If you’re a meeting or event planner,  I’ll bet you often find yourself wishing for more hours in your time-crunched day to button up those last important details. Just one more email to answer, call to make, article to read, contract to review, RFP to submit….Sound familiar?

If so, you’ll enjoy this useful article posted on the EliteMeetings.com blog: “Time Saving Tips for Meeting Professionals”. The writer includes six habits you can quickly integrate to increase productivity and reduce stress. My favorite? “Get rid of distractions” (do I really have to check email every 5 minutes?).

Essential time management yields increased success and productivity by eliminating distractions, getting enough sleep, and making use of the best tools. You can maximize your productivity and get more done in the few hours you have available by taking the initiative and driving new habits into your day.

To read all the tips, click on Time Saving Tips for Meeting Professionals.

And of course, we’d be remiss if we didn’t add a few of our own time-saving suggestions for meeting planners:

1. Book a cruise - An event at sea saves planning time and simplifies your budget with built-in entertainment, meals, activities, meeting space, AV – all included
2. Use Seasite.com - Planning tools, online RFP and meeting-friendly cruise search criteria at your fingertips
3. Purchase Individual Incentive Cruise Certificates – Fast. easy, flexible cruise rewards

Now that you have some extra time in your day, how are your going to use it?  Do you have any of your own time-saving tips? Please share!

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