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How to Effectively Analyse your Conference – post event surveys…

On 1 July, 2013 by Ciara Feely Comments (0), leave your own!
Categories: Book more conference business, Conference Planning, Conference Survey Questions, Conference Venue Tips, Marketing Events

Top 10 Conference Survey Questions……..

This comprehensive list is taken from a post on LinkedIn, started by Wendy Sullivan – NABC Planner at American Contract Bridge League. She asked a question and got 66 comments back with some great suggestions from Conference and Event planners worldwide.

Here is the Top 10;

1. Create a pre-event survey to better understand the goals of your attendees, and then follow up with a post-event survey to see if they accomplished those goals.
2. What was the best part of the Conference?
3. Why was this event successful for you?
4. Is there anything we could have done better?
5. How was the Staff/Food/Location (rating 1-10)?
6. Would you refer us to a friend or colleague?

Ask all of the above with a why section so delegates can elaborate more and you can evaluate the information.

7. Did the technology used at the event enhance, take away from, or make your participation more enjoyable? If you didn’t use technology, ask for suggestions on what they would recommend.
8. Ask for the feedback once participants are back at work. By waiting a couple of days you receive much longer, insightful and interesting feedback. I put this down to attendees rushing off at the end of an event but having the time back at work to be more considered. Our ’scores’ remained consistent but the open questions elicited much more comprehensive answers.
9. Capture video testimonials post-event before people walk away from the event. Not only does it create excellent marketing material, but it captures the immediate “wow” factor.
10. Was the conference a good opportunity to Network?? (a recent report shows 80% of the reasons delegates go to conferences is to Network). Rating this question 1-10.

There are lots more suggestions so I will post them at another date.

If you liked this post, check out 27 Things to do before a Conference!

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Telling Stories to increase conference business and attract more delegates…

On 28 May, 2013 by Ciara Feely Comments (0), leave your own!
Categories: Book more conference business, Conference Planning, Conference Venue Tips, Hotel Sales Tips, Hotel Site Inspection, Marketing Events

As they say – Facts tell, stories sell…

I subscribe to Andy Bounds Tuesday Tips and always find some great nuggets in them. He is strong on communication tips and a go to expert in that area. This weeks tip is on Telling Stories and how they can transform the sales process. These are the 3 essential elements of a story –

1 Why it’s needed
2 The desired future
3 Immediate next steps

You can also add the drama of filling in who the villain is, what is the build up, who is the hero (usually you or your service), how it helped someone.

To illustrate your point – start by the story illustrating the need to change – what was the lead up? For conference organisers for example they discovered that delegates were tired of their usual venue and it wasn’t conducive to networking.

Then paint the picture of how it could be – a change of conference venue attracted new delegates and really enabled networking, both the exhibitors and delegates were happy, got great feedback and resulted in higher sales.

What are the immediate next steps?? – how the venue can help conference organisers run a better and more profitable event.

I’d love to hear your hotel and conference stories. Please do leave a comment.
If you liked this blog, you will get great tips in this one on how to market your event on Twitter.

Marketing your Conference on Twitter… Expert Tips

On 12 August, 2011 by Ciara Feely Comments (0), leave your own!
Categories: Conference Event Technology, Conference Planning, Marketing Events, Twitter and Events

How to effectively Market your Conference or Event - Tips from Christian Payne.

I attended an excellent presentation by Christian Payne – @documentally, recently on Twitter for Business. Brilliant presenter, fantastic on the subject and kind enough to give me his time afterwards.

I asked Christian for a few tips for Conference and Event Organisers on how to effectively use Twitter to market the events….

  1. Create your own hash tag for the event – don’t let others do it, as it is easier for you to track conversations with one hash tag. Eg # hospitalityconference
  2. Pay good attention to it – follow the conversation in real time
  3. Set up google alerts (for your keywords and to help keep track)
  4. Find the nodes* and amplifiers** for your event/subject and make sure you are following them
  5. Don’t think it is cool and funky to have the #tag playing behind the speakers on stage at the event – it is distracting. There are plenty of opportunities to advertise it pre-conference, on the website, at registration – have it very obvious at coffee break and lunch time and the bathroom is also a place where it will be noticed!
  6. Use ***Storify to tell a story about communication of the event – collecting all the info as you are going along. Be on top of it in real time – this is vital or you will miss the conversation.
  7. Other media – listen to facebook pages, FourSquare and gowalla. Use other social media communication to know what is being said about your event and to market it.

The event was run by Media Contact – Jack Murray. They run great courses

Notes

*Nodes – a central or connecting point – who can connect you to your audience, who is talking about what you talk about.

**Amplifiers – who can reach a wide audience quickly

*** Storify– tool to tell your story online.

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