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3 Reasons to Start Marketing 2027 Events Now

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Historically, event marketers have focused narrowly — and often, exclusively — on the present show cycle. Nothing is going to turn off prospective attendees more than a constant bombardment of promotional emails “screaming” at them to REGISTER TODAY AND SAVE. Event marketers cannot live on email alone.

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How to Use Social Proof to Market Your Event

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The National Restaurant Association Show used industry professionals and past attendees to market the 2020 show. And that’s what makes social proof such an effective tool for marketers, including event marketers. Industry luminaries are often thought of when creating speaker lineups and influencer marketing.

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Lessons in Event Marketing From Taylor Swift

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Elizabeth Doll/PCMA) Kimberly Hardcastle-Geddes You can take a page from Taylor Swift’s marketing approach in your attendee acquisition strategy plan. Give your prospective attendees sneak peeks, exclusive offers, and other opportunities to be in-the-know on all event-related news.

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New Year, New Resolutions for Event Marketers

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What are your event marketing resolutions for the new year? this year’s disruptors were largely positive for event marketers — like AI and new audiences with changing values. Disruption was the name of the game in 2023.

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Event Marketers, Get Specific — or Don’t — With Your Messaging

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As event marketers, it’s important to understand when to use abstract and concrete language to tell your story. Wharton School marketing professor and author Jonah Berger writes that there are three ways to apply the idea of linguistic concreteness (see On the Web below). Know when it’s better to be abstract.

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International Marketing in a Post-Pandemic World

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But that doesn’t mean markets, messages, and promotional approaches should be the same as they were four years ago. As a result, the markets organizers are prioritizing and how they’re reaching audiences are changing. Build out an ecosystem of in-market multipliers. State Department is still working on a backlog of applications.

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When Marketing an Event, Advertise Outside Your Lane

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Connected TV services such as Netflix, Hulu, and Disney+ are good options for marketers looking to advertise their events. In light of this major trend and a large retiring workforce, event organizers must continue to prioritize finding and appealing to prospective trade-show and conference attendees who may not be aware of their events.