Tag Archive: Social Media

Unleash Your Conference Participants To Become WOM Influencers

Tweet Here is the slide deck from my recent presentation for Daxko Webinar Series on association and conference influencers. Enjoy! Unleash Your Conference Participants To Become WOM Influencers View more presentations from Jeff Hurt. Additional statistics and facts mentioned during webinar. United Breaks Guitars video received 25,000 views in the first 24 hours it was uploaded…

Identifying Influencers: Harnessing The Power Of Individuals

Tweet Armed with creativity, passion, $150, friends and YouTube, Dave Carroll created more than nine million impressions. You’ve probably heard of Carroll. He wrote and created the music video “United Breaks Guitars” about United’s baggage handlers smashing the base of his $3,500 Taylor guitar. United refused to pay $1,200 to repair his guitar because of…

Four Step Plan To Empower Your Event Attendees

Tweet “There’s a sucker born every minute,” is a famous phrase attributed to P.T. Barnum. Yet in today’s information driven society, we don’t stay suckers for very long.  Today, empowered attendees, connected to the information economy, affect your conferences and events. Four Technologies That Empower Your Conference Attendees In the book Empowered, Josh Bernoff and…

Why Your Event Marketing Strategy Needs To Include WOM And Individuals

Tweet Traditional marketing broadcasts messages to the masses via print, radio and TV. Broadcast marketing is also considered interruption marketing. Commercials interrupt TV or radio shows. Ads interrupt articles. Spam interrupts our daily work flow. Online popup ads interrupt or web experience. Marketers count the number of impressions (interruptions?) that people see or hear and identify reach and effectiveness….

A Twitter Conference Primer: Part 3 – Onsite Engagement, Follow-Up And 16 Resources

Tweet This is the third in a series on using Twitter at your conference or event. A Twitter Conference Primer: Part 1 – Preparing For The Event A Twitter Conference Primer: Part 2 – Marketing And Engagement You’ve set up your hashtag, marketed it on your conference materials and your marketing engagement plan is moving…