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More Marketing Isn’t the Answer

Velvet Chainsaw

A strategic look at your marketing spend, as well as what you spend on your attendee experience, can be telling. According to Convene ’s most recent Meetings Market Survey , on average 6 percent of a meeting’s direct expenses fall in the marketing/promotion category. More or better marketing can’t fix this.

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How to Improve Your Call for Presentations Process

Velvet Chainsaw

When Velvet Chainsaw Consulting conducted speaker research with 120 associations with research and consulting company Tagoras Inc. in 2013, we found that nearly 77 percent use a call for speakers/sessions process. Mask the speakers name and company. Associations value member input. Tighten the timeline. Avoid spin.

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7 Tips to Keep Your Event Speakers Coming Back

Eventmobi

Event speakers are essential to a successful event marketing strategy. Event marketing is a powerful strategy for B2C and B2B marketers, and for good reason. In fact, 75 percent of B2B marketers rated in-person events as the most effective marketing tactic. Happy speakers lead to happy attendees.

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10 Ideas for Improving Your Pay-to-Play Conference Presentations

Velvet Chainsaw

As more sponsors embrace content marketing or thought leadership as arguably the most powerful strategy for improving attitudes and perceptions of their brand, conference-speaking slots are increasing in value. Stage time can range from a five-minute-interruption marketing slot to a full-session buyout. Thou Shalt Be Attendee-Centric.

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Why Your Conference Should be Target-Audience Obsessed

Velvet Chainsaw

Peter Fader , professor of marketing at Wharton, and author of Customer Centricity: Focus on the Right Customers for Strategic Advantage , highlights customer lifetime value as a strategic lens for identifying your best customers. Over the past 18 months, we’ve carefully scrubbed and analyzed the attendance of 20 major conferences.

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The best event marketing campaigns

Eventory

Reading Time: 6 minutes It all started with passing samples of products on the streets… Experimental, engaging marketing has gone from the edge to the great player in marketing. Check out our picks of the best event marketing campaigns to get inspired and implement the brand new event marketing strategy to your company.

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How to Secure Event Sponsorship

Attendease

For them, these events serve as an extremely specialized branch of promotion and marketing, bringing together brands and potential customers/business leaders on a face to face basis. The event marketing campaign was called, ‘Rolex’s DNA: innovation and design’, a theme that suited the nature of TED Conferences. Finding Event Sponsors.