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Defense Intelligence Worldwide Cancelled: Government Events Down, But Budget Savings Up

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According to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) last week, efforts to reduce travel and increase oversight in travel and conference spending have saved the federal government roughly $2 billion from fiscal 2010 to fiscal 2012.

Earlier this year, a Market Connections poll showed 38% of government employees plan to attend fewer educational and trade events in FY2013 than last fiscal year.  The majority of poll respondents said budgetary and agency travel restrictions are the cause, and just over one-third of respondents reported that management would not allow them to attend events in 2013.

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Taking the Good with the Bad

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Allan Rubin recently authored a blog post about the state of the events industry. After a glowing recommendation of GovEvents (thank you, we're blushing!), he did raise an issue with one of our recent email campaigns that led with the subject line, "Latest Conference Cancellations & Postponements on GovEvents." From his post:

"It just struck me as significant that a company which promotes government events led its outreach effort with a message about...the cancellation of government events!"

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More Cancellations for Government Events

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Originally posted by Allan Rubin on immixGroup

My wife may disagree with this, but I take no great joy in saying "I told you so."

It's no secret that events targeting government employees have fallen on tough times. We've used this space repeatedly to encourage immixGroup clients and channel partners to re-evaluate their event marketing plans. Unfortunately, we're seeing more and more examples to prove this re-evaluation is necessary.

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