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Lessons in Event Marketing From Taylor Swift

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Event marketers can embrace nostalgia by celebrating milestone years in meaningful ways, creating graphic timeline displays showing the industry’s — and event’s — evolution, and creating museum-like vignettes showcasing vintage technology or products. More Event Marketing Find past event marketing columns in our archive.

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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. By focusing on how we want the recipient to feel at our events, it will allow us to design activations that foster genuine connection.

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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).

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Time to Retire Outdated Event Marketing Jargon

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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. Success starts here!” Content is king!” Keep calm and (fill in the blank).”

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How 8 Event Marketers Are Using AI Now

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Kimberly Hardcastle-Geddes is chief marketing strategist at mdg , a Freeman Company, a full-service marketing and public relations firm specializing in B2B events.

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When Marketing an Event, Advertise Outside Your Lane

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To see the value in this new approach, event marketers must rethink their tendency to speak to businesspeople only during work hours via so-called professional channels. B2B companies, however, stayed away because of the costs, inflexibility, and lack of targeting options. Read: Wasted impressions equal wasted money.).

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3 Reasons to Start Marketing 2027 Events Now

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A slow and steady strategy — with long-term goals and omni-channel tactics — will help win the race to attract audiences for your events. Historically, event marketers have focused narrowly — and often, exclusively — on the present show cycle. Event marketers cannot live on email alone.