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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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Making The Most Of Virtual Event Experiences

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

But at least we’re not conference organizers! The pandemic has imposed real challenges on B2B tech companies who rely on conferences and event marketing for branding, lead generation, and customer retention. For those registering for their first hybrid or virtual conference, it might be tempting to approach the event as a throwaway.

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How to Book Speaking Opps In The COVID Era

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Even B2B technology companies – normally resistant to many ups and downs – rely on PR from event marketing to drive business development, brand awareness, and thought leadership. But there’s some good news in the conference world for PR planners. Event producers and programmers are scrambling to adapt.

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

MaccaPR

Leading brands from Intel and AT&T to Facebook’s Meta and General Motors dropped out ahead of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the world’s largest technology event in January 2022, because of the latest COVID-19 variant. It takes a lot of money and resources to prepare for a conference like CES. What’s a marketer to do?

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CES 2023: PR Facts That Every Vehicle Technology & Mobility Supplier Should Know

Bianchi Biz Blog

CES 2023 will be one of the most competitive trade shows we’ve seen in our 30 years of doing business-to-business public relations. Challenge: With such a large group of exhibitors, automotive suppliers and mobility technology providers face intense competition for journalists’ attention. It’s logistically impossible.

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Vehicle Technology and Mobility Suppliers: Here are Six Things to Do Now for CES 2024

Bianchi Biz Blog

9-12, 2024, CES, which has become one of the most important automotive industry shows in the world, brings together manufacturers, developers and suppliers of consumer technology, content, technology delivery systems and more to address the industry’s biggest challenges. Taking place Jan.

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

The Hoffman Agency

In the years since FM’93, I can’t remember how many trade shows I’ve been to. And here I still am, on the eve — or so I thought — of travelling to Barcelona for one of the world’s biggest technology shows, Mobile World Congress. It’s amazing to me that trade shows continue to survive, let alone thrive.