Business Travel

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Eight Things to Consider About Trade Show Charges

If you think airlines have the monopoly on rip off pricing for checked luggage, hope and pray they never take lessons from trade show charges. Many of you may, at some point in your career, be a trade show exhibitor because trade shows are BIG business, especially behind the scenes. It’s an industry where they can…

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Conference Downtime – San Diego Seaport District

I’m wrapping up day three in San Diego during one of their busiest conference/convention weeks of the year.  As I noted yesterday, juggling one’s time at conferences is difficult (especially when Magic Johnson changes your schedule).  While everyone back home thinks you are playing (and certainly, conferences should offer some time for fun while networking),…

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Earplugs on the Nightstand – A Quick Poll

Interesting fact #1:  The last two hotels I have stayed in have had earplugs strategically placed on the nightstand when I checked in. Interesting fact #2:  I have ended up with disruptive noise from the room next door to me on my last two hotel stays. Coincidence?  Or correlation? In the case of the first…

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HOT DEAL – Tumi Luggage on Sale

Nothing can get a group of frequent business travelers more excited than talking about luggage. And nothing gets this jetsetting diva more excited than Tumi luggage. Unless it’s Tumi luggage ON SALE. Let me catch my breath from the jumping up and down I’ve been doing for the past few minutes. Gilt.com has my favorite luggage…

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Where Did My Weekend Go?

It’s been a strange travel year for me.  I’ve had bursts of intense travel followed by extended periods of time at home.  It has seemed irregular although analyzing the past six weeks, I’m averaging 50% travel which is about on par for my overall year.  But the past few weeks it’s seemed particularly exhausting because…

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Can Business Travelers Have It All? Work/life balance again in question

“We can’t have it all” – that’s the most current message among women in the executive ranks, an ever-growing contingent of business travelers.  It’s a counter-claim to what I was sold in my teens and twenties as we were encouraged to bust through the glass ceiling by day and go home to perfect fulfilled lives…

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Packing Lists on Pinterest

One way that I’ve effectively curtailed my desire to overpack is the strategic use of Pinterest for capsule wardrobe ideas.  I’ve curated an entire Pinterest board of various mix-and-match packing lists for various types of trips and trip lengths. Jetsetter’s Pinterest Packing Lists   I might not own the exact items on the list.  But I…