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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. A good way to do that is to build relationships through content before the show even begins. Schedule some strategic posts to be published during the show. Sales people belong in the booth.

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The Evolution of Earned Media: Navigating Change

Burrelles Fresh Ideas

However, media pitching and media relations to secure earned media still dominate the industry. Product reviews on platforms like YouTube, social media platforms, or blogs. This has led to less time for attending press events, trade shows, and covering stories, making B2B PR harder than ever. Wait, what is earned media?

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Controlled Chaos: 86 Comms Pros Explain How Communications Work Has Changed

Sword and the Script

The addition of marketing, analysis, trade show consultation, managing professional organizational memberships and everything else has made every day a whirlwind of tasks, to-do lists and semi-controlled chaos.”. Pressure on measurement. Breaking through the flood of e-mails [in pitching] is getting very difficult.”.

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The “Ides of March” Are Here – Beware These Common PR Pitfalls

Critical Mention

Better start pitching EARLY, say in July. Is your brand exhibiting at the industry’s biggest trade show? Get some plans in place for how to maximize its presence by coordinating with the show organizers on hosting press meetings, speaking at the event or sponsoring some of the activities. Failing to measure your results.

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Seeing Around Corners: 30 Marketing and PR Predictions for 2021

Sword and the Script

Efficient marketing execution and measurement. Make your team members track everything that matters within your marketing department – blog views, cost per lead, conversion rates at every stage, webinar attendance rate, paid search efficiency… and report their own KPIs up to you. Do you blog regularly? Marketing predictions.

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Finding Leads: 6 Takes from the 2018 Chief Marketer B2B Lead Gen Report

Sword and the Script

These are the metrics B2B lead gen measure. Here are the lead generation metrics the survey says B2B marketers are measuring: 52% say cost of conversion. A PPC campaign might get you an email address but it takes a whole bunch of touches in between – blogs, emails, webinars, white papers, PR, sales calls – to close the deal.

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Marketing has Gotten Better as a Profession; Off Script #29: Tom Pick of Webiquity

Sword and the Script

Second, almost everything is now measurable. Now we’ve got incredibly powerful and granular measurement and analytics tools that tie together all our online efforts and increasingly account for offline efforts as well. Event marketing , at gatherings like annual customer meetings and trade shows, was huge in the 90s.