Missy Johnson, Principal of MJMeetings, LLC is focused on making your business objectives come to life through flawlessly planned and executed face-to-face live events. Her primary focus is on providing turnkey A-Z meeting logistics, from site research all the way to final bill review. Missy has the experience and capabilities to handle various meeting types, with corporate and association meetings ranging from 50 people to several thousand people, as her sweet spot.
Post written by Missy Johnson, Principal, MJMeetings, LLC | Meetings Consultant | Gourmet Food & Wine Enthusiast | Sports Fan If you know me at all, you know that I don’t really like the limelight. I don’t enjoy being featured, being publicly celebrated or given attention or accolades. Yet, that’s exactly where I found myself recently while […]
Post written by Missy Johnson, Principal, MJMeetings, LLC | Meetings Consultant | Gourmet Food & Wine Enthusiast | Sports Fan The difficulty with a weekly task is that sometimes you just don’t get to it. Your work and clients become a priority, your day-to-day life becomes more important, or more often than not, you just run out […]
Post written by Missy Johnson, Principal, MJMeetings, LLC | Meetings Consultant | Gourmet Food & Wine Enthusiast | Sports Fan One of the things I find most rewarding about what I do is saving money for my clients! A large part of my responsibility is to negotiate savings in contracts anywhere and everywhere I can so that […]
Post written by Missy Johnson, Principal, MJMeetings, LLC | Meetings Consultant | Gourmet Food & Wine Enthusiast | Sports Fan I’ve been spending a lot of time lately working on various budgets for my clients’ meetings and events. Having an accurate budget for each event certainly isn’t easy, but it’s a critical step in the process. In […]
Post written by Missy Johnson, Principal, MJMeetings, LLC | Meetings Consultant | Gourmet Food & Wine Enthusiast | Sports Fan I’m sometimes asked by people I know, “Why do you blog and is it helpful for your business?” I originally began blogging back in early 2015 because I’m married to a ‘Blog Coach’, Mic Johnson of Blue […]
Post written by Missy Johnson, Principal, MJMeetings, LLC | Meetings Consultant | Gourmet Food & Wine Enthusiast | Sports Fan Have you ever planned a meeting or event for your company or association and wondered at the end of it if you should leave a tip for those at the hotel or venue who worked so hard […]
Post written by Missy Johnson, Principal, MJMeetings, LLC | Meetings Consultant | Gourmet Food & Wine Enthusiast | Sports Fan I spent four days last week at the Wynn | Encore hotel in Las Vegas for a meeting planner forum. The goal of the event was to offer meeting planners an opportunity for education, a bit of […]
Post written by Missy Johnson, Principal, MJMeetings, LLC | Meetings Consultant | Gourmet Food & Wine Enthusiast | Sports Fan In the last month, I’ve been on-the-road for three engaging but quite different Professional Convention Management Association (PCMA) education conferences and have collected some great lessons along the way. My travels started in St. Louis for the […]
Post written by Missy Johnson, Principal, MJMeetings, LLC | Meetings Consultant | Gourmet Food & Wine Enthusiast | Sports Fan I’ve been thinking about contingencies a lot lately. With the stories in the news about the Zika virus, the wildfires in California and New Mexico, and the random, senseless acts of violence in Orlando, it’s given me […]
Post written by Missy Johnson, Principal, MJMeetings, LLC | Meetings Consultant | Gourmet Food & Wine Enthusiast | Sports Fan We’re in the midst of a seller’s market in the hospitality industry and have been building toward it for quite a while. The meetings industry is in a period of robust and healthy levels of growth around […]