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Tips & insights gathered over 27 years.
Tips & insights gathered over 27 years.
How We Relocated an Investigator Meeting During a Medical Outbreak
A lot goes into planning a meeting. It requires organization and preparation, and the simultaneous turning of many different screws to successfully put the plan in motion. And yet even the best-laid plans can be derailed by the unpredictable. That was the case for one of our clients, who had to consider canceling their event after the sudden emergence of a public health crisis. Fortunately, for every incredible meeting challenge, there’s usually an equally incredible solution to overcome it. Here’s the story of how we helped a client work around...
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5 Ways We Wowed Our Client’s Leadership Conference in Dublin
At Miller Tanner, we love creating unique and memorable events for our clients. For us, there’s no better feeling than planning and executing a meeting experience that gets attendees excited, makes our clients smile, and keeps people talking for months (or even years). A great example of an event like that was a leadership conference we recently planned for a client in Dublin, Ireland. Energizing Attendees and Celebrating The Client’s Heritage Our client is headquartered in Dublin with thousands of employees all over the world. The opportunity to gather the...
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How to Lead an Effective Virtual Meeting
At Miller Tanner, we’ve been producing virtual meetings for our clients for years. We’ve hosted hundreds of virtual meetings with participants from all over the world. But while virtual meeting technology isn’t new to us, we know it’s still pretty new to a lot of companies out there. We get questions all the time from organizations considering dipping their toes in the virtual-meeting waters. One of the most common questions we hear: What are best practices for successfully executing a virtual meeting? In today’s post, we’ll answer that question by...
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#Meet MTA: Gracie Fisher, Global Conference Director
The Miller Tanner difference is our people. That’s why we want to introduce you to our team of superstars that bring our corporate meetings and events to life for our clients. Today, we want to introduce you to Gracie Fisher, a global conference director residing in Paris, France. Gracie’s love letter to Paris was recently featured on the Connect Meetings blog, so we thought this would be the perfect opportunity to introduce her to you! Meet Gracie Fisher How long have you been at Miller Tanner and what are the...
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How to Increase the Effectiveness of Your Next Investigator Meeting
At Miller Tanner, we help pharma, biotech, medical device, and contract research organizations (CROs) orchestrate creative training solutions for investigative sites participating in clinical trials. Through our work—which includes planning hundreds of investigator meetings —we’ve observed some of the key factors that contribute to successful training programs. I want to share a couple of those factors with you today. Training Is Critical to a Successful Clinical Research Study Timely and effective investigational plan training for CROs and site staff is essential to conducting a successful clinical research study. The integrity...
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Live, Virtual or Hybrid – Which Corporate Event Approach is Right for You?
The goal of any corporate event is to bring people together for a shared purpose. In our modern world, there are a few different ways a company can do that… Live – All attendees are physically present Virtual – People attend the event entirely online Hybrid – Some people attend in person, others online So how do you know which approach is the best for your corporate event? That’s a question without a single or simple answer. It boils down to a number of different factors—including your event size, budget,...
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Top 3 Reasons to Try Virtual Events
Maybe you’ve been wondering about hosting a virtual event, but you’ve had one of these thoughts… “I’ve had too many past issues to trust technology with something this important.” “I have 1,000 attendees. Wouldn’t it cost us an arm and a leg to have a meeting that large?” “Wouldn’t I also need to host a live, face-to-face event as well?” It is easy to understand why most businesses seem skeptical about risking the success of highly important interactions with their stakeholders. That’s why many companies decide to engage participants interactively...
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Why the Miller Tanner Team is one of my Greatest Accomplishments
How Our Meeting and Events Company Was Established By Marnie Miller Battistini: The day I founded Miller Tanner – May 1, 1997 – really doesn’t seem so long ago for me. It was a bleak, grey day in Nashville as I sat in quiet anticipation at my lawyer’s office, readying myself to officially sign the papers required to “start” Miller Tanner Associates. Just days earlier, the lawyer had asked me what I was going to call this company, suggesting I personalize it by including my name so I took his advice. Although I knew I wanted...
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Top 10 Global Corporate Event Destinations
Not sure where to host your next corporate meeting or event? We have the answer! Miller Tanner's guide to the top international business destinations for 2016. We compiled this list based on culture, location, budget and more.
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10 Signs You Need a Corporate Event Planner
Planning a corporate event seems simple at first. You just book a hotel, arrange some travel and you’re all set, right? Wrong. Even though we’ve all attended meetings, running them in a flawless and professional manner is a completely different story. The reality is that event planning can be challenging if unprepared. It demands time, focus, research, budgeting, logistical skills and relevant knowledge that many corporate leadership teams simply don’t possess. Sadly, far too many companies try to figure it out on their own in order to save costs and...
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