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′Brand Ambassadors′ episode of the Experiential Marketing Today audio program is up…

Episode 4 of our free audio pro­gram is up. If you sub­scribe to the pod­cast, your copy should down­load auto­mat­i­cally. Oth­er­wise, you can lis­ten to the pro­gram directly from the Expe­ri­en­tial Mar­ket­ing Today main page. This episode is on the con­cept of Brand Ambas­sadors. A crit­i­cal, but oft-overlooked, ele­ment of any expe­ri­en­tial mar­ket­ing pro­gram is […]

xmt-004: Brand Ambassadors

[This is a tran­script of the free audio pro­gram, Expe­ri­en­tial Mar­ket­ing Today. The audio ver­sion of this con­tent is avail­able at: Episode 004: Brand Ambas­sadors]  [musi­cal inter­lude] Linda Ben­thall: Wel­come to this episode of Expe­ri­en­tial Mar­ket­ing Today. Today, we’ll talk about the the­ory and prac­tice of using expe­ri­ences to engage audi­ences with the authen­tic nature of a […]

004: Brand Ambassadors

Brand Ambas­sadors. What are they? Why should I care? Employee, asso­ciate, ambas­sador, evan­ge­list– does it really mat­ter what we call peo­ple? The short answer is yes, but not for the rea­sons you might think.

004: Brand Ambassadors

Brand Ambas­sadors. What are they? Why should I care? Employee, asso­ciate, ambas­sador, evan­ge­list– does it really mat­ter what we call peo­ple? The short answer is yes, but not for the rea­sons you might think.

Don′t forget the swiffer

One of our most valu­able clients recently asked us to help set up a stun­ning 10x20 dis­play for a show in San Diego, and I was assigned to the task.  My mis­sion seemed sim­ple: “Go to San Diego and put up the booth.”  But dur­ing my pre-mission brief­ing, I found that “put up the booth” meant […]

Lighting of the Green

Light­ing of the Green Lip­scomb Uni­ver­sity’s Light­ing of the Green is an annual cam­pus event to kick-off the hol­i­day season. Hundreds of fam­i­lies came to enjoy the event held in the Allen Bell Tower Mall. Lit with col­or­ful Christ­mas images, it was a beau­ti­ful back­drop as the groups per­formed. Amy Grant, Buddy Greene, and Pat Flynn per­formed along […]

The Inevitable, Dreadful, Tradeshow Shipping

While most of us like to think that with sev­eral months to plan before a tradeshow we won′t rush pack­ages at the last minute, it always seems to hap­pen. Here are a few tips when plan­ning your ship­ments: Ship to the advanced ware­house. This means plan­ning fur­ther in advance, but it will save you the […]

Mattress Maker Dreams Big with New Headquarters

Mat­tress Maker Dreams Big with New Head­quar­ters With a cen­tury of expe­ri­ence craft­ing high-quality, afford­able bed­ding, Com­fort Solu­tions approached Advent to cre­ate a design for their new world­wide head­quar­ters that would fully com­mu­ni­cate the def­i­n­i­tion and strength of their brands. King Koil, specif­i­cally, has served cus­tomers since 1898. Their goal was to present their brand’s […]

Take the Lead on Follow Ups

Take the Lead on Follow-ups It’s painful but true that only 20% of com­pa­nies who exhibit at tradeshows actu­ally fol­low up with the leads they gath­ered. Why do we work so hard and invest so much time, energy and resources and then not fol­low up with leads after the show? Let’s iden­tify rea­sons why com­pa­nies may not […]

Aristotelean Business Sense

I recently exam­ined a case study of a map-producing com­pany that thought it was in the map busi­ness.  Sounds rea­son­able, right?  Rea­son­able, yes, but in real­ity it was a case of mis­taken iden­tity. Let′s try to fig­ure out what busi­ness they were actu­ally in.   Artis­to­tle, the rock star of the philo­soph­i­cal ancient world, can help […]