Techsytalk

JANUARY 23, 2017

Sponsors are bombarded with dozens of request letters hardly different from your own. Here are six secrets to up your prospects of securing sponsorship and cultivating a long-term relationship with event sponsors. Check Sponsor Guidelines, if Applicable. Some companies, for example, only sponsor during certain times of the year.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 18, 2025

Understand Your Target Audience: Who Are Meeting & Event Planners? Optimize Your Online Presence Most meeting planners begin their search for suppliers online. Sponsoring Newsletters Sponsoring newsletters can be an effective way to reach potential clients directly in their inboxes.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Thanks to this knack for adaptability, a surge in virtual events completely shifted the paradigm, and audiences were introduced to brand new ways to connect and experience the world. One of the most glaring hybrid event mistakes planners incur is ignoring the virtual audience (more on that later). Both audiences will thank you!

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Endless Events

MARCH 17, 2020

Moving to a Virtual Event – How do I get it online? . Moving your event online will require several moving parts. The first steps are to look at your event and visualize what your ideal online event would look like. And what will you do to keep your sponsors happy? Consider Your Sponsors and Exhibitors .

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Endless Events

JUNE 10, 2022

The final step in the event management process is a follow-up meeting after the event to discuss the event’s overall ROI, attendee and sponsor feedback, and make the necessary readjustments to the overarching event strategy. Survey Your Audience To Get Post-Event Feedback. Did we promote to the right audience for the event?

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Whether online or in-person, events are a great way to drive brand awareness, generate leads, and connect with customers. So let’s give your audience what they want. Create an Event Community Online communities are virtual spaces that bring like-minded people together. What made your audience fall in love with your brand?

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Smart Meetings

MAY 17, 2021

So, how can marketers create impactful hybrid events that resonate with physical and virtual attendees while delivering ROI for hosts, sponsors and exhibitors? The answer is to understand both your in-person and virtual audiences while creating powerful experiences for both. Tapping into The Differences.

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Endless Events

MARCH 24, 2022

We’ve outlined 77 event KPIs and divided them into eight major groups: general and attendee event KPIs , financial event KPIs , marketing KPIs , audience engagement KPIs , presenter KPIs , sponsorship and tradeshow KPIs , event networking KPIs , community KPIs. Event platforms have transformed how we measure audience engagement KPIs.

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Endless Events

DECEMBER 20, 2022

To successfully recreate the in-person experience online, planners need to consider the following challenges. How to create serendipity and exciting spontaneity of in-person event experiences online? Your audience should understand that it’s a real event you’re planning, not just another webinar resembling a conference call. .

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Endless Events

MARCH 3, 2022

Additionally, you need to produce truly exceptional events that will foster attendee retention and potentially turn your audience into advocates. “Most promotion of events occurs online through social media ads, websites, and pages of certain websites used to market events. “You spend a lot more money,” Dustin says.

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Endless Events

APRIL 8, 2022

What makes a hybrid event synchronous is that both hybrid audiences experience the same event, at the same time. But this is no easy feat; research shows that 46% of event organizers say that speakers struggle to simultaneously engage a virtual and in-person audience. Why asynchronous events? Each gets full, undivided attention.

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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Last week I immensely enjoyed participating in a two-hour Zoom brain trust on moderating online panels. So good, it should be shared with a wider audience. What are 1-2 of your online moderating pro tips? Tools and techniques for engaging the audience. Ensure your audience knows you care…AND your panelist knows you care.

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Endless Events

MAY 27, 2020

Is it even possible to entice sponsors within this paradigm? On the contrary, the online world has the potential to offer even more reasons for a sponsor to want to work with you on a virtual event. If you’re in it for the financial perks, sponsors need to get their money’s worth one way or another. But where to begin?

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

But money saved also means ROI lost: the champion of March 2020 does not deliver on audience engagement and valuable data insights – and these are essential for an event’s success. Enhanced virtual audience engagement. Virtual audience engagement remains one of the biggest pain points of event planners.

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Endless Events

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Organizations use event marketing to: Promote the brand to a larger audience. Get data insights into their target audience. After the event, they put all their content online on demand. But in 2020, the pandemic forced us to take our events online. . Data helps event marketers: Understand their target audience better.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Not only do they talk about this particular event platform’s solutions, but they also nerd out about data analytics, virtual audience engagement strategies, and the ROI of virtual events. I had never actually done what would now be considered a virtual event or an online event. Designing Virtual Audience Engagement.

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Endless Events

MARCH 10, 2020

“Live webinars in addition to the summits where we do three hours of education, we now teach the majority of all of our certificate sessions online. How can we ensure a virtual audience stays engaged? And those programs are sometimes six hours long, and I facilitate and teach most of those. The Timing.

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Endless Events

MAY 4, 2021

We championed for them, wanting to make sure that we were still fundraising for them and keeping them relevant and engaged with sponsors and donors.” Virtual audience engagement is key for every virtual and hybrid event, and it’s even more decisive when it comes to fundraising. People loved the party in the boxes!

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Speakers want to present remotely, and attendees and sponsors are starting to drop off. What if travel policies change, and speakers, attendees and sponsors start to cancel? Know your audience. Make sure it stays true to audience needs. A good hybrid strategy also expands audience reach and event lifecycle.

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Endless Events

APRIL 22, 2020

Instead of checking out virtual event pricing from other events, take a look at online course platforms. A great way to get a benchmark is to see how these online courses are priced. And chances are, some of your audience fits in that bubble. So put your scientist cap on and get researching places like Udemy to see what’s up!

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Endless Events

OCTOBER 12, 2020

In this particular case, we’re not talking about engagement between attendees, but rather the complex relationship between the talking heads and the audience. In order to combat webinar fatigue, presenters and speakers alike must make a serious effort in order to establish a consistent, engaging dialogue with the audience.

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Endless Events

JUNE 15, 2022

By including your audience in your marketing efforts, your brand will connect with them in a much more effective way. Create a memorable hashtag and give your audience a chance to participate in an activity they will want to share on their profiles (ie. Highlight your sponsors in organic ways. social media wall).

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Endless Events

APRIL 22, 2022

It comes with a slew of benefits, including continuous audience engagement and endless branding opportunities. Modern communities live online , either on social media and communication platforms or most recently, on event platforms. Here’s how to start setting up your online community: BUILD A WAITLIST.

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Endless Events

JUNE 15, 2018

Why not make life easier for your while delivering better value to sponsors? Use the right online tools that will get the most bang out of your event bucks. Online Tools to Make Registration a Breeze. Today there are multiple options for attendees to check in to events, whether offline or online.

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Endless Events

MARCH 25, 2020

In the process, you’ll also want to define your target audience clearly, since this is a stepping stone for many aspects of planning and execution. Do you just want a speaker talking to the audience? Do you want the audience to engage? Here you’ll want to keep the audience in mind when choosing the entertainment.

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Endless Events

APRIL 14, 2020

At the same time also for sponsors, this was still something which was a little bit uncommon. Because it was still something which is a little bit new kind of for the sponsors, especially when it comes to the smaller sponsorships then this might be quite difficult actually because they don’t have the experience” A Learning Curve.

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Consider adding the following features to your payment options: deposit structure : attendees put down a deposit at online registration, discount codes : coupons or special offers. Offer early-bird tickets to avoid an overwhelming amount of last-minute registrations and nurture your audience with email marketing until the big day.

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

One final disclaimer before we dive in: this is not sponsored content ; no event platform paid to be featured on this list. A note to planners : Not the solution currently meant to manage onsite elements for your event, but offers the unique opportunity to incorporate Topia onsite at your event to connect the virtual audience. .

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 3, 2021

Event planners surmised that audiences had gotten so comfy in fuzzy slippers that they would not want to leave their houses. Another client said, “Ticket sales used to cover the venue and speakers, but the profit came from sponsors. Sure, they can watch, but they can’t interact like the people in the live audience can.

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Endless Events

OCTOBER 4, 2022

If you’re planning the biggest shindig of the year, you’re busy worrying about registrations, sponsors, and catering. How much did you earn from sponsors ? Sponsorships are a great way to measure ROI because they show sponsors have an interest in your event. . As an event planner, you host events to get results.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 31, 2022

For sure, there are a significant percentage of meeting attendees that can’t wait to participate in person; but organizers and planners found out during the first several months of 2022 that a sizable audience of previous attendees were more than happy to participate virtually. And speaking of social media, don’t overlook this now-old friend.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 14, 2022

Predictions are that 40% of 2022 events are projected to happen online, there will be a 37% increase in companies’ virtual event spending, and 20% of trade shows will remain virtual. Customers, sponsors, and exhibitors are demanding a different value proposition. But the reality is that 80% of virtual attendance is free.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Foster Lasting Relationships Events are really all about relationships, so your event plan should prioritize fostering lasting connections with attendees, sponsors and partners. Providing a platform for ongoing communication, such as a dedicated online community or newsletter, can help keep the event relevant throughout the year.

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Endless Events

JUNE 13, 2022

” Simply put, there’s ROI in audience engagement. But it’s one thing to host a community and another to create a truly outstanding online community. “The data you get from online events is incredible compared to in-person. “It’s a wow factor, people love them.” It takes pre-planning.

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Endless Events

DECEMBER 4, 2018

2019 Event Trends: Your Audience Craves Authenticity. Your Audience Craves Authenticity. Are we choosing sponsors that match our value? Do our topics reflect our event’s purpose and does it resonate with our audience? Sponsors, for example, will start using diversity as a kicker when choosing which events to fund.

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Endless Events

AUGUST 4, 2020

For instance, you probably read every article under the sun teaching you about virtual audience engagement, sponsorships, speakers, and more. Exhibitor/sponsors onboarding materials . Exhibitor/sponsor onboarding sessions. But how much attention have you actually paid to the virtual event production aspect? What to expect: .

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Traveler's Q

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In today’s digital age, having a successful event website is essential for maximizing your event’s online reach. Therefore, it is crucial to invest time and resources in creating a well-designed and informative event website that resonates with your target audience.

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