Hi,
I'm looking for conference companies in North America, which
specializes in arranging marketing and branding conferences. I'm NOT
looking for companies, which run the entire infrastructure, but
companies, which identify the topics and underwrite the conference
(often they would outsource the infrastructure to a 3rd party). A
typical company would be IIR or IQPC...can you help me with a list of
potential companies fulfilling the above criteria please?

Great answers will be rewarded with up to US$ 18.

Good luck,

All the best,

Martin

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Request for Question Clarification by rainbow-ga on 28 Sep 2004 00:14 PDT

Hi Martin,

Please take a look at these companies and let me know if any suit your purposes:

NorthStar Conferences 
http://www.northstarconferences.com/sponsor.asp?pcode=

Melcrum
http://www.km-review.com/cgi-bin/melcrum/eu_content.pl?docurl=events_fall04wkshop

MMR
http://www.multicultural.com/products/conferences.html

JY&A Consulting 
http://www.jyanet.com/consulting/branding.html

Foretec
http://www.foretec.com/events.html

American Society for Information Science and Technology
http://www.asis.org/

Competia
http://www.competia.com/home/

First Conferences Ltd 
http://www.firstconf.com/

Thunder Lizard Productions
http://www.ftponline.com/conferences/thunderlizard/

IXPERION
http://www.ixperion.com/index.htm


Here's a directory of companies:

http://dir.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Business_to_Business/Conventions_and_Trade_Shows/Planning_and_Management/


Best regards,
Rainbow

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Clarification of Question by lindstrom-ga on 28 Sep 2004 09:27 PDT

Hi Rainbow,
Thanks for your effort. You are not 100% there. Only one of the many
conference companies you mentioned were relevant. Would you mind
searching one more time? Try to ensure that the companies you are
listing produces (and owns) the conferences them selves - and that
these covers topics within the marketing/management/branding field.

In case you feel it is to hard I'm always happy to increase the reward.

Good luck,

martin

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Request for Question Clarification by rainbow-ga on 29 Sep 2004 09:04 PDT

Hi Martin,

I'm still not quite sure if these companies fit your needs, but I
thought you'd like to take a look at them anyway:

Action Motivation, Inc.
http://www.amotive.com/

American Meeting and Management 
http://www.americanmeetingmanagement.com/

Baptie & Company
http://www.baptie.com/

BSC Management
http://www.bscmanage.com/

Challenge Management, Inc.
http://www.challenge-management.com/

Complete Meeting Concepts, Inc. 
http://www.cmcmtg.com/

Conference & Logistics Consultants, Inc.
http://www.gomeeting.com/

Conference Coordinators Inc.
http://www.ccievents.com/

Conference Management International
http://www.meetingplan.com/

DCI
http://www.dci.com/corporate/

dmg world media
http://www.dmgworldmedia.com/

Eidetics Conference Management
http://www.conferencemanagement.com/

The Experiential Agency
http://www.experientialagency.com/

Heymann Management International
http://www.heymann-mgt.com/index1.html

IBC USA Conferences Inc. 
http://www.ibcusa.com/


If any of these suit your purpose, let me know and I can show your
more. If they don't, maybe another researcher will be able to better
help you.

Best regards,
Rainbow

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Clarification of Question by lindstrom-ga on 30 Sep 2004 19:35 PDT

Hi there,
Thanks for your help on this - pls. go ahead and post your official
reply and I'll secure your payment.

All the best and thanks,

Martin

Hi Martin,

Thank you for accepting my findings as an answer to your question. 

Since I'm not sure which of the companies in my clarification suit
your purposes, I will not list them all again.

Search strategy:
I went through the list of companies located in the directory

http://dir.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Business_to_Business/Conventions_and_Trade_Shows/Planning_and_Management/

and compiled a list which I felt might fit your needs. Hopefully some
of them did. I haven't gone through the entire list yet, so if you'd
like me to do so please let me know. Alternatively, you may find it
easier to go through them yourself to make sure I didn't miss out any
which may be of interest to you.

If there is anything I can further assist you with, please don't hesitate to ask.

Best regards,
Rainbow

Thanks for your help on this.
All the best,

martin