ISES Indiana September Meeting
Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Have you ever seen someone slip and fall on the dance floor? Have you ever seen someone over-served at an event? When do you need liquor liability insurance and when can you do without? Who is responsible when volunteers serve donated liquor at a client’s huge fundraiser?

Everyone involved in an event, no matter how big or small, has an exposure that needs to be protected. Whether you are an event planner, florist, caterer, audiovisual specialist, or a venue owner, you must make sure you and your business are adequately protected.

Marty Dezelan, with Dezelan-GDM Insurance Agency and Jennie Eades, with Arlington/Roe & Co. have prepared an insightful and humorous presentation to help you understand your exposures and how to minimize them. You won't believe some of their real life event experiences!

Marty has been an insurance agent for 4 years and insures many not-for-profits, caterers, and entertainment-focused businesses.

Jeannie Eades has been with Arlington/Roe & Co., one of the largest insurance brokers in the Midwest, for nearly 6 years. Jennie works with a wide variety of entertainment related businesses, specializing in liquor liability and event insurance.

This will not be your run-of the mill “here’s how to protect yourself” presentation. Jeannie and Marty promise an insightful and entertaining presentation with plenty of important take-aways.

Think you can’t afford basic liability or event liability insurance? You can’t afford to miss this informative session.

Dezelan and Eades will help you make sure you know the questions to ask and steps to take in order to be appropriately covered without spending an arm and a leg.

Sponsored by:

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Host a Monthly Luncheon...

Would you like to host a monthly luncheon at your venue? Please click the link below for the RFP and email them to Kate Hursh at katehursh@gmail.com.

Click here to download a 2009 ISES Luncheon RFP

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ISES Indiana Education Conference: Planning Events Can be Murder
The Columbia Club, Monument Circle, Downtown Indianapolis
November 11, 2009
8:00am - 4:30pm

One day educational conference with various topics geared toward event planning professionals. Breakfast, lunch and closing session cocktail reception included in cost of registration. Bonus this year is add-on educational sessions on Tuesday afternoon with speakers Sylvia Weinstock and Peggy Post as part of the ABC “Business of Brides” National Conference.

Love, Murder and Intrigue. Fun murder mystery format with interactive opportunities throughout the day for attendees to use their event planning experience and problem solving abilities to solve the crime. Will your super-sleuthing skills yield the answer?

Keynote Speaker: Allison Melangton, President & CEO of the 2012 Super Bowl Host Committee.

Thank you to our generous sponsors
Presenting Conference Sponsor
Platinum Sponsor	Gold Sponsors

Sponsorship & Speaker Opportunities
Market yourself, your company, and/or your products to event professionals from all over the Midwest. Participating as a sponsor or speaker is a great way to promote your business, make new contacts, reward employees and mingle with peers. There are many different opportunities for you to become involved. Contact one of the following committee representatives today:

General Information and Volunteering - Jennifer McKinney-Seet, CSEP - Event Chair

Sponsorships - Lee Johnson

Speakers - Sarah Hines

Silent Auction Donations - Sarah Bean

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August Luncheon Recap

Brand Yourself, ISES August Meeting

This month ISES members were treated to an exciting new venue, Event Space 217, for the monthly meeting. The new space, manged by Detail + Design was decorated to the nines for the event, with a full screen projection of a vintage movie on the wall, beautiful linens, and a fabulous meal. Speaker Kathleen McDonald of Career Investments, LLC spoke about creating a personal brand visibility program and creating a personal brand. Special thanks to our sponsors: Detail + Design, Cloth Connection, Event Space 217, BMG Event Productions, Elite Management Services and Thomas Caterers of Distinction for coming together to make such a create such a great meeting!

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Biz Bash Recap

We Bizzed- We Bashed- We Biz-Bashed!

Several members of the ISES Indiana Chapter made a road trip to Chicago last week to attend BizBash Chicago. The event, held at the Merchandise Mart was a day of educational sessions and a tradeshow, capped off with the presentation of BizBash awards and a cocktail party at the Chopping Block. The tradeshow was an exciting mix of suppliers of everything from linen to venues to entertainment. A personal fave of the group was the "Actionjump" entertainment, which we had so much fun with, we did twice.

Watching the awards, we were excited to see the great events that had been entered and even started talking about events for this years PACE awards. Awards were capped off with a great cocktail party in the Chopping Block, which featured live cooking demonstrations, a "make your own mojito" station and plenty of time to chat with other midwest area event professionals.

We are excited to be hosting the President of BizBash, Richard Aaron, for the ISES/MPI joint meeting in December and even more excited to return for BizBash 2010.

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2010 PACE Awards

• Link to your website on ISES Indiana’s Website
• Your company’s name on the invitation
• Multiple mentions during the Awards by Emcee
• Program Placement
• 8-Tickets to the Awards

• Link to your website on ISES Indiana’s Website
• Your company’s name on the invitation
• Program Placement
• 4-Tickets to the Awards

• Listed on ISES Indiana’s Website
• Your company’s name on the invitation
• Program Placement
• 2-Tickets to the Awards

• Listed on ISES Indiana’s Website
• Program Placement
• In-Kind Sponsorships

PACE Committee
Call for Volunteers and First Committee Meeting Announcement

We are gearing up to start the planning for the 2010 Pace Awards with our first committee meeting on Thursday, September 17, 2009. The main goal of the initial meeting will be to create sub-committee and assign those interested in spearheading different aspects of Pace. We’ll also want to brainstorm ideas for this year’s event… everything from marketing to entertainment/décor! Please contact Leah McFarland if you’d like to attend this committee meeting. If you’d like to join the Pace committee, but are unable to attend this first meeting, please contact Leah McFarland to be included on future Pace committee correspondence.

Date: Thursday, September 17, 2009

Time: 4:00 PM

Location: Mudsocks Grill
14741 Hazel Dell Xing (Corner of 146th Street & Hazel Dell Road)
Noblesville, IN

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Welcome New Members!
Please welcome our newest members of ISES Indiana:

Rokeena Patton - Event Sales Manager – Jillian’s Indianapolis
rokeena@jilliansindianapolis.com

Shelley Arredondo – Sales Specialist, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio – Cloth Connection
shelleyarredondo@clothconnection.com

Amit Patel – Ramada
amit22patel@gmail.com

Kathryn Miller – Asst. Director Brand Strategies & Events – NCAA
kmiller@ncaa.org

Please feel free to send an email to our new members to introduce yourself and welcome them to ISES!

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Member Spotlight
Tammy Pisockyj, Elite Management Services

What does your company do? How is it different than others like it?
Elite Management Services provides high-service valet parking solutions for hotels, restaurants, and special events. Our unique approach to partnering with, and listening to, our event vendors or our venues results in an exceptional guest service standard that is extremely rare in our industry. There is more to valet than parking cars – for Elite, we focus on understanding the importance of the first and last impressions for every guest.

How many years have you been in the industry?
I have been in the special events industry for 10+ years, with Elite for 2.5 years.

What led you into the event industry?
I didn’t start my career with a focus on special events. But almost every professional opportunity I have had combined sales and events in some way, each one strengthening my experience and passion for special events. Now, I could never imagine working in another industry.

What was your very first job?
First job EVER? Conducting market-research interviews – interviewing people about their reactions to different product marketing/advertising campaigns. I had no idea then (I was only 15) that I was learning invaluable and lasting lessons about product & company branding, marketing & advertising, and how it all relates to sales.

Is there a specific person who guided you to your career path or has inspired you to work as you do today?
There are so many inspiring people in my professional world! When you focus on providing exceptional service for a living, your goal is to look at your guests and clients, and find ways to improve service. I am grateful to have some amazing clients who set the bar VERY high, and that provides constant motivation and focus.

Why did you decide to join ISES? What do you hope to get out of it?
I joined ISES for the networking opportunities years ago. It creates invaluable opportunities to build more personal relationships with existing and potential clients, and helps me keep our company top-of-mind – branding the company thru personal interactions.

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The Scoop

• Kelly Early CSEP & Dee Haddad CSEP, Thomas Caterers of Distinction, have been asked to speak at the ISES Minnesota Chapter
  
  
• There are many ISES members we would like to recognize that have been awarded the “A-List” top 5. If you have received this designation, or know someone who has, please email their name, category, and ranking to carrie.obrien@ptrinc.com.
  

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