How do you avoid death by PowerPoint at your next meeting or conference? Change up. Shake up. And wake up. For its annual franchise meeting, Millicare Textile and Carpet Care ditched the usual format of slide-show-ad-nauseum and brought in a troupe of… learn more >
Is humor making a comeback in B2B marketing? Consumer marketing employs humor on a regular basis, but it’s been largely MIA from B2B campaigns for the past 10 years. Recently, we’ve seen a mini-surge of clients looking to use humor to position their products and to… learn more >
The business world is full of problems. Solving those problems keeps many people employed, which is a good thing. That’s certainly true of event marketers. Our agenda seldom lacks a list of seemingly impossible issues to negotiate and resolve. Sometimes, though, the logical mind that we… learn more >
I was watching a re-run of “30 Rock” last night. Since I rarely have time to watch prime-time TV, I catch up with popular culture three to four years after the fact when it hits late-night, “bed-time TV.” The episode was about Winter… learn more >
What is it about a meeting that brings out the traffic cop in all of us? I recently attended two days of meetings with an agenda so tightly scheduled that at the end of day we felt exhausted. Did we work hard? Yes.… learn more >
What do you do when you can’t bring the mountain to the trade show floor? Turn to the power of 3D animation. At RSNA 2011, Carestream anticipated heavy interest in its new work-in-progress, the DRX Revolution. Crowds sometimes lined up four and… learn more >
In last week’s post, we took a look at the role of game-based learning in face-to-face events. Done right, game playing can be a springboard to acquire and even practice new skills and knowledge. Here are five key principles to employing game play at your… learn more >
Marketing budgets continue to get cut. No longer just a trend, shrinking budgets are now as much a reality as the 24/7 work week. Getting results on little or no budget requires a willingness to step out and take some risks. To innovate. To get… learn more >
I’m frustrated with Augmented Reality. Augmented Reality – AR – uses a webcam to overlay a virtual element onto the real world and provide more information than the physical world provides by itself. For example, let’s say you’re sightseeing in Paris. You hold your mobile device… learn more >