Social media: A strong media for event promotion

No doubt now a day for promotion, advertisement and announcement of any event, brand or shows, social media is the strongest medium. It’s a big pool and you have to use your own brain, time and skill for promotion. There are lot of channels for promotion like face book, twitter, YouTube, Skype, flicker and for business promotion LinkedIn. Don’t miss the power and technology of social media to encourage the backing of your upcoming event.

1. Twitter Hash tag

: A hash tag for your event can improve social buzz, will attract people to attend. When creating your twitter hash tag try to keep small, sweet, sugary and spicy. Hash tag sounds simple but good for boost up the event advertisement. Helpful for event website launch, mobile buzz or classified ads. You will get feedback there and then. Some useful points while using twitter is as follows:

a. Time is important

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Don’t waste time. The earlier you promote the event and enthusiastic hash tag, the greater your chances are for accomplishment. Make a momentum to reach a larger audience. Your goal is to reach all members, so make a plan before three months.

b. Reach Out:

For initiating conversations social media is perfect channel. Make audiences, speakers, attendees and guests excited about the event. Stay applicable by sharing other related content and create a buzz. Creating keenness will encourage others to promote the event as well.

c. Make people your promoter:

Attendees are usually biggest promoter. Let the attendees to influence their social networks to help spread the news. Create relationship with other and talk online about the outline of event.

Speaker Network

: For conference encourage your speakers to prop up the event. It’s also beneficial for the speakers as well to gain popularity. Remind them that the more attendees at the event, the more people that get to hear the tremendous content they have to split. When you tweet then don’t forget to re tweet about the stuff again and again.

Use Facebook and Linkedln

: Make a LinkedIn group and a Face book page for your event uplift. Post topics including activities, photos, sponsors, particular guests, speakers, information, and layout of event. Organically growing an attendee population on these networks means higher capability for your event. Connect with and reward attendees who are regularly promoting and seeing your events on social media and encourage them. Get regular feedback from people about what they like and dislike about event this will increase the likeness of your page and help you to do improvement for the next event plan.

3. Youtube:

Create an outstanding and attractive video for youtube. Make it small and appealing for the audiences for event promotion. And then make a buzz on other websites. Spread a word, increase awareness and get your goal.

4. Skype:

Skype is used for promotions of conferences and business meetings. Create some audio and video and bounce it again and again to create brainstorming for audiences to attend. Tokbox is also helpful to generate audio and video conversations.

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