Want to give web-based classes and let someone else promote them? Check out edufire, who is giving standard education a run for its money. They do the promoting and the registering (and have signed up 50,000 users according to Fortune Small Business) and give their instructors a decent commission. They offer a wide variety of business classes and frankly, the experts look pretty standard. Definitely worth a try.
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New way to promote your web classes
Thursday, January 14th, 2010New venues for educational content
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009Like incentive meetings, fam trips — those hospitality tours to showcase hotels and locations — are undergoing an extreme makeover. What’s hot now: education sessions for meeting planner attendees. Topics are wide-ranging, with the main criteria being CEU credits. Including seminars with these credits has boosted attendance for Las Vegas Harrah’s trip, which gets 1200 applications for just 175 slots.
Why do you care? Let’s stop and think…where do you think they get the speakers for these sessions? Some will be other meeting planners/industry insiders and some will be local folks with something to share. In this age of competing venues for attendees, watch this trend steadily grow next year.
Incentive meetings back in 2010
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009Yet another sign that the recession is bouncing back: industry giant Nationwide Insurance has reinstated their incentive meetings for 2010. Both trips were canceled this year due to the AIG effect. These are not junkets though — the agenda includes two half-days of education and business meetings. This rebound is great news for experts — educational content will be around for a while. Still won’t help expensive entertainment and celebrity speakers — they remain on the list of “too spendy” bells and whistles. Prediction: the idea of using top execs as motivational speakers will not last long.
Also look for closer to home locales (read: not extravagant) and efforts to give back to the communities they visit (read: great opportunity for cause marketing and sponsorship folks).
And Nationwide is not alone. Industry insiders report that the incentive cancelations have stopped. For now, 2010 is looking good for these lucrative meetings. Bottom line: recognition is back, but is retooled for a new financial reality.
Unique opportunity for health care experts
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009All those give-aways are gone in medical meetings thanks to the latest Pharma rules. And those rules are clear — no gifts, regardless of minimal value, can be distributed to healthcare personnel. What can a pharmaceutical company do? Give away educational items of course. Key word here: educational. Watch for a flood of anatomical models and CDs at these meetings. Health care experts who apply their expertise with interactive products are going to have a field day. Anything less than $100 is fair game.
