Good event, bad timing
Can you imagine being the planner for a Martha Stewart company event on the eve of her sentencing? What's a planner to do when a perfectly good event runs smack into some bad news? An editorial from BizBash examines just that scenario.
For example, says columnist Ted Kruckel, "Once I arrived at Sotheby's for an event I was handling and was so pleased to see that more media than I had expected had turned up for a British furniture auction. We even had to set up barricades. Turns out that the auction house's former chairman, Alfred Taubman, had been sentenced that day, and camera crews were just looking for sound bites for that evening's news ("Did you know that the auction house you are now entering was engaged in price fixing?"). Oh well."
While most of his advice is of the tongue-in-cheek, grin-and-bear-it variety, it still makes for a fun read.
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For example, says columnist Ted Kruckel, "Once I arrived at Sotheby's for an event I was handling and was so pleased to see that more media than I had expected had turned up for a British furniture auction. We even had to set up barricades. Turns out that the auction house's former chairman, Alfred Taubman, had been sentenced that day, and camera crews were just looking for sound bites for that evening's news ("Did you know that the auction house you are now entering was engaged in price fixing?"). Oh well."
While most of his advice is of the tongue-in-cheek, grin-and-bear-it variety, it still makes for a fun read.
Comments?
To receive a weekly blog update, e-mail Sue.
