Event Industry News

JUNE 29, 2018

Nil joined host James Dickson to talk about the development of the company’s pop culture events, a venture that allowed the company to tap into previously unexplored B2C marketplaces. The post Podcast: Easyfairs talk B2C expansion via pop culture events appeared first on Event Industry News. Download this episode (right click and save). This week’s Event Industry News podcast welcomes Nil Sonmez from Easyfairs to the show.

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Eventbrite

MARCH 27, 2017

Successful B2C marketing is about more than getting the word out about your event. Event Promotion Featured March Marketing Social Media Ticket Sales b2c Consumer consumer shows marketingIt’s about getting the right words out to the right people. Here’s how. The post 3 Top Tips for Marketing Consumer Events appeared first on Eventbrite UK Blog.

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Plan Your Meetings

AUGUST 31, 2016

The key question has been: Can the results that have been generated through business-to-consumer marketing (B2C) be replicated when marketing to businesses? For this reason, it is hard for them to perceive the difference between B2B and B2C social media marketing. Networking and lead-generation Social media B2C social media marketing

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EventMB

JUNE 27, 2019

Cvent Universal LeadCapture is designed for B2B and B2C trade show managers, exhibitors, and salespeople. It allows them to more easily qualify leads on the trade show floor and send those back to the office for speedy follow-up. In this review, we’ll show you how it works and go over pros and cons. Here is […]. The post Cvent Universal LeadCapture (Review) by EventMB Studio Team appeared first on [link].

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Picatic by Eventbrite

JUNE 6, 2018

Swag is a popular event marketing strategy for both business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) companies. I am a huge fan of unique swag ideas. In case you are new to the term, swag, standing for “stuff we all get,” is the free promotional items companies hand out at events. I love freebies and the feeling […]. The post Top 20 Unique Swag Ideas From Twitter For 2018 appeared first on Picatic Event Planning Blog.

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Event Farm

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Is your event B2B or B2C? While there is plenty of common ground between B2B and B2C marketing, B2B events often seek to educate or inform, and B2C events often seek to entertain. While many event marketing software platforms could be adapted to both, some cater more specifically to either B2B or B2C.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 29, 2019

Also, he polled people in the audience and asked who was B2B [business-to-business] and who B2C [business-to-consumer]. 90 percent of the room was B2B…his presentation was almost all B2C.” Last week, my friend Traci Browne wrote to me about a workshop that wasn’t. “You’ll love this…I went to a 4 hour morning workshop at this digital conference. The speaker said, this will be interactive because no one wants to listen to me talk for four hours.

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Eventbrite

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Whether it’s B2B, B2C […]. When it comes to teaching attendees a new skill or conducting a training or brainstorming session, a hands-on and interactive workshop might well be the kind of event format you need. Here are five ideas for hosting a successful workshop. Conferences, seminars, workshops – which one is right for your event? The post How to Host a Successful Workshop appeared first on Eventbrite UK.

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Tito Blog | An Event Blog for Organisers

JANUARY 9, 2019

Jane has seamlessly seen success in both her career at Yelp and Patreon when it comes to supporting B2C and B2B communities to reach their full potential. You don't need me to tell you that hosting events is a great way for companies to build a community, engage and delight it. Too often, when we get caught up in the pleasure of being in the audience, we can find ourselves guilty of forgetting all of the hard work that goes into producing the conferences and events we enjoy.

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Attendease

JANUARY 22, 2020

The Experiential Marketing Summit has become the event industry’s mega-show and brings together b2b and b2c brand-side marketers, executives from leading event agencies, meeting planners, tradeshow organizers, event strategists, experience designers, event technology gurus and more. The events industry has been behind some of the most innovative tech conferences in the past decade.

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Attendease

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Businesses have enough evidence proving that events are one of the most, if not the most effective form of marketing – both B2B and B2C. Sponsorships are the lifeline that keeps the events industry sustainable. An important aspect of event management is finding the right sponsors who can provide the right financial assistance needed to pull off a big event, in exchange for brand exposure.

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Event Industry News

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The next phase is the B2C campaign version focusing on music, festivals, sports, weddings, outdoor and charity participation events – planned for end of January 2021.

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Attendease

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Contests, draws, and influencers can be a good strategy for B2C events. There is no doubt how important it is to use social media to promote your events and create buzz. Whether using paid or organic reach, you should be able to keep top of mind with your desired audience while boosting registrations. Here are some tips to make the most out of your event’s social media strategy. Should I create a Facebook Event to help promote my event?

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GEVME

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

While the likes of Eventful and Yelp are probably more well-known as event and venue discovery sites, B2B events are a different ball game from B2C. Ever tasked to reach out to a much wider audience but not equipped with the necessary budget? Event listings is a great way to reach out to a much wider audience, without the associated costs, that is if you know where to look for such event listings sites.

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GEVME

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Diogo is a commercially minded and people-focused individual with B2B and B2C experience across Europe. In the fifth episode of GEVME’s Digital Event Series , we went hybrid. This episode was organised in a truly hybrid sense, which means the event was hosted in a hybrid venue, with a hybrid panel of speakers curated for our hybrid audience. . One industry which has been delivering hybrid experiences successfully to its fans has been the football industry.

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Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

MacDonald adds: “Environmental concerns and more recently a heightened social consciousness among consumers have been defining influences in the B2C sector for some time.

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Velvet Chainsaw

AUGUST 2, 2016

The way we buy has evolved for both the B2B and B2C sectors. This is the second in a series of posts on the findings of reports published by the Center for Exhibition Industry Research (CEIR) based on research recently conducted on attendee retention strategies. Trade show organizers who have re-imagined their expo floors into a solutions-based destination rather than one of a hard-sell shopping place are winning at delivering attendee value.

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G2Planet

JANUARY 16, 2019

Events are often the single largest expense in a B2B marketing budget (and a significant expense for B2C marketers as well), but can provide a return of $3 to $5 for every dollar spent. That's why nearly two-thirds of event pros plan to spend more on live events this year than last. When it comes to budgets, corporate event planners seek to optimize the return on their event outlays.

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Event Industry News

AUGUST 22, 2019

EventShaper is an operational management company that manages B2B and B2C events. On this week’s podcast, Event Industry News was joined by not one, but two guests to discuss whether trade associations are doing enough for the industry. Granting us time out of their days to talk to our journalist, James Dickson, was Nick Dugdale Moor, the regional manager for Europe at UFI, and Lou Kiwanuka, the MD at EventShaper.

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Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

The programme starts at 10am on Wednesday 7 November, Mbryonic’s Founder, Tom Szirtes, talking Building Impactful VR & AR marketing, and finishes on Thursday afternoon with a keynote from Ryan Curtis-Johnson, Head of PR at DRP, looking at how social tech is on the agenda for both B2B & B2C companies.

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Event Industry News

APRIL 11, 2019

Referring to it as primarily a B2C platform, James enquired whether B2B companies should dismiss Facebook quite so readily as they do. Joining our host, James Dickson, on this week’s podcast was Fleek Marketing founder, Jonny Ross. James enquired about the SEO (search engine optimisation) side of things in terms of building and developing a website for an event. Primarily, SEO is the optimisation of online content for it to appear higher in search engines such as Google.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 10, 2019

Lichtenstein, who has 17 years of experience in business development and account management for live events, digital, social media, as well as integrated communications experience in B2B and B2C marketing, has served with world-recognized companies such as NBCUniversal, Moet Hennessy, Tesla, and BNY Mellon. Your colleagues are on the move, find out who is going where. Krystine St. Michael Bussiere. The Baltimore Convention Center has named Krystine St.

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Eventmobi

JUNE 13, 2019

Whether you’re a B2B or B2C brand, there’s no doubt that events offer a bounty of benefits. In fact, 77 percent of marketers use experiences and events as a core part of their marketing strategy. But, as any marketer will tell you, events come with a price tag. And, depending on the event marketing benefits you choose to focus on, you may charge guests little to nothing to attend your event.

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Attendease

JANUARY 17, 2020

In 2020, events are going to become an even stronger pillar of B2B and B2C marketing. With major organizations like Salesforce, Google, Adobe and HubSpot investing heavily in planning out innovative and interactive events, the smaller organizations aspiring to be industry leaders have to rush into event planning just to update their marketing strategies. Top B2B Chief Marketing Officers plan to allocate almost 30% of their marketing budget to event planning in 2020.

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Hubilo Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

There’s a vast difference between planning B2B events and B2C events. B2B focusses on setting up corporate meetings, conferences and discussions so that the business delegates can have a f2f conversation and understand the business future better while B2C is focused on making their customers and clients happy!

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 21, 2020

We’ve been doing videos on Internet for nearly 30 years now, but it was mostly developed for the B2C,” Livestorm founder Giles Bertaux told me recently.

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Event Industry News

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Jonathan Atkin said: “It is an exciting time at WRG with so much interest coming from B2B and B2C clients looking for specific audience engagement campaigns that capture the imagination and have real purpose. WRG, a division of The Creative Engagement Group, has appointed Jonathan Atkin as a Senior Producer. Reporting to Tim Collett, Head of Live at WRG, Jonathan will provide additional resource to the UK Live team, working across all clients with an employee engagement and B2B focus.

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Event Farm

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Basic, but important, data to show could be job title/level, business type, industry, geography, and age of attendee (used more for B2C conferences). When we launched our first industry conference in 2016 -- OFFLINE Summit -- we learned quite a bit about what conference and meeting planners go through in all realms. Most importantly, from a financial perspective, securing a full roster of sponsors requires a tremendous amount of preparation and foresight.

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Event Industry News

MARCH 6, 2020

Both companies ordinarily work in the corporate sectors, so having an event which is B2C whether it be a concert or an afternoon with Martin Brundle and Mark Gallagher, is very different. From project planning, production of master agendas, to negotiating the budget, technical planning and know-how to adapt in any venue are all key elements to the success of the event, which all events should have regardless of whether they be B2B or B2C. By Universal Live.

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Event Industry News

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Jonathan joins the team from Cineworld Cinemas where he was national sales manager, focused on new business and the marketing strategy, overseeing the sale of Cineworld screen propositions and private hire events for B2B and B2C markets. ExCeL London is delighted to announce the appointment of Jonathan Woodhouse to the new role of IT sales manager.

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Hubilo Blog

JUNE 29, 2020

B2B influencer marketing a lot of misperception as people think it is the same as B2C marketing. The lead time in B2B is much more than B2C so you need time and patience, it’s not like posting on Instagram or just one blog post with your brand. Influencers are the pillars of success for several brands and products we see out in the market. B2B Influencer marketing has been a buzzword, we’ve listened for a while now.

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Planning Pod

AUGUST 19, 2019

Are you B2B or B2C? Summary: Learn five catering sales strategies that will help you quickly and reliably grow your catering business and event group sales. It’s no secret that growing your catering business (whether it’s on-premise or off-premise catering) requires bringing in new customers and growing sales within your existing customer base. That part is not rocket science.

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All Seated

JANUARY 11, 2021

It’s not business to business (B2B) or business to consumer (B2C) but rather people to people (P2P). Technology has been on a steady incline over the past decade, but 2020 has really showed us how valuable it can be when times are tough.

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Event Industry News

OCTOBER 15, 2020

And, the list continues, including some B2B and B2C concepts. By Marco Giberti , Founder and CEO of Vesuvio Ventures. What do Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Spotify, Zoom and Airbnb have in common these days?

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Bizzabo

JUNE 12, 2020

Black-owned experiential agencies with extensive B2B and B2C portfolios. If you have any suggestions for black-owned B2B or B2C agencies that aren’t mentioned below, you can submit them here for consideration. Featuring Beyond 8, Andrew Roby Events, W.P. Miller Special Events, and other leading firms. We already have extensive lists covering US experiential agencies and UK event agencies.

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Eventinterface

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

It is no wonder then that the concept's growing popularity in both the B2B and B2C contexts has spawned an active industry of exhibition services and other event management businesses. No good marketer shies away from live events. On the contrary, a professionally executed event is often a staple of the successful marketing strategy that turns heads, signs on new clients, helps forge business partnerships, and solidifies brand recognition and loyalty.

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Pico’s Darren Lim says event planners can learn from big-ticket B2C events like ChinaJoy and Ultra Music Festival. In the B2C section of ChinaJoy , exhibiting companies interact directly with consumers, who are drawn from a tremendously diverse and enthusiastic demographic. Darren Lim. Engagement is everything and event professionals are scrambling to find ways to connect with attendees by creating an environment where people want to be.

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SmartMeetings

MAY 28, 2020

Livestreaming, typically rooted in the B2C space, will help you reach that mega-audience if you need it—as many as tens of thousands, even millions, of people. How are you handling the shift to virtual events? While the meeting landscape is different, it’s also the same.

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Eventmobi

AUGUST 16, 2018

Event marketing is a powerful strategy for B2C and B2B marketers, and for good reason. *The following post has been written by guest blogger, Kristen McCabe, from G2 Crowd. G2 Crowd is the leading website for online business software and service reviews, where Event Mobi ranks as a High Performer on the Summer 2018 Mobile Event Apps Report. Event speakers are essential to a successful event marketing strategy.

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Converve

MAY 21, 2019

Then there are bloggers, investors, job seekers, the press – maybe even a B2C crowd on selected days. A B2C crowd may attend just to experience the event. Organised and structured matchmaking at B2B events has arrived in a big way in the event industry. Nowadays, exhibitors, sponsors, and participants in business events expect that their networking success will not be left to chance.

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