ManageCamp.com :: Clients

The great folks at McCormick & Company contacted Event Solutions by ManageCamp to help them plan a series of off-site learning experiences for their entire marketing team. The objectives were to build the team's knowledge base, provide a forum for generating fresh ideas, and create an opportunity for the broader team to get together and build stronger relationships.

We started by spending some time with the leadership team to get a better understanding of the team's culture and the types of topics and learning structures that would provide the most value. We then put together several alternatives relative to agenda development and identified a varied list of potential speakers and instructors whom would be good fits.

With the wish-list complete, we then did all the work negotiating and contracting the speakers, setting up calls between the speakers and McCormick to make sure everyone was on the same page, and planning the full agenda.

An important part of this project was also finding just the right venue - someplace new and different (not the same old hotel ballroom!). After completing an extensive site search, we provided the team with three options and then proceeded to negotiate and contract with the final choice.

With the speakers and venue set, we then found a fantastic caterer and a top-notch audio/video supplier to make sure all the details would be world-class.

The end result was a flawless execution of McCormick's vision and a very satisfied group of marketers who left clamoring for more! Since then, we've executed a second off-site and have worked with McCormick to brand this new learning series so that it can become a fixture in their marketing community!

And by leveraging our existing clout with speakers and vendors in addition to taking all the work off the internal team's hands, we are able to deliver these events for less than it would have cost them if they had done it themselves! That's what we call a win-win! < Back

In this case, the folks in Brand Marketing at Campbell's Soup Company already had a tradition of providing periodic on and off-site learning experiences for the broader team. Our relationship started simply by helping them find a unique and powerful speaker for a specific topic they wanted to cover.

After this first success, it became evident that we could add quite a bit more value by helping to take all of the planning, speaker/site search and selection, negotiating, contracting, f&b, A/V and other logistical details off their plate - allowing them to focus on the strategy and free up a ton of time to spend on their real jobs!

For the next go-around, we planned the entire day for them. Based on their specific needs, we found two fantastic speakers who developed custom workshops, we identified a very unique and cool venue, and we took care of everything from soup to nuts (pun partly intended - sorry!). The planning team stayed very involved and we participated in regular meetings to make sure everything was moving along according to plan and on-strategy.

As the date grew nearer, and more people learned of the event, the attendee list grew - allowing for more relationship building across the different brands and companies within Campbell's.

The result was a fantastic day of learning and team building delivered on-budget and with no surprises! < Back

Several of the folks from Halliburton | Landmark have been attending our Brand ManageCamp conference for years. Over drinks one night, we learned more about the challenges facing their marketing and sales teams in their drilling & exploration business (basically, they help oil companies around the world be more efficient and safe in finding and extracting oil from the earth). At that point it became clear that their team of over 100 would greatly benefit from a two-day intensive offsite covering some very specific topics of interest. The goals were to build knowledge, provide a hands-on learning environment, and energize the team.

Not only did Event Solutions manage the entire two-day event (including agenda development, speaker identification, venue search and selection, negotiating, contracting, F&B, A/V, etc..) we also worked with the client to facilitate a vendor fair involving vendor booths, sponsorships and speaking slots.

The entire event was held in a nightclub in downtown Houston - a very cool and unique venue that had never been used for such a meeting before!

In this case, the client wanted to be very involved in the entire process and regular meetings were held throughout. They also took responsibility for the planning and execution of four workshops over the course of the two days and we were able to integrate all the elements and agenda items without a hitch!

The resulting event was a great success that received incredibly strong survey results across the board! < Back