B-to-B Events

In life, change is constant. In event marketing, the same. And though the industry certainly continues to evolve, one quest never slows: the data chase.

Marketers across the industry need data from event attendees in order to prove performance, generate leads, push digital communication and ignore post-experience communication. And they’re upgrading age-old tactics to goose their chances of getting it.

EFFEN Vodka is trying to grow in a highly competitive premium vodka category, and to do that the brand is aligning itself with premiere style events and courting influencers across the social spectrum with a series of invite-only Art of Design parties in key markets all over the U.S. The series will conclude for the year in New York City on Sept. 26.

In this monthly series, EM brings you tips and tricks from pros and experts who’ve been eating social media marketing for breakfast. So eat up, and check us out on Twitter @eventmarketer and Facebook.com/eventmarketer for more.

Though the Boeing 787 Dreamliner had its official rollout a few years back at Boeing’s Everett assembly factory in Washington, the company earlier this year rolled the plane out again to celebrate its new final assembly and delivery facility, the 240-acre Boeing South Carolina in North Charleston, which began production in July 2011. The event’s theme was “Building Dreams,” and at its heart showed off South Carolina’s Low Country and its people.

You’d expect a trade show for truckers to be larger than life. After all, the trucks are big, so it takes a lot of space to display them. But this year, Navistar’s 78,000-square-foot space at the Mid-America Trucking Show (MATS), which took place March 22 to 24 in Louisville, KY, was four-to-five times its usual size and the largest footprint of any exhibitor at MATS in its 40-year history.