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

Velvet Chainsaw

In this column, we’ll focus on the preferences influencing education as a motivator (from Part One of the reports). That begs the question: Where are these attendees getting their industry trends if not in conference education programming? Over 90% of respondents said education was a strong attendance driver. Stay tuned.

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Why Your Conference Should be Target-Audience Obsessed

Velvet Chainsaw

In order to design relevant education and networking experiences at our conferences, we need to be focused to the point of obsession with our target audience. Over the past 18 months, we’ve carefully scrubbed and analyzed the attendance of 20 major conferences. If student attendance is material, we like to analyze separately.)

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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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If You Build It, Will Teams Come?

Velvet Chainsaw

Roll up your attendance data to identify your top 25 attending organizations over the last three years. Educate your participants/members on the importance of teams attending and learning together. Start with a targeted campaign to those loyal orgs and then expand it to the next 25 to 50.

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Your Trade Show Attendees: What Do They Really, Really Want?

Velvet Chainsaw

The factors that influence loyal attendees to come to a trade show are quite different, in many instances, than organizers’ perceptions—factors used to select sites, sell to their exhibitors, and plan their conference education. Smart Cookies.

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Your Conference Content Has Magnetic Pull

Velvet Chainsaw

Content marketing has grown by leaps and bounds during the past five years. Unfortunately, too few event organizers fully embrace the long-tail, pull benefits of content marketing. Likewise, many conference professionals have no idea what embracing the long-tail, pull benefits of content marketing even means.

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Top 99 keynote speakers every event planner must know about

Hubilo Blog

Jeff is one of the most welcomed speakers on social marketing strategy and you book him for speaking opportunity here. Mari Smith is the most authoritative and memorable keynote speaker on Facebook marketing today. In 2018 alone he gave over 100 educational presentations to event professionals. Mari Smith Who is she?

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