Category: Event Marketing
Is It Worth Sponsoring or Hosting Your Events?
Event strategy is an incredibly important tool for every business’s marketing team, and one of the most complex problems these teams must solve is deciding whether to host or sponsor an event. Both tactics have their own benefits–and their own downsides.
Standing Out in Your Next Trade Show
So much work goes into conceptualizing, creating, building, and transporting your booth to a trade show. So, it can almost feel unfair when you get to the trade show and realize so many other businesses have put just as much time and effort into their booths, too.
What Makes an Effective Trade Show Booth?
The trade show is a great environment to meet with customers, build anticipation for your products, size-up your competition, and connect more directly with consumers of all shapes and sizes. But once you arrive in the trade show hall and see all the other exhibits of similar size, with similar layouts, and similar colors, suddenly your booth can look like just one more un-special, bland cutout. The good news is that there are plenty of ways to make your trade show booth a unique experience that will drive customers and make sure that you are the life of the trade show.
How to Shift Your Exhibit to a Virtual Event
2020 forced the entire globe to adjust to social distancing standards and stay-at-home regulations. The result? Rising popularity in virtual and hybrid events. Experts have been predicting that the trade show market is going to see an uptick in exhibit shows in the 3rd quarter of 2021–but that doesn’t mean virtual events are going to go away.
Trade Show Success Secrets: What Every Exhibitor Should Know
How exhibitors measure trade show success varies from business to business — and often differs from one show to the next. But however you define trade show marketing success at your particular company, one thing is clear: Advance planning and goal setting are critical. Successful exhibitors don’t just show up and set up. They follow a well-thought-out plan.
6 Trade Show Games and Activities Guaranteed to Draw a Crowd
You don’t exhibit at a trade show in hopes of having an empty booth; you want your booth teeming with prospects! But more booth traffic sometimes forces attendees to wait in line for personal attention from your sales team … or walk away entirely. Trade show games and activities help by keeping prospects busy and engaged, giving you more time to connect with them.
Innovative Event Sponsorship Ideas Big-ticket Sponsors Can’t Resist
Having trouble getting sponsors to commit to your event? Your cookie-cutter, one-size-fits-all sponsorship package may be to blame. In addition to basic sponsorship perks like logo-emblazoned swag, guaranteed trade show booths, and speaking opportunities, high-end event sponsors are increasingly drawn toward packages that include customized offerings and rewards.
Trade Show Videos: Surefire Ways to Command the Spotlight
Done correctly, video will engage passersby like nothing else in the exhibitor’s tool box. Once you’ve grabbed their attention, you can use video to educate, inform and even entertain potential business prospects. Here are some tips for creating trade show videos that captivate your audience while sharing your key message — before, during and after the trade show.
Exhibiting Abroad? Avoid These Critical Mistakes to Ensure a Successful Show
Has your company made plans to exhibit at its very first overseas trade show? Congratulations! Are you scared or anxious? You should be. Dipping your toe into international trade show waters can be as nerve-racking as it is exciting. Learn how to sidestep these common first-timer mistakes and you’ll be on your way to a great foreign exhibit experience.
Design a Better Trade Show Display Using Customer and Buyer Personas
Savvy marketers understand the value of customer personas in developing high-conversion funnels, email marketing campaigns and social media content. But customer personas aren’t just for digital marketing. They can also provide exhibitors with valuable insights into how trade show displays should be outfitted and configured to draw in more qualified leads.
