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Growing Annual Meeting Attendance in a Challenging Environment
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It is not about You…
It’s about your attendees!
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Ideas to Grow Attendance
No Brainer/Do Now
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Great/Won’t Happen1.____________________________2.____________________________3.______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Luv!/Need Help
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Membership changes.
Shouldn’t your marketing?
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Key Changes
1. How and when we talk to attendees
2. Expanded conversations with potential attendees
3. Better ties to other NACS departments
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Key Changes
4. Provided better consistency of messages
5. Enhanced the event experience
6. Told a better story
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Great communication is like a great first date – don’t monopolize the conversation.
I love that she listens.
How great to not hear sports stories all night
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How and When
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How and When
• State benefits instead of features– We vs. You– So What?
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How and When
• Showcase photos and quotes in marketing
“The cap swap was great! I love meeting new people and sharing stories about our school!”
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How and When
• Review marketing and promotions timeline– Market your show year-round!
From Designboom.com on Pinterest
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Expanded Conversations
• Use demographics to target market
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Ties with Others
Where else do you promote your event in your association?
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Ties with Others
• Membership renewal• Your magazine
or newsletter• All!
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Ties with Others
• Special event• Your digital magazine
or e-newsletter• All!
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Ties with Others• Vendors
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Better Consistency
• Clear, timely, and relevant
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Better Consistency
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Better Consistency
• Call to action – Urgent
(if appropriate)– Easy
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Better Consistency
• Targeting
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Better Consistency
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Know Your Audience
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Event Experience
Capitalize on the great on-site experience!
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Event Experience
• Involve staff and members to help make improvements
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Event Experience
• Make a connection
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Event Experience• Make a connection– Volunteers– New members, lone attendees,
first-timers– Receptions
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Event Experience
Receptions bring together old friends!Help the newbies connect too.
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Event Experience
• Involve your Exhibitors
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Event Experience
• Use strong testimonials
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“(The MIA was) able to get us full access to a variety of facilities on this tour that normally would not have been possible. The atmosphere fostered comradery and networking with others in the industry.”
— David Castellucci, Kenneth Castellucci & Associates, Inc.
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How do you solicit quotes?
Interviews Questionnaires
Committee MembersYour Board
The Secret: Write it for them!
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Event Experience• Encourage, engage, and let go – Social Media!– Facebook– Twitter– LinkedIn
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– YouTube
http://youtu.be/v1WxG12mefk
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Event Experience
• Interactive and engaging– Encourage
participation!
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Event ExperienceWhere are your attendees?• LinkedIn• Facebook• Twitter• Pinterest• Your private social network
How else are you engaging? 25 Ways To Use Social Media For Your Next Event
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Event Experience• New
mobilesite
“The mobile site kept me up-to-date about where I should be and at what time. I could have managed without anything else.”
CAMEX Survey Respondent
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Event Experience
• Social Media Hub
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Event Experience
• Microsite
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Tell a Better Story
It is easy to forget that your volunteers are people first.
Membership and attendance at your event may be lower on their priority list.
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Tell a Better Story
Members are our story
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Stories in Photos
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Outcomes for last five years:
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It’s about them…
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Resources to check out:Ron Rosenberg , Consultant Seth GodinPresident, QualityTalk, Inc. Writer, Speaker, An Agent of [email protected] www.sethgodin.comwww.qualitytalk.com Seth’s Blog
Velvet Chainsaw Consulting www.wordle.net http://jeffhurtblog.com/velvet-chainsaw/25 Ways To Use Social Media For Your Next Event
Presentation to share:www.slideshare.net/NACSorg
Contact info for questions/comments:
Anne MendenhallDirector, Marketing CommunicationsNational Association of College StoresPh: (800) 622-7498, ext. [email protected]
Wendy Holliday Vice President, Marketing and Member ServicesNational Association of College StoresPh: (800) 622-7498, ext. 2303 [email protected]
Thank You!
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Questions to ask about your Event Promotions:
Do you have a people strategy?
Hard to imagine a consultant or investor asking the CMO, “So, what's your telephone strategy?”We don't have a telephone strategy. The telephone is a tool, a simple medium, and its only purpose is to connect us to interested human beings.And then the Internet comes along and it's mysterious and suddenly we need an email strategy and a social media strategy and a web strategy and a mobile strategy.No, we don't.It's still people. We still have one and only one thing that matters, and it's people.All of these media are conduits, they are tools that human beings use to waste time or communicate or calculate or engage or learn. Behind each of the tools is a person. Do you have a story to tell that person? An engagement or a benefit to offer them?Figure out the people part and the technology gets a whole lot simpler.
1. Is the headline working?2. Is there a call to action with
contact information?3. Can you target the message to
key groups?4. Is there a testimonial?5. Are you using member and
event photos instead of stock photos?
6. Are you trying to do too much in one piece?
7. Is there too much about you?8. What does your attendee
want to hear/see?
Seth Godin’s Blog April 26, 2012