Can you give our listeners a glimpse into what that role looks like? When does convention planning start for your team? And how do you organize all that needs to be done?

Last year was the first year I was in this capacity, and I always knew that there was a lot that went into pulling off MMA's convention, but I really had no idea how much until I got an inside look at it.

There's many different departments that come together to make our convention a success for our members.

We start talking about convention in June.

And by July, my membership services team is creating all the products in our database for convention.

And believe it or not, there's about 21 different products from exhibitors to attendees to lunch choices.

In addition to membership services manually entering exhibitor and staff registration, they field calls and emails pertaining to questions about registrations or not being able to sign on to actually register.

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