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From Trade Shows to Virtual Events: The Modern Marketer?s Journey

Leadspace

Event marketing is one of the go-to methods B2B companies use for lead generation. In fact, in 2018, nearly 70 percent of B2B marketers stated that live events generated the most leads. . In April 2020, 70 percent of B2B marketers planned to cancel some or all live events within the next 60 days.

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Trade Show Follow-Up: 5 tips to optimize response

markempa

Tweet For the past seven years, trade shows have surpassed websites, email marketing and paid search to secure the top spot as B2B marketers’ biggest investment, according to the MarketingSherpa 2012 B2B Marketing Benchmark Report. I can’t help but wonder given my own trade show attendance experience. Trade Show ?

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Lead Generation Without Conferences Or Trade shows

MarketJoy

In the wake of this crisis, many of the events that B2B marketers all around the globe have spent months planning have been cancelled. So far, according to data gathered by Bloomberg News, the spread of COVID-19 has scuttled over 50 major corporate events with an estimated attendance of almost 1 million. RUN YOUR VIRTUAL EVENT.

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7 Interactive Lead Generation Ideas to Try at Your Next Trade Show

Lead Liaison

Let’s face it: generating leads at trade shows isn’t as easy as it once was. Vibrant booth displays and creative signage may catch the eye of trade show attendees, but this alone won’t result in new leads for your business. If you use a spin wheel at your next event, be sure to have quality prizes.

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Lead Gen and Engagement: Find your Marketing Sweet Spot

Speaker: Dawn Colossi, CMO, FocusVision

We were measured by the number of leads we generate. So, we put gates up on our website, we stand in trade show booths and collect business cards, and run webinars or smaller events where we get people to sign up. Over time, we’ve become much better at measuring conversion rates and lead quality.

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How Technology on the Trade Show Floor Can Help Your Sales Team Work Smarter and Sell More

markempa

Tweet Trade shows and conferences are still the biggest areas of investment for marketers, according to the most recent MarketingSherpa B2B Marketing Benchmark Report. Yet, many companies still measure marketers on cost-per-lead metrics when such metrics are inadequate for measuring face-to-face interactions at trade shows.

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Lead Gen Tactics from 4 MarketingSherpa Case Studies

markempa

Case Study #3 – Lead Generation: Targeted event marketing effort leads to 300% ROI, generates 140 qualified leads. B2B Lead Generation: 6 social media tactics from 7 experts [How-to article]. Marketing Research Chart: Most widely used lead gen tactics [MarketingSherpa Research Chart of the Week].