I was reading my friend Julius’ event manager blog again recently to pick up some inspiration. It’s always full of great ideas for event promotion and management. Anyway, he had this slide deck embedded from SideShare with some innovative ideas for how to promote an event offline. I hope Julius you don’t mind if I share it here too, but also try to build on your 15 with a few The Next 3 Event Promotion Meme …
Here are my Next 3 ideas:
1. Contact journalists writing about topics related to your event and ask if they would like a press pass
2. Create a thought leadership background piece and pitch it as a guest post for related blogs
3. Call your top five customers and ask them if they know of anyone else who might like to attend
I would also like to throw down the Gauntlet to some other bloggers to see if we can grow this list to something really useful…
Raxraxrax – I know Rax can put together a good event, having worked on Smirnoff’s sponsorship of the London Bloggers Meetup with him. But I wonder if he could share some pearls of wisdom?
Peter Marshall – Peter holds regular exhibitions of his photographic work and will no doubt have a wealth of experience in attracting an audience. Peter, any thoughts?
Mecca – responsible for all sorts of social media events and shenanigans, I wonder if we can tempt Mecca into joining our meme with a few ideas for inspiration..?
Great ideas you have there, contacting journalists is a good idea but could prove difficult to do.
Fantastic tips, any event organiser should take note of those.
Great tips, I have learned alot here by this topic. Thanks for sharing.
It is true, at first I thought it might be difficult. But as amazing warren tips very helpful and they can only recommend.
Thank you for the video and for sharing your 3 ideas. it is very helpful.
You have awesome ideas- Everyone can take profit of them. Hope you continue posting them :)
Thanks for the tips. i am just in the process of organising an offline event myself and will be using some of these ideas to encourage it to be a success.
Would love to see how these methods work.. I personally feel that the internet is one of the greatest methods of advertising an event. However, one shouldnt forget about offline methods. I think that the joining of the two can be very powerful. Good post!
Your post is very interesting as well as it is very useful. Posting in net can be very beneficial to all. Posting huge information and services in the net can be useful to all, it requires time and effort. But still you did a great job.
This article has really got some wonderful ideas to attract customers to the products. I usually write letters to “prospect corporations” – public relations contact person to get attention.
Very informative blog, I will use these tips for my next event
Thank You
Very nice information. Thanks for this. Is you blog have custom design? it looks good by the way.
Good tips, offline is just as important as online, even now.
top ideas ,top man , top top top . thanks for suppling your knoledge
These are some awesome tips will have to keep them in mind the next time I need to promote an event, I think this way will get a lot more attention.
Sounds like a heavy weight promotion. It is really serious, of course worth to do.
I’ll keep these tips in mind when I’ll be promoting my next event. I’m sure that these tips will be a big help.
Thanks, Aditya
Until now, i just promotion for my event by give some information in blog/web and made some leaflet to tell others about that event.
Thanks for your article tips. I will start to promote my event by doing offline promotion like your tips in this article. Thanks.
Like the tips. Those are useful for promoting business offline. Nice article, thanks.
Very glad I found this helpful post. We have been looking for ways to increase promotion and offline is something we need to consider.
I’ve recently used some of the tips. One or two didnt work for me but the one about carrying a flyer at all times was great and really helped to persuade people to come to the event.
I like especialy points 6 and 11, those are realy very innovative for me. Rest are also great, thanks alot for sharing Your experience.
Some of the ideas are fascinating and seem innovative to me. I will surely try to implement them.
Thanks for sharing these great ideas! It’s easy to forget about the offline world these days.
Wow , That’s great ideas!! I think onliner able to adopt and make some tricky way base on that methodes. Thanks for share.