Successful Event Marketing and Event Recruitment, Part 2-Messaging and Promotion
Every event needs planning. Without a well scheduled and executed plan – targeted attendee recruitment, error-free registrations, flawless event execution and prompt, detailed follow-up – even the best sales events will be a waste of money and time. In our last blog Successful Event Marketing and Event Recruitment, we had discussed how to develop the target audience. This blog will focus on messaging and event promotion strategy.
Part 2 – Developing The Right Messaging
The key questions here are:
How to develop the right message?
Before you start working on messaging specific to the event, be clear about the goals you want to achieve.
- Branding
- New product introduction
- Lead generation
- Customer support
Event messaging should be clear and well communicated to the target audience. The “What’s in it for me” should be very explicit and clear – the compelling reason for your potential and existing customers to attend.
The main points to cover in event promotion messaging are:
- Basic Information:
- Who should attend? (This is your target audience. Ensure it carefully matches up with the “What’s in it…”, your value-add statement should resonate with your target audience).
- Why to attend? – What you will get out of it – a final conclusion to the “What’s in it…”.
- Speakers: brief bio and how they add value (this is where you start to answer the “what’s in it for me” question.
What event marketing materials are needed?
Whether it’s a trade show or virtual event, it is important to be prepared before the event. Here are some marketing materials that you will need while any sales events.
- A Presentation of your offering, whose value statements tie into the “What’s in it…” pitch.
- Product Samples / Case studies / Success stories
- Corporate and Product Brochures
Promotion messaging
Incentives based promotions work well in event marketing. Free lunch, free product samples, free service, discounts, coupons are some of the incentives that you can offer in the event messaging to the target audience.
Our next blog will focus on “How to measure event ROI?”
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