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Registration Is Down and It’s Almost Show Time?

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Start by digging into your current registration lists and leveraging machine learning to identify key trends — job titles, company types, representation from geographic areas, and show history. This is where the power of data science comes in.

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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. Create and nurture a community that extends beyond the event.

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How to Use Social Proof to Market Your Event

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Kimberly Hardcastle-Geddes Understandably, we put more stock in what users and experts have to say about a brand’s products and services than what the brand says about itself. Also consider positioning your event as the place where key members of the industry gather to shape next practices and trends. Don’t forget the friends.

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Time to Retire Outdated Event Marketing Jargon

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New Audiences, New Preferences Freeman’s Q1 2023 Trend Report revealed there’s been a paradigm shift since 2019: In a span of only 18 months, the average age of B2B event goers dropped from 51 to 45. Will your attendees be more excited to explore hot new products or visit the exhibit hall ?

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How Exhibitors Can Adapt to Shifting Marketing Realities

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Events play a critical role in many companies’ marketing mix — giving them exposure for their brands, launching new products, and meeting with buyers. Communicate Who’s Coming We don’t do a good enough job of positioning our attendees as the product we’re selling to our exhibitors. On the Web Download the Freeman Trends Report

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How Events Can Mimic Private Membership Networks

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And what should event and association marketers take from this trend? Finding a supportive community that starts online and then moves into the “real world” can help make in-person events more productive because conversations will start more naturally and easily.

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3 Reasons to Start Marketing 2027 Events Now

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As younger generations — who are skeptical of traditional marketing — enter the workforce, it’s imperative that we’re meeting them where they learn about new products and services, such as social media, YouTube ads, and Internet search. More Event Marketing Find past event marketing columns in our archive.