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

Sword and the Script

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. Offices won’t be gone – but remote work won’t be exceptional.

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CES 2020: How to Make Your Pitch Stand Out

Business Wire

If you are in charge of trade show publicity, these tips are a great way to maximize your presence at any show. At our most recent Business Wire Meet the Media event, we brought together Fast Company and Inc.

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Content Marketing is the New Conference and Trade Show During Quarantine [UML]

Sword and the Script

It works too and she cites data from B2B Content Marketing 2020 report: “68% of top performers use content marketing to build a subscribed audience and 83% of the top performers use it to nurture subscribers/audiences/leads.” These results do not happen overnight but can be substantial and I have experienced this first-hand.

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How to Book Speaking Opps In The COVID Era

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

SaaS businesses, like many B2B tech companies, devote sizeable budgets to industry conferences and trade shows for sponsorships and speaking opportunities to gain customer and media visibility. New speaking opportunities will open in 2020. Now that all tech and other events have been nixed , what do speakers bureau managers do?

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Making The Most Of Virtual Event Experiences

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

By the same token, many business executives rely on attending, speaking, or sponsoring in-person trade shows for their own visibility and thought leadership, and to stay on top of trends. In spring 2020, event producers raced to convince attendees and sponsors of the value of online experiences. There’s good news here, however.

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Virtual Trade Shows: The Good, The Bad, and How Make The Most Of It

Konnect Agency

At the risk of sounding cliché, 2020 was a year that brought infinite challenges to the business world. One industry that dramatically shifted as a result of the pandemic is the trade show industry, whose transformation to exclusively virtual formats was met with mixed reviews. What Can Be Gained From Virtual Trade Shows.

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Has the trade show had its day (at last)?

The Hoffman Agency

Nor do I remember much about the show (strapline: ‘The Foundations to your Facilities’, I’d imagine) apart from having a discussion with a guy selling paper towels, who was keen to tell me how much more hygienic they were than hot air hand-dryers which were only good for spreading germs …. The post Has the trade show had its day (at last)?