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They’re powerful affluent influential and… trapped. More than almost any other place without a golf course major airport terminals are full of business travelers. But it isn’t easy to get a piece of the action. Getting into airports and past security with your brand ambassadors and products for a short-term promotion is expensive challenging and full of red tape. (For starters every airport and terminal has a different set of rules.)

For many event marketers and their customers taking the leap into virtual events can feel like a trip to a foreign land. Whether they are using a virtual platform to complement or replace a live event marketers worry that their attendees won’t sign up won’t show up or won’t know how to participate once they get there. But what they may not know is that virtual events are strikingly similar to live events. Yep that’s right Dorothy. It may feel like you’re not in Kansas anymore but rest assured there’s no wizard behind the virtual curtain.

Psst. Hey buddy. You wanna hear something nobody wants you to know? That green mobile marketing tour—you know the one with the alternative fuels and the solar panels? It may not be so green after all. Turns out some of the mobile tours being powered by clean fuels like biodiesel and hydrogen are actually being transported long distances on flatbed trailers. What’s worse they’re being followed by tanker trucks filled with barrels of the coveted “clean” fuel.

At a time when many brand marketers are struggling to keep their portfolios afloat Hispanic marketing programs are flourishing. Walmart this year unveiled a new concept store Supermercado de Walmart in Houston as part of a strategy to become more relevant to Hispanic customers. The Milk Mustache Mobile Tour is traveling to 10 cities to introduce Hispanic families to the benefits of drinking low-fat or fat-free milk. And Kellogg’s began adding a touch of honey to its Corn Flakes (and noting a “toque de miel” on the cereal boxes) to appeal to Hispanic taste buds.

With more and more people using their cell phone as an all-in-one catch-all web and communication device text-based campaigns have become more prevalent. But pulling off a texting campaign isn’t as easy as blasting out a few texts to your exhibitor and attendee base. We checked in with Kim Dushinski author of “The Mobile Marketing Handbook ” to find out what works and what doesn’t when you want to create an effective text-based communications campaign.