2009 Initiative

The Meeting Calculator -
a "live" meeting estimator on your website . . .
The Meeting Calculator

A tool to acquire NEW, ADDED meetings revenue from your website

:: see the estimator tool at work here >

This initiative for members is in response to 3 facts

Fact 1
- Meeting planners dislike the RFP and seldom/never use them. In their experience they go into Cyber Space and when/if someone calls they have to go thorough the whole thing all over again.

Fact 2
- Your website undoubtedly has no food pricing and AV pricing on it, so no small meeting planner, admin assistant will ever be able to see if you fit in the right price range without starting a time intensive sales contact process. Who want to do that for a $5000 meeting?

Fact 3
- all meeting planners and admin assistants are being slammed with a larger and larger workload.

Fact 4
- add facts 1, 2 and 3 together.

We have found a solution for this information dilemma.

You can increase your group revenue within just a few months with this estimator tool.

You can increase your group revenue within just a few months with this estimator tool. The planners are dying for you to have it.
We do know that, we have asked 35 of them across the US and in all levels of market.
35 say "Yes, please - now."
100% desire and NEED.

And they know that the figures which are produced by the estimator tool are just the starting point for the sales negotiation. But it gets the parameters in place with all the basic information in one place.

This simple act will acquire significant revenue. The facts are impressive or we would not have pursued this relationship for the members.

The sales managers will learn to love it so much that they'll use it themselves to get out the quick and dirty quotes for the 20 person group.

We have negotiated a special relationship for CARINO members: a small set-up fee, waived for first responders, and just 5% commission on closed business that comes through the tool.

When we talk with you and share the facts about the planners' needs and the results of this tool, we are sure that any "sales negatives" will turn into the same understanding that dawned for us.

It will not reduce your revenue, it will increase it. That's what the usage facts show to us.

Investment:

Two options for our members:

OPTION ONE
Set up fee $295
5% commission paid on rooms only consumed revenue

OPTION TWO
Set up fee $295
$200 per month licensing and support fee

The set up is done for you. We just need the pricing to get you started.

:: see the estimator tool at work here >

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