Planning, Support & Consulting for Meetings, Conferences, and Trade Shows
Creating Successful Experiences
Services
Board Meetings, Company Retreats, Team Summits
Board Meetings, Company Retreats, Team Summits
Board Meetings, Company Retreats, Team Summits
Example: Your organization, department, or team has biennial, annual or quarterly meetings for planning, training or incentive trips. Let us handle it all for you:
- Site Selection
- Contract Negotiation
- Room Block Management
- Registration Management
- Food & Beverage Management
- Room Drop Management (gifts, promo items for attendees, etc.)
- AND MORE!!!
Third-Party Trade Show Management
Board Meetings, Company Retreats, Team Summits
Board Meetings, Company Retreats, Team Summits
Example: Your company has 2+ employees attending a conference and participating in a sales or recruiting trade show. Let us handle your team's logistics for you:
- Registration for all attendees
- Management of the room block
- Coordinating sponsored events onsite
- Arranging team meals
- Management of the exhibits vendor (booth construction/setup)
- Arranging booth A/V
- AND MORE!!!
Conferences and Conventions -- Large or Small
Board Meetings, Company Retreats, Team Summits
Conferences and Conventions -- Large or Small
Example: Your organization has a biennial or annual meeting with 100 - 15,000+ attendees. Let us handle it all for you:
- Site Selection
- Contract Negotiation
- Hotel Room Block Management
- Registration Management
- Food & Beverage Management
- Vendor Management (A/V, Transportation, Security, Florist, etc.)
- Exhibit Floor/Trade Show Sales and Management
- AND MORE!!!
The "Wheelhouse" (Master List)
Where We've Succeeded for Our Clients
Conferences and Conventions -- Large or Small
You may have a need for your entire event to be managed, OR perhaps you just need a portion of your event managed. We can do it all, OR let us handle your pain points for you:
- Overall Logistics Planning
- Site Selection
- Contract Negotiation
- Housing Management
- Registration Management
- Food & Beverage Management
- Exhibitor Floor Sales and Management
- Vendor Management
- Sponsorship Sales
- Speaker/VIP Management
- Program Timeline and Script Development
- AND MORE!!!
Where We've Succeeded for Our Clients
Where We've Succeeded for Our Clients
Where We've Succeeded for Our Clients
We consider our relationships with CVBs, hotels, convention centers and other venues in the following locations of great value to our clients:
- Atlanta
- California: Los Angeles, Anaheim, San Francisco, San Diego, Carlsbad
- Charlotte
- Chicago
- Denver
- Detroit
- Florida: Orlando, Miami, West Palm Beach
- Indianapolis
- Louisiana: New Orleans, Shreveport, Baton Rouge
- Nashville
- Ohio: Cincinnati, Columbus
- Oklahoma: Tulsa, Norman
- Pennsylvania: Philadelphia, Pittsburgh
- St. Louis
- Texas: Dallas, Houston, Austin, San Antonio, Galveston
- Washington, DC
- Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Montreal, Canada
Current Deal
Where We've Succeeded for Our Clients
Where We've Succeeded for Our Clients
Can you believe it? Yes, I am offering a service AT NO COST! In an effort to increase my skill set with a particular registration software, I am willing to offer my services to a client currently using CVent for an event. If that piques your curiosity, give me a call to discuss!
About Us
Our Company
Meetings, Marketing, and More is a full-service meetings management company specializing in exceeding the expectations of its customers. It delivers an array of professional consultative, execution and implementation services that provide increased value to its clients.
Services include conference and meeting planning, trade show execution, housing management, registration management, strategic meeting consulting, and much more!
Owner, Chief Meetings Officer
Mona Hudson is exactly the professional you need to make your conference, meeting or event just what your attendees need:
- Conference/Meeting Planner Extraordinaire
- Logistics Guru
- Trade Show Expert
- "Tech-Head" with Mega People Skills!
Background
Having spent many years in Corporate America as a project manager, marketing associate, sales rep, systems engineer, and meeting planner AND as an entrepreneur, Mona has developed a robust set of skills that make her "not your typical meeting planner". What does that equate to for you as her client? You get...
- ...a planner who will represent your company or organization professionally with hotels, convention centers, suppliers and your attendees.
- ...a planner who knows her way around a lot of software packages AND is not afraid to learn new software (RegOnline, Constant Contact, Swoogo, Hubb, Passkey, Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access) to make your show a success.
- ...a planner who will keep your budget in mind when recommending solutions.
- ...a planner who has a great work ethic and work attitude to get the job done efficiently AND effectively.
Education
The University of Texas at Austin
M.B.A., Marketing
Dillard University
B.A., Accounting
Industry Affiliations
- Member, Meeting Professionals International (MPI)
- Current Board Member, National Coalition of Black Meeting Planners (NCBMP)
- Member, Professional Convention Management Association (PCMA)
Our Clients
The Chief Meetings Officer has worked with the following clients either as a Meetings, Marketing, and More client or in conjunction with another company:
- NATIONAL BLACK MBA ASSOCIATION, INC. (NBMBAA) - Meeting Planning Consultant (Annual Conferences & Expositions, Boards Meetings, High School Conferences)
- KAPPA ALPHA PSI FOUNDATION, INC. - Meeting Planner (Golf/Tennis/Spa Scholarship Fundraiser, Celebration of Achievement Luncheons, Board Meetings, Board Retreats)
- NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE (Annual Conference: Housing Management)
- GREATER WASHINGTON URBAN LEAGUE (NUL Conference Host Chapter Events)
- NATIONAL BAR ASSOCIATION – COMMERCIAL LAW SECTION (Annual Conference)
- NATIONAL BAPTIST CONVENTION OF AMERICA INTERNATIONAL, INC. (Contract Negotiation)
- ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA SORORITY, INC. (AKA) - Conference Planning Committee Chairman (2018-2022), Conference Logistics Consultant (Biennial Conferences, Regional Conferences, Cluster Retreats, Chapter Events)
- NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE (NAACP) (Virtual Conference Execution)
- NATIONAL BAR ASSOCIATION (Annual Conference)
- EXPERIENCE COLUMBUS (PCMA 2023)
- UNITED WOMEN IN FAITH (formerly United Methodist Women) (Quadrennial Meetings)
- THERMO FISHER SCIENTIFIC - Independent Meeting Planner for Talent Acquisition Department (Trade Shows/Career Fairs/Team Summits)
- SOCIETY OF HISPANIC PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS (SHPE) - Account Executive (Annual Conferences)
- NATIONAL SOCIETY OF BLACK ENGINEERS (NSBE) - Account Executive (Annual Conferences, Regional Conferences)
- BLACK GIRLS RUN! (Sweat with Your Sole Festival)