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10 Fun Social-Media Trends to Try on for Size

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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? If you’ve been hesitant to dip your toe into the less serious social media waters, here are 10 easy trends to consider. Tap into a trending audio.

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Lessons in Event Marketing From Taylor Swift

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She used her Grammy acceptance speech as well as social-media teasers and snippets of her music to get fans excited about her upcoming album. Similarly, event organizers can tease their audience with short clips, exclusive announcements, or a drip campaign to create buzz and build excitement. Reinvent yourself, evolve, change.

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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). Make the abstract more concrete.

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How 8 Event Marketers Are Using AI Now

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All of that helps us get a clearer picture of who we’re targeting, which is essential for achieving our — and our clients’ — goals.” — Christine Johnson , Director of Content “I think there’s a lot of opportunity for generative AI to support and expedite social-media marketing tactics.

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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.

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How to Use Social Proof to Market Your Event

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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. Highlight the organization behind your show and any societies or affiliated associations involved with it.