Objective of Event: Motivate the sales force or sales channel

Toyota’s national dealer meeting was anything but a typical vehicle display. To rev up the 5,000 dealers, partners, field staffers and executives in attendance, the Japanese automaker took them on a “road trip” from Manhattan to Mount Rushmore and various stops in between as it set the stage for its full line of vehicles. A […]

Virtual events are one of the fastest growing platforms in the event industry. Yet despite their slick graphics, 3D environments and high-tech appeal, the pervasive question remains: How do you engage with attendees if you can’t see, touch or talk to them? When Cisco Systems in 2009 set out to save costs by taking its […]

Cisco’s flagship annual customer conference has been a pillar of its portfolio for 20 years, but nothing rocked its foundation like the economic recession of 2009. Founded in 1984, the San Jose, CA-based maker of networking hardware and software had weathered the dot-com boom and bust with relative ease, but for the first time in […]

There’s nothing like a gigantic pair of eyeglasses to help you see the light, especially one that is 15-feet wide, 5-feet high and with earpieces that measure nearly 20-feet long. No, we’re not talking Alice in Wonderland here. We’re talking Rodenstock, a leading German manufacturer of high-end, high-tech eyewear. To reinforce its image as a […]

Some b-to-b programs get stuck in a rut, relying on PowerPoint presentations, sit-down dinners and old-school collateral to “excite” customers about its products. Not this program. To prove its 100-percent real fruit Infusions vodkas are the best-tasting flavored vodkas on the market, Skyy executed a mobile tour that seamlessly combined the best elements of a […]