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How to Know Your Product Launch Is ‘Trade Show Ready’

Beyond PR

Launching a product at a trade show can be a great way to focus on your event marketing strategy and spotlight a new product in front of a targeted audience. But did you know that while Steve Jobs was conducting the demonstration, Apple employees behind the scenes weren’t sure it was going to work?

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6 Benchmarks from Viewing a Survey of CMO Lenses of B2B Marketing

Sword and the Script

This time around survey polled 341 senior marketers – 95% of which hold the title of vice president or higher – to produce the survey. About 34% of respondents identified themselves as employed by B2B product companies, while another 31% said B2B services, so overall about 60% of respondents are senior leaders in B2B marketing organizations.

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15 Up-and-Coming PR and Social Media Marketers to Watch

Communications Conversations

Now, she’s crushing it at Best Buy in social media marketing. Then, Sarah moved into a new role last year working in a media relations and influencer capacity, and we had the chance to work even more (we worked a trade show in Orlando together in the fall). And, she was doing it all at her very first trade show experience.

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How to Hit the Right Notes with Keynote Speaker Announcements

Cision

This renewed sense of purpose and drive is one of the many reasons companies choose to send employees to trade shows and conferences year in and year out. Event speakers are a beacon for events that amplify the overarching message and attract multifaceted trade show audiences.

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The Competition and Industry Gets a Vote on Your Marketing

Sword and the Script

The competition gets a vote in your marketing too. The leaders lock themselves in closed-door meetings day after day and only surface for employee or customer interactions that are structured and sterile. See these related posts: Your Marketing Predecessor was Probably a Hot Mess [UML]. Marketing, Strategy and War Analogies.

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How to Build Thought Leadership

Landis PR

If all your employees feel empowered to collect funny stories or photos from that trade show and send them to the content team, you have engaged a content creation team of many. Leave it to marketing/communications staff to edit what is consumed globally or shared only on a company intranet/at the weekly all-hands.

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Decoding Facebook’s Changes: 5 Ways PR Professionals Can Generate Reach and Impact in 2018

Business Wire

For PR pros, Facebook Live is a terrific way to supplement a product launch , to bring viewers to a hosted event , provide tips on how to maximize the use of your product , interview industry experts , provide market updates and more. Implementation Tip! The next time you launch a new product feature, add FB Live to your list of tactics.

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