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Kylo
“There are a lot of us out there going after a limited amount of government and corporate money. The competition is stronger than it has ever been and the stakes are getting higher every year.”
— Kari Kylo, general manager of the Vancouver Fireworks Festival Society, on generating the funds necessary for non-profit events in the Business Incubator of Toronto
“When there is a recession, a business still needs to acquire and retain customers. As companies scrutinize budgets, there is a shift toward more accountable metrics.
The safe bet is online marketing.”
— Joshua Baer, general manager of Datran Media, in the Austin Business Journal
Murane
“The most important thing to realize is that there are shades of green out there. There’s a hardcore ‘dark green’ consumer who will inconvenience themselves to go green, but the percentage of that population is small. The larger group leans green but I don’t think they’re quite ready to make big sacrifices.”
— Peter Murane, president and founder of Denver-based BrandJuice Consulting Inc., in the Denver Business Journal
“I think we’re looking at massive changes no matter what. I think it will get worse before it gets better.”
— Airline consultant Bob Mann of R.W. Mann & Co. Inc., on rising flight costs in the Triangle Business Journal of Morrisville, N.C.
Rianda
“Some companies may be holding off-site meetings because more of their employees are telecommuting now. Since they are not meeting as often in the office, it gives them more of a reason to choose a nice location when they do get together.”
— Anne Rianda, convention and events sales manager at the California Academy of Sciences, in the San Francisco Business Journal
“Everybody thinks, ‘Well, we have plenty of bathrooms.’ They don’t realize how much toilet paper goes down. But you can’t have a port-o-potty, you have to have an executive bathroom and that’s a whole other ball of wax.”
— Jiwon McCartney, managing director of Allure Event & Meeting Productions, on holding events in residential areas, on CNN.com
Swig
“I call it the Starbucks effect. You can bring your laptop and enjoy the company of others, even though you may not talk to them. The same trend is moving into the hotel world.”
— Rick Swig, president of RSBA & Associates, on the hotel community spaces trend in the San Francisco Business Journal