{"id":320,"date":"2011-06-06T21:11:18","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T21:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hotel-lobbyists.com\/blog\/?p=320"},"modified":"2011-06-06T21:11:18","modified_gmt":"2011-06-06T21:11:18","slug":"sgmp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotel-lobbyists.com\/index.php\/2011\/06\/06\/sgmp\/","title":{"rendered":"SGMP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hotel-lobbyists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/sgmplogo.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-321\" title=\"sgmplogo\" src=\"http:\/\/hotel-lobbyists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/sgmplogo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"189\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>In 2001, my director at the Millennium Bostonian Hotel asked me to \u201cexplore\u201d the government market since the economy had taken a serious turn for the worse and since the after affects of 9\/11 were devastating.\u00a0 As a young sales manager I was eager to take on a \u201cmini-market\u201d of my own and run with it.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t long before I was turned on to my local Federal Executive Board, and shortly thereafter I was introduced to an organization called the Society of Government Meeting Professionals (SGMP).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Oh, it\u2019s not as geeky as it sounds folks!\u00a0 And if it is, it\u2019s my kind of geeky.<\/p>\n<p>In the last ten years, I\u2019ve more than sunk my teeth into this association.\u00a0 I found a world of information, of contacts, and perhaps by biggest surprise, lasting friendships behind this door.\u00a0 The Society quickly embraced my young energy and once I had moved to our nation\u2019s capital I was able to give even more time into it.\u00a0 No question about it, the axiom is true, you get out what you put in.\u00a0 And after ten years of sweat and tears, I can say confidently, I\u2019m still getting just as much from the organization as I\u2019ve put into it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In ten years I\u2019ve served on countless local committees, I\u2019ve written dozens of articles, I\u2019ve edited our newsletter and website, run the local silent auction three years, I served three years as chapter treasurer, two years as second vice president, I\u2019ve served on the national xorganization specialized board of trustees, run the national silent auction two years, and been awarded the association\u2019s highest honor granted to suppliers \u2013 the Sam Gilmer Supplier of the Year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>SGMP has been a gift that\u2019s kept on giving.\u00a0 And now, in business on my own, being a visible and contributing member to the society has only helped increase my exposure.\u00a0 It would be hard to innumerate what that\u2019s meant to me financially but not terribly difficult to express what it\u2019s meant to me personally.\u00a0 It\u2019s meant the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2001, my director at the Millennium Bostonian Hotel asked me to \u201cexplore\u201d the government market since the economy had taken a serious turn for the worse and since the after affects of 9\/11 were devastating.\u00a0 As a young sales manager I was eager to take on a \u201cmini-market\u201d of my own and run with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.3 - 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