Trade show organizers have a crucial role in attracting the right audience to their events. However, Exhibitors must excel in pre-show marketing to attract attendees to their booths. Here are some effective strategies that have proven to help them: Leverage Matchmaking in Registration Systems: Utilize matchmaking features in event registration systems to plan agendas in advance. Implement Pre-Show Email Marketing: Send targeted emails to attendees before the event to increase awareness and interest. Use Event Mobile Apps: Network with attendees through event apps, but note that adoption rates are below 50%. The attendee database is…
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Expo! Expo! 2022 is being held December 13-15 in Louisville, KY and for a sixth year, an exhibitor email marketing program powered by our eShowMail system is being offered by IAEE to a limited number of exhibitors to increase awareness and boost traffic. Event Technologies will be on site in booth #645 featuring two (2) technologies that increase revenue and reduce costs. eShowMail Self Service exhibitors create their own pre-show marketing emails link to PDFs of technical product information system sends the emails and protects the registration DB eShowLeads a lead retrieval product that scans…
If you exhibit at a trade show and get the chance to participate in the organizer’s email marketing program you need to make the most of the opportunity. Your email must provide information to help attendees make a decision to visit your booth such as: Engaging content to attract the attendee’s attention Access to compelling analytical and technical data that answers attendee questions An interactive mechanism for attendees to request a booth meeting with your exhibition team Trade show exhibitors can no longer get the email list from the event organizer because of privacy laws…
Getting attendees through the door is the organizer’s job, however, it remains the exhibitor’s task to attract the qualified prospects to visit their booth. There are a large number of marketing programs available to the exhibitor to drive booth traffic. Two complementary technology driven programs are; interactive pre-show emails and AI assisted match-making. Both provide a vehicle to engage attendees pre-show when they are developing their exhibit hall visitation agendas and scheduling in-booth meetings. However, each program has problems that reduce effectiveness: Not all attendees open exhibitor emails If every exhibitor sends an email the…
Sponsorship Boost, White Marsh, MD, is one of the premier trade show sponsorship sales organizations in the USA. Last week they penned a blog post entitled “Digital Communications – A Vehicle for Sponsorship Revenue“. With literally every live event cancelled, almost all of the usual sponsorship vehicles available to the event organizers have been eliminated, from charging stations, lanyards, tote bags, floor and column signage, and advertising of all kinds. In the blog, many great ideas were discussed but the one at the top of the list was Eblasts . To quote some of the…
For many events and associations who hold events, a major source of revenue is the sale of exhibition hall booths to exhibitors. However, the managers of these events at the same time tell us that they just cannot allow their exhibitors to send emails to their attendees promoting their booths. Most site as reasons; attendee privacy concerns, the CAN-SPAM ACT of 2003 or simply complaints from some of their attendees about getting too many emails, all valid issues. Giving the attendee list to exhibitors is no longer permitted for all of the right reasons. However,…
Ask Permission before Sending Pre-show Exhibitor Emails to your Attendees Your exhibitors want to connect with the attendees before the event to boost traffic at their booths. After working with hundreds of events, we know that pre-show email marketing is an effective tool to do this; however, some of your attendees might not feel the same way. Some of them don’t want to receive emails from your exhibitors. This is the number one concern that we hear from show organizers. They don’t want to anger their attendees by sending them too many emails. We have…
We are excited about exhibiting at IAEE’s Expo! Expo!. We will be in booth #1520. Expo! Expo! is the trade show industry’s premier event. It will be held at the Henry B. González Convention Center in San Antonio, TX , November 28-30, 2017. We recommend attending the following sessions to hear discussions of programs that may enhance the experience and ROI for exhibitors and attendees: Beyond Post Analytics: A Social Media Strategy for Engagement and Connection CEIR Research Sneak Peek & Luncheon – 2017 Senior Marketing Executives/CMO Study Sponsorship 2020: Sell More, Push Boundaries, Deliver…
Raise Money for your Charity Almost every association we work with has a charity that they support. Associations typically will run a fund raising event during the show. This can range from a party, to a 10K run, to a golf tournament. The money raised during the event is important. For events that want to raise additional money and awareness for their charities, we have an idea. Pre and post show email marketing programs are designed to bring attention to an exhibitor’s booth to drive more traffic and generate more leads. Integrating the event’s charity with…
Over the last 3 years, we at Event Technologies have sent over 1.25 million pre and post show emails to trade show attendees on behalf of over 1,000 exhibitors. We have learned a lot along the way, especially that sending emails to attendees requires a very different strategy from other email marketing efforts (newsletters, emails to prospects, customer relations, etc.). We did a brief analysis of the top performing emails and the bottom performing emails and here is what we found: Subject line The subject line is arguably the most important part of your email. …