Objective of Event: Motivate the sales force or sales channel

  • Microsoft Surface Boot Camp Deploys Game Play Tactics

    When it’s time to bring a new version of a beloved video game franchise to market, getting the attention of jaded gamers while introducing new systemic capabilities is no easy task. But that’s exactly what Microsoft pulled off with its Surface Boot Camp, which leveraged the then unreleased Halo: Spartan Assault game to entice retail […]

  • Qualcomm Activates a 360-degree Projection Event

    Qualcomm’s VP and Above Meeting doesn’t have the catchiest working title, but thanks to a clever theme this year—“Cause An Effect”—and a killer 360-degree projection strategy, the meeting made the necessary impact. The goal for the event was to increase communication and collaboration among Qualcomm’s upper management. To facilitate that objective, the company ditched the […]

  • BNY Mellon Drives Booth Traffic with Gamification

    Finding the perfect balance between financial risk and reward is not only a vocation for most professional money managers—it’s their avocation, too. So BNY Mellon decided to tap into that passion, and drive traffic to its trade show booth, with a technology that tapped into the strategic mindset and competitive spirit of wealth and asset […]

  • Cisco Unveils a Virtual Sales Meeting Strategy

    Cisco’s Global Sales Experience (GSX) in 2009 was one of the industry’s largest—and boldest—virtual events of the year. In an effort to save costs (it was the height of the recession, after all), the company decided to transform its annual weeklong sales meeting from a real-world event with a 20-year history into a 100-percent virtual […]

  • Microsoft Deploys an Interactive ‘MultiWall’ at CeBIT

    CeBIT is one of the largest consumer electronics exhibitions in the world, and Microsoft is always looking for innovative and exciting ways to present new products to attending media and potential customers. For last year’s show, the brand’s German branch, Microsoft Deutschland GmbH, deployed the MultiWall to inspire excitement for its new Windows 8 operating […]