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Microsoft Entices Gamers with a Hands-on Mall Program
To increase awareness of the Xbox 360 and its capabilities, and push trials and sales of games and systems, Microsoft hit 12 markets in two phases during the holiday season last year with a series of hands-on consumer experiences. Guests who passed near the footprint were encouraged to have “More Fun Today” by getting their...
Microsoft Touts Windows XP Pro with Human Kiosks
Microsoft reached out to GMR for a retail program heralding Windows XP Professional and the hardware that wears the software oh so well. The effort hit 42 markets and 211 retail stories (Best Buy, CompUSA, Fry’s, Nebraska Furniture Mart and J&R’s) nationwide last fall. Three “human kiosks”—field staffers with laptops and demo trays strapped to...
Cisco Forum Offers Multi-Level Technical Training
The tech company’s in-house-produced Networkers customer conferences, now in their 14th year, provide annual forums where Cisco’s customers gather to receive comprehensive technical training on products, technologies, services and end-to-end business solutions. The 2002 attendees were offered an array of activities developed as a collaborative effort between the company’s consulting, engineering, technology marketing, customer segment...
IBM Drives B-to-B Strategy with Global Event Council
The Ex judges gasped when IBM’s massive global event program was entered into this category, but after a closer review of the submission … it made sense. Why? Because Big Blue doesn’t think of its string of global events as separate projects—it considers them all part of one event campaign used to build both the...