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B-to-B Events

  • Going off the beaten path to save money

    In this new era of thrift marketers are scouting out off-the-beaten-path venues like unsold homes and local cafés where they can throw their events and skip the expense associated with custom-built environments. An added bonus with these unconventional spaces is that the target demo often comes with the package.

  • New Exhibits Offer Pre-fab Costs

    When budgets are tight exhibition designers can help you come up with solutions that still look great but cost less. Turning to some of today’s newest modular systems is one way designers are keeping budgets under control while creating a design statement that looks custom but isn’t.

  • How Co-Marketing Helps Keep Costs Lower

    In today’s difficult economy every marketer is looking for ways to make 1 + 1 = 3. One way to do that is by aligning your brand with a strategic partner. Whether you’re exhibiting at a trade show producing a mall tour or activating a sponsorship co-marketing with a non-competing brand can help you stretch your budget and take you places you’ve never been before.

  • Nine Best Practices To Improve Your Pre-Event Strategies

    If your post-event surveys show that consumers are interested in buying your product great. If your post-event numbers don’t deliver a lift in product sales uh not so great. Fast-tracking consumers from a memorable brand engagement to the point of sale requires more than just a coupon. It demands multi-layered event strategies and a quick mastery of distribution practices sales tactics retail relationships and consumer behaviors. With budgets shrinking and quantifiable deliverables more important than ever before it’s time to turn experiential programs into sales machines.

  • Turning SMS Into Real-time Dialogue

    Laptops were all the rage that is until cell phones turned into mini personal computers. Now consumers get sports updates the weather email photos and news—you name it—all on a device that fits in the palm of their hands. Through SMS (text messaging) they’re also communicating with each other faster than ever before.