Author archive for Kait Shea
B-to-B Dream Team Archive: Eight Insights on Building a Customer-Centric Event
The 2020 B-to-B Dream Team call for nominations is underway through Jan. 23 Business event strategies have historically been built around what a brand wants to relay to its audience, but ask any event marketer about b-to-b tactics today, and most of them will tell you the tables have turned. Indeed, a customer-centric approach that...
Content Design: Facebook’s Event Marketing Manager on the Brand’s ‘Boost’ Program
As the world’s third-most visited website, you could say Facebook knows a thing or two about growing a business. And over the last few years, the multi-billion-dollar company has been paying that knowledge forward with a suite of free tools and training events for small and medium businesses (SMBs) called Boost with Facebook. The global...
McDonald’s Beat of My City Initiative Blends Music with Cause Marketing
Giving back to the neighborhoods it serves is part of McDonald’s ethos, and through its Beat of My City concert series, the fast food giant gave the gift of music. The brand partnered with two musicians, Teyana Taylor and the late rapper Juice WRLD, to deliver live performances and give back to local communities in...
How the First-Ever BravoCon Engaged 10,000 Pop Culture Superfans
What’s more rabid than a pop culture superfan? A gaggle of pop culture superfans gathering to celebrate their favorite TV shows alongside the celebrities that star in them. Enter: the inaugural BravoCon, held Nov. 15-17 at three venues across New York City. The convention served as Bravo’s first event dedicated to engaging the passionate fan...