B-to-B Events
Four Ways to Make Your Keynote Speech Short and Sweet
We tapped Cisco, SAP and Microsoft in our December issue to uncover how event marketers are modifying keynote speeches as time and space run tight. But keynotes at meetings are evolving outside the tech industry, too. The keynote presentation at the Pepsi Bottlers Association meeting by Simon Lowden, cmo of PepsiCo, and the 2015 ABC...
How Microsoft’s Ignite Conference Consolidated Six Events into One
Inside the methodology and the motivation with head of events Scott Schenker The subject line on the email only contained two words: One Microsoft. But the impact of the message would inspire one of the most prolific event organizations in the industry to completely rethink the way it does events. The note arrived in the...
Microsoft Defines the Four Ps of Experiential Marketing
Most marketers know the Seven Ps of marketing: Product, Price, Place, Promotion, People, Process and Physical evidence. But Scott Schenker, general manager-events at Microsoft, has put his own spin on it with what he calls the Four Ps of Experiential Marketing: place, purpose, pride and (cross) promotion, “Four things that can make a distinction between...
Acrobats Bring Success Factors Messaging to Life
To highlight its acquisition by SAP and establish itself as a leader in the human resources management solutions space, Success Factors, a cloud-based software provider, took its exhibit at the 2015 HR Technology Conference & Expo to new heights—literally. Success Factors incorporated a 20-foot-tall vertical wall within its exhibit footprint and unleashed a cadre of...