Trade Show & Event Marketing: Plan, Promote & Profit - Hardcover

Stevens, Ruth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0324206240 ISBN 13: 9780324206241

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 2005

Synopsis

Finally, a comprehensive guide, to trade show and event marketing, for the business marketer who seeks to integrate events into the entire go-to-market strategy and deliver a demonstrable return on investment. Every year, U.S. businesses spend over $20 billion on marketing at trade shows, and another $15 billion on proprietary corporate events. But what are they getting for their money? Even the savviest marketing executives often have a hard time answering that question. With Trade Show and Event Marketing, marketers can turn a budgetary black hole into their greatest lead and income generator. Smart trade show and event management can be a company's most important success generator with proper planning, strategy and execution. Trade Show and Event Marketing can be your guidebook to that marketing success.

About this title

About the Author

Ruth P. Stevens consults on customer acquisition and retention for both consumer and business-to-business clients. She began her career in 1986 at Time Warner, where she spent seven years in marketing, new business development, and general management at Book-of-the-Month Club and Time-Life Books. She then joined Ziff-Davis as Vice President of Marketing for Computer Library, the electronic publishing division, and then spent three years in direct marketing management at IBM. Crain¿s BtoB magazine named Stevens one of the 100 Most Influential People in Business Marketing in 2002. Stevens also serves on the boards of the Direct Marketing Idea Exchange and the Direct Marketing Club of New York and is past chair of the Business-to-Business Council of the Direct Marketing Association. She is the author of The DMA Lead Generation Handbook, published in May 2002, a well as numerous articles in the business trade press. She has taught at New York University and teaches marketing to graduate students at Columbia Business School. Reach her at ruth@ruthstevens.com.

Review

"Do your homework! Trade shows are expensive and time-consuming. Instead of just winging it, consider this practical, nuts and bolts approach to maximizing your return on investment."

"Finally, a definitive and comprehensive guide to the strategic use and measurement of trade shows and events written specifically for the sales and marketing exec. Long overdue...."

"...Anyone who wants to improve marketing productivity and effectiveness needs to keep this great reference handy for repeated use."

"Extremely useful advice (backed up by data) on the strategy of trade show marketing.... Few books give you this thorough a strategic overview.... "

"...filled with great ideas and practical advice that will maximize your effectiveness at trade shows, where the selling, prospecting and relationship-building possibilities are endless."

Edition details

• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0324206240
• ISBN 13: 9780324206241
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352