Here’s How You Can Ramp Up Your Marketing Efforts in The COVID Era: 

1. Optimize Your Website To Rank Higher 

This is a time when online engagement and internet usage has surged exponentially. Your audience is searching for new modes of entertainment and online which is why your brand website should be optimized by SEO experts for it to rank higher. As part of our Assistance and Recovery Program, we’re offering our existing suite of marketing services to the hospitality and entertainment industry. 

Optimizing your website with the right mix of content and keywords will help you stay on top of search results and get discovered by potential audiences.

2. Use Surveys To Plan For The Future 

Apart from hosting web events, organizers and concert clients have been using our event ticketing platform to build their own questionnaires & surveys which helps them collect important data from their guests.  The types of questions you ask in a survey can give you a mountain of information that you can utilize for planning your future events.

Think about what your target audience expects out of the post-pandemic situation and questions which you need answers to that will help you plan better for the upcoming months. Here are 3 Types of Surveys to Improve Your Event Planning. 

3. Create A Strong Brand Recall 

All your marketing and branding efforts are a success only if your target audience is able to connect with your brand of events and shows in the future as well. Creating a strong brand recall ensures that your potential ticket-buying audience gravitates towards you and not your competitors. We have been helping key entities in the hospitality and entertainment industry with our marketing suite of services. 

If you’re an event presenter looking to use a robust event ticketing platform, you can SIGN UP here and also schedule a discussion with us to register for our marketing suite of services.  

Assistance & Recovery Program for Native American Casinos

In this climate of uncertainty, businesses worldwide have either curtailed their offerings or come to a standstill until further notice. Yet, acting purely out of our love and commitment to supporting our family of Native American Casinos in achieving a swift recovery, we are extending our existing suite of services to the Casino Assistance & Recovery Program. 

Our program will help serve your business operations, optimize your existing processes, grow your profitability, and save costs significantly on the road to recovery. Remember to stay safe as we, as a community will come out stronger than ever once this pandemic passes away safely.

Also Read: 

COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Resources for Event Presenters

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PERSONALIZED EMAILS

Since we’re talking about maintaining a personal relationship with your customers, emails can work wonders. Apparently, personalized emails improve click through rates by 14%, which is huge if you’re familiar with the significance of numbers in marketing.

Design your email in a friendly tone and include a catchy call-to-action. Always include individual names of your customers to give it the extra personal touch, which genuinely shows that you are considerate about your audience.

There are many tools that help you craft your emails to suit your requirements and optimize your mailing list. If you’re an event presenter, hosting an event using Yapsody will help you on that front because we have a MailChimp integration tool that lets you import your contacts in order to send newsletters and invites.

TARGETED EMAILS BASED ON DEMOGRAPHICS

Instead of sending out a mass email to all the people who constitute your target audience, you might want to segment them based on your customers’ demographics because segmented emails get 50% more clicks as compared to mail blasts. The reason is simple – there are different reasons why different people belong to your target audience. Some of them may like you because your content looks relevant to them, while a different set of people might like your promotional gigs. You could separate out your customers based on quite a few factors, namely

• Gender
• Location
• Age
• Education level
• Purchase history
• Social media usage

Create mailing lists with people having similar attributes and send specially crafted emails to each one of them.

While most marketers usually collect relevant data during the signup process, recently they’ve discovered that third party apps like Facebook can also give them access to their customers’ details. When a person who’s interested gives his consent while entering your Facebook contest, you can actually gain access to his Open Graph data. Segmenting your customers couldn’t have been easier!

CATCHY CALL-TO-ACTION

When you include Call-To-Action (CTA) buttons in your email, make sure they’re clear and catchy, but not gaudy at the same time. You have to send out a clear message of what exactly the person will be discovering or doing by clicking on that button, and you have to make it visually catchy. Around 41% marketers have ranked CTA optimizations as extremely valuable, so you know this is some serious business.

CLEAR SUBJECT LINES

It is very difficult to strike the right balance between crisp and descriptive while coming up with a subject line. Your subject line has to fulfill many requirements in just 8-10 words, like

• It should be relevant and specific
• You should be clearly identifying yourself
• There should be an urgency of time depicted
• It should include your CTA

Some good examples for subject lines for contest invitation emails could be:

1. Our Sweepstakes is ON! Enter before Christmas to win $150!
2. Want to Win $150 for Christmas Shopping? Enter Our Sweepstakes NOW!
3. Show us Your Love by Voting and We’ll Show Ours by Giving You $150!

NEWSLETTERS

If you are an event presenter, you may be sending out regular newsletters to your subscribers and customers. You could simply have a section dedicated to your contest in one of your newsletters, or you could have an entire newsletter only for your contest. Include enticing contest images and a very brief description that interests them and intrigues them enough to click on that CTA button and participate right then.

INCLUDE AS A SIGNATURE

This is a new and different way to use email signatures for promoting your contest. Office workers spend 28% of their time reading and sending emails, which gives you enough time to make an impact through a regular mail. Simply include a very brief sentence about your Facebook contest and a catchy link or button in your signature, and ask your team to do the same. You can use a trackable link to keep a track of the number of clicks you get through these signatures.

ASK NICHE BLOGGERS TO PROMOTE YOU

Firstly, be aware of the people who influence your target audience. Next, reach out to them through promotional emails and request them to mention your contest in the content they put up. If you really want this to work, you have to make sure that your approach answers the basic what, where, why, when, why, and how that might prop up in their minds regarding your contest. Use Technorati or Klout to find out who are the key influencers in your industry. You can incentivize the promotion by giving them free coupons or gift cards in return for writing about your contest.

FOLLOW UP EMAILS FOR THE NEXT CONTEST

Once your contest is over and you’ve chosen your winner, it’s not the end. In fact, it’s quite like the beginning (remember what the snitch said in Harry Potter? “I open at the close…”).

Follow up on your entrants by sending them thank you emails or details about the next contest. You can also give them an advantage in the next contest because they participated in the previous one. The idea is to keep them engaged with your brand and updated with your latest on-goings. A happy customer is the one who can relate to your brand and feel connected.

IN CONCLUSION

Email marketing, I repeat, is an extremely effective tool and you can get tons of entrants by using it wisely. Just make use of the above tips and you’ll be good to go!

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