5 Tips to Maximize Your Convention Experience

Conventions can be either: great opportunities to expand your network and build your business, or they can be a total waste of your valuable time. To ensure that your next convention is a positive experience this week’s blog post outlines 5 simple tips to get the most out of it.

1.            Build your base

Expanding you network and opportunities are a great aspect of what you can achieve at a convention but it’s important not to ignore the clients you already have; this will cost you something. So make sure you spend some time and effort working on existing relationships.

2.            Make use of technology to get introduced

It should be easy to discover who will be attending a convention. Once you’ve identified the people that you should be talking to, there is a whole host of ways of reaching out to them. You can use social networks as a start point to connect to the people you’ve already identified as offering an advantage and then at the convention concentrate on converting. But…

3.            Don’t aggressively market

You need to make sure that you don’t rub people the wrong way with overly aggressive marketing. Try and do at least as much listening as you do talking and ensure that you’re subtle in your approach to marketing.

4.            Do everything

You need to make sure that you do attend all the events that it’s possible to; every workshop, seminar, cocktail party and so on is an opportunity that you cannot possibly seize if you’re not there.

5.            Plan before you arrive

There is normally so much to do at conferences that you going to have to do at least a bit of planning or you’ll miss some really valuable events. While accepting you should do as much as possible, try and plan to visit those that offer you the most chance of reaching the audience you’re looking for.

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The Worst Things You Can Do on Business Travel

Corporate travel is a necessary evil for many of us. While travel can be satisfying and is certainly necessary, it takes an undeniable toll on mind, body and our relationships. This short post lets you know what the 4 most damaging things people do to themselves while on the road and lets you know what to do to stay healthy.





Eating badly
Avoiding the airport fast food trap can be difficult when you don’t have enough time to find something better and you’re eating to try and make up for a lack of sleep. Preparation can help; bringing your own healthy snacks like fruits and nuts will help to keep hunger at bay. You can also check out the healthy places to eat in advance, so you make the best use of the time you’ve got. Also, don’t miss breakfast if possible; you’ll most likely just over eat later.

Drinking too little or too much
Dehydration is a real risk that’s associated with travel that’s often compounded by drinking too much coffee or alcohol at the wrong times. It’s well worth carrying a bottle of water the whole time to minimize the chances of this happening.

Too little sleep 
It’s quite possible that you’re going to have to do a lot in the evenings. This needs to be sensible and not lead to you becoming ineffective the next day. You also need to ensure that you avoid drinking coffee or eating too late that could disturb your sleep.

Wasting time on ground transportation
Travelling is hard enough without being late, getting lost or struggling to find a hire car with your heavy bags. Wasting time on ground transportation does not make sense. Of all possible options a sedan service may not be the lowest priced but is by far the most reliable, stress free and the best preparation a pressured executive can make before hitting a big meeting.


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The Seven Deadly Sins of Air Travel

Airfares have been falling for some time now but overall spending on air travel has been slightly increasing – how can this be? The answer lies in the transaction fees. The deadly sins of the airline travel industry. In this post, and in our continuing one next time, we take a two part light-hearted look at how airlines use these human emotions to turn a profit and – naturally – we have a few tips to shun them and hopefully save you some cash.

Lust

Lust in airline fees is the need to choose the most desirable seat. These days so many airlines charge you for the ‘privilege’ of choosing a window or aisle seat that it no longer comes as a surprise. This is plain wrong. It works on the human desire to have the desirable but cunningly – like all hidden airline fees – hides it at the time of your purchase and then snares you later when you have no choice. Don’t lust after extra leg room, choose an airline that does not charge you to choose.

Gluttony

Always wanting more than they deserve in airline industry terms is charging extra for fuel as part of frequent flyer award seats. Fuel surcharges are a nasty and gluttonous way that some airlines treat their most loyal customers. Not satisfied with having you for a year as a frequent flyer (this is not cheap) they then want you to pay more to access the privileges membership brings. You probably don’t realize the full extent of fuel surcharging when you sign up for a loyalty program – our advice is simple: do you homework and avoid the gluttonous.

Greed

Preferred boarding and Express Seats represent greed in the airline industry. They have made the boarding process so unpleasant that they can charge you to avoid it. This is pure, unbridled greed on their part. It also plays on your greed, something that you may not think of as necessary in normal life; airlines encourage you to want it so much, you’re willing to pay more than $20 for it. Resist the temptation – either put up with having to get on the plane with the normal passengers, or book a higher class ticket from the outset.

Sloth

Overbearing laziness in the context of booking air travel is making you pay to book online or collect your tickets at the airport. This relies on you not knowing or not having the time to find out the exact booking policy for each carrier. This is truly sloth-like: The internet is supposed to reduce the cost of things by automating processes. Take the time to find out if you are going to get stung by hidden fees in advance and avoid the pain.

Deadly but Human

That’s it for part one, next time look forward to wrath, envy and pride. Despite what we have said, the airline industry is not evil – just human. They are trying to increase the bottom line and are using human sins as a route to hidden charges. Forewarned is forearmed: hopefully you will now know when booking air travel if your human fallacies are being targeted. 

Philadelphia Limousine will not hide our costs or charge you later for your deadly sins. We have been serving customers with ground transportation and limousine service in the Greater Philadelphia Area for over fifteen years and are proud of the reputation that we have built as an honest organization – with valued and loyal customers. From the moment that we answer your call all the way through reaching your final destination, Philadelphia Limo Service is luxury travel done right.