – Putting the contract puzzle pieces together
•  Why many people fail at networking and how you can succeed
•  Creating your meeting "bible"
•  The Ins and Outs of Printing
•  Getting Your Industry Designation

Suppliers: Business Development and new client management is the most important part of a supplier’s career! Gain the tools to keep your game pieces in play in an always changing industry. This year MACE! is delivering the most comprehensive supplier education tracks, and you don’t want to miss out on:

•  Hotel Revenue & Forecast 2013
•  Government Business Boot Camp
•  Reverse Tradeshow Training & Follow-up Marketing Strategy
•  From Big Box to Convention Center
•  The View Inside - Planner Fishbowl for Suppliers

Too much education, not enough time? If you miss a session, don’t worry! Cadmium CD is again providing audio recordings of all sessions and distributing them onsite. You can get in on all the sessions and bring them back to the office!

Return of the Marketplace!: MACE! is bringing back its ever-popular reverse marketplace: Put your game face on as suppliers and planners meet for preset one-on-one appointments. Both parties have to approve all meetings through our appointment system, courtesy of Elite Meetings Alliance. You’re guaranteed to meet with someone who is a potential new client or vendor! This Marketplace is increasingly popular; it sold out in 2011, so register today!

New this year: A hands-on computer lab sponsored by SmartSource. These lab sessions will focus on Microsoft Word and Excel at multiple levels. We have teamed up with one of the best educators in the computer industry who is creating specialized sessions just for the meeting industry. These sessions will fill up quickly, so be sure to add this to your registration.

MACE is adding an interactive mobile application courtesy of CrowdCompass. This app will allow you to stay on top of your game during the event. Look out for future MACE announcements so you can download the app and begin your next move!