10. Sponsor Speaker Owner
Who are Your Ambassadors?
Attendee
Let the world
know about
their participation
Lead generation
Develop
their personal
branding
Stakeholder fullfilment
Best event ever
Media coverage
Personal branding
Learn
11. Sponsor Speaker Owner
Who are Your Ambassadors?
Attendee
Let the world
know about
their participation
Lead generation
Develop
their personal
branding
Best event ever
Media coverage
Personal branding
Learn
Stakeholder fullfilment
12. Promotions
Early bird fees
Sponsors’s package
Speakers
announcement
Previous year content
(slides, webcast)
Interview futur
speakers…
Market review
The Good Content
19. Doctor /
Physicians
are not digital
communication
experts
Advocate
internaly
Use project
ambassadors
Empower
your sponsors
Evangilization
3 years projects
Word of Mouth
Key Learnings from CIMA
This first session is dedicated to boosting Awareness of your event BEFORE the Event.
I would like to ask you a question:
Who has ever faced awareness issue for his / her Events?
Oho? Only you All the others, why are here? Curiosity?
Ok- let’s focus on Awareness.
I will take half of this session to focus on the strong theoretical aspect of this technics. It will be a little be long. But It worth it. I hope
Then I will show you some results with a Congress CIMA 2015.
Of course attract!
Who? Your stakeholders!
Attendees
Sponsors
Speakers
Media also
Agree? Why are they important? What is the link with awareness? Reputation, legitimacy, credibility decision making! = Influence power.
Are we ok on the why? Let’s talk about the how.
Slide
early digital native
talk mostly about digital influence
But do you know how you can boost your digital performance within digital media or social media?
algorithm. What are some key elements in algorithm?
Robots (kind of idiot)
Different types: SEO vs Socials
Their objectives: deliver quality, and smooth experience (ads ratio)
How can you perform there?
For SEO: Create content for both readers and robots
For SMO: Engagement vs Traffic? traffic is first because it helps qualifying engagement!
Slide
Ok but how will you measure the impact? What to expect.
Slide
Here are some hard KPI we are looking for at the bottom line.
Hard KPI: finance, attendees, square metter
You need to monitor here.
Soft KPI: leads, subscribers to newsletter, audience (owned media)
Do you know what owned media means?
Let me introduce owned Media this way.
You all know community management ?
Technics to “manage” or animate on online community
Let focus on the evolution of these technics
Let’s focus on how professionals are using Social Media. I will not cover this part too long.
I just want to highlight the evolution from community management to Inboud Marketing
The problem with the first community management is that they were focused on engagement only. Which is a lack on the “big pcture”. Engagement is good only with the right community. And this is were traffic helps you. Inbound Marketing is about qualitative traffic that helps your business engagement is a secondary KPI
Do you all know Inbound Marketing?
The basic definition for Inbound will be to be sure that you will never have to run after customer.
Which means for events make you sponsors, attendees, want to come and to invest in your Events.
Without having to sell!
Does it make sense for you? Are you already using inbound technics?
For us this is the basis but there key ingredient missing to succeed.
I promise to come back to the Owned media. Do you remember?
Do you know the POEM model. This model helps to classify different angle.
Paid is easy an still relevant in specifics situations.
Owned is important.
Earned is the key! This is where the magic happen for events. Sure?
But how to get earned media. When need to focus on the Media.
Media is the key.
Because media is one of the most transforming business in our digital world.
Let’s have a look the role of media over time.
Brand’s communication history
Media role Audience monopoly
The world has changed
It has been digitalized. The central role of media is step by step less important. And digital take the place.
There is a very positive conclusion for all of us. We are all media!
We can take the lead as brands or as events on the community of interest.
But this is not that easy.
To become a media we need an audience.
Which means attract a first audience and keep interesting them.
So finally who are you ambassador. How can we create value for them is the central key for :
Create traffic
Leverage engagement
Boost earned media
So here is the magic. When you analyze the objectives of each stakeholders. You will easily find that there is a common line that you can use: branding the events.
The magic is the number of people you can involve!!!
Ambassadors ? Who are they for events ?
What is at stake for each of them
Sponsors (meet buyers, lead generation, be visible, let the world know about their participation)
Speaker (share experience, develop their personal branding, attract new customer)
Owner (best event ever, personal branding, media coverage, financial results, stakeholder fullfilment)
Attendees (learn, meet people, personal branding)
How can we engage them ?
This is magic
You do have stake holders that share the same objectives!!!
This only exists for events
Objectifs personnels dont certains en commun à faire ressortir dans un 2è tps
Some objectives
Attract : attendees, media coverage, better speakers, sponsors
How to perform in Social Media
Algorythm for posts
Traffic vs Engagement
Expected impacts
Hard KPI: finance, attendees, square metter
Soft KPI: leads, subscribers to newsletter, audience (owned media)
Some objectives
Attract : attendees, media coverage, better speakers, sponsors
How to perform in Social Media
Algorythm for posts
Traffic vs Engagement
Expected impacts
Hard KPI: finance, attendees, square metter
Soft KPI: leads, subscribers to newsletter, audience (owned media)
Recruit ambassadors
Show the detailed planning
Help value perception
Add a dedicated sponsor item / line for this « As a sponsor we will feed your social media channels »
Same for speakers
Same for confirmed & paid attendees
Segmentation is key => relevance