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TechnoMarketing: Chicago 

Gleacher Center  450 N Cityfront Plaza Drive   
Chicago , IL  60611 
10/6/2008 8:00 AM  - 10/7/2008 4:00 PM 

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TechnoMarketing: Using the Tools and Technology of Tomorrow to Reach Your Customers Today

The world of marketing as we know it, is rapidly changing all around us.  Engaging your customers through the newest media vehicles such as social media, customer communities, blogs, RSS, and podcasts requires a solid foundation steeped in customer understanding, marketing planning and technological prowess.  The challenges marketers face today are often compounded by the sheer volume of new media channels and the depth of expertise required to execute well in each channel.  This two-day course in using the latest marketing tools and technology to reach today’s customers will take you from the defining basics to the implementation planning stage.

Through interactive presentations and exercises, case examples in both the B2C and B2B areas, and best-practice implementation reviews, participants will leave with a comprehensive understanding of how they can profit from the latest in marketing technologies and tools.

Learning Objectives

  • Increase knowledge of terminology surrounding the newest technology-centric marketing tools
  • Acquire a full understanding of the most popular technology-driven marketing vehicles currently in use and on the horizon
  • Identify which technology-centric marketing vehicles will work for your customer base and pair those up with your existing marketing strategy
  • Ability to execute a marketing campaign using the tools and techniques outlined in the course

Prior Knowledge Required

Knowledge of computers, basic Internet terminology and a cursory understanding of online media is desired.  A basic understanding of the various trends in marketing media will be helpful, but not be required.

Who Should Attend

  • Sales and Marketing Executives of any size organization
  • Marketing directors responsible for digital or integrated marketing strategy
  • Anyone involved in customer-facing internet initiatives with their company or clients
  • Ad agency media directors looking for a competitive edge for clients

About the Instructor

Dana VanDen Heuvel -  An award-winning marketing blogger and author of the AMA’s Marketech ’08 Guide to Marketing Technology, Dana is a widely recognized expert on blogging, social media marketing, thought leadership marketing and interactive marketing trends and best practices and speaks regularly on these topics at industry events. Dana founded BlogSavant, a division of VanDen Heuvel Executives, LLC, one of the nation’s first weblog and social media marketing consultancies, which he is still active in. He currently runs The MarketingSavant™ Group, a marketing technology consulting and training firm that helps marketers leverage emerging marketing technology to grow their business.

    Day 1:  8:30am – 5:00pm

    Continental Breakfast 

    Morning

    Overview (Interactive)

    • What are your expectations?
    • What you will be able to do after the session.
    • How to evaluate each TechnoMarketing tool for your organization

    Defining TechnoMarketing

    • What is TechnoMarketing and what it means to marketers?
    • Trends, Cycles and Inflection Points: How we got to where we’re at.
    • How does this change how we market going forward?
    • Summary of topics in the two-day session.
    • TechnoMarketing vs. traditional marketing – what’s changed?
    • Participant Economy, Word of Mouth and Social Media – putting it all together

    Word-of-Mouth Marketing And The Power Of Consumer Generated Media (CGM)

    • Success and failure with CGM, how do you know?
    • Rules of engagement for CGM
    • Achieving and measuring success

    Lunch

    Afternoon

    Mining The Social Media Space For Customer Intelligence

    • Expanding your customer understanding through social media
    • Understand the conversation taking place about your brand

    Interactive: Social Media Customer Intelligence Research Exercise

    Customer Community & Online Social Media

    • Reaching customers in social networks
    • Success stories from MySpace, LinkedIn, and the social space
    • Uncommon examples of exemplar customer communities

    Interactive: Jumpstarting Your Own Customer Community

    Online Video And The Remix Culture

    • Why online video is so powerful
    • Growth in online video and video campaigns
    • How companies are succeeding and failing
    • Keys to jumpstarting your online video efforts

    End Of Day Wrap-Up, Key Learnings And Intro To Day 2


    Day 2:  8:30am – 4:00pm

    Continental Breakfast 

    Morning

    Quick Review Of Day 1 Material

    How To Really Use Blogs, Podcasts And RSS In Your Company

    • Integrate these tools into your existing marketing
    • Case examples of success from the Fortune 1000
    • Achieving and measuring success

    Interactive: Blogging Case Study

    Emerging TechnoMarketing Tools And How To Use Them Successfully

    • Widgets and desktop real estate
    • Mobile marketing
    • Additional TechnoMarketing topics

    Lunch

    Afternoon

    TechnoMarketing and the Marketing Mix

    • Integrating traditional marketing plans and TechnoMarketing
    • Target marketing and TechnoMarketing – where to find your customers

    Putting TechnoMarketing Into Play In Your Organization

    • Quantify the value of the top opportunities
    • Familiarize with the resource list of vendors, assistive tools and directories and those things which can jump-start TechnoMarketing campaigns
    • Keeping the momentum and overcoming barriers: tactics to ensure that you can achieve maximum results from this seminar

    Taking It Back To The Job, Homework, Wrap-Up And Review


    TechnoMarketing Complete Tools & Topics Coverage List

    • Blogging For Marketing
    • Consumer Generated Marketing Research – Mining The Buzz-O-Sphere
    • Leveraging Online Customer Communities
    • Marketing For Attention in the Attention Economy
    • Marketing In The Virtual Life (Second Life, In-Game Marketing, Avatars)
    • Mobile Marketing To The Always-On Generation
    • Online Video And The Small Camera Revolution
    • Personal Identity and the Internet
    • Podcasting & Internet Broadcasting
    • RSS & content syndication for marketers
    • Search And Marketing To Buyer Intent In The Niches
    • Social Media In Marketing (Online Social Networking, MySpace, Etc.)
    • TechnoMarketing Across The Generation Gaps
    • The Participant Economy
    • Widgets and onsite/desktop real estate marketing
    • Word Of Mouth (Mouse) Marketing
    • Additional Topics, Trends And Terms
      • The Long Tail
      • Mashups
      • Microformats
      • Q&A And “The Answers Space”
      • Tagging & Folksonomies
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Gleacher Center
450 N Cityfront Plaza Drive
Chicago, IL 60611
Phone: 312.464.8787
Fax: 312.464.8683
www.gleachercenter.com

The Gleacher Center is conveniently located in the heart of Chicago’s business community just blocks away from the Loop and steps away from Magnificent Mile shopping, restaurants and hotels.  It is easily accessible from public transportation and adjacent parking lots.

Hotel Information

Hotels within One Mile of the Gleacher Center

 

Hotel

Phone

Address

Courtyard by Marriott

312-660-2401

165 E. Ontario St.

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Embassy Suites Hotel

312-423-6312

511 N. Columbus Drive

Fairmont Hotel

312-565-6674

200 N. Columbus Drive

 

Four Seasons

312-649-2314

120 E. Delaware Place

 

Hilton Garden Inn

312-527-2656

10 East Grand Avenue

 

Holiday Inn Chicago City Center

312-787-6100

300 E. Ohio

 

Hilton Suites Chicago/Magnificent Mile

312-664-1100

198 E. Delaware Place

Homewood Suites by Hilton

312-644-2222

40 E. Grand Ave.

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Hotel Inter-Continental

312.944.4100

505 N. Michigan Ave.

Hotel Monaco Chicago

312-960-8500

225 N. Wabash

House of Blues Hotel

312-245-0333

333 N. Dearborn

Hyatt Regency Chicago

312-616-6953

151 E. Wacker Drive

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Le Meridien Chicago

312-327-0644

520 N. Michigan Ave.

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Marriott Downtown Chicago

312-836-0100

540 N. Michigan Ave.

Omni Chicago Hotel

312-944-6664

676 N. Michigan Ave.

 

The Peninsula Chicago

312-573-6604

108 East Superior Street

 

The Ritz Carlton Hotel

312-266-1000

160 E. Pearson

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Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers

312-464-1000

301 E. North Water Street

Swissotel

312-565-0565

323 E. Wacker Drive

 

W  Hotel

312-943-9200

644 N. Lake Shore Drive

Westin River North

312-744-1900

320 N. Dearborn Street

Wyndham Chicago

312-274-4429

633 N. St. Clair Street

•• walking distance to the Gleacher Center: 1-2 blocks
•   walking distance to the Gleacher Center: 2-5 blocks

Airport Directions

O’Hare International Airport

Midway Airport                      

Taxi:  Allow 1½ to 2 hours

          Approximately $35-50

Taxi:  Allow 45min to 1½ hours

          Approximately $25-40

Subway:  $1.75  Allow approximately 45 minutes to an hour

  • Airport signs will direct you to “Trains to City”
  • Depart at State and Lake stop
  • Take cab to our address (approximately $7)

Subway:  $1.75 Allow approximately 45 minutes to an hour

  • Airport signs will direct you to “Trains to City”
  • Depart at State and Lake stop
  • Take cab to our address (approximately $7)

Rental Car Information:
For your convenience, the American Marketing Association has made arrangements with Avis for your car rental needs.  Special rates have been negotiated for you.  Please contact 800/331-1600 to reserve a car. In addition, please be sure to use the AVIS Worldwide Discount Number:  D098599.

Driving Directions

Directions From:

To Parking Lots Near The Gleacher Center

To Drop Off or Pick Up Passengers In Circular Drive:

From Lake Shore Drive:

  1. Exit Grand Avenue and follow west (away from lake) to St. Clair
  2. Turn left on St. Clair and go one block to Illinois (St. Clair jogs at this point)
  3. Turn left on Illinois
  4. For parking either:
    Cross St. Clair, where it picks up again, to first lot on right (Self Park—pick up a discounted parking coupon from Gleacher main security desk) Turn right, where St. Clair picks up again.  St. Clair then leads into North Water Street.  Other lots are straight ahead, and to the left and right.
  1. Exit Grand Avenue and follow west (away from lake) to Columbus Drive/Fairbanks Court
  2. Turn left on Columbus/Fairbanks and go to second light, North Water Street
  3. Turn right on North Water Street and Gleacher Center is straight ahead

From 90-Kennedy/
94-Edens:

  1. Exit Ohio (1-way) and follow east to St. Clair (1 block east of Michigan Avenue)
  2. Turn right on St. Clair and go two blocks to Illinois (St. Clair jogs atthis point)
  3. Turn left on Illinois and immediately get into right lane
  4. For parking either:
  5. Cross St. Clair, where it picks up again, to first lot on right (Self Park—pick up a discounted parking coupon from Gleacher main security desk, $15 or $10) Turn right where St. Clair picks up again. St. Clair then leads into North Water Street. Other lots are straight ahead, and to the left and right.
  1. Exit Ohio (1-way) and follow east to Columbus Drive/Fairbanks Court  (several blocks east of Michigan Avenue)
  2. Turn right on Columbus Drive/ Fairbanks Court and go to second light, North Water Street.
  3. Turn right on North Water Street and Gleacher Center is straight ahead

From 290- Eisenhower:

Take 90/94 exit north/west and follow directions noted above from I90/94

Take 90/94 exit north/west and follow directions noted above from I90/94

 

Public Transportation Directions

From El (subway):

Red Line (Howard/Dan Ryan):

  1. Depart at Grand Avenue stop. 
  2. Walk east to Michigan Avenue (walk up stairs at the Nordstrom’s building to access main upper Michigan),
  3. Turn right to head southbound
  4. Cross to east side of Michigan
  5. Turnleft to walk through plaza just after the Chicago Tribune Tower (we’re the only 6-story building in that plaza)

From Buses:

Buses running along Michigan Avenue:
2, 3, 10, 145, 146, 147, 151 (from Union station), and 157 (from Ogilvie station)

  1. Depart on north side of Chicago River in front of either the Equitable Building and Chicago Tribune Tower or Wrigley Building (depending on which direction you’re traveling)
  2. Gleacher Center is in the same plaza as the Equitable Building and Tribune Tower(we’re the only 6-story building in that plaza)

Commuter Trains:

Union Station:  Take the 151 bus and follow directions above

Ogilvie Station:  Take 157 bus and follow directions above

LaSalle Station:  Walk to bus station on corner of Well and Congress to  catch #147 bus and follow directions above

IC Randolph Station:  Walk west 1 block to Michigan Avenue, turn right and walk approximately 4 blocks.  Once you’ve crossed the bridge, we’re directly on the right along the river just behind the Equitable Building in the same plaza as Tribune Tower

Helpful Websites:

www.transitchicago.com
www.metrarail.com

Shuttle Service
Continental Airport Express provides airport transportation in the Chicago area:
1 888 2THE-VAN (1 888.284.3826)
http://www.airportexpress.com

24 hour advance notice is appreciated.
Ask the hotel concierge to arrange for your return trip to the airport.

Rates range from $15 to $25 one-way.  See On-line reservations for exact quotes.
All fares should be considered approximate & from a general area. You will get an exact price quote upon entering your departure/ arrival information in the online reservation system.

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