Tag: Trade Show Marketing

How Trade Show Marketers Can Navigate COVID-19 and Other Crises
March 20, 2020 No Responses

How Trade Show Marketers Can Navigate COVID-19 and Other Crises

As trade show marketers struggle to navigate crises, it's important to communicate openly, plan for current and future scenarios, and pivot budgets to channels that remain effective.
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A Message from EMC Outdoor CEO, Betsy McLarney
March 19, 2020 No Responses

A Message from EMC Outdoor CEO, Betsy McLarney

EMC Outdoor remains committed to providing the best outcome for you, our client, through these challenging and changing times.
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5 Trends for Trade Show Marketing in 2020
February 14, 2020 No Responses

5 Trends for Trade Show Marketing in 2020

Trade show marketing trends for 2020 reflect changes we're seeing in audiences, technology and new ways to experience and connect to brands or products.
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Best of the Blog 2019
January 14, 2020 No Responses

Best of the Blog 2019

Best of the Blog 2019 is a compilation review of 2019's top-performing, most-read, most-shared articles on the EMC Outdoor blog.
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5 Reasons Out of Home is Important for Trade Show Marketing
October 10, 2019 No Responses

5 Reasons Out of Home is Important for Trade Show Marketing

Trade show marketing beyond the convention hall is a valuable strategy that helps brands attain key business goals and better engage their audience.
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Expert Tips for Planning a Branded Event
September 4, 2019 No Responses

Expert Tips for Planning a Branded Event

As brands are turning to live events to provide value for consumers, expert planning is critical to producing highly creative and impactful experiences.
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Leveraging Experiential for Trade Show Marketing and Out of Home
June 25, 2019 No Responses

Leveraging Experiential for Trade Show Marketing and Out of Home

Experiential marketing can enhance trade show marketing and traditional out of home with more authentic creativity, visibility and measurement.
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The Importance of Second Tier Trade Shows
June 12, 2019 No Responses

The Importance of Second Tier Trade Shows

Second-tier trade shows can play an important role in advancing marketing strategy and increasing brand awareness and engagement with your target audience.
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Trade Show Marketing Trends for 2019
January 17, 2019 No Responses

Trade Show Marketing Trends for 2019

In 2019, we'll see trade show exhibitors and sponsors with a deeper focus and bigger investments in creating unique, interactive, memorable brand experiences.
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Best of the Blog 2018
January 3, 2019 No Responses

Best of the Blog 2018

As we enter 2019, we look forward with excitement at what new opportunities and developments lay ahead. We're eager to gain deeper engagement, more connectivity and a better understanding of the world around us. These are all major focal points that will make ...
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What’s Your SXSW?
December 5, 2018 No Responses

What’s Your SXSW?

Every year, brands and agencies from all over the globe focus on connecting with the massive and trend-setting crowds that converge upon South by Southwest. But if the BBQ, interactive, film and music-infused flavor of the enormous event is not quite right for...
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3 Steps for Optimizing Your Trade Show Marketing
November 29, 2018 No Responses

3 Steps for Optimizing Your Trade Show Marketing

Whether its brand awareness or a product launch, trade show marketing allows you to get the right message in front of the right audience at the right time and place. The key is to define your needs and embrace an integrated approach to build a campaign that go...
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Finding My Outdoor Voice in Out of Home [Intern Spotlight]
November 20, 2018 No Responses

Finding My Outdoor Voice in Out of Home [Intern Spotlight]

Since May, I've held an internship at EMC Outdoor. I'm grateful to be one of the 80% of students who intern at least once in college and 50% who intern more than once. The Out of Home industry and location-based marketing were exciting and new, and this intern...
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Digital Tactics for Trade Show Marketing
August 21, 2018 No Responses

Digital Tactics for Trade Show Marketing

The rule of seven is one of the founding concepts in marketing: a recipient must hear or see a message at least seven times before they will take an action. For trade shows, it's important to deliver multiple messages to an audience. Digital marketing tactics ...
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Your Tradeshow Forecast: Experiential with an Abundance of Technology!
August 14, 2018 No Responses

Your Tradeshow Forecast: Experiential with an Abundance of Technology!

Tradeshow marketers must engage their audience and measurement that impact. Integrated Experiential Exhibit Technology, or IEET, allows an audience to have a profound multi-sensory experience with a brand, while capturing impression data. As marketers embrace ...
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How to Create a Brand Presence Off of the Trade Show Floor
May 16, 2018 No Responses

How to Create a Brand Presence Off of the Trade Show Floor

For many brands, trade show marketing is a major component of the integrated marketing mix because it offers such a unique brand engagement opportunity. With the right audience in the right place at the right time, it’s a no-brainer to market to them. How ca...
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Understanding the Trade Show Attendee Experience
April 20, 2018 No Responses

Understanding the Trade Show Attendee Experience

Successful trade show marketing is about developing a media plan that aligns with and capitalizes on attendee behaviors in the market to accomplish a brand’s marketing goals. An effective trade show marketing strategy must be unique and specific for reaching...
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The Budget & The Booth: A Trade Show Tale as Old as Time
March 26, 2018 one Response

The Budget & The Booth: A Trade Show Tale as Old as Time

Exhibiting at your first trade show can feel like venturing into unknown territory. Doing your research and putting together a strong team are some key steps. Our guide will help you make sense of the chaos, maximize your budget and achieve your fairy tale end...
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Expand Exhibitor Marketing Footprints With Unique New Promotional Sponsorships
November 14, 2017 No Responses

Expand Exhibitor Marketing Footprints With Unique New Promotional Sponsorships

Trade shows and conventions are critical marketing opportunities for exhibitors. Many companies devote relatively large portions of their marketing budget to these events recognizing the benefit of the face to face meetings. One important part of trade show...
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The Booth and Beyond: Fundamentals for Your First Trade Show
October 13, 2017 No Responses

The Booth and Beyond: Fundamentals for Your First Trade Show

Trade shows and conventions can be crucial marketing opportunities for exhibitors. We wanted to tap into the expertise of some of the newest team members’ of our Trade Show Marketing team, and share some of their knowledge on preparing for your tradeshow exp...
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The Numbers Behind Trade Shows
October 11, 2017 No Responses

The Numbers Behind Trade Shows

Trade show marketing is one of the most effective ways to advertise in Out of Home. Here are some numbers that prove why that is.
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OOH: The Spice in Your Media Plan
June 27, 2017 No Responses

OOH: The Spice in Your Media Plan

Chili is one of my favorite dishes to prepare for my family. There must be a million different recipes out there, but if nothing else, you gotta have some type of meat, beans and a sauce. Think of the basic ingredients to any chili recipe and compare it to tra...
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San Francisco | A Day in the Life of a Convention Attendee
June 20, 2017 No Responses

San Francisco | A Day in the Life of a Convention Attendee

San Francisco is one of the top trade show and convention markets in the country and possibly the world. It also happens to be a fantastic city for food, drink, sights, and shopping. I often spend a lot of my...
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How to support your event with sponsorship strategies & exhibitor marketing tactics
April 13, 2017 No Responses

How to support your event with sponsorship strategies & exhibitor marketing tactics

The event organizer is committed to producing a successful event for all its members in attendance. While there are many tasks at hand when producing an event, sponsorship-advertising solutions are but one element that requires special attention.
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Chicago | A Day in the Life of a Convention Attendee
March 16, 2017 No Responses

Chicago | A Day in the Life of a Convention Attendee

Attending a convention in Chicago puts you in the middle of the largest city in the Midwest. With so much to do outside, why limit yourself to the walls of McCormick Place? We've put together a list of 7 Things to Do While in Chicago for a Convention.
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How are Conventions Thriving When Communication is at Our Fingertips?
February 22, 2017 No Responses

How are Conventions Thriving When Communication is at Our Fingertips?

Desktop, laptop, tablet, smartphone. Email, phone call, text, Skype, FaceTime, video-conferencing – with so many forms of digital communication at our fingertips 24/7, making clients just a tap away why is it that tradeshows are not just surviving, but thriv...
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Creative Hindsight is 20/20
February 10, 2017 No Responses

Creative Hindsight is 20/20

Out of Home is a powerful strategy to help drive attendee traffic to your trade show booth, but the rules and regulations can be confusing at times. How can you maximize your creativity while encountering (and abiding by) hurdles? Our VP, Media Strategy, John...
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Fortune Cookies, Smoothies and Dog Food – Oh My! An Experiential Update from EMC Events
January 30, 2017 No Responses

Fortune Cookies, Smoothies and Dog Food – Oh My! An Experiential Update from EMC Events

With spring on the horizon it's time for an update from our experiential experts at EMC Events.
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Thriving Through The Years: EMC Outdoor Celebrates 25 Years in Out of Home
December 7, 2016 No Responses

Thriving Through The Years: EMC Outdoor Celebrates 25 Years in Out of Home

Like many outdoor advertising companies, EMC Outdoor was launched to serve a need, driven by a mix of intuition, vision, an entrepreneur’s willingness to take a calculated risk, and simply being in the right place at the right time. 25 years later our CEO, B...
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Maximize B2B / Trade Show Branding through Smart Outdoor Advertising
August 17, 2015 No Responses

Maximize B2B / Trade Show Branding through Smart Outdoor Advertising

Today virtually every brand participates in an industry trade show as a means to stay current with new trends, launch new products and nurture business relationships. In fact, in a world where so much happens via email and on the...
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