Author archive for Jessica Heasley
The Full Recap: 35 Tips And Insights From EMS 2015
The Experiential Marketing Summit kicked off this year with a few out-of-the-box activities designed to show off our beautiful host city of San Francisco—and give event marketers that all-too-rare opportunity to hang out with one another and not be working on an event. At 6:30 a.m. on Monday, May 11, more than 17 intrepid attendees...
Testing Out Disney World’s RFID MagicBand
It was a tough job, but somebody had to do it. This February, my family and I traveled to Orlando to spend two days at Disney World. Our mission: Test out the new MagicBand—the RFID-enabled bracelets that promise park goers a “more carefree” visit. RFID bands are not new to this industry, of course, but with its...
Inside Microsoft’s ‘Good To Great’ Budget Strategy
After a complete overhaul in 2013, Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference is on a roll. Survey scores are up, partner satisfaction is soaring and internal teams are stealing ideas from the show. But rather than go into the 2014 show with an “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” approach, the team instead decided to test...
Viral Video Q&A: The Rules of ‘Contagious Content’
The digital era demands a new way of thinking about brand and content marketing. Our exclusive Q&A with viral video experts Fritz Grobe and Stephen Voltz You might know Fritz Grobe and Stephen Voltz as the “Coke and Mentos guys,” those lab coat-wearing stars of one of the first viral videos to hit the internet....