Velvet Chainsaw

APRIL 5, 2022

Market differently. One of the most effective tactics for moving fence sitters to registrants is influencer-marketing campaigns. Develop social and email assets that co-brand and enable committee members, speakers, and exhibitors to share that they are attending. They provide the social proof needed to drive action.

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Velvet Chainsaw

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Today’s conference professional needs the savvy know-how from an education and attendance marketing perspective to craft the very best session title and description—one that will ultimately not only attract attendees, but also get the presenters to laser focus on delivering the promised outcomes. You should too!

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Velvet Chainsaw

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

A strategic look at your marketing spend, as well as what you spend on your attendee experience, can be telling. According to Convene ’s most recent Meetings Market Survey , on average 6 percent of a meeting’s direct expenses fall in the marketing/promotion category. More or better marketing can’t fix this.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JULY 23, 2018

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. Get specific.

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Velvet Chainsaw

OCTOBER 12, 2018

We were discussing their marketing and communication strategies for their event. I voiced my strong opinion that conference organizers should embrace inbound marketing (pull) over traditional outbound marketing (push). Want more info, read Marketo’s thorough explanation and comparison of Inbound vs. Outbound Marketing.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JULY 10, 2017

Over the past 18 months, we’ve carefully scrubbed and analyzed the attendance of 20 major conferences. These projects had an aggregate attendance of 110,000-plus participants with registration revenue in excess of $30 million. Reprinted with permission of Convene , the magazine of the Professional Convention Management Association.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

According to Convene ’s most recent Meetings Market Survey , on average, 6 percent of a meeting’s direct expenses fall in the marketing/promotion category. Here are four insights we’ve learned from analyzing the marketing-spend category: 1. Marketing spend for conferences with an expo is usually closer to 6 percent.

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