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    What is Experiential Marketing?

      What is experiential marketing (XM)? Simply put, it is a strategy for building customer loyalty and brand awareness by curating custom experiences that elicit an emotional response, create memories and influence buying behaviour. When we think about experiential marketing, the first thing that comes to mind are the brand activations at events like SXSW, Coachella and Burning Man where brands invest significant dollars in creating experiences. You might also think of things like the splashy activations that Netflix produced…

    Event Branding & Marketing, Event Operations, Uncategorized

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    Telling Your Own Stories

      We all know storytelling works. We are all aware that stories are engaging. They influence people. They inspire and excite. As authors Dan and Chip Heath illustrate in their research, 63 per cent of presentation attendees remember the stories told, while only five per cent remember statistics. Storytelling is critical for you and your organization. We always seem to be on the hunt for great stories to tell that will focus on or accentuate the point or message we…

    Event Branding & Marketing, Event Operations

  • Stories: the Secret to Social Media Success

    by Victoria Alves Bob Burg, author of Endless Referrals, famously said, “All things being equal, people will do business with, and refer business to, those people they know, like, and trust.” Although these words were first said in 1994, with the dawn of social media and the ever-increasing amount of people spending their time and posting their lives online, these words ring true more now than ever. So how do we get people to know, like, and trust us? We…

    Event Operations, Social Media & Technology

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