'Twas The Fire Drill Before Christmas
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'Tis the season to be jolly -- and stay late launching your holiday campaigns and solidifying 2016 plans. Even marketers need a little help sometimes from the man in the big red suit. Happy Holidays from your friends at ON24!
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Marketing Performance Suite - ON24 Webcasting
The ON24 Marketing Suite is a turnkey webcast / webinar communications solution that provides tools for audience generation, content creation & delivery, comprehensive reporting and benchmark data.
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'Twas The Fire Drill Before Christmas
- 1. Christmas A Holiday Storybook for Marketers from
- 2. 'Twas the night before campaign launch, when all through the staff We all were on call or on time-and-a-half; The emails and blog posts were scheduled with care In high hopes that BuzzFeed would send readers there.
- 3. The sales reps were nestled all snug in their beds While visions of juicy leads danced in their heads. I slipped on my snuggie and poured a night cap, Because I was ready to call it a wrap.
- 4. When “BZZT!” buzzed my phone and made such a clatter, I sprang from my seat to see what was the matter. Away to the laptop I flew like a flash, Booted up the OS and cleared out my cache.
- 5. My inbox was flooded. So what do you think? I took a deep breath and I followed the link. When what to my wondering eyes came around, But a 404 error reading “ASSET NOT FOUND.”
- 6. I got the same message, though I frantically clicked Optimistically hoping it was all a dumb trick. More rapid than eagles the IMs they came, And I swore and I shouted, and called them by name:
- 7. "Now, Davis! Now, Diaz! Now Parker and Willis! Then Carrey and Cooper and Fischer and Phyllis! I’m not a magician or marketing elf! If you think it’s so easy, then do it yourself!"
- 8. And then, in a twinkling, I heard down the hall A tell-tale jingling and chuckling drawl. As I perked up my ears, and was turning around, To my keyboard St. Nicholas came with a bound!
- 9. He was dressed all in red, from his head to his foot, And he carried a sack stuffed with all kinds of loot. No bundle of toys he had flung on his back— But whiskey and bourbon and organic snacks.
- 10. A wink of his eye and a twist of his head Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread; His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow, as he fixed all my spreadsheets — row after row.
- 11. He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work, And filled out the req forms, then turned with a jerk, And laying his finger aside of his nose, And giving a nod, from my workspace he rose;
- 12. He sprang to the curb, to his team gave a whistle, And took off in an Uber Black, sleek as a missile. But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight— “Though tech may be glitchy and budgets are tight, Happy campaigns to all, and to all a good night!”
- 13. !
- 14. Credits Mary Christmas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Haleigh Clark Santa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Adam Casey Sleeping sales rep . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shanna Cook Concept . . . . . Haleigh Clark, Shanna Cook, Carole Snitzer Direction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shanna Cook Copy and cinematography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Carole Snitzer Special thanks to Kevin Miller’s messenger bag.