Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 7, 2021

For a preview, we asked Eric Holmen, CEO of Splash , the event marketing software company that powers tens of thousands of business events each month, for trends in how organizers are adjusting their programs. Some large groups are throwing a camera in the room to capture the presentations for an extended remote audience.

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MeetingsNet

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Last year was a watershed for short-form video, and especially for videos less than four minutes in length—perfect for event marketers who want to deliver maximum impact before interest in a piece of content fades among potential attendees and exhibitors.

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Endless Events

JULY 12, 2018

But, with the ability today to measure metrics and pinpoint specific results, it’s essential to be able to show how event marketing efforts were successful. After all, marketing is allocated a considerable portion of the budget, and we need to be able to show evidence that marketing investments are worth the money spent.

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Eventtia

JANUARY 2, 2023

No matter how well you’ve planned and organized an event, it will be doomed as a failure if you can’t secure enough attendees to visit the event. Get your event planning template and checklist. What Is Event Marketing? Event marketing can be B2C or B2B in nature. In B2B event marketing (i.e.

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Endless Events

MARCH 30, 2018

But while you use those services a lot, do you really know how to engage your audience on social media? Attendee engagement is our main focus this year and part of that is interacting with them way before the event starts. Below we have a few tips for engaging with people at all stages of your event. Click To Tweet.

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Endless Events

MAY 18, 2018

Increasing audience engagement can be a challenge even for the best #eventprofs. The good news is that your attendees crave engagement more than ever. In order to increase audience engagement, you need to first capture their attention. Start with your event invite emails by using killer subject lines.

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

2018 event marketing trends point to video becoming this year’s content marketing juggernaut. With everyone rushing to upload their own talking heads and animated content, is there still a place where you can share your video content and get it seen in this saturated market? Event Professionals Go Back to the Lab.

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Bizzaboo

APRIL 19, 2023

Event marketing can be a complex and time-consuming process, but it is essential for ensuring that your event is a success. A well-crafted marketing plan for events will help you reach your target audience, generate interest in your event, and drive ticket sales. Identify your target audience.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 4, 2024

While virtual event platforms help enhance meeting and event experiences, expand audiences and provide more options for participating, marketing power in the form of pre-event omnichannel marketing strategies and post-event actions is critical for maximizing the success of these events.

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Convene by PCMA

MARCH 25, 2024

She plans to share that story during her opening keynote presentation at The Business of Events , powered by PCMA Asia Pacific, April 15-16 at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore. Leong gave Convene a preview of her talk, and shared how event marketers can take a cue from content creators, and how AI and marketing can work together.

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Convene by PCMA

DECEMBER 26, 2023

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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Endless Events

JUNE 15, 2022

This is great news for event marketers and planners who can plan experiential events – events that aim to evoke positive emotions in attendees and resonate with their values. Any event can be experiential: conferences, meetings, exhibitions, trade shows, and corporate events. social media wall).

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

It would be like a presenter throwing a CatchBox mic into the audience, without telling them why or how to use it. Gamification isn’t about just playing games on an event app. But an event app is an efficient way of recording proof that the intended behavior has happened and then measuring the results. Generating positivity.

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Bizzaboo

AUGUST 4, 2023

Even in our increasingly digital world, face-to-face interactions can never be replaced, making B2B event marketing essential to your larger marketing strategy and to business success overall. of event organizers, with 19.1% What is B2B event marketing? B2B event marketing is essential for many reasons.

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Convene by PCMA

JULY 17, 2023

For complex conference programs, this insight means that you can increase satisfaction — and reduce attendee anxiety — by providing them with several targeted choices. For conferences that develop education sessions that appeal to a broad audience, applying the principles in this study can improve the attendee experience.

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Bizzaboo

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Social media has become one of the top low-cost strategies for event promotion. Ultimately, the networks you choose for event promotion will depend on who you’re trying to reach (more on that later!). By using social media, you can target specific demographics and interests, ensuring your event reaches the right people.

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Convene by PCMA

MAY 19, 2023

If event marketers want their message to resonate with attendees, they must speak the language of event goers — not the other way around. Jargon is pervasive in marketing — and event marketing is no exception. Make no mistake, audiences are feeling overwhelmingly positive about our industry.

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Convene by PCMA

APRIL 24, 2023

Generic messaging that could apply to any show doesn’t usually resonate with audiences, especially Millennials and Gen Z who are used to customized content and skeptical of overly broad promises. As event marketers, it’s important to understand when to use abstract and concrete language to tell your story.

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Endless Events

MAY 5, 2022

As such, they’re the dominant audience at corporate events and conferences. It’s not just that technology appeals to our attendees. Event technology solves many common event planning pain points. Event technology solves many common event planning pain points.

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Endless Events

APRIL 8, 2022

It seems that the asynchronous communication trend has also started making waves in the meeting and events industry , namely as asynchronous hybrid events. As discussed in our 2022 Event Trends Guide , hybrid events are not simply in-person and virtual events put together. What Are Asynchronous Hybrid Events?

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Bizzaboo

JUNE 21, 2023

That’s why you’ll find a large portion of this piece is dedicated to event marketing attribution, as well. What is event ROI? Event ROI is a flexible term that indicates the net value an event marketer gets from an event for the net cost that goes into producing it. It’s going to be an ROI-y ride.

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Convene by PCMA

AUGUST 13, 2021

In July, Evolio Marketing and Lippman Connects published “Attendee Acquisition and Event Marketing Survey Report,” offering a glimpse into what 89 event marketers have on their minds and on their drawing boards as the pandemic wears on. Biggest Takeaways.

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Endless Events

MAY 20, 2022

While they are typically more expensive than in-person events, there are also many ways event planners can save money with a hybrid event and see a higher event ROI. When it comes to hybrid event budgets, let the audience and event goals be your guide. Hybrid Event Budgets: How Much?

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Endless Events

MARCH 24, 2022

While the main event goal of some events is to sell as many tickets as possible, others strive for higher brand recognition or good event marketing metrics. Registration & Attendee KPIs. Attendee demographics : age, region, job title, industry. Active people in the event platform each hour.

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Endless Events

JUNE 20, 2023

They grew up in the age of 24/7 social media and COVID-19, which gives this generation a unique perspective on marketing—including live events. For event marketers, it can be tricky to understand this up-and-coming generation entering the workforce. How can you market to Gen Z? What events do they enjoy?

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Convene by PCMA

AUGUST 7, 2023

That frees us up to explore more, because we don’t have to spend time — and our budget — creating complicated composite Photoshop files just to find out that something doesn’t work.” — Kacia Reilly , Group Director, Creative “We’ve always known that localization is essential for hitting attendee-acquisition targets.

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Convene by PCMA

AUGUST 16, 2021

Speak directly to safety concerns and travel hurdles facing international attendees, and provide them with helpful resources they can use to plan a successful trip, mdg suggests. As vaccination rates climb and many countries ease travel restrictions, now is the ideal time to get serious about reengaging global attendees.

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Bizzaboo

JANUARY 23, 2023

After all, event marketers agree that email marketing is the most effective channel for promoting events. In this post, we’ll examine the elements of event marketing webinar email subject lines and what you should keep top of mind to ensure you write the best webinar subject lines for every email you send out.

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Eventtia

APRIL 1, 2022

Yet, all of those efforts will go to waste if you can’t attract enough attendees (both in-person and virtual attendees) to your hybrid event. Without further ado, let us begin from the basics: what is a hybrid event? What is a Hybrid Event? live stream) to a virtual audience.

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Endless Events

MARCH 22, 2018

That’s why we’ve put together this list of creative ways to connect your attendees. Use technology to better connect your attendees. Technology is starting to play a big role in event planner networking. In fact, event planners are continuing to use them more to help increase natural networking at events.

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Social Tables

JUNE 5, 2018

In this post, we’ll show you how to measure audience engagement using four very different tactics that any planner or event marketer can employ. Event planning isn’t easy. Measuring audience engagement. Why Make the Effort to Measure Audience Engagement? The best way to do that? Brand Awareness.

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InEvent

MARCH 31, 2023

Event marketing is one of the best ways of attracting new customers. It helps brands raise awareness and engage with an array of audiences. But most organizations leave one element of their event marketing untapped — the event attendees. Clever marketers leverage guests as brand advocates.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 12, 2022

Event marketers are ramping up in-person events with a fresh perspective provided by two years of virtual meetings and the proliferation of tech specifically focused on video conferencing. Polls and surveys can be conducted easily online with the results displayed to both audiences. Make it Tangible.

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Endless Events

JUNE 10, 2022

The final step in the event management process is a follow-up meeting after the event to discuss the event’s overall ROI, attendee and sponsor feedback, and make the necessary readjustments to the overarching event strategy. Event professionals have to come to follow-up meetings after events well-prepared.

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Event gamification has revolutionized the way we plan events and measure their success. It boosts audience engagement and helps event planners reach their event goals in quantifiable and seamless ways. No wonder it has become one of the most popular benefits of event platforms ! Why Event Gamification?

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Endless Events

JULY 5, 2022

Here’s what you’ll find: Will’s journey from starting a DJ company as a high school student to being a CEO of one of the most influential event management companies, a candid conversation about audience engagement as one of the event profs’ biggest pain points: are smartphones the enemies or friends of engagement?

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Convene by PCMA

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Traditional event marketing is struggling. Your audience no longer responds to email, social, or paid ads like they did in 2019. How do you evolve your event marketing to reach your attendees and fill empty seats? The first step is to stop marketing your event alone.

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