B-to-C Events

Target this fall is promoting the redesign of its beauty department with a mobile pop-up tour where consumers receive touch-ups and make-up tips, free samples and coupons good toward product purchases. The revamped beauty departments received improved lighting, testers and other shopping tools as part of a $1 billion remodeling project across the stores that was announced last year.

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Late-night disco parties. Packed resume seminars. High-tech virtual experiences. The over-50 set doesn’t look like it used to, Sparky. Baby boomers (those born between 1946 and 1964) are not only looking younger and living longer, they’re working well into their retirement years, embracing modern technology and redefining what it means to age gracefully.

It all started on Facebook, and ended in Granby, CO, at the C Lazy U ranch from Aug. 26 to 28, where Dial for Men created Camp Dirt, a weekend of fun and filth designed to exemplify the brand’s mission inviting men to “Get your dirt on. We'll get it off.” The social media-driven sweepstakes invited men to enter on the brand’s page for a chance to compete for a $10,000 prize for the dirtiest camper.

This month, at-home soda maker brand SodaStream is circling New York City with a 12-foot by six-foot cage atop a trailer filled with empty soda cans and water bottles equaling the average five-year waste of a family of four. The vehicle is part of SodaStream’s integrated sampling and social media campaign to get consumers excited about its soda maker as a gift for the holidays. The brand sets up a tent where it demonstrates how to use the machine and then has consumers taste the final product with the waste-filled cage in the backdrop.