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APRIL 30, 2024

Elizabeth Doll/PCMA) Kimberly Hardcastle-Geddes You can take a page from Taylor Swift’s marketing approach in your attendee acquisition strategy plan. Similarly, event organizers can tease their audience with short clips, exclusive announcements, or a drip campaign to create buzz and build excitement. Embrace nostalgia.

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Convene by PCMA

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Throughout the disruptions brought on by COVID-19, event marketers have not only persevered but learned some important lessons along the way. It might not have been easy, but it helped me expand my skills and made me a stronger marketer. “I But did we really listen to our audiences? But did we really listen to our audiences?

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Advanced Travel and Tourism

AUGUST 22, 2023

In the dynamic landscape of modern marketing, effective communication among different organizational departments is vital to achieving coherent and impactful campaigns. This holds particularly true for the travel and tourism industry, where successful destination marketing requires collaboration between various teams.

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Convene by PCMA

AUGUST 7, 2023

Marketing departments everyone are debating the merits of generative AI. We use generative tools to supplement our existing audience research, transcribe interview recordings, and even produce a unique and evocative image of the person we’re hoping to attract with our campaign.

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The Abbi Agency

JANUARY 23, 2023

With clients rolling out onto the tarmac with new messages audiences might not be familiar with, our team prides itself in being strategic with the ways in which we position stories to both journalists and readers. Dani Hannah, Account Executive Reaching Your Cruising Altitude – Audience Recognition Good afternoon passengers.

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Convene by PCMA

JANUARY 24, 2022

Understanding what your audiences need and want, and framing what sets your brand or event apart from others, will drive home that fear of missing out. While the beginning of the pandemic saw a huge boost for online events, audiences have shorter attention spans and attendees are spending less time engaged with virtual platforms.

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Convene by PCMA

APRIL 24, 2023

Generic messaging that could apply to any show doesn’t usually resonate with audiences, especially Millennials and Gen Z who are used to customized content and skeptical of overly broad promises. As event marketers, it’s important to understand when to use abstract and concrete language to tell your story.

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Bizzaboo

APRIL 19, 2023

Event marketing can be a complex and time-consuming process, but it is essential for ensuring that your event is a success. A well-crafted marketing plan for events will help you reach your target audience, generate interest in your event, and drive ticket sales. Curious how to create a marketing plan for an event?

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Convene by PCMA

JULY 21, 2023

The pandemic slump is a thing of the past, even when it comes to international audiences. But that doesn’t mean markets, messages, and promotional approaches should be the same as they were four years ago. As a result, the markets organizers are prioritizing and how they’re reaching audiences are changing.

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Convene by PCMA

MARCH 18, 2024

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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Convene by PCMA

DECEMBER 4, 2023

If you haven’t added influencer marketing — a collaboration between popular social-media users and brands to promote brands’ products or services — into your event marketing mix yet, consider these five reasons to do so. Influencer marketing enables you to: Reach younger audiences. Find a more qualified, new audience.

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Convene by PCMA

MAY 19, 2023

If event marketers want their message to resonate with attendees, they must speak the language of event goers — not the other way around. Jargon is pervasive in marketing — and event marketing is no exception. Make no mistake, audiences are feeling overwhelmingly positive about our industry. Success starts here!”

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DCI

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

With groups like the Public Relations Society of America and Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association Internationa l handing out awards each year, destination marketers need to keep their eyes open for applications and submissions.

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Advanced Travel and Tourism

AUGUST 22, 2023

In the dynamic landscape of modern marketing, effective communication among different organizational departments is vital to achieving coherent and impactful campaigns. This holds particularly true for the travel and tourism industry, where successful destination marketing requires collaboration between various teams.

Marketing 100

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Convene by PCMA

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The National Restaurant Association Show used industry professionals and past attendees to market the 2020 show. 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.

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Convene by PCMA

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

For example, IEEE PES held a well-promoted pitch competition at its Grid Edge Technologies Conference & Exposition, where startups delivered five-minute presentations to a panel of judges in front of an audience of attendees. But today’s audiences want more than vague “new product” promises.

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The Abbi Agency

JULY 15, 2021

Your products define your brand in the eyes of consumers, investors, talent, and the general public, so a product launch is crucial to shaping your public narrative. Securing media coverage around a product launch is one of the highest ROI public relations activities you can engage in. Funding Rounds.

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Stova

JUNE 30, 2023

While organizing a remarkable event is essential, effective marketing strategies play a vital role in maximizing attendance and creating buzz around your event. This blog post will explore several key marketing strategies that event professionals can leverage to boost event registration and make their events truly remarkable.

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Convene by PCMA

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

During the pandemic, event marketers with a growth mindset experimented with new ways to serve their audiences, collaborated with their remote teammates, and generated revenue for their organizations. And now that the worst of the pandemic is behind us (fingers crossed), how can event marketers continue moving boldly into the future?

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Motivation Excellence

JANUARY 26, 2019

They do diligent research in order to create effective marketing campaigns. This allows them to break into new markets, establish a presence, and become a go-to source for customers. An effective promotional campaign driven by a rock-solid marketing communications strategy helps make this connection.

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The Abbi Agency

JUNE 9, 2021

Our approach to promoting this type of work varies based on each development’s unique set of goals, messaging, audiences and purpose. We work with developers to identify smart objectives, positioning them within the community as experts, leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators, and to help educate their intended audiences.

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Convene by PCMA

OCTOBER 13, 2024

The SuperZoo pet retail event finds playful ways to engage its audience on social media. Meet your audience on the channels they are using. Coin Laundry Association’s (CLA) audience was highly active on TikTok and Instagram (below), engaging with influencers who were repurposing the association’s content.

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Convene by PCMA

OCTOBER 9, 2023

With more attendees registering later for events, the two-month period right before the event has become the make-it-or-break-it point for marketers. All of this means that the two-month period right before an event has become the make-it-or-break-it point for marketers.

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Convene by PCMA

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

So, how can event marketers use visuals to drive audience engagement and event attendance? Using inclusive images in marketing collateral is an obvious way to demonstrate a commitment to diversity and attract a diverse audience.”. Ninety-five percent of B2B buyers said they wanted shorter, highly visual content.

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The MICE Blog

JANUARY 15, 2024

Over 80 students fill positions in marketing, communications, PR, legal, finance, administration, content, brands and so on and work on this event almost full time and voluntarily, for which they receive study credits. Their approach to organising and marketing this event differs from how my generation approaches event management.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2024

She brings extensive experience in strategic communications and public relations to her new role, having worked across public policy, higher education, and media. She most recently served as chief of public information at Sinclair Community College. Cruz previously served as executive director of the Mt.

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Convene by PCMA

AUGUST 22, 2022

Event marketers looking to grow their databases, build awareness, keep audiences engaged, and ultimately increase attendance should consider the following top-of-funnel ideas for creating and optimizing content. Many will enthusiastically take advantage of this additional opportunity to share their wisdom with a new audience.

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JULY 15, 2024

From operations and design to marketing and personalization, AI solutions are having an impact on all areas of the industry — and the time to harness their potential is now. Vanessa Page is a copy director at mdg , A Freeman Company, a full-service marketing and public relations firm specializing in B2B events.

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Convene by PCMA

JUNE 18, 2022

One way to market a destination is by highlighting such attractions as its theater, dining, or music scenes. When it comes to event marketing, it’s always been not just who and what that matters, but where — and since the pandemic, the destination plays an even larger role in attracting an audience. Know Your Group.

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Bizzaboo

JANUARY 8, 2024

Event branding is crucial in creating a distinctive and impactful identity for conferences and corporate events, including creating a theme or idea that matches the event’s goal, principles, and target audience. It involves developing a theme or concept that reflects the event’s purpose, values, and target audience.

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Convene by PCMA

JANUARY 19, 2024

Providing docent-led tours of the exhibit hall for niche audiences at an event is one way to provide a more customized event experience for the group. After defining your audience and key objectives — are you trying to attract a certain target market, increase engagement, improve exhibitor satisfaction? — Target your marketing.

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Eventtia

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Creating positive press coverage is one of the best ways to build public awareness and enhance your brand reputation. Where advertising works to get your brand known, public relations (PR) tells your brand story, shaping public perception. Over 82% of PR professionals anticipate the integration of PR and marketing.

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Convene by PCMA

JUNE 30, 2022

In the future its more likely that audiences will look to an organization’s stance on issues — LGTBQ+ rights for example — before deciding whether to attend an event. At the same time, other organizers were planning events for audiences that weren’t even leaving their homes for the grocery store, let alone to travel to a mass gathering.

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Convene by PCMA

JANUARY 12, 2023

While getting attendance and revenue to pre-COVID numbers is understandable, doing so by defaulting to the legacy versions of our face-to-face events — with few if any changes to content, layout, and marketing — isn’t a wise strategy. Attendees’ priorities are shifting. Attendees are socially linked and highly influenced by their peers.

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Convene by PCMA

MARCH 16, 2022

A quality website that provides your audience with key attributes that bring them back often will serve another function: marketing your events. The website — once a single, self-contained publication — now participates in a wider digital ecosystem. Your website is for everyone. standards for web accessibility.

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Crowdriff

JANUARY 21, 2019

While it remains the primary endpoint for most customer interactions, it’s no longer the only venue where marketers can provide information, market their destination or attraction and convert sales. Instead, you need to meet audiences where they are. One of particular importance to tourism marketers is Google Maps.

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Convene by PCMA

OCTOBER 4, 2021

More than 90 percent of event participants responding to a recent survey said they are not opposed to additional health and safety protocols at events like Informa Markets’ MAGIC Pop Up Orlando earlier this year. Almost all exhibitors (94 percent) responded favorably to the prospect of smaller, more qualified audiences.

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