Hope on the Horizon
We’re living in unprecedented times, but I remain optimistic about the future. As communications professionals, we bring people together to celebrate milestones, exchange ideas and make meaningful connections—connections that people need now more than ever.
For Your Consideration: The Audience
How quickly things have changed. If your experience resembles mine, and I suspect in many ways it does, videoconferencing has been a big part of your day both professionally and personally.
[ Press: The Enterprisers ] How to Plan Engaging Virtual Events
"Virtual events boast their own unique benefits, such as better learning for attendees," says Doug Binder, Senior Creative Director at InVision Communications during an interview with The Enterprisers Project.
[ Press: CMS Wire ] Conversational Marketing: How to Go Beyond Chatbots
“Conversational marketing is about leveraging the power of real-time conversations and two-way dialogue to engage customers and seamlessly move them through your marketing and sales funnels.” Nicole Bojic, SVP of Strategy, InVision Communications
Tips to Designing Your Company’s First Ever Briefing Center
Your company is experiencing a surge of growth, and the importance of aligning to your core, high-value customers has never been greater.
How Flexible is Your Event Branding? Top Three Tips to Optimize Brand Experience
Remarkable changes are happening in how event branding is evolving to become more effective and impactful. Gone are the days when event branding meant that the hosting company’s logo was essentially the event brand, and companies were satisfied with that alone.
Audience-First Planning Creates Impact Incorporating persona development and journey mapping into your planning.
The role of the event marketer is to champion both the organization and the audience and to help the planning team see the intersection between the two to create an impact in your event design.
Part Three: "Exit Through the Gift Shop"Applying theme park principles to corporate events.
The journey continues. The story that started with the promise of the excitement continued through the gates and throughout the property and its many attractions.
Part Two: “Exit Through the Gift Shop”Applying theme park principles to corporate events.
In our first post, we began to tell the journey of an attendee visiting a theme park, from the promise of its marketing and promotion to the threshold experience and finally the arrival.
Part One: "Exit Through the Gift Shop"Applying theme park principles to corporate events.
When inventing and designing corporate event experiences and attendee journeys, we often find inspiration in theme parks, their promise, offerings, and design.
Personalizing the Attendee Journey with Diversity and Inclusion
The path to a more diverse and inclusive event is the epitome of an intentionally crafted event design that can reap major benefits. It puts audience-centricity at the core of each factor in play – experience and content design, set-up, seating, communications and event staffing, to name a few.
Knowing How to Measure Experiential Marketing Amplifies Event ROI
If You Know How to Measure Experiential Marketing, You Can Boost Event ROI
Friends and family outside the industry still ask me all the time: “What is experiential marketing?”
Refresh Your User Conference as a True Brand Experience
Happy Birthday to Me! Every kid wants a birthday party. I know I did. I got to choose the guest list, the theme and agenda. My guests had to do what I wanted: I picked the games, the movies, the tunes and the outings.
#5 of The 5 Universal Desires of an Event Attendee “What I Want” – Don’t Be Boring!
And now we come to the final installment of the series, “What I Want.”
#4 of The 5 Universal Desires of an Event Attendee “What I Want” – Reward My Investment
We’ve been exploring the five basic desires or “care-abouts” that all attendees share—across industries, roles and types of events.
#3 of The 5 Universal Desires of an Event Attendee “What I Want” – Optimize My Time
Welcome back to “What I Want.” In this five-part series, we’re examining the notion that event attendees share five basic desires or “care-abouts” that are universal across industries, roles and types of events.
#2 of The 5 Universal Desires of an Event Attendee “What I Want” – Care About What I Care About
Welcome to part two of our five-part series, “What I Want.” In this series, we’re examining the notion that event attendees share five basic desires or “care-abouts” that are universal across industries, roles and types of events.
#1 of The 5 Universal Desires of an Event Attendee “What I Want” – Know Who I Am
Every program we create and produce at InVision is unique. And of course, every individual at every event is exactly that: an individual.