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Meetings 101
It’s ten o’clock and I’m already experiencing a burgeoning feel of dread. I know that it is creeping up on me. I can’t escape it. I never can. At one o’clock, it will have me firmly in its clutches.
Yes, it is the dread beast known as “the meeting,” familiar to all [...]
Posted: July 30th, 2008 under Business.
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Top 10 Ways to Ruin Your Hotel Business
Last weekend, I went to a family wedding in Colorado. The wedding party and many of the guests all stayed in the same hotel. By the end of the weekend, we came to the collective conclusion that the hotel was doing its best to drive customers away. It was the only logical [...]
Posted: July 9th, 2008 under Business, Travel.
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Death of Las Vegas?
The last downturn in the city of Las Vegas came in the year after the 9/11 attacks. The city rebounded, returning to a more adult-oriented advertising campaign and largely abandoning the kid-friendly PR gimmick of the 90’s. What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas isn’t referring to the Circus Circus Adventure Dome or [...]
Posted: July 7th, 2008 under Business, National News, Society and Culture.
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