Navigate the Channel

MAY 31, 2018

Here’s a quick question: what’s the first thing that trade show attendees see? Answer: the trade show booth displays of the various vendors who are there. Rest assured, though, that people who attend the trade shows that you’re at will notice. Change up the lighting.

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Tiecas

APRIL 5, 2024

( Source ) Unfortunately, only 32% of manufacturing marketers have a documented content marketing strategy, even though one in four manufacturing marketers reported that their organization spends 25% to 49% of their total marketing budget on industrial content marketing. Source ) Why is that? What is an Industrial Marketing Strategy?

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markempa

JANUARY 21, 2013

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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Zoominfo

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Streamline Recruits by Getting on Approved Vendor Lists. But if you can find ways to conserve time and resources for your organization, you get on approved vendor lists to save time and resources. Check out our guide, “4 Ways to Get on the Approved Vendor List for IT Staffing,” to land on approved vendor lists for IT professionals.

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Webbiquity

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Social media is the top digital marketing channel for vendors, but organic social media reach continues to decline , LinkedIn’s strategy for groups remains muddled , and many business buyers aren’t even on Twitter. This encompasses media, analysts, trade associations, conference producers, and complementary product vendors among others.

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The Effective Marketer

JUNE 29, 2011

Make Your Trade Shows Count. The old fashioned trade show may not be the hottest topic coming through your inbox these days but odds are that you may still be doing quite a few events and have trade shows as part of your marketing budget. brings 12 tips for ensuring shows deliver the leads you expect.

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Webbiquity

MAY 3, 2022

84% of attendees and 67% of vendors want event organizers to help facilitate ecommerce transactions. In the pre-pandemic world, the top priority for planners was number of attendees; for B2B vendors, number of leads generated; and for attendees, the networking. Demand for podcasts has also increased.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Event Budget Management. Event Budget Management. Another area where tech can be helpful is in managing event budgets. Tools are available to help you make budget projections, track expenses and revenue, and set up payment reminders. Those topics are outlined below: Task Organization and Prioritization. Event Experience.

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Marketri

APRIL 17, 2024

They’re tired of their teams and vendors engaging in random acts of marketing that don’t yield results. Rather than waste budget on disconnected, arbitrary, reactive tactics, they want experienced marketing professionals to develop a cohesive, strategy-led marketing plan that aligns with their business goals. Here’s my take.

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sagefrog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

After all, selecting the right vendors can be the difference between employees and customers having a positive or negative experience at the facility. Leverage Trade Shows Another source of marketing that tends to be effective for facilities services businesses is trade shows.

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The Point

MAY 28, 2020

Inquiries and qualified leads have shrunk dramatically in most sectors as budgets get pared back, trade shows get cancelled, and buyers adopt a more cautious outlook. Resist the siren call from certain thought leaders and tech vendors that all marketing needs to be ABM. However, times have changed.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 14, 2018

Industry trade shows and professional events are an excellent way to learn new skills, network with others, and revive your creativity. Because most industry events come with a cost—time away from your desk, budget, travel, etc. Because most industry events come with a cost—time away from your desk, budget, travel, etc.—attendees

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Biznology

JULY 7, 2020

It’s not easy to replace a marketing channel that represents on average 20% of our marketing mix—with many marketers devoting as much as 60% of their budgets to events. This is a good time to engage a vendor to help you correct errors and fill in the missing elements. What’s to be done? But now—we need workarounds.

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Webbiquity

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

An Expanding Event Ecosystem The state’s affinity for conferences, trade shows, forums, festivals, meetings, and events of all types has spawned an active and expanding ecosystem of event-related vendors. Interestingly, their offerings are more complementary than competitive, addressing different needs and market segments.

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SmartBug Media

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Key KPIs to Track in Your Marketing Budget. By channel or tactic, you should be tracking the following key performance indicators (KPIs): Budget: How much capital you are allocating to a specific channel or tactic. Cumulative budget: The total budget summed up across all marketing channels. Budget pacing.

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ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

They’ve lost many of the main methods they once relied on: trade shows, networking events, site visits, in-person meetings, conferences, etc. We were seeing this even before COVID: customers had gotten less and less likely to approve travel budget. But sellers have been challenged to build trust through relationships.

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The Marketing Blender

JANUARY 10, 2024

This understanding aids in budgeting and provides a clear picture of the value proposition offered by a fractional CMO. Additionally, most companies need to budget for the media fees to advertise. Additionally, our CMOs ensure messaging is aligned across all team members and vendors and rolling up to the company’s goals.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Marketing teams can work with these publications to ensure the leads a vendor passes back as a conversion match a predetermined set of firmographic and demographic filters. Trade Shows: Investing sponsorship of industry events or even producing an event using internal resources. Types of B2B Lead Generation Strategies.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Gartner recently found that marketing budgets are beginning to recede, dropping from their peak (12.1% Here are 3 strategies to help ensure you get the kind of marketing budgets you need to beat your goals next year. How much are you spending on trade shows? Are you donning your boxing gloves?

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B2B Marketing Traction

JULY 16, 2014

I see many vendors approaching B2B marketing with the “tool du jour,” because they hear something new is the next best thing. The key is choosing the best marketing tools for each situation, which of course depends on your target audience and your marketing budget. So, B2B marketer, what’s in your toolbox?

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 29, 2018

From event planning to trade show design, there’s a little something for everyone. 5 Reasons to Send Employees to Trade Shows and Conferences. 6 Ways to Stand Out in a Trade Show Exhibit Hall. When it comes to B2B marketing tactics, no strategy has stood the test of time quite like the trade show.

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Webbiquity

JULY 3, 2018

Thinking about which trade shows to participate in this year? For growing companies, trade shows can be a powerful way to market products and increase brand recognition. With proper research and evaluation, you can find trade shows that attract the right prospects and offer big opportunities for your brand.

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ClickZ

AUGUST 20, 2019

The partnership is focused on using technology to automate lead engagement and follow-up specifically for event marketers who leverage conferences and trade shows in the B2B space to meet with prospects and clients. Martech for events. We asked the question, how can you use software to drive more of offline relationships?”

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

On the flip side, existing customers that may have had value in the past could be putting a dent in your budget. Sales Funnel Through a combination of signals that indicate thresholds across qualification, timing, budget and fit, GTM teams can establish a reliable sales funnel. How can their budget be optimized with your solution?

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Webbiquity

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Marketing budget allocations should, of course, always be based on the unique a company’s unique situation: its specific needs, experiences, strengths, market position, market conditions and trends, etc. Among the key findings: Digital budgets are growing. One-to-one tactics are holding steady. They permit only general targeting.

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Webbiquity

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Marketing budget allocations should, of course, always be based on the unique a company’s unique situation: its specific needs, experiences, strengths, market position, market conditions and trends, etc. Among the key findings: Digital budgets are growing. One-to-one tactics are holding steady. They permit only general targeting.

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Golden Spiral

JANUARY 22, 2021

With new variants of COVID-19, accelerated vaccine distribution, a new administration in Washington, and a surge of technological innovations that would've taken years, your biggest budget challenge will be flexibility. You may have always set quarterly goals and tracked your budget accordingly. Trade shows. Advertising.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Marketing teams can work with these publications to ensure the leads a vendor passes back as a conversion match a predetermined set of firmographic and demographic filters. Trade Shows : Investing sponsorship of industry events or even producing an event using internal resources.

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Marketing 261

MARCH 31, 2020

Like most professionals, startup marketers are still adjusting their marketing budget to the effects of COVID-19. As a result, marketing teams that once relied on trade shows for effective lead generation are scrambling to find alternatives that garner the same success. Advertising. If At First You Don’t Succeed, Try, Try Again.

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Pam Didner

OCTOBER 15, 2022

We’ve all been to big tech events and trade shows and witnessed the good, the bad, and the ugly. Budget breakdown. For attendee acquisition to work well, you need a budget and solid messaging hooks. How can we ensure things run as smoothly as possible at our gatherings? Event theme or tagline. Target event attendees.

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Webbiquity

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Activity in the virtual events space has exploded this year, as businesses across industries have reallocated 67% of budget dollars originally intended for live events this year to online conferences, meetings, and expos. Not surprisingly, virtual event technology vendors have responded.

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Golden Spiral

DECEMBER 21, 2018

It also doesn’t matter where you are in your marketing journey or how much you have in your marketing budget, the same fear can creep in. A publishing company I worked with wanted to buy national in-theatre advertising for a new resource, but the budget was so big they chose to test three cities instead. Not presenting at trade shows?

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Biznology

MAY 19, 2020

For B2B marketers who depend at least partially on leads from conferences and trade shows, these are bleak times. If you’ve been staring down the number of leads you drove from last year’s shows, asking yourself when trade shows come back, I am afraid that I have very bad news for you.

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Martech Advisor

APRIL 3, 2020

” Customers will appreciate remote vendors, learn how to trust people, and make decisions over zoom calls. This is a wake-up call for marketers, since, according to Demand Gen Report’s survey in January 2020, 53% of US B2B marketers consider in-person events and trade shows an effective channel for driving conversion!

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B2B Marketing Traction

JANUARY 13, 2016

First, you don’t take the time to consult with vendors and ask for their recommendations. They jumped into the project with a low-cost vendor from overseas without a plan or a specification. They jumped into the project with a low-cost vendor from overseas without a plan or a specification. Need video content ideas?

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 5, 2011

We released two more vendor selection workbooks last week, both sponsored by Eloqua and available for free on the RaabGuide Web site. One is about estimating the cost of a marketing automation system and the other is about evaluating vendor services. But the stakes are high: operations costs are about 25% of a typical marketing budget.

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SmartBrief - Marketing

AUGUST 14, 2023

In my next PR position, I learned that a poorly managed agency team could chew up client budget like you wouldn’t believe. Degree of difficulty: 3 Event marketing Creating a meaningful presence at industry trade shows and conferences is still an effective sales and marketing strategy. Logistics also can be complicated.

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