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The Impact of Coronavirus on B2B Tech Marketing: Replacing Trade Shows as a Lead Generation Activity

Ishmael's Corner

By Mark Pinsent, Managing Director, Hoffman Europe In light of restrictions on movement and the risks of bringing large groups of people together, one of the immediate impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the cancellation of tech trade shows and conferences.

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Buying Signals: B2B Marketing Budgets without a Line Item for Trade Shows

Sword and the Script

The decline of B2B trade shows frees B2B marketing to experiment with more efficient channels; virtual events surface buying signals The pandemic is certainly changing marketing – but we might all do well to shift our thinking towards what might become quasi-permanent. Offices won’t be gone – but remote work won’t be exceptional.

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Content Marketing is the New Conference and Trade Show During Quarantine [UML]

Sword and the Script

In some ways, that’s what conferences, tradeshows and exhibitions are designed to do too. You can answer questions – content has knowledge value The more people hang around your website, the more they get to know, like and trust you. At the core, these are all events that give buyers and sellers a reason to congregate in the same place.

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A PR Agency’s take on Trade Show Trends

Konnect Agency

With events and conferences making a full-force comeback, there’s no denying that the trade show landscape has undergone significant changes post-COVID. Now, virtual buyer meetings, typically handled pre-show, have shifted the importance away from an in-booth buyer meeting aimed at introducing the brand and product.

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Are Trade Shows still a Good Place for PR Launches?

Sword and the Script

That’s the number of pre-trade show pitches one blogger told me he had received in a side bar conversation last week. The blog is an industry staple, he’s plugged into the community and his name always winds up on industry conference media lists. A Traditional Case for Trade Show Launches. by Frank Strong.

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How Industry Speaking Opps Drive Thought Leadership

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

While some events are pay-to-play, meaning a company has to sponsor the event to secure a slot, there are plenty of conferences that are open to all in the industry. can also use conferences to elevate people lower down on the totem pole that still have ideas to share, ones that might have otherwise gone unheard.

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Three Brand Lessons From CES 2022: Turning Your Conference Lemons into Lemonade

MaccaPR

With so many elements out of our control, how can brands still make an impact with media outlets and their target audiences at trade shows and other events? Based upon my time on the floor of CES (yes, that’s me behind a mask above), here’s three tips any brand can apply from this most recent trade show.