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Media Coverage of Your Event: Why It’s Important and How to Get Dan Ellison Chief Administrative Officer U.S. Police and Fire Championships Steve Schell Vice President of Sales San Diego Sports Commission

Media Coverage Of Your Event: Why It's So Important and How To Get It

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Media Coverage of Your Event:Why It’s Important and How to Get

Dan EllisonChief Administrative Officer

U.S. Police and Fire Championships

Steve SchellVice President of Sales

San Diego Sports Commission

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Media Attention…orAttention Media?

• Benefits of Media Exposure• How Media Coverage Can Conserve Your  Budget Dollars 

• How to Get Attention• Taking Care of the Media• Partnering with a CVB to Make Media Contacts

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Increasing Your Revenue

• Conserve you marketing dollars

• Attract sponsors

• Promote attendance

• Increase ticket sales

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How to Get AttentionNoteworthy speaker or 

celebrity guest?

Topical or groundbreaking 

focus?

Public invited?  local chapter participating?

Unusual venue?

Compelling human interest 

story?

Record breaking 

attendance in the 

destination?

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Taking Care of the Media

• Designate one person on the staff to be the media liaison

• Offer complimentary passes to events, including social functions.

• Provide a media room• VIP treatment

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How Your CVB Can Help You

BEAT THE DRUMS in Any Destination

• Provide a list of local media contact• Help you write and distribute press releases• Arrange interviews• Involve their PR and Marketing Departments• Help You Build a Media Plan

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Direct to the CVB ….one‐stop‐shop for planners:

•Planners easily search and compare meeting needs across multiple destinations.

•Planners save time and money submitting one FastTrackRFP to multiple destinations.

•Planners manage a single profile, check their histories and power shop at over 200 top cities.

Find Us Online

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Or meet destination sales professionals in person at…

• Washington, D.C. March 14th• Chicago May 8th

http://destinationsshowcase.com/

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Connect with over 880 destination experts to help you FIND just the right FIT…

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CMP CREDIT

• This session has been verified by CIC to qualify for continuing education credit. towards the CMP certification.

• Participation has earned you .50 Clock Hours (30 minutes) for CMP‐IS Domain: A. Strategic Planning

• We will send you an email following the webinar that will give you a link to print proof of your participation.

• Then you can simply list the course on your year‐end detail.

• Thank you for participating!