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Leveraging Events To Attract Clients Event Marketing Insights and Recommendations for B2B Marketers

B2B Marketing: Leveraging events to attract clients

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Leveraging Events To Attract Clients

Event Marketing Insights and Recommendations for B2B Marketers

Events in the Marketing Mix

Events as Top Marketing ActivityTo Existing Customers**

Events as a % of Marketing Budget*

61%40%

*Center for Exhibition Industry Research (CEIIR), March 2015.**Influitive/Demand Metric Research Corp, October 2014.

User Meetings

ConferencesTrade Shows

What are B2B Marketing Events?

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Product Launch & Training

Experiential Events

Why is there so much love for events among marketers?

98% say exhibitions deliver unique value over other sales channels*

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*CEIR Young Professional Exhibitor Needs and Preferences Study, April 2015.

Achieve multiple sales and marketing objectives in a compressed time period

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Events provide a lot of data

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Face-to-face interaction

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But there’s a catch!

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Event ROI

Introducing Event ROI

CEOs:How important is it to consider ROI when planning an event?*

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Not Impor-

tant17%

Somewhat Im-por-tant19%Very Important

35%

Vitally Im-por-tant29%

*IML, Event Industry Global Market Research Study, January 2014.

Some ROI contributors

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Sales Leads Product or Brand Awareness

Sales Closed

A word about branding “Create a connected brand experience”* Brand advocates spend 2x as much and

recommend/share 2-4x your typical customer*

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*DoubleDutch: Why Events Are the Best B2B Marketing Channel in the World, February 2015.

Creating Great B2B Marketing Events

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Engagement Event-Tech Follow-up

Focus on Engagement

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Create Experiences

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Embrace Event-Tech

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Deliver value

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Continue the conversation

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www.eventuosity.com

Justin Panzer, Founder & CEOEventuosity, LLC.

3220 Market Street, Suite 369Philadelphia, PA 19104

[email protected]

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