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If you’ve ever run an event, you’ll know that they unfortunately don’t sell
themselves. In order to sell tickets, you need to be armed with an event
marketing strategy that effectively promotes your event to your target
audience, whether you’re planning on hosting in person or online.
Event Marketing
What is event marketing?
Event marketing is defined by the tools, techniques, and channels you use to
promote an event to an audience – usually with the hope of getting them to buy
tickets or attend.
Event marketing begins with launching an event idea through to persuading
attendees to invite their friends or colleagues and attracting a steady pipeline of
leads through channels such as email marketing, blogging, and advertising.
Here are some of the best event marketing strategies to consider from beginning
to end:
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|Coordination Services|
|Church/Garden Floristry|
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2. Pre-event page
Too many people forget they can create an event page and make it live to
capture early interest, even if all of the details aren’t yet finalized.
By creating a pre-event page, you can have a central page to drive people to and
use it to capture leads that can be contacted later. Plus it’ll help to boost your
SEO (SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION) ranking. (Rankings in SEO refers
to a website's position in the search engine results page. There are various
ranking factors that influence whether a website appears higher on the SERP
based on the content relevance to the search term, or the quality of backlinks
pointing to the page.)
3. Blogging
The next step in your event marketing strategy is to tell people why you’re
organizing it. This is your mission statement.
Use blog posts to publicize this, fuel the rest of your pre-event marketing, and
rally people around your idea to convince them of the need for your event.
Blogs are also less salesy than an event landing page, so are a great way to
attract some initial interest.
4. Social media
Getting on social media early is one of the best event marketing strategies, as
it’s key to creating momentum for your event promotion. Social media can also
help you to build a community and spread the mission that you’ve written about
in your blog posts.
It’s a good idea to create an event hashtag to help you to engage with your
community in the run-up to, during, and after your event. Event branding can
also make a memorable impression across social media.
Don’t forget the huge range of social media platforms available to you now.
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn will all remain important
depending on what kind of event you run, but consider Snapchat, Pinterest,
YouTube, TikTok, Medium, Reddit, and others, too. Find out more about
how social media can fit into your event promotion timeline.
5. Partner outreach
Event marketing partnerships and sponsorships can be crucial to your event’s
success, so you need to start reaching out to potential collaborators,
complementary brands, and media partners early. That means before your event
has officially launched. This way, they can help you spread the word from the
very beginning.
6. Thought leadership and guest posts
Blogging on your site is important, but you need to reach new audiences beyond
it in order to find new attendees. The best way to do this is through guest
posting or creating pieces of thought leadership that others will be happy to
share.
Again, what the specifics of this look like will heavily depend on your event.
For conferences and B2B events, it’s relatively straightforward as you can
create an industry report or offer a white paper that combines top tips from all of
your speakers.
For consumer events, it might be less obvious. You could create interesting
infographics, gifs, or other visual assets, write about breaking trends, or produce
a series of YouTube videos or podcasts that capture their attention.
7. Paid promotion
Whether it’s paid social media advertising, Google Ads, or retargeting, now’s
the time to put cash behind your campaign if you’re going to do it at all. You
can turn any of these options on and off at will. So you could concentrate your
spend just a couple of weeks before each early bird offer, or your event launch,
helping to reinforce and amplify your other marketing activities to enjoy
maximum reach and impact.
8. Email
Email is a crucial tool in your event promotion plan. With your event now ready
to be launched, you should get your first major email blast out to your potential
attendees, including those who pre-registered.
13. Phone
If you’ve noticed that a few of your targeted attendees or some of those pre-
registered leads still haven’t bought a ticket, why not give them a call?
Ask if there’s anything you can help with. Do they have any questions? It
doesn’t have to be a hard sell, but it’s much harder to ignore a phone call than
an email or one of a thousand tweets on their timeline. You’ll probably find that
it’s a relatively time-intensive but effective way of securing a few more sales if
they’re needed.