Happy birthday to us! (posted by Marilyn Murphy) CTP is 45 years old! Gabriel and the team are anticipating the blow-out celebration event they’ll be planning in five years! What a…
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October 4, 2020 Posted by Marilyn Murphy This past week has been momentous! We’ve had . . . Historic Presidential debate Historic COVID diagnosis for our President Historic handover of…
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Posted by: Marilyn Murphy October 1, 2020 Are you ready for some good news? David Bowie sang it: Ch-ch-changes … In this year of unprecedented change, we have an exciting…
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It’s Saturday morning. March 28, 2020. I’m sitting. As I’ve mostly been doing for almost two weeks. I returned from Morocco a week ago Tuesday to a new reality. I’m…
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Summer of ’69: Summer of love. Summer of Woodstock. And . . . most importantly, it’s the Summer of Gabriel! Our beloved VP, Gabriel Haigazian, turned 50 this summer. And…
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I have a very special guest contributor for this blog! Hi, my name is Seiko Murphy. I’m Marilyn Murphy’s 19-year-old niece. I have lived in Japan my whole life with…
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Every year, for the last 19 years, members of our industry get together to celebrate the holidays. In that time, SITE SoCal (Society for Incentive Travel Excellence) has raised more…
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Ellen here. Giving Marilyn a week off from blogging and excited to share about our CTP Retreat to one of the most beautiful places on earth! Yep, I said it……
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I love party and event planning. Especially when it’s my own party! CTP was turning 40 – so this one needed to top all the others! Many months ago, I scheduled…
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I’d been in Croatia and Slovenia for 2+ weeks, leading an amazing journey for a merry band of WOWees onboard a lovely chartered cruise ship along the Adriatic coast and…
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Whitney here – While Marilyn is sailing around Alaska, I’m taking over her blog for the week! Before I began working in this industry, I rarely traveled by plane. I…
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I can’t remember the last time I was here. It was a long time ago. It was a port stop on one of those horrible weekend party cruises from LA…
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While Marilyn is busily escorting her happy travelers around beautiful Croatia, those of us in the office are filling in on this week’s blog. A common pastime of ours in…
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It was January 26, 2000 when I had a lunch appointment with a prospective new hire. I’d already scheduled two in-person interviews, checked references, provided my references (since employment is…
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It’s that time of year again. Time to publish year-end lists and compilations. Since circumstances forced me to be a better delegator this year (at long last!) I asked each of my…
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