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Earn CEUs:
Each webinar is worth .1 points toward the initial CMP application and 1 point toward recertification through the Convention Industry Council.

What You’ll Learn:
Convention and Visitors Bureaus can save meeting planners both time and money. Many have also launched innovative services that help with your marketing and attendance-driving efforts.

The Working the System:
CVBs webinar will teach you how to leverage the services of CVBs to make the logistics of planning your meetings easier while securing unique civic services and saving money.

This program will be presented by David Kliman, founder of Sausalito, Calif.-based The Kliman Group, which specializes in creating, facilitating and managing customer advisory boards, focus groups and strategic planning meetings. With 29 years of experience in business development, global sales and marketing, and operations management in both the hotel and financial services industries, Kliman has created and facilitated numerous customer advisory boards for CVBs across the U.S., Canada, Australia, and the Caribbean.

This webinar will help you learn the following:

• Unlock ways meeting professionals can work more effectively with CVBs
• Understand CVB business and funding models
• Discover how CVBs’ political advocacy can benefit you and your organization
• Answer any questions you have about working with CVBs
  
  

  
  Working the System: CVBs
  Wednesday, June 25, 2008
  10 a.m. PST; 11 a.m. MST; Noon CST; 1 p.m. EST

  It’s free, will only take an hour of your time, and could be the key to unlocking your meetings industry career potential.