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JDE Highlights Content with Celebrity Appearances
Since attendees had to pay to attend J.D. Edwards & Co.’s Focus 2000 users group conference (held last June), the company was under pressure to deliver content, entertainment and technology well worth the price of admission. There were two critical elements: One was pre-selling potential attendees on the targeted education value of the “edu-marketing” event’s...
GM Spruces up Dealers Meeting with Theme Nights
What do you do at an event when you don’t have a lot of cash? “You get clever,” says Extraordinary Events president Andrea Michaels. And that’s just what the agency did for a Chevrolet dealer meeting last spring in Scottsdale, AZ. Three nights of events took dealers from past to present, as Chevy charged EE...
Siebel Turns Conference Guests into Hollywood Stars
Extraordinary Events had already filed for the permits to take over Hollywood Boulevard by the time Harrison Ford showed up. Turns out Ford’s crew at Sony Films were hoping to shoot a scene for Hollywood Homicide that night, but much to their chagrin the block was already spoken for. By Siebel. In a bleak and...
Camp Jeep Entertains Drivers with 180 Activity Tents
It wouldn’t be an awards program without DaimlerChrysler’s Camp Jeep making an appearance. The annual three-day gathering of Jeep owners—conceived to strengthen the bond between owner and brand, and introduce new products—keeps getting bigger and better, with the 2002 incarnation (Jeep’s eighth) drawing 9,000 peeps from 40 states paying $295 per vehicle to attend. Nine...