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Cassie Roberts' presentation at the Colorado Association of Fairs & Shows Convention

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INCREASING BUCKS & BUTTS:REAL-TIME, ONLINE MARKETING

CASSIE ROBERTS

SIT BACK AND RELAX.

Give me your business card at the end of the presentation, and we’ll send you our slides.

MARKETING YOUR EVENT

What do you spend the most money on? How does it work for you?

Is it getting you the best results?

Is it helping you to grow?

RODEO HOUSTON STATISTICS

“How did you hear about the event?”

Newspaper – 2%Rodeo Advertising – 4%Radio – 9%TV – 10%Website – 46%

INTERNET WINS POPULARITY CONTEST

A STEP FURTHER

Source: Morgan Stanley Research

ARE YOU FOLLOWING THESE TRENDS?

ARE YOUR CUSTOMERS?

PRESENTERS

Cassie RobertsManager, Sales & Partnership

• Received BS Public Relations, & Masters Sport Management, The University of Texas

• Born in Central City, NE• United States Olympic

Committee• Rodeo Austin

HISTORY

SAFFIRE CLIENTS

SAFFIRE ASSOCIATION PARTNERS

PALAMINO FEST

our goal is to elevate the festival industry by enhancing its most important virtual front door –

its online presence.

OUR AGENDA TODAY

Your to do list for when you get homePrioritize how to make your website betterStatistics to watch and what to do with the infoThe latest trends and what to do about themMaximize your mobile presenceHow to make more money with emailTools to market your event from at your eventSpecific online marketing ideas

MAKE A GAME PLAN

WHAT WILL YOU SAY?

1. determine your target audiences

WHAT WILL YOU SAY?

2. get your team together -make sure to include all audiences

WHAT WILL YOU SAY?

3. brainstorm all the reasons people come to your event

WHAT WILL YOU SAY?

4. come up with topics for all these reasons

CONSIDER THE “RULE OF THIRDS”

1/3 about yourself and your brand

1/3 about things people might be interested in that aren’t self-promotional

1/3 interact with people

WHERE WILL YOU SAY IT?

WebsiteEmailFacebookTwitterFlickrYouTubePinterestBlog

CREATE AN EDITORIAL CALENDAR

YOUR WEBSITE

HOW DO YOU MANAGE YOUR SITE?

YOUR WEB GUY

YOUR WEB GUY

YOUR WEB GUY

THE GOAL

you must be able to market your event on your website in

real time

THE REALITY

98% of anonymous online prospects enter a website

looking for something, yet still leave anonymous

MAKE INFO QUICK TO FIND

Don’t have more than 5-7 links in one place.Make your information hierarchical.

SAFFIRE RECOMMENDATIONUse categories and subcategories to

organize your event information.

MAKE IT FUN

Use photos to tell your story.Give people features to click.

besides your homepage, where do people go on your website?

(do you know?)

MAKE EVENT PAGES INTERACTIVE

MAKE EVENT PAGES INTERACTIVE

MAKE EVENT PAGES INTERACTIVE

MAXIMIZE SOCIAL MEDIA

Facebook or Tweet your FESTIVAL

MAXIMIZE SOCIAL MEDIA

Facebook or Tweet a festival EVENT/FEATURE

MAXIMIZE SOCIAL MEDIA

Facebook or Tweet a PHOTO of an event/feature

WHY DO ECOMMERCE?

ECOMMERCE=INSURANCE POLICY

ECOMMERCE=INCREMENTAL REVENUE

DETERMINING PRICE

80/20 rule• Approximately 80% of the tickets you

sell online will be redeemed• Offer 20% discount• Come out even

Free shipping or print at home• ESPECIALLY when cheap

to ship

SELL MORE NOW

Make your tickets easy to find.

Have minimum clicks to get to the shopping cart.

Integrate the design of your website with the design of your cart so that the “look” doesn’t change at the buying moment.

ANALYTICS

GOOGLE ANALYTICS

4 IMPORTANT THINGS TO WATCH

site visits

• Low visits? Improve SEO or online marketing of your site

4 IMPORTANT THINGS TO WATCH

bounce rate

• High bounce rate? Improve your homepage

4 IMPORTANT THINGS TO WATCH

actions/ conversio

n rate

•Not enough action? Make your website more compelling (good rate: 2%)

4 IMPORTANT THINGS TO WATCH

time on site

• Low time? Add interactivity and other “stickiness”

TARGETING TRENDS

what is the fastest growing website of all time?

PINTEREST

Pinterest was the first site to get 10 million unique visitors in a month.

Pin event photos (and more) and invite your customers to follow your boards!

PINTEREST

PINTEREST

TEXT MARKETING

Your customers are texting.

Consider joining the conversation.

Judiciously text deals and special announcements.

SAFFIRE RECOMMENDATIONStart offering people the opportunity to sign up for text,

even if you don’t know what you’ll do with them.

50% of all web content is…

YOUTUBE

Customers exposed to videos are 437% more likely to engage in your brand.

• Engagement = Purchases

SAFFIRE RECOMMENDATIONMake your videos raw and not too produced to

help customers identify with your brand.

WHY TWEET?

17% of the top 1,000 search terms on Twitter

alternate hourly.

WHY TWEET?

Twitter is current on up-to-the minute important news and cultural happenings.

Ramp up your publishing frequency, and make timely content the focus of your Twitter activities in order to satisfy information-hungry users.

TRICKS & TIPS FOR TWEETS

For the highest click-through rates:

Tweet between 120-130 characters.

Write tweets containing “via,” “RT,” “please” and “check.”

Post weird/human interest stories.

Tweet on the weekends.

SAFFIRE RECOMMENDATIONWe don’t like to work on weekends either. Use:

www.hootsuite.com to schedule social media in advance

WHAT IS THIS?

#

THE ART OF THE HASHTAG

A hashtag how Twitter users organize themselves: if everyone uses a certain

hashtag to tweet about a topic, it becomes easier to find that topic in search, and is more likely to appear in

Twitter’s Trending Topics.

ENSURE ADOPTION OF A HASHTAG

Sorry!

You can't!

WHAT YOU CAN DO

POST it – relevant places on your website/blog

PRINT it – event materials, signage, scoreboards, etc.

PUBLICIZE it – Twitter feed, regularly and consistently

SAFFIRE RECOMMENDATIONIt is vital to make it easy and enticing for

your customers to find, adopt and promote hashtags.

AN OLYMPIC EXAMPLE

Hashtags preferred by Olympics:#London2012 #Olympics #GoUSA

Hashtag used:

MOVING MOBILE

MOBILE

APP OR MOBILE SITE?

Android46%

Apple iPhone30%

BlackBerry24%

APP OR MOBILE SITE?

WHY MOBILE?

Customers use mobile search to shop.

• 95% of all mobile searches are for local products and services.

• 61% of all local searches result in a purchase.

THE PERFECT STORM

Mobile PURCHASE+

LOCAL Search

MOBILE WEBSITE

MULTI-SCREEN MARKETING

MULTI-SCREEN MARKETING

WHAT LEADS TO MOBILE PURCHASE?

MOBILE CONTENT MANAGEMENT

Update your content in real time!

MOBILE CONTENT MANAGEMENT

Manage information about your events

MOBILE CONTENT MANAGEMENT

Edit a quick homepage message

EMAIL MARKETING

TARGET EMAILS FOR MOBILE

email opens on smartphones and tablets have increased 80% over the

last six months

WHEN WILL YOU SAY IT?

Statistics are clear • Day of week: Tuesday (try Friday for

fun!)• Time of day: Mid-morning

Unless you’re big, don’t publicize schedule

WHO WILL YOU SAY IT TO?

If you’re starting from scratch, GET GOING!• Outlook contacts• Volunteers• Sponsors• Vendors• Performers• Past purchasers• Etc.

EMAIL SIGNUPS ON EVERY PAGE

What will we say?

WHAT WILL WE SAY?

CONSIDER A PYRAMID

one main story

two smaller features

TEST AGAINST

EACH OTHER

two smaller features

WHAT WILL WE SAY?

don’t tell the whole story.

goal: CLICKS!

good content links to CLICKS, but a good subject line (sent at right time)

leads to OPENS

WHAT MAKES A GOOD SUBJECT LINE?

Include something recognizableUse action wordsNot too spammy50 characters or less• Turn into Tweet, with 120 characters, #

and shortened URL• Turn into Facebook, with 150

characters, graphic and no #

EMAIL ARTICLES: THE FORMULA

HeadlineImageText (short, with links)Call to action• Consider “Click here to enter now!”

MEASURE YOUR EMAILS

PER EMAILOpen rateClick-through rate (CTR)Response rate – web visits, revenue

OVER TIMEHouse file sizeChurn (percentage who leave your list)Revenue/emailCost/email

SAMPLE OPEN RATES

Varies by client• 9-15% on low end• 30-35% on high end

Who has the highest open rate?• Good subject line• Clients who sell online• Clients with a strong brand• Sent at right time/day (Tuesday mid-

morning)

SAMPLE CLICK RATES

Around 10-20% (not as much variance)Depends on call to action, so use action words• Get More Info! • Sign Up! • Buy Now! • More Photos!

Again, don’t tell the whole story. 

REAL-TIME MARKETING TOOLS

FACEBOOK

TWITTER

PINTEREST

YOUTUBE

SPECIFIC IDEAS

Ask questions that get people to talk about themselves in relation to

your event

GRAB THEIR ATTENTION

• Consider funny – tweets from mascot, etc.

• Personal/human interest stories get a lot of hits

• Posts with photos get more views!

Think about what YOU would want to click!

MAKE PEOPLE FEEL LIKE INSIDERS

• Be the first to know about X via social media!

• See behind-the-scenes looks at our event!

Your customers feel special, and they are more likely to be long

term followers.

MULTIMEDIA

• Photo contests on website and Facebook

• Caption that photo

• Funny video upload

Photos and video are naturally VIRAL and give you more event

photos!

TAGGING IN FACEBOOK

Take pictures of the crowd at concerts, post them and encourage them to tag themselves

Your photo appears in their Facebook feed!

GET PEOPLE TALKING

Show live tweets on concert side screens

Have a vote or quiz• Answer on text, app, QR code, etc.

CONTESTS WITH PUBLICITY BONUS

Have a contest for front row concert seats• Text, tweet or post on FB page NOW =

publicity

Do giveaways with charitable tie-in

Allow groups to get $ for their orgs for advance sales; host trip for winners

GETTING RETWEETS

Judiciously promote big sponsors for retweet

Same with vendors and entertainers

Post thanks to people/groups; they’ll repost

BULLS EYE

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