In these tough economic times, marketer’s budgets are getting slashed and the situation requires innovative thinking to leverage small dollars. Virtual events are now part of the marketing mix and a good means of creating marketing dollar leverage. Jennifer Jones spoke to Brent Arslaner of Unisfair, a virtual events company for marketing and recruiting purposes about they are seeing their business increase 100% year over year growth due to marketer’s demand. Forrester says 20% of US companies have used virtual events at some point in their marketing.

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, November 19th, 2008 at 9:03 pm and is filed under: Marketing Voices, Uncategorized. Tags:, brent arslaner, Forrester, Jennifer Jones, Marketing Voices, unisfair, virtual events.