About Plan Your Meetings
Who we are
Why what we do is important for planners
Why you should advertise
Our Services
Our Company
Core Values
Who we are
Plan Your Meetings (PYM) is a free educational and social resource for people who plan meetings.
We publish an annual magazine and planning guide; distribute a monthly digital edition full of trends, tips, hot ideas, destination guides and advice; have online resources at PlanYourMeetings.com; a Facebook-style social network for planners at PYMConnect.com; and produce regular LIVE Events providing planners with educational sessions, networking opportunities and the tools to advance their careers. We connect them with industry suppliers and resources to help them create better meetings and events. We have a promotional merchandise division, Promote Your Message, that can provide them with the tools they need to succeed. We also have a presence on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and other online communities.
Subscriptions to the magazine and online resources are free. Live events have educational sessions certified by the Convention Industry Council, so planners gain continuing education units just for attending them.
Why what we do is important for planners
Since 1994, we have cultivated an audience of people who are not identified by title as “meeting planners,” but who plan all their company’s events, from its picnics and parties to training seminars, incentives and annual conventions.
Some companies have one person who does this, some companies have 30 or more administratives all working on different events, and some outsource all their meetings to a team in its corporate headquarters. Most of the people planning these meetings were thrown into what they do. We offer them a support network, information and guidance, as well as an introduction to some of the best convention and visitors bureaus, hotels, special facilities, transportation providers, and other industry suppliers in the United States and beyond.
Everything we do is designed to help our planners create better meetings and events.
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Our services
This is the online portal to everything we do. PlanYourMeetings.com is filled with information and links to our resource directory of suppliers, free online RFPs, PYM LIVE Events, industry news, planner case studies, advice columns, blogs, YouTube videos, educational resources, city guides and more.
This is our monthly digital edition, delivered monthly to more than 22,000 planners’ inboxes with industry and destination news, trends, tips and advice to keep them up-to-date. You can request to be on the mailing list or check it out each month online.
Plan Your Meetings: The Magazine
Plan Your Meetings magazine is the premier publication for more than 40,000 active meeting planners in the U.S. It is an annual publication designed to be an informative and interesting educational tool and resource guide, with in-depth focus features, city-by-city destination articles, resource directories and our exclusive “Practical Guide to Meeting & Event Planning.” Long considered the meeting planner’s “bible,” the planning guide is updated annually. A dedicated and experienced team of editors and writers stays on top of industry developments and trends, seeking out experts around the country for advice that will help our planners.
We know you’re busy, so we’re not going to bore you with another impersonal expo. Our live events are fun, informal, educational and fit a lot of useful information and face-to-face networking into a compact amount of time. If you’re a planner, you’ll have the chance to gain CEU credits towards becoming a certified meeting professional (CMP), have access to the finest destinations, products and services available, and get to meet and learn from your peers. If you’re a partner, it’s another inventive way to meet the people you want to help.
Our on-staff planner services coordinators are available to help with your meeting planning needs, including RFPs. Our reputation and working relationships with the leaders of the hotel/motel industry, convention and visitor bureaus, attractions, and all visitor-related industries throughout the United States guarantee you the best response and services for your meetings and events. We don’t take commissions for our advice, we just want to make sure you are connected with the best people possible.
Our company:
Plan Your Meetings and PlanYourMeetings.com are products of Atlanta Metropolitan Publishing Inc. Atlanta Metropolitan Publishing (AMP) is an Atlanta-based, family-owned publishing company with more than 30 years of publishing experience in the visitor and meetings markets. AMP also publishes Encore Atlanta, the official performing arts publication and show program for The Fox Theatre, Broadway Across America, Theater of the Stars, Delta International Series, Atlanta Ballet, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Verizon Wireless Classical Series and others. It is also one of the largest custom publishers in Atlanta, producing turnkey publications for several organizations while providing its clients with a broad range of services from art direction and editorial content to production and fulfillment. Recent projects include Atlanta Ballet’s Nutcracker Souvenir Program and The Fox Theatre’s Commemorative Series.
