A Comprehensive Guide to Sales Kickoff Planning

Planning a successful sales kickoff (SKO) meeting is crucial for aligning your sales team and setting the tone for the year ahead. A well-organized SKO builds momentum, strengthens your company […]

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Luxury Incentive Travel: Designing Unforgettable Experiences for Top Performers

Luxury incentive travel is back in full force, but it’s not quite the same as before. After years of disrupted travel plans, companies and their high achievers now expect more […]

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Unlocking the Power of Corporate Incentive Travel: Reward, Motivate, and Inspire Your Team

Finding meaningful ways to reward and motivate employees can make all the difference in a company’s success. Corporate incentive travel offers a unique approach to recognition—combining adventure, relaxation, and culture […]

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Guide to Stress-Free Corporate Retreat Planning

Planning a corporate retreat is an exciting opportunity to step away from the everyday routine, bring your team together, and focus on growth and connection. Whether it’s a leadership retreat, […]

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Global Event Planning: Navigating Challenges and Ensuring Success

Planning international meetings and incentive trips presents both opportunities and challenges, allowing organizations to connect globally and reward their top performers. However, organizing such events comes with complex logistics, ranging […]

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Incentive Travel Companies – How they can help

In today’s competitive business environment, retaining top talent and motivating employees has never been more critical. One powerful strategy that many successful companies use is incentive travel. By partnering with […]

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Corporate Meetings – The Benefits of an Agency Partner

As your company expands, so do the demands for corporate meetings and events. Whether it’s quarterly business reviews, annual conferences, or team-building retreats, a growing meetings program requires more resources, […]

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Strategic Event Design – F&B

In the world of event design, the choices around food and beverage can significantly impact both the success of an event and the experience of its attendees.     Research […]

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Meeting and Event Budgets – Tackling Challenges

At BUCOM, we know how crucial budgeting is to the success of any event. By addressing these budgeting challenges with proactive strategies, you can ensure your event runs smoothly and […]

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Developing Event Budgets in Today’s Cost-Conscious Environment

Event budgeting is a critical aspect of successful event planning. At Bucom, we believe that a well-planned budget ensures not only financial efficiency but also the overall success of your […]

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2024 Mid-Year Recap

As we cross the midpoint of 2024, it’s a great time to reflect on Bucom’s first part of the year and the strategic vision driving our success. With our history […]

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Inclusivity in Your Meetings Program

As you approach your next meeting or incentive, it’s crucial that whatever Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) practices you already have in place carry over to your event. These […]

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Venue Sourcing Insider Tips for Corporate Meetings & Incentives

Sourcing the hidden gem for your next incentive trip or the perfect venue for the next corporate meeting involves distinct considerations and objectives, reflecting the differing purposes of each event. […]

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Incentive Travel Program – Finding a Partner

Keeping your incentive travel program up to date is extremely important to make sure it is aligned with a changing workplace and changes in your business. With transformations in how […]

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Event Activation Tips for Your Next Meeting!

We know the power of in person meetings is strong and that the impact of networking within your company is important for collaboration and employee retention. We also know that […]

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Most Instagram-ed destinations for your next incentive or meeting…

Planning a meeting or incentive trip that excites and motivates your team? Look no further! At Bucom, we know the power of creating unforgettable experiences that foster team bonding and […]

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Streamlining Success Using A Corporate Meeting and Incentive Planner

Orchestrating successful corporate meetings and incentives is a multifaceted challenge. From product launches to annual conferences to unforgettable incentives, the intricacies of planning such gatherings require meticulous attention to detail […]

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The Vital Role of Sustainability in Meetings & Incentives

As meeting and incentive planners, we’re in the business of creating experiences that leave lasting impressions. But what if I told you we can do more than just wow our […]

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Meetings & Incentives Industry Trends for 2024!

What’s in store for 2024? We polled our team of industry leading meetings and incentive experts to learn more about what they see on horizon. The keys below will help […]

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Why you need to have an agenda for your off-site meetings and events…

Meetings are an essential component of all organizations, serving as a platform for collaboration, decision-making, and information sharing. It doesn’t matter if your meeting is virtual, hybrid, or in person, […]

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Elevating Events with Cutting-Edge Event Tech: Bucom’s Expertise

In today’s dynamic events landscape, event tech has become the driving force behind exceptional gatherings. At Bucom, we’re always looking at how we’re harnessing event technology to transform ordinary events […]

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The Significance of a Well-Defined Theme for Your Kick-Off Meeting

In the realm of corporate event planning, there’s an essential element that often takes center stage in orchestrating successful gatherings – the theme. When it comes to kick-off meetings, the […]

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Venue Sourcing Tips for Finding A Memorable Destination

In today’s dynamic world, where the demand for in-person gatherings is rising, finding the ideal location is crucial to the success of your event. Whether it’s a corporate conference, a […]

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The Importance of Face to Face Meetings and Events

In an era where digital connectivity has redefined the way we work, the value of face to face interactions has stood the test of time. As the global business landscape […]

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Is your meeting and event company inspiring interaction?

Are your meetings feeling a bit lackluster and in need of a boost? Let’s change that! Say goodbye to dull gatherings and hello to engaging and productive sessions that everyone […]

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Live Multi-Hub Meeting

How do you get your teams together across different cities, countries or continents while also adhering to health and travel guidelines?   The live multi-hub method is a high-tech localized […]

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Boost meeting ROI & Engagement

Best practices to extend your meeting engagement duration — and increase ROI as a result. We help you develop an agenda, find the ideal location, contract and negotiate with vendors, […]

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All-Inclusive Meeting Solutions

Over the past year or so, we’ve learned to make do with virtual meetings. Now, it’s time to bring the camaraderie, connectivity, and cheer back to your teams through in-person/hybrid […]

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Creating a safe and healthy attendee experience

When returning to in-person meetings, focusing on safety, efficiency, and transparency are as crucial to an event’s success as securing the right dates, rates, and meeting spaces (check out our […]

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Deciphering time-relevant contract legalese

Leveraging 30+ years of experience and longstanding relationships with worldwide partners, our team crafts and fine-tunes contracts that provide highly negotiated cost-savings and concessions, while mitigating risk and liabilities. That […]

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Finding the right destination for your next event

Let’s talk about venue sourcing (no, that doesn’t mean searching for a new Zoom background). One of the first questions attendees ask about a meeting is: where is it? And […]

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Strategic Event Design

Much like a skyscraper, successful events stand on a strong foundation and a detailed plan. In this new era of varied event formats (virtual, hybrid, in-person), strategic meeting and event […]

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Choosing a meetings & events partner

The right events partner will feel like a natural fit—Sonny to your Cher, Pippen to your Jordan, Chewbacca to your Han Solo, Woody to your Buzz Lightyear. (You get the […]

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Face-to-Face meetings – a safe return…

81% of meeting planners polled in the US will hold their next in-person event this year and 71% of European and UK planners are planning events for 2021.     […]

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Synchronized meeting pods

Is it a virtual meeting? Hybrid meeting? In-person live meeting? It’s the Synchronized Pod Meeting!   The Synchronized Pod Meeting is 2-way communication via virtual bridges across numerous venues across […]

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Hybrid meetings – tips & strategies

You can’t be in two places at once, but is this true? Star Trek had the teleporter and also Captain Kirk, but today we have the hybrid meeting! It’s all […]

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Virtual conference ideas

There is nothing worse than a flat virtual conference that lacks clear focus and engagement. Distractions are only a quick click away in the virtual meeting world, so save your […]

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Meet with Total Confidence

Take lessons learned from 2020 and apply them to all meetings, whether F2F, hybrid, or virtual. A positive outlook for 2021.   Early 2021 – A continuation of 2020?   […]

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A note from Bucom’s Director of Operations, Ludwig Krammer

Dear Friends, As the holiday season rushes upon us, I find myself reflecting on the past year and those who have helped carry our nation and its families through such […]

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What are hybrid meetings… and why you need a customized approach

Let’s face it – the way we meet has changed dramatically.     Many of us have recently turned to virtual collaboration tools like Zoom, Google Hangouts, etc. so that, […]

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Bucom’s Tips to Working from Home

After weeks of our daily routines being drastically turned upside down, it’s time to accept that this is the new normal. Many of us are working from home; for some […]

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Always Innovating: Reimagining Our Look

Decades of success doesn’t happen by staying the same. Success is the ability to adapt and evolve with a constantly changing world, making ourselves and the work we do better. […]

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Meetings That Will Give Your Employees FOMO

When your employees catch their first glimpse of your meeting invite in their inbox, what is their reaction? Are they quickly adding the details to iCal, or are they searching […]

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DIY Meeting and Event Planning: Top 10 Reasons To Outsource

DIY meeting and event planning sounds good, in theory. Why not save on your total costs by handling the details yourself?  In fact, why doesn’t everyone go this route? In […]

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