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Velvet Chainsaw
NOVEMBER 6, 2017
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.
Velvet Chainsaw
APRIL 5, 2022
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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Velvet Chainsaw
OCTOBER 12, 2018
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.
Velvet Chainsaw
JULY 23, 2018
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.
Velvet Chainsaw
JULY 10, 2017
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.
Velvet Chainsaw
JUNE 5, 2024
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.
PCMA Convene
SEPTEMBER 18, 2017
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.
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