Kick starting your marketing well in advance ensures that activities such as resource allocation, promotion, and engagement is performed more effectively resulting in higher conversion. Marketing coupled with a proper strategy will further catapult you to higher engagement levels and even sold-out events! Here are 5 ways to use targeted event marketing strategy for your events! Here are 5 ways to use targeted event marketing strategy for your events and make maximum profit by selling event tickets online.

1. Make yourself easy to find

Not only should you post online content regularly, but you must also make it easy to find. You can share content by bundling with different content on your website or social media channels. For instance,  if you have 3 or 4 events lined up for the month of May, then you can promote it as “Upcoming events for May 2018” on a single page and promote it on social media as well as different channels, which will make it easy to find your events in a single location.

You can also create a hashtag for your event and while posting anything related to that event, you can post using that hashtag. Make sure to use a hashtag which is unique, so that recollection is easy and your attendees can then follow your event updates.

2. Promote events using paid ads

Social media platforms are making it difficult to reach your attendees organically. According to a recent update by Facebook, they have implemented changes in their algorithm. Priority is now given to content from the user’s friends and families over the content from businesses and news websites.

This is not only about Facebook, it is also about other platforms like Twitter and Pinterest. They are going to give more preference to paid ads over organic content generated by companies. Platforms like Facebook and Twitter costs less compared to other traditional ad platforms like TV or print ads. Additionally, they give you better options of targeting attendees based on user location and interest. So, in order to reach your attendees, create ads and promote using mechanisms like Facebook Pixel. Yapsody gives you the option to easily integrate your Facebook Pixel, which helps to promote your events to individuals who are more likely to purchase.

3. Be in touch with your event registrants via email

You need to keep engaging with your event registrants. The best medium to stay in touch with your audience is email marketing. According to a research, 73% of in-house marketers worldwide said that email marketing provided a strong ROI.

Therefore, you must leverage email marketing but keep in mind that you need to send personalized emails in order to improve effectiveness. To evaluate the effectiveness and success of your email campaigns, you need to keep track of the “open rate” and “click through rate” of emails and also check the conversion ratio – recipients who are reading your email and purchasing tickets. All these parameters can be tracked through Yapsody’s upcoming “Email Marketing” feature.

4. Improve SEO of your event landing page

SEO is the 2nd most effective medium for marketing after email marketing. Investing in SEO takes a lot of efforts, but the effects are long lasting. You need to work on both on-page and off-page SEO activities to get your event at the top of the page rankings by search engines.

Yapsody provides SEO customization for your events, which helps you to edit on-page SEO elements like title, meta description and meta keywords of your events thereby helping your events rank higher by search engines.

5. Create a buzz around your event

When it comes to your event, your performing artists and special guests are the primary stakeholders. If you want your event to be a success, make sure that your primary stakeholders leverage their popularity and power to influence by creating a buzz around your event on social media platforms. This is the most organic and effective way to promote your event, since it attracts potential attendees who pursue those performing artists and special guests on social media as well as keep your event registrants engaged.

Start early

To make your event a success, you need to start doing these promotional activities in advance. Email marketing and SEO are the primary channels you should use to target your attendees, as they have better ROI compared to all other medium. Implementing these tips will help you stay in touch with your attendees, and get the most out of your targeted event marketing strategy.

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With Facebook literally connecting us all, event management and ticketing has become rather simpler. Facebook helps you reach out to more and more potential customers and thus, that automatically increases your ticket sales. Let’s see how you can optimize your effects:

• Make sure you create an event page on Facebook. An event page would contain relevant details about the event, like the date and the venue. That way, people can check out your event and let you know if they are interested or not. Also, interested goers can share the event link with their friends. This helps publicize your event. As your event picks, so do your ticket sales.
• Track your users. Let’s say someone lists your event as interested. Your next step would be to lure him or her in. Now that you know their interests, you could keep reminding him or her about the event and even resort to multi-channel marketing. Increasing the frequency of reminders will surely catch the attention of the event goer, and he or she might just buy the ticket!
• Improve your search options. If an interested customer has heard about your event but is unable to locate the event page on Facebook, you lose out on event attendees. Your events shouldn’t be hard to find. The marketing campaign should be so extensive that entering a few keywords should be enough to pinpoint your events. We recommend the use of hashtags too. These are useful if you are searching for something that is already trending.
• Event attendees want something that immediately piques their interest and makes them want to take a step. Your Facebook events should be attractive and appealing enough. Use images. Use catchy and fun headlines. Go for interesting captions. Do whatever it takes to draw the customers to your event page and to your event ticket selling websites. Marketing is a game; it’s all about how you lure in the maximum number of customers.

Facebook, today, is one of the largest platforms for event promotions, paid and otherwise. So come on, join the wagon!

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The two best things about Facebook adverts are that they’re targeted and they’re cheap, and you only need a Facebook Business Page to be able to use them. Their primary motive is to drive traffic to a specific landing page, and your ads will only appear in the news feeds of people who belong to your target audience. This is decided by their profile movements and demographics.

KNOW THY CUSTOMERS

This one gives me a déjà vu because I’ve already used the same subheading in another blog post, but it’s just so apt that I couldn’t control myself.

Facebook is a platform where people demonstrate their inclination towards a wide range of interests – favorite colors, shows, actresses, destinations and so on. All of this serves as data for you to formulate your marketing strategy to cater to your customers. One of the best ways to track down people who might be interested in your brand is by tapping on the followers of your competitors. For event presenters like yourself, you might want to catch hold of people who are interested in the kind of events or concerts you organize. If you’re hosting a fundraiser for a certain cause, you might want to place your ad in the feeds of those who are actively supporting the cause or have previously attended a similar fundraiser.

KNOW THY CUSTOMERS TOO WELL

Now there’s a subheading that’s not been repeated!

While Facebook adverts are cheap, having a very broad audience is definitely going to be expensive, even for Facebook ads. Try to be more precise with the factors that you use to filter out your target audience. Maybe these filters will not work the first time, so keep experimenting as you track your traffic. After a few tries, you’ll have a clearer idea of who your audience actually comprises of.

KNOW THY CTA

Am I overdoing the subheadings? Well, you’re still reading, so probably not.

Your Call-To-Action is the make or break point of your advertisement, so make sure you frame it wisely. If you want your ad to be noticed amongst a stream of Harry Potter posts and cute puppy videos, you have to make sure it’s tempting enough to be clicked on. Try publicizing a specific offer, like an end of season sale or a giveaway, because they usually catch attention.

PICTURES SPEAK

Your Facebook ads are going to be little square boxes with minimum number of words (20%, to be precise). So, if you want them to stand out, you’ve to make sure the imagery you use is catchy. Be bold with the colors and use pictures of people, because this provides a certain level of human intimacy. Also remember that you don’t have to be gaudy to be catchy.

ADVERTEST BEFORE YOU ADVERTISE

Before investing a huge amount in Facebook ads, allot a small test budget for a particular target audience and run your advert for around a week, use Ad Manager to track its performance and keep changing your strategy accordingly. Under Audience and Placement, you’ll get an insight into the age groups who clicked on your ads the most number of times, and also whether the clicks were on a mobile device or a desktop.

In Conclusion, Facebook provides a highly targeted platform for advertising. You practically get to customize all aspects of your ad campaign – how long will your ad run, how many people can view it, how much can you pay for it – and analyzing the results is even simpler. If you’re smart with the budget you invest, you can exploit all benefits that Facebook adverts have to offer.

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