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Do You Really Have Them at Hello? Rethinking Your First-Timer Strategy

Velvet Chainsaw

The entire hour of their kick-off was focused on helping attendees identify what problems/challenges they were facing at work and how the conference community, education and resource experts present could support them over the three-day conference and beyond.

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Your Conference Content Has Magnetic Pull

Velvet Chainsaw

Securing a speaker’s presentation before the event is difficult as it is. Involving those presenters in a pre-conference marketing process to drip out their content is even more challenging. A Poverty Of Conference Content Marketing Success. Atomizing Your Conference Content. Success is not about making more content.

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Leveraging Team Learning at Conferences

Velvet Chainsaw

In a recent keynote at a major annual healthcare convention, keynoter Margaret Heffernan, PhD, entrepreneur, prolific author and a popular TED Talk presenter, spoke of the importance of investing in the connections among team members to both increase productivity and reduce risk.

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Back to School for Trade Show Organizers: Build In More Ways to Learn and Connect

Velvet Chainsaw

Over 90% of respondents said education was a strong attendance driver. Not surprisingly, when CEIR provided additional insight by running cross-tabs, much higher ratings on the importance of conference sessions were present at association-run shows that rotate locations, and have a smaller attendance and expo floor (82 – 83%).

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4 Ways to Leverage Customer Advocacy at Events

Event Farm

In-person events aren’t just for closing deals and building thought leadership—they also present an opportunity to recruit new advocates, engage existing advocates, and leverage advocacy to drive revenue. customer presentation. Why do people attend marketing events? generating customer advocacy.

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TOP 25 best marketing conferences in Europe to attend in 2019

Eventory

It will provide you with unforgettable new business connections and will present to you the key rising trends in the industry. If you’re looking for the best digital marketing conferences to attend, join the crowd of attendees at the 2019 Marketing Festival that takes place in Prague. 12 Search Marketing Expo.

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Top 99 keynote speakers every event planner must know about

Hubilo Blog

The sole idea of organizing any business event or a conference is to engage with your audience and build a strong brand by providing value by the means of sharing knowledge, insights or present compelling stories. In 2018 alone he gave over 100 educational presentations to event professionals. What is he known for? Where to find him?

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