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In today’s difficult economy every marketer is looking for ways to make 1 + 1 = 3. One way to do that is by aligning your brand with a strategic partner. Whether you’re exhibiting at a trade show producing a mall tour or activating a sponsorship co-marketing with a non-competing brand can help you stretch your budget and take you places you’ve never been before.

Tapping into online communities before a live event allows a brand to learn a great deal about its target audiences’ behaviors and preferences. The insights can lead to more meaningful and relevant live experiences.

If your post-event surveys show that consumers are interested in buying your product great. If your post-event numbers don’t deliver a lift in product sales uh not so great. Fast-tracking consumers from a memorable brand engagement to the point of sale requires more than just a coupon. It demands multi-layered event strategies and a quick mastery of distribution practices sales tactics retail relationships and consumer behaviors. With budgets shrinking and quantifiable deliverables more important than ever before it’s time to turn experiential programs into sales machines.

Sometimes the maxim “If it ain’t broke don’t fix it ” just doesn’t apply. To wit event marketers working on the second iteration of a successful pop-up face a unique struggle: finding the balance between creating a unique experience that capitalizes on all the great elements from the first pop-up while introducing enough new stuff to keep the crowds—and the buzz—coming the second time around. How two brands faced—and met—the challenge:

Laptops were all the rage that is until cell phones turned into mini personal computers. Now consumers get sports updates the weather email photos and news—you name it—all on a device that fits in the palm of their hands. Through SMS (text messaging) they’re also communicating with each other faster than ever before.