Meeting Designs, LLC was founded in 1999 by Karen S. Dennis. Staffed by a group of women that had worked together for between 5 and 20 years, and on the cusp of a new millennium, the company began doing what we knew best - managing large and small meetings for pharmaceutical companies. Fortunate enough to continue working with clients with whom we had relationships, the business grew and evolved. With a proven track record of high end incentive programs and sales meetings, we earned new clients, including food service companies, financial service institutions and biotech firms. The small meetings led to larger sales meetings, product launches and national training meetings. With a core of pharmaceutical clients, we developed a niche in customer advisory boards, investigator meetings and speaker training seminars.
As the new century marched on, the economy changed and companies spent less money entertaining clients and on splashy sales meetings. We capitalized on the skills we had developed and the excellent customer service we provided to gain a new expertise in medical education and professional training meetings. To augment the budgets required for the programs, we combined a trade show component with the educational portion, opening up the opportunity to solicit and obtain financial support from industry partners, and expanding our capabilities.
Over the past 20 years we have learned to adapt to the environment, to our clients and to the changing world. Registrations that were once faxed in, are now all done on line. Bulky brochure mailings with self addressed return forms, have given way to email blasts, Facebook posts and twitter feeds.
The only thing that has not changed is our commitment to excellent customer service and to treating each client as if they were our only one.
As the new century marched on, the economy changed and companies spent less money entertaining clients and on splashy sales meetings. We capitalized on the skills we had developed and the excellent customer service we provided to gain a new expertise in medical education and professional training meetings. To augment the budgets required for the programs, we combined a trade show component with the educational portion, opening up the opportunity to solicit and obtain financial support from industry partners, and expanding our capabilities.
Over the past 20 years we have learned to adapt to the environment, to our clients and to the changing world. Registrations that were once faxed in, are now all done on line. Bulky brochure mailings with self addressed return forms, have given way to email blasts, Facebook posts and twitter feeds.
The only thing that has not changed is our commitment to excellent customer service and to treating each client as if they were our only one.
