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Trade Show Marketing Strategy for Positive ROI

SmartBug Media

Mastering the art of trade show marketing requires going beyond conventional strategies. You can approach trade shows with one of two marketing strategies: developing one theme for all events you attend or customizing your strategy for each show.

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The Ideal Trade Show Checklist & Timeline

Navigate the Channel

It’s been a while since trade shows were the must-meet-and-see-events for B2B industries, but recently trade show event space and calendars are filling. Marketing departments and agencies are working to develop trade show themes and slogans, many of them highlighting being back together and pressing the restart button.

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Buying Signals: B2B Marketing Budgets without a Line Item for Trade Shows

Sword and the Script | B2B

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. Give our services a try.

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How to Use Lead Scoring to Drive the Highest Return on Your Trade-Show Investment

markempa

Tweet In the 2012 B2B Marketing Benchmark Report , 1,745 marketing organizations revealed that trade shows took up the biggest chunk of their marketing budget – over 21%. Yet, they only ranked fourth in marketing effectiveness, under websites, SEOs, and emails. Trade-show registration lists.

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Beyond Events & Trade Shows: Upsell/Cross-Sell Automated SaaS Campaigns Part 1

SmartBug Media

Trade shows and events are important—and often powerful—customer acquisition channels for SaaS organizations. Trade shows give exhibitors (you) and attendees the opportunity to sync face-to-face, which can help build the trust and deeper connection needed to support longer, sometimes more complex sales cycles.

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5 Best practices of trade show lead qualification

Biznology

Following my last blog on lead qualification, I received some great comments and several questions as to whether lead qualification differs for trade show leads. Yes, it does, and here is a revision of my last blog specifically addressing trade show lead generation and qualification.

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Research…and other smart pivots B2B marketers are making to generate more visibility and leads

Hinge Marketing

“We got most of our leads from referrals. Most of our leads have always come from conferences, trade shows, and speaking events. That is how our budget was set up and we don’t know how to adapt yet.”. So how do marketers adapt and generate more visibility, leads, and trust in these unprecedented times?