Convene Live Presents: If My Growing Event Could Talk - Leveraging Data for Success
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2. Convene Live Presents: If My
Growing Event Could Talk -
Leveraging Data for Success
Jeremy Figoten, CAE
Senior Vice President of Meetings, Communications, and Sales
Joe Colangelo
CEO Bear Analytics
3. Learner Outcomes
o Recognize the power of data analysis and how it can
benefit organizations of all sizes
o Apply these marketing, pricing, and growth strategies in
the context of your own meetings and events
o Discover how an organizational data map can pave the
way to making your event data work for you
6. Jeremy Figoten
Senior Vice President!
Meeting, Sales, and Communications!
Oversees a portfolio of NAA events –
including budgeting revenue, and
marketing!
Over 15 years of event & association
management experience!
7. Topline Stats
o Largest NAA event!
o 8,000+ attendees!
o 400+ Exhibitors!
o Annual event rotation:!
Las Vegas 2015!
o Registration fees from $475 -
$1,100!
o Over 30% growth in full paid
attendance from 2013 - 2014!
o 70+ education sessions!
16. Loyalists (MVCs)!
NAA’s revenue base!
Keep top of mind!
Largest competition
likely the state events!
Intermittent attendance!
Focus for growth!
Conversion to groups!
Price incentives !
Get them in earlier!
“One and done”!
Use low cost reach: Email
marketing and Twitter!
Talk about what’s new/
different!
Leverage partners!
Fast growing segments | New orgs & people annually | Pipeline strength !
NAA Event Personas
18. NAA Strategic Initiatives
o Understand your audience
o Engagement and exposure vs.
revenue
o Be everything to everybody
19. The Approach
Group
Bundling!
Innovative
Sponsorship!
Analytics and
Lead Scoring!
Creating consumption based pricing models to
facilitate larger participation by our most loyal
contingencies!
Created a new sponsorship plan (NAA 360)
designed to drive year-long participation and
engagement for the sponsor!
Identification of most loyal attendees, historic
retention rates, and lead scoring of prospects!
25. Data can be…!
o Expensive
o Hard to do
o Time consuming
o Overrated
o Intimidating
26. Jeremy’s Takeaways
① Be fearless – really look at your data. Data doesn’t lie
② Target marketing and personalization is key to
identifying with your attendees
③ Stop | Listen | Learn = no need to reinvent the wheel
④ Capital investment is affordable
⑤ Answers questions your event survey can’t
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