Social Media Strategies

While planning events, the mediums to communicate with the prospects and audience has grown massively. A few years ago, event planners could never have dreamt of having such upfront and direct communication with the attendees before the events even took place. Today, not only is it possible, it is a highly recommended approach for planning your events.

Planning and marketing an event is about building the entire experience for all stakeholders involved. The better you can build a story around the event, the more the excitement and anticipation. It’s fascinating to see how different social mediums can be leveraged to communicate these stories to the targeted audiences to spread. This involvement and communication with your customers is so important now, that it can make or break your events. And since we all want to leave that good after-taste in everyone’s mouth and earn our well-deserved bragging rights, I strongly recommend trying your hand at these social mediums to your advantage. They pay off for events and parties that I plan, every time!

You can only understand its true value if you put yourself in your customer’s shoes. Imagine yourself in a raving crowd on superbowl, or in a pub at a local party, or at a conference launching the coolest gadgets, or at a countdown on time-square? When surrounded with people who share your interests, chances are that your excitement will amplify and become contagious.

Now imagine building an event with that kind of viral and contagious excitement even before it happens. Imagine the traffics it would generate to your local party, big conference, or whatever it is that you are planning. It has worked wonders for us, and I’m sure you can benefit a lot from it as well. Its time for you to think about how to build the right kind of stories around your events and how to effectively build a strong online community of fans.

Simon U Ford (SUF.EDBD)

Today’s tip! A novel way to rise above the noise is to send prospects or associates a video mail as an alternative to email.

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