Digital Marketing made easy

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Social media marketing? Ha -- I can do it -- No problem! I was born social. Most fatalistic way to begin social media marketing Unfortunately - I realized it the hard way. This was year 1 of the event, we were struggling with a multi - headed hydra monster - mega event marketing. We thought social would be easy. After all, how difficult can LinkedIn posts and Facebook likes can be? And isn't that something that we do all the time? Good thing that we learnt in year 1 -- there is nothing easy about social, except perhaps the name. Why do I say there is nothing easy? I've got to be kidding - right? No, unless of course it doesn't bother you that your posts have 4 likes, no shares and no engagement. Then, it is okay. But if you have sponsors to answer to & potential event delegates to reach out to, you can't take social lightly.  So how to build a massively successful social media marketing campaign for a giant event? This is just the strategy...

As promised, I am back with info on the series "Event Marketing". I am starting with what seems to be the ultimate hair - tearing, coronary - causing, maniacal element of any major event -- Event PR/Publicity. Event PR assumes a life of its own -- sometimes it is bigger than the actual event ( oh yes , especially if you are also managing an agency -- and that is why, coronary-causing). Source: https://ouimpressions.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/eventatriumpeople.jpg So at this point of time, when your event is fleshed out and the finer details are in print, you can start with the following: 1. Do You Need PR or Do You Need PR? But wait -- we need to answer this question! Do you need PR? Of course yes! If you care about attendees, if you care about (and you are answerable to) sponsors, and if you do not wish to relegate your event to event - hell. (Not to say that doing PR might prevent that). But on a serious note, PR can help you with the hard deliverables for your ev...