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Event Marketing Resolutions for 2023

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Have you made resolutions for your 2023 event planning? With the return of in-person trade shows and conferences, event marketers got back to doing what they love — bringing people together for inspiring, educational, and productive experiences. We are marketing to people.

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Event Marketers, Get Specific — or Don’t — With Your Messaging

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As event marketers, it’s important to understand when to use abstract and concrete language to tell your story. Wharton School marketing professor and author Jonah Berger writes that there are three ways to apply the idea of linguistic concreteness (see On the Web below).

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New Year, New Resolutions for Event Marketers

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What are your event marketing resolutions for the new year? this year’s disruptors were largely positive for event marketers — like AI and new audiences with changing values. By focusing on how we want the recipient to feel at our events, it will allow us to design activations that foster genuine connection.

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Don’t Skimp on Images in Your Event Marketing During COVID Times

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Ninety-five percent of B2B buyers said they wanted shorter, highly visual content. So, how can event marketers use visuals to drive audience engagement and event attendance? Showing enormous crowds from a pre-COVID event might do more than bring up safety concerns — it might also set false expectations.

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When Marketing an Event, Advertise Outside Your Lane

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To see the value in this new approach, event marketers must rethink their tendency to speak to businesspeople only during work hours via so-called professional channels. B2B companies, however, stayed away because of the costs, inflexibility, and lack of targeting options. Read: Wasted impressions equal wasted money.).

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How 8 Event Marketers Are Using AI Now

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Kimberly Hardcastle-Geddes is chief marketing strategist at mdg , a Freeman Company, a full-service marketing and public relations firm specializing in B2B events.

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Lessons in Event Marketing From Taylor Swift

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Event marketers can embrace nostalgia by celebrating milestone years in meaningful ways, creating graphic timeline displays showing the industry’s — and event’s — evolution, and creating museum-like vignettes showcasing vintage technology or products. More Event Marketing Find past event marketing columns in our archive.