A major opportunity for quality networking takes place in California this month (May 15-17), at the Hilton San Diego.
The Response Expo 2012 event will include a busy exhibition and top-level line-up of speakers discussing all aspects of the direct response industry. But the show is also renowned as an excellent place to meet and greet [...]

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The Indian Direct Marketing Association has been repositioned as DMAi – and has formed an association with its Australian counterparts.
The liaison aims to allow companies and individuals involved in direct marketing in India to benefit from the resources and expertise of the Australian DMA, specifically in terms of information resourcing, education and conferencing and also [...]

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Robert King (pictured) says business in the hospitality sector that take a longer term view of the Games may benefit for years to come.
The London 2012 Olympics will be a prime opportunity for travel, hospitality and retail companies to engage with a variety of new customers from all over the world. 
London is a central and [...]

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Regional leaders from Microsoft, HTC, Yahoo! STC and MBC will debate new content delivery strategies and partnership opportunities at the annual TMT Finance & Investment Middle East Conference in Dubai next week.
The two-day conference, which is sponsored again this year by Saudi Telecom (STC), features a series of panel discussions and keynote speeches by leading experts from [...]

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A joint business event held last May was so successful it is being repeated again this year. Two major exhibitions in the e-commerce and marketing industries will be held together again – but at a new and bigger location, Manchester Central, on May 30, 2012.
eCommerce Expo Manchester is now in its fourth year, and is [...]

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Internet World, Europe’s longest-running annual showcase for e-marketing and online business – being held at Earls Court in London, April 24-26 – will be playing host to a standalone show dedicated to social media, with keynote presentations from LinkedIn and Google.
Social Media World offers more than 20 dedicated sessions from acknowledged social networking experts, including Danny Bermant [...]

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The sixth annual Festival of Media Global 2012 takes place in Montreux, Switzerland, next week – April 15-17 – and promises to celebrate and award media creativity and innovation, unite specialists with senior marketers and end-users and to provide thought-provoking conference content.
Organised by festival founders, C Squared, the highly popular awards are now in their [...]

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Emer Timmons (pictured) reports from the recent Retailtopia event in London.
When you look down on the shoppers from nearly 400 feet, Oxford Street looks like the beating heart of British retail. I saw that heart beating as strong as ever earlier last month when I joined Professor Patrick Barwise, chairman of Which?, at the top [...]

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In an increasingly competitive and fragmenting media marketplace, door drop marketing and leaflet distributions are still among the most effective and efficient ways of talking to prospects – delivering returns on investment whether used nationally, regionally or locally.
And a morning seminar being held in the UK next month promises to help delegates learn to target [...]

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On The Edge – June 21 – London, Congress Centre 
Take part in a new journey of discovery at a provocative one-day conference and networking event being held in London in June: On The Edge will host the marketing industry’s leading figures, delivering insight guaranteed to get attendees thinking. 
Challenging theories and questioning creativity is just the [...]

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