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2022 Conference Registration Pacing

Velvet Chainsaw

Market differently. One of the most effective tactics for moving fence sitters to registrants is influencer-marketing campaigns. Develop social and email assets that co-brand and enable committee members, speakers, and exhibitors to share that they are attending. They provide the social proof needed to drive action.

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Know Thy Customer

Velvet Chainsaw

Reprinted with permission of Convene , the magazine of the Professional Convention Management Association. If so, what criteria have you used to help identify those individuals? Adapted from Dave’s Forward Thinking column in PCMA’s Convene.

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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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Your Conference Content Has Magnetic Pull

Velvet Chainsaw

Content marketing has grown by leaps and bounds during the past five years. Unfortunately, too few event organizers fully embrace the long-tail, pull benefits of content marketing. Likewise, many conference professionals have no idea what embracing the long-tail, pull benefits of content marketing even means. Get specific.

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Your Conference Needs a Hub To Entice Customers and Prospects

Velvet Chainsaw

We were discussing their marketing and communication strategies for their event. I voiced my strong opinion that conference organizers should embrace inbound marketing (pull) over traditional outbound marketing (push). Want more info, read Marketo’s thorough explanation and comparison of Inbound vs. Outbound Marketing.

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Why Your Conference Should be Target-Audience Obsessed

Velvet Chainsaw

Over the past 18 months, we’ve carefully scrubbed and analyzed the attendance of 20 major conferences. These projects had an aggregate attendance of 110,000-plus participants with registration revenue in excess of $30 million. Reprinted with permission of Convene , the magazine of the Professional Convention Management Association.

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How Much Should You Spend on Marketing Your Meeting?

PCMA Convene

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. Here are four insights we’ve learned from analyzing the marketing-spend category: 1. Marketing spend for conferences with an expo is usually closer to 6 percent.