Tips on Throwing Events to Grow and Keep Audiences
November 2014
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Why Events?
‘The Checklist’
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Today’s Agenda
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Why Events?
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Why Events?
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Why Events?
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Why Events?
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The Checklist
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1. Find Your Purpose
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What are you trying to accomplish?
What does your audience want?
How will you measure success?
What is your budget?
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2. Tailor to the Audience
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Who are you trying to reach?
How can we reach different audiences?
Should this event be free or paid?
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3. Partner Up
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Who can I work with internally?
Can I pitch this as part of station goals?
Who could we partner with externally?
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4. Reimagine Resources
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What can you do on a small budget?
What resources do we already have?
Can we do something different?
Swag?!
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5. Get people to show up
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Do we have a promotional plan?
Are there influencers we can target?
How will we make sure people actually show once they’re signed
up?
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6. Prep, prep, prep. Then, event!
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Do we have our checklist ready?
Have we checked the equipment?
Are we ready for things to go wrong?
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7. Don’t let it stop at the event
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Can we create stories out of the event?
How do we follow up with attendees?
Have we checked back in with our goals and assessments?
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8. Learn from the failures
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Questions?
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Olivia Allen-PriceKQED
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Ezra RomeroKVPR
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Brenda Williams-ButtsNew York Public Radio
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