Audience Response Solutions to Make Your Event a Resounding Success
Audience response solutions, interactive training tools and event planning tips from Global Interactive Events have helped large and small corporations transform dull and boring sessions into exciting and productive occasions. FedEx, Rogers Communications, Future Shop, Dell, Intel, CIBC, Google and AstraZeneca are just a few of the hundreds of clients who have made our interactive entertainment and learning tools their solution of choice. Read their testimonials to understand what we’re talking about.
National Training Tour for Electrolux
wrote, "For our 2012 spring training show, Electrolux Major Appliances set out to develop a training event that would be more than yet another ho-hum product knowledge session. Our goal was to set the bar high, and be more than simply informative. Of course we wanted to convey information, but we also wanted our guests to have fun, we wanted it to be interactive, and we wanted to generate excitement. With all of this in mind, we investigated a number of different options that we thought might help us to achieve our objectives, and ultimately our decision was to take advantage of the services that Global Interactive Events offered us. From start to finish, they were easy to deal with, experienced, very informative, and never more than a phone call away. Furthermore, they dealt with every detail, including backup components (just in case!) with every system sent out, they prearranged shipping, and they even included the packing tape and shipping labels with every system sent to our trainers that were located out of town. We trained in 13 cities, had over 75 sessions, connected with almost 2000 sales associates, and I’m pleased to report that these training sessions, and particularly the Global Interactive component of the sessions got glowing reviews. We received very positive feedback on the systems, and the information inputted into the systems themselves allowed Global Interactive to give us the feedback that we were looking for in order to gage our level of success.
Who says learning can’t also be fun? We were able to engage our guests, convey our information, and the Global Interactive systems allowed us to reinforce the information, so it is better retained. A little healthy competition can work wonders!
Thanks to the team over at Global Interactive Events for helping to make our events successful. It was a pleasure doing business with them, and I know we will be doing business together again very soon as we have just booked another multi city tour for June! “
Valuable enhancement to FedEx events
wrote, “The 2010 FedEx Open House events were great. The trivia game was an extremely valuable enhancement this year that significantly improved the overall attendee experience and created a program highlight rather than the filler activity used in previous years. The trivia game allowed us to entertain and deliver messaging to the entire group (300-500 people) rather than just a handful of folks. We had people yelling and cheering for the whole 20 minutes, it was awesome! Thank you guys for being so easy to work with and quick to move based on our schedules with development and adjustments.”
Best training we ever received – AstraZeneca Canada
wrote, “The feedback from our cross-Canada, multi-city training was the best we have ever received, and 89 percent of the participants felt that they had retained more than at previous events.”
Keeps everyone energized throughout the day—TD Waterhouse
said, “Our clients are no longer here just to learn in a dry and boring atmosphere; they come to our conferences to learn and have an entertaining competition that keeps everyone energized throughout the day.”
Effective method of engaging customers, great customer service—Royal Canadian Golf Association
says, “The RCGA used Global Interactive’s trivia game at the CN Canadian Women’s Open championship in 2009. It was a last minute decision on our part but the simplicity of the system and the great customer service made it seamless to activate and we think it was a very effective method of engaging spectators of the tournament.”
Facilitated involvement in Shaw Cablesystems’ Management Conference
said, “Shaw Communications Inc. contacted Global Interactive Events to create an interactive program for presentation at an internal management conference. GIE responded quickly to our needs and the end product met our expectations. The interactive feature was an important resource in facilitating involvement of our attendees and the comprehension of the topic. GIE was very professional and accommodating with meeting all our needs in a timely and effective manner.”
Great event idea—Future Shop
told us, “I have nothing but the utmost praise for GIE in regards to their level of service. They were extremely accommodating, very courteous, and communicated with me on a regular basis to keep me informed on the planning. I have recommended GIE as a great event idea to my colleagues and will continue to look for other opportunities to use them myself.”
Main highlight of CDW Canada Sales Conference
wrote, “Thanks to your team for your great work at our October sales conference. The game show you put together and hosted for us was one of the main highlights of our conference. The game show host was amazing. He took the entertainment level of the game show to the next level – overall an outstanding performance! We look forward to working with you again!”
Wonderful easy-to-use system and excellent customer service—Carrier /Briant/Totaline
told us that “We had a wonderful experience exhibiting at the IHACI and had over 400 attendees to our booth. Dealers and visitors alike tested their knowledge on the custom Carrier product trivia game, created for us by Global Interactive Events. The ease-of-use of the system and the customer service we received were both excellent.”
Will definitely use this interactive tool again—The Printing House
said, “I wanted to send you a quick note to let you know how impressed I was with your interactive game system. The cool thing is that most people are familiar with the technology but had no idea that it could be customized and therefore we were pleasantly surprised when the questions represented our workplace! It worked great for us as it was educational as well as fun and competitive. I used it at a Manager's summit during an awards dinner—when the crowd needed a boost I threw a question at them! The ability to pause and play when it suited the need was excellent! I would definitely use this tool again as it was easy to operate and being a non-technical person, even easier to use.”
Thumbs up from Don Cherry!
said, “Thumbs up to Global Interactive Events! Just a quick note of appreciation for making the Rose Cherry's Home for Kids' Gala such an entertaining success every year. The Global Interactive Events trivia game adds so much to the enjoyment of our guests. Whether it's a Black-Tie Event (such as ours) or a golf tournament, it's the highlight of the evening.”
See you next year—Canada's Top 40 Under 40
, says “We've turned to Global Interactive Events for many years now to provide services for our important and confidential voting process for Canada’s Top 40 Under 40. The customized presentation that interacts with GIE’s wireless TouchPad allows our distinguished board members to easily register their vote for each candidate. See you next year GIE!”
One of the pivotal reasons why employees are attentive through the presentations—Rogers Communications Inc.
- Overview: Multi-city Sales Staff Training sessions.
The purpose for the tour was the education of entire sales force including call centre staff, retail staff, and field sales. This tour took place in 8 cities across the country with an average audience size of 300 attendees. - Objectives: Education of employees included the following branches; wireless products & services, cable television services, home phone launch, internet products & services. The events were evening events with 15 minute presentations from the heads of each of the departments focusing on the planned marketing and sales strategies for the next 2 quarters. After the speeches a dinner was served and then after the dinner the interactive component was introduced as the "Quickstart Challenge" with questions based on the seminar presentations, to measure the retention factor of the attendees.
- Achievement: Rogers Communications Inc. has continued to use the interactive component for the past 3 years as an integral educational/reinforcement/evaluation tool. The R.O.I. for Rogers Communications Inc. is very apparent as they have continually seen an annual increase in early R.S.V.P. for attendance at these training events, and in turn a significant increase in market share of sales across all of the sales channels due to their sales staff's increased product knowledge. As well their metrics for "service satisfaction" of customer contacts has continued to rise every year and has been attributed to "continued diligent and ongoing staff training". The interactive component of the "Quickstart campaign" that Global Interactive Events provides is an essential part of the evening and continues to be one of the pivotal reasons why employees are attentive through the presentations at the events.
Dynamic, engaging, entertaining—Mixer Inc.
wrote, “Thanks for an outstanding presentation on Thursday during the OHF Tournament Banquet. It was dynamic, engaging, entertaining and most definitely the highlight of the evening. You know it's a success when Wendel Clark is helping the kids with the answers. Jamie, your energy level was at an all-time high! I know you are genuine when you say it was fun as everyone knew it from your presentation. I spoke to the President of the OHF and I am sending them your contact information for the game. I'll keep you posted with details.”
Event was great—All Weather Windows
said, “Just wanted to let you know that the event was great. Jamie was amazing and did a great job of getting the sales staff involved and entertained. They all loved it.”
Kept enthusiasm at a very high level—Advance Autoparts
told us, “Our Commercial Sales Conference was the best one ever!!! Thanks to your interactive game show format, our Sales Team kept their enthusiasm at a very high level throughout all our presentations all day long. The game was definitely the highlight of the conference!!!
I would recommend your system to anyone that wants to keep their audience’s attention.”
Extremely flexible to last minute changes and offered the most competitive rates—Ignite
recommended us saying, “I am writing to recommend the services of Global Interactive Events. Ignite recently worked with Global Interactive Events for a National Sales Meeting this past August and was satisfied with their overall service.
Global Interactive Events performed to my client’s satisfaction and were extremely flexible to client’s last minute changes and offered the most competitive rates. They were very pleasant to work with and very helpful in explaining the process to our team being the first time we have used this type of service.
I'm happy to recommend the services of Global Interactive Events. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me.”
The guests were having a blast with the game—Corporate Event Organization
wrote, “The event was fabulous … the guests were having a blast with the game. We were all totally shocked at just how much they were getting into it…the crowd was a very well-heeled bunch, but they were so competitive. It was so much fun to be sitting at the back of the room running the game and listening to them. And it turned into a close game…only 354 points separated first place from second. We have been talking the games up to all of our clients…everyone seems quite excited by the fact that we have the system.”
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