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Pop-Tarts Pop Up in Retail
When Pop-Tarts set up a Facebook fan page last summer, it was flooded with more than two million consumers interested in talking about its toaster pastries. The online chatter, which included new flavor combination suggestions, inspired the Kellogg’s-owned brand to bring the excitement to life in a pop-up store. The result? The 3,000-square-foot Pop-Tarts World...
Cisco’s GSX Enters Sophomore Year
In 2009, Cisco Systems set out to save costs by taking its weeklong annual sales meeting, the Global Sales Experience (GSX), out of the real world and into a virtual one for the first time in its 20-year history. That experience taught the tech giant several valuable lessons about what works and what doesn’t when...
Yahoo! Taps Into Election Fever
In the ramp up to Election Day, there’s nothing more American than stepping on a soapbox, saying what’s on your mind—and eating apple pie.
Then and Now
In our Then and Now series, EM revisits previous event marketing trends to find out where they’ve gone since we first reported on them. Are they old hats and has-beens? Or is that past up-and-comer a future best practice that’s now an industry standard? In this double-stuffed installment, we re-examine event registration systems, which we...