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Navigating Media At High-Profile Events

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Industry events. Whether your brand is making a splash at a trade show or an executive is speaking at a conference, professional events combine direct customer contact with press opportunities. You can also research past event coverage, taking note of which media contacts have covered the event in previous years.

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Selling tech without touch—a virtual trade show paradox

Agility PR Solutions

I remember attending my first client tradeshow, a big travel industry event at the McCormick Place in Chicago. My client at the time, a technology upstart looking to disrupt the corporate travel booking process, had high hopes for the show. I felt like […].

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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. >>> Can your agency bring big ideas and execute?

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Back to the Trade Show – CES Redux

Landis PR

Trade shows, in all their schmoozy glory, were major casualties. CES (Consumer Electronics Show), the world’s biggest trade show, is making a heady comeback, complete with giant exhibit floors and all the glitz and glamour that Las Vegas can muster. Now, every moment on the show floor needs to count.

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How B2B Marketing Can Get More out of Trade Shows

Sword and the Script

In person events like trade shows and conferences usually rank high on the list of priorities for B2B marketing organizations. This is for good reason because research demonstrates events are often a good source of leads. However, events come with one big caveat: they are very expensive.

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Has the trade show had its day (at last)?

The Hoffman Agency

Nor do I remember much about the show (strapline: ‘The Foundations to your Facilities’, I’d imagine) apart from having a discussion with a guy selling paper towels, who was keen to tell me how much more hygienic they were than hot air hand-dryers which were only good for spreading germs …. The post Has the trade show had its day (at last)?

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How to Handle an Event Cancellation during the COVID-19 Pandemic

5W PR

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is recommending that large events and gatherings of 50 or more people, scheduled within the next eight weeks, be canceled or postponed. For many companies, this impacts client conferences, employee functions, and trade shows, usually at considerable cost.