Convene by PCMA

AUGUST 7, 2023

Marketing departments everyone are debating the merits of generative AI. We use generative tools to supplement our existing audience research, transcribe interview recordings, and even produce a unique and evocative image of the person we’re hoping to attract with our campaign.

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Convene by PCMA

DECEMBER 4, 2023

If you haven’t added influencer marketing — a collaboration between popular social-media users and brands to promote brands’ products or services — into your event marketing mix yet, consider these five reasons to do so. Influencer marketing enables you to: Reach younger audiences. Find a more qualified, new audience.

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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. Curious how to create a marketing plan for an event?

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Event Marketing Marketing Marketing Social Media 98

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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Convene by PCMA

JULY 21, 2023

The pandemic slump is a thing of the past, even when it comes to international audiences. 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.

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Convene by PCMA

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Baker attendance at the International Baking Industry Exposition 2022 rose 25 percent compared to IBIE 2019, thanks in large part to a clever marketing campaign showcasing baked goods in unexpected situations. As such, a dedicated team of international marketers, a healthy budget, and a sustained strategic approach were directed at this goal.

Marketing 98

Marketing Marketing Retail Public Relations 98

Advanced Travel and Tourism

AUGUST 22, 2023

In the dynamic landscape of modern marketing, effective communication among different organizational departments is vital to achieving coherent and impactful campaigns. This holds particularly true for the travel and tourism industry, where successful destination marketing requires collaboration between various teams.

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Convene by PCMA

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

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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DCI

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

With groups like the Public Relations Society of America and Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association Internationa l handing out awards each year, destination marketers need to keep their eyes open for applications and submissions.

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Stova

JUNE 30, 2023

While organizing a remarkable event is essential, effective marketing strategies play a vital role in maximizing attendance and creating buzz around your event. This blog post will explore several key marketing strategies that event professionals can leverage to boost event registration and make their events truly remarkable.

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Convene by PCMA

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

During the pandemic, event marketers with a growth mindset experimented with new ways to serve their audiences, collaborated with their remote teammates, and generated revenue for their organizations. Get to really know your audience. And best yet, you’ll have great new insights to apply to your next marketing campaign.

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Motivation Excellence

JANUARY 26, 2019

They do diligent research in order to create effective marketing campaigns. This allows them to break into new markets, establish a presence, and become a go-to source for customers. An effective promotional campaign driven by a rock-solid marketing communications strategy helps make this connection.

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Convene by PCMA

JANUARY 19, 2024

Providing docent-led tours of the exhibit hall for niche audiences at an event is one way to provide a more customized event experience for the group. Most event organizers, however, aren’t doing enough to cater to individuals or smaller interest groups that make up larger events. Target your marketing. Plan with purpose.

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Convene by PCMA

JANUARY 12, 2023

While getting attendance and revenue to pre-COVID numbers is understandable, doing so by defaulting to the legacy versions of our face-to-face events — with few if any changes to content, layout, and marketing — isn’t a wise strategy. What should organizers be doing now? Attendees’ priorities are shifting. See On the Web.).

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Convene by PCMA

JUNE 18, 2022

One way to market a destination is by highlighting such attractions as its theater, dining, or music scenes. When it comes to event marketing, it’s always been not just who and what that matters, but where — and since the pandemic, the destination plays an even larger role in attracting an audience. Prioritize DEI.

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Convene by PCMA

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Yes to all of the above, according to Kimberly Hardcastle-Geddes, CEM, president of the marketing and public relations firm, mdg, who offered 20 real-world examples of personalization in her presentation, “ Facilitating Curated Event Experiences: How Thinking Small Delivers Big Returns ,” at Convening Leaders 2024.

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Convene by PCMA

JUNE 30, 2022

In the future its more likely that audiences will look to an organization’s stance on issues — LGTBQ+ rights for example — before deciding whether to attend an event. Our audiences’ personal values have the potential to impact event attendance in other ways, too. But that option may not work for audiences of the future.

Public Relations 52

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Convene by PCMA

MARCH 8, 2024

If your organization has a weighty mission, does that mean that “light” social media content is off-limits when it comes to promoting your annual event? nfluenceagency Caption: We’re Marketers. In the immortal words of Meghan Trainor, “nah to the ah to the no, no, no, no.” Type out your thoughts. Make it a meme.

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Bizzaboo

JANUARY 8, 2024

Event branding is crucial in creating a distinctive and impactful identity for conferences and corporate events, including creating a theme or idea that matches the event’s goal, principles, and target audience. It involves developing a theme or concept that reflects the event’s purpose, values, and target audience.

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Convene by PCMA

OCTOBER 4, 2021

More than 90 percent of event participants responding to a recent survey said they are not opposed to additional health and safety protocols at events like Informa Markets’ MAGIC Pop Up Orlando earlier this year. Only 30 percent of attendee organizations are likely to restrict travel due to the Delta variant.

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Convene by PCMA

DECEMBER 30, 2021

We channeled our certainty into a communications strategy that would instill confidence into our audience. We didn’t want to have all linear booth space,” said Liz Irving, executive vice president and head of marketing, technology, and customer experience at Clarion Events. “As ” (Courtesy Insuretech Connect).

Public Relations 98

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Bizzaboo

JANUARY 10, 2024

Looking for an event or experiential marketing agency in 2024? of event organizers believe that events are the most critical marketing channel for achieving business goals, and 75.9% of organizers believe in-person conferences will become increasingly critical to their organization’s success in the coming years!

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Eventtia

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Creating positive press coverage is one of the best ways to build public awareness and enhance your brand reputation. Where advertising works to get your brand known, public relations (PR) tells your brand story, shaping public perception. Over 82% of PR professionals anticipate the integration of PR and marketing.

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Social Media SEO Public Relations Events 62

Convene by PCMA

AUGUST 25, 2023

Some examples: Chief, for women executive leaders; Hampton, for high-growth founders; Swipe Files, for marketers; and Tech Ladies, for women in tech. And what should event and association marketers take from this trend? Create a Community There are many ways to leverage membership community values to attract audiences to our events.

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Convene by PCMA

APRIL 6, 2022

I’ve had my ear to the ground during the nearly first quarter of the year and have aggregated the following advice and insights from organizers who have planned, produced, supported and/or marketed successful 2022 events. Kimberly Hardcastle-Geddes. Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good. We go back to the past because we know it.

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Retail Public Relations Events Regulations 98

The Abbi Agency

DECEMBER 2, 2021

We’re in the middle of the value-based marketing era, with heightened expectations from audiences post-pandemic, and communities are craving meaningful content that pushes the envelope while making them feel good about who and what they’re supporting. Creative Positioning is Necessary.

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Banking SEO Audience Sustainability 130

Bizzaboo

DECEMBER 4, 2023

of organizers point to in-person events as their top marketing channel , it’s time for businesses to listen, invest, and innovate. In-person conferences and events are the most impactful marketing channel, which means event organizers need the bodies, buy-in, budget, and tools to execute unforgettable experiences.

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B2B Event Planning Conference Logistics 59

DCI

JANUARY 27, 2022

The “most wanted” media targets for destination marketing organizations often include the same travel-oriented titles… Afar , Condé Nast Traveler and Travel+Leisure. Dedicated travel publications aren’t going anywhere, unless you’re an inflight magazine. . The post So What Are The Best Lifestyle Media For Your Travel Angles?

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Media Travel Travel Fashion 80

Convene by PCMA

JULY 15, 2021

Fulvi has served as president and CEO since 2018, when he joined the organization from VisitPITTSBURGH. In his new role, Mack will manage public relations and communication efforts for VSL, targeting local, national, and international media sources. Fulvi will join Arrivalist as chief sales officer upon his departure.

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Convene by PCMA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

“Government entities are basically saying, ‘We want your money, we’re going to dissolve the DMO as we know it and hire out a marketing firm,’” Gard said. For the PRSA conference audience of tourism and travel writers, getting that sense of a host destination is part of the reason why they attend in the first place.

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Social Tables

JULY 31, 2018

In this guest post, Accelevents co-founder and COO Zach Hagopian breaks down the five most crucial tips he’s learned from his own experience organizing an annual event in Boston. I even organize my own annual fundraiser, hosting over 1,000 attendees every year to support cancer research and treatment. Fundraising.

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Social Tables

JULY 31, 2018

In this guest post, Accelevents co-founder and COO Zach Hagopian breaks down the five most crucial tips he’s learned from his own experience organizing an annual event in Boston. I even organize my own annual fundraiser, hosting over 1,000 attendees every year to support cancer research and treatment.

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Sponsors Logistics Vendor Events 97

DCI

JUNE 14, 2021

Destination marketing organizations worldwide dropped both their agencies and employees who worked to promote them given that travel was at a standstill. There was nothing to promote, and with many DMOs funded by hotel occupancy tax and other public funds, money was tight. Bye-bye budgets. Big news for small groups.

Travel 69

Travel Travel Media Public Relations 69

DCI

JULY 19, 2021

For our economic development clients, we survey corporate executives in targeted industries and site selection consultants, as well as prospective talent from prime feeder markets. There is no doubt that economic development and destination marketing have merged closer and closer together during the past 30 years.

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Convene by PCMA

JANUARY 19, 2023

With the return of in-person trade shows and conferences, event marketers got back to doing what they love — bringing people together for inspiring, educational, and productive experiences. Here’s how mdg professionals resolve to renew their approach to digital marketing, branding, messaging, and more.

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Convene by PCMA

MAY 1, 2024

Selena Coles Visit Williamsburg has named Selena Coles as its new public relations specialist. Coles’ responsibilities include media relations, promoting Visit Williamsburg’s initiatives and attractions to a global audience, and collaborating on developing strategic communications plans.

Public Relations 52

Public Relations Sports Sustainability Promotion 52

Convene by PCMA

MARCH 16, 2022

A quality website that provides your audience with key attributes that bring them back often will serve another function: marketing your events. With so much website traffic coming from mobile devices (which come in a diverse range of sizes and shapes), developing smart, organic design patterns that adapt to fit any screen is key.

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