Author archive for Kenneth Briodagh
Social Media Top Tip: Snapchat Strategies
In this monthly series, EM brings you tips and tricks from pros and experts who eat social media marketing for breakfast. So eat up, and check us out on Twitter @eventmarketer and Facebook.com/eventmarketer for more. The current titleholder for most controversial social media platform is Snapchat. You’ve heard the stories. You’ve seen the alarmist news...
Fiskars Puts its Tools to the Test on Tour
Fiskars, which produces high-end home, garden and office tools, wrapped its Discover the Difference tour in Avon, Ohio on June 15. The tour began in March in Texas and made more than 50 stops at retailers and garden events in 19 cities, putting the brand’s trademarked orange-handled scissors and garden tools into the hands of...
Survey: Mobile Adoption Still Weak Among Event Planners
Mobile app developer QuickMobile and the IMEX Group, which runs meeting and incentive travel exhibitions IMEX in Frankfurt and IMEX America, recently published a global research study designed to identify trends in mobile app adoption and use in the trade show and meeting industries, as reported by meeting planners. The research proper was conducted by...
GEICO and its Trio of Mascots Hit the Road
Insurance brand GEICO rolled out its branded tour bus on May 22 at Charlotte, North Carolina’s Speed Street, which is just the first stop on a tour that will visit markets all along the East Coast through October. The outside of the bus features images of the brand’s three mascots: the Gecko, Maxwell the Pig...