#5: How to create a more diverse and inclusive lineup of speakers for our events
Release Date: 12/19/2021
The Events Cast
Creating successful events requires more than just having events that resonate with our attendees. No matter how well you’ve planned and organised our events are, it will be doomed as a failure if you can’t secure enough attendees to visit the event. You need a well rounded marketing plan with successful campaigns and strategies that will resonate with your audience to promote your events, reach a wider audience and sell out. In this episode of The Events Cast, we are joined by , CEO & Founder of TEMBO, and an experienced event marketing specialist to help us start with planning the...
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Email marketing is the online marketing strategy that delivers the highest ROI for event marketing. But most people's inboxes are crowded nowadays. So it can sometimes be tricky to gain the attraction and your audience via email. In this episode, we talk about 9 hacks that will help you boost your email marketing and sell more tickets for your upcoming events. If you enjoyed this episode, leave us a 5-star review and share the episode with a colleague or friend Find out more at Follow or send us a message On Instagram: On Linkedin:
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In this episode, we will be discussing how event technology can help make our events more sustainable with Lawrence Gillward, Director @ All In The Loop. We talk about the main areas of our events we should be looking to improve, the impact they currently have on the environment and how we can reduce their impact and continue to run successful events. We will be discussing how event technology can help us reduce our impact, and what type of technology we can bring into our live events. If you enjoyed this episode, leave us a 5 star review and share the episode with a colleague or...
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Having a solid marketing plan for your events is crucial to ensure your event sells out. But it can be tricky to come up with creative ideas to boost your marketing and sell more tickets. In this episode, I share with you 5 of my favourite marketing ideas to sell more event tickets. I have used all these strategies and can ensure you they deliver excellent results so try them out and let me know how they go for you. If you enjoyed this episode, leave us a 5-star review and share the episode with a colleague or friend Find out more at Follow or send us a message On Instagram: On Linkedin:
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Event planning has been on the list of the top 10 most stressful jobs in the world almost every year for the last decade or so. Event management is undoubtedly a high-pressure job, with unrealistic expectations, tight deadlines, physical demands, lack of control and constant interruptions, but there are many ways we can work more efficiently and plan and arrange our days to relieve the stress in event planning and become more efficient when planning our events. In this episode, we will be talking with Mera Szendro, Digital & In-person Events Manager about how we can reduce the stress in event...
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Email marketing is not the only way to promote your events online, but it continues to be the single most successful digital marketing strategy. So having an ongoing lead generation plan is very important for your event business so that you can generate leads all year round and nurture your new email subscribers so that when you have an event to promote to them, they know, like and trust you and are ready to attend your events. But generating leads and building an email list is not easy, especially if you are starting out. In this episode, I will share with you my top 5 strategies to generate...
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FREE events attract a much larger number of registrations to your events and invites anyone available to attend. But when someone hasn’t laid out cash for their ticket, their commitment is low and they are less likely to show up to your event. This can make it pretty difficult to plan an event when you don’t know how many people may show up on the day of your event. In this episode, we will be talking with Zoe Perkins @ Vodka on Toast about the pros and cons of free vs. paid events and how we can reduce the no-shows at our free events. We will be discussing whether free events attract more...
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An event website plays a key role in the marketing of your event to attract more visitors, sell more tickets and gain more revenue for your event. It will be where your attendees will come to find information about your event, the line-up, the agenda, and most likely, to register for your event. But creating a successful website for your events is no easy task. And there are a lot of crucial components to take into consideration when building a website that will deliver results and ensure the success of your event. In the latest episode of , we talk about some key features to ensure your...
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An unconference is a powerful way to facilitate connections and engagement between participants and to enhance our attendees’ ability to turn ideas into assets. By providing an unstructured, high-energy environment in which ideas can run and grow freely, we can amplify ideas, creativity and innovation. In this episode, we talk about the concept of an Unconference event and how to bring together participants from all kinds of backgrounds with a shared interest. To discuss this topic, we’ve brought onto the show the one and only Bill Boorman, founder of #trulondon. If you enjoyed this...
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In this episode, we are talking with Steven Burchard about how we can create a virtual programme for our conferences, meetups, networking events… that are interactive, engaging and entertaining for all our attendees. Steven shares with us some top tips and strategies to make our virtual events more interactive and engaging, and how to design virtual programmes that deliver unique experiences to our audience. We also discuss the main reasons why virtual events fail, we discuss pre-recorded vs. live conferences and the potential of Clubhouse for event organisers. If you enjoyed this...
info_outline In this episode we speak with Lauralee Whyte, Founder @ Spectrum Speakers & Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Champion about how we can bring more diverse voices into our events' lineup, who don’t just speak about diversity.
We discuss the importance of bringing more diverse voices into our events, what we need to consider when building our event agendas, how to source and find more diverse voices, people with a different perspective and a story that needs to be heard, and how to support our speakers.
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