Hit Your Goals

 

It's a new year with new goals and targets. How can you achieve these higher goals and get both your employees and consumers excited? Try engaging them through an experience.

In this age of advanced technology, we sometimes forget how impactful face-to-face experiences can be. At an event, you can tailor your guests' experience from the moment they arrive up until the moment they leave. Unlike an email or an online campaign, nothing is lost in translation. Hosting an experience gives you the opportunity to make a lasting and memorable impression.

Let’s say your goal is to launch a new product or service. Why not throw a launch party? The venue can be fully transformed to bring your product or service to life. Watch your consumers try your product onsite. Go one step further and video their reactions. Encourage guests to post on social media by creating a custom hashtag or encourage posting behavior by offering fun incentives. Not only will guests be talking about your product, so will their personal and professional networks who see their posts online. As you sit down to finalize your game plan for 2016, consider adding events to your toolkit.

Plan Big!
-DTE

Photo Credit: Wallpaper Cave

 

5 Stars, Four Seasons

 

What's on your bucket list this year? Imagine hopping on a private jet that takes you from one five-star experience to the next... for three weeks. You would travel to nine different destinations in style. We’re talking about Timeless Discoveries, one of five trips designed for Around the World by Four Seasons.

Start your travels with a Dom Pérignon toast as you board the Four Seasons private jet, from there your options are limitless. A full-service concierge accompanies you to manage all your travel needs. Executive Chef Kerry Sear cooks your meals in-flight with the freshest ingredients secured from the last destination you left. Once you land, your experiences continue to be five-star from day to night. Ride an elephant through the jungles in Thailand or go whitewater rafting in Indonesia, your wish becomes reality.

This grand trip is more than simply a vacation, it is a gravity-defying bucket list life experience. With each day meticulously planned, it is safe to say that Around the World excursions are curated to perfection. These journeys embody what the best travel and life experiences should be, memorable and personal. We tip our hats to the Around the World series by Four Seasons (and cross our fingers they might need a couple "mystery jetters" :)

Safe travels!
-DTE

Photo Credit: Four Seasons  

 

Happy New Year!

 

It’s almost 2016 in the Western Gregorian calendar! While our calendar is based on the earth's revolutions around the sun, the Chinese Lunar calendar (where the year right now is 4713 and New Year arrives February 9) is based on the cycles of the moon. In either case, Chinese perceive numbers to have very powerful meanings and properties. Let's take a look.

We are entering 2-0-1-6, a very lucky year because each of these numbers has positive and prosperous meanings. These meanings are often derived from other Chinese words which share a similar sound to the number.

2 is seen as lucky because “good things come in pairs”
0 is neutral but is favored because large monetary sums end in “0”
1 symbolizes the power of independence  
6 represents prosperity and is commonly related to heaven 

And the luckiest number of all for the Chinese is 8 because it sounds like the Chinese word for prosper. May 2016 be positive and prosperous for you! 

Happy New Year!
-DTE   

Photo Credit: TimeOut New York

 

Happy Holidays!

 

We want to wish everyone a happy and healthy holiday season! We are very excited for the new year and everything it has to offer!  

Cheers!
-DTE