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BusinessVibes Showcases Things to Consider when Organizing a Tradeshow

BusinessVibes assist organizers promote their events, help companies announce their participation as well as enable companies, professionals and the public view upcoming events.

London, UK, November 2, 2012 — Trade fairs are synonymous with the terms trade shows, exhibitions and expositions. A trade fair is an event organized to enable companies within a particular industry to display and promote their latest products and services, understand their respective competitions better and assess current market trends and opportunities. While most trade fairs are exclusive to trade professionals and members of the press, there are some which are open to the consumers too. Some trade fairs even attempt to allocate certain days to professionals and specific days to the public. For instance, the Frankfurt Book Fair, which is trade-only for its first three days and open to the general public on its final two days.

Trade fairs are common within and among all industries and they attract vendors from around the world. In the United States alone, approximately 2500 trade shows are conducted annually. Several online directories like global B2B networking platform – BusinessVibes assist organizers promote their events, help companies announce their participation as well as enable companies, professionals and the public view upcoming events.

Location

The location of the trade fair is important as it has to be easily accessible by various means of transportation. There should also be sufficient parking spaces in the building or within the vicinity. Furthermore, the place should be sufficiently large to accommodate all the exhibitors and expected number of attendees. Meanwhile, it should also not be too big otherwise a hall that is scarce may cause exhibitors and attendees to perceive the event as unsuccessful. BusinessVibes has written an article that lists the top places in the world for organizing a variety of corporate events including trade shows.

Dates & Times to Avoid

Avoid organizing your event during any major holidays. Doing so may drastically reduce the number of expected attendees. In addition, take note of other corporate events such as conventions, conferences and trade shows being held at the same location on your chosen date. Avoid reserving a venue in close proximity to them unless you intend to leverage traffic from them.

Trade Show Set Up

A successful trade show should have a common theme throughout to ensure consistency. A theme also enables you to easily decide your targeted group(s) of exhibitors and attendees. Transforming a hall or convention centre into an attractive trade show event requires carpeting, lighting, audio and visual equipment, furnishings and fixtures, computers and sales processing solutions. Contractors specialised in tradeshow construction need to be hired to install and dismantle all the necessary decorations and equipment before and after the event.

Promotions

Promotion is important with any event. Without it, no one will know about it, leading to a definite failure. Employ various types of media such as flyers, brochures, radio, television, Internet and social media to publicize your event. BusinessVibes also offers event promotion solutions for free. With BusinessVibes, companies and event organizers are able to create an event page, have a free website exclusively for the event and an event write-up that will be published on BusinessVibes’ blog. In addition, BusinessVibes is able to feature your company logo and event on its homepage and conduct email blasts for any ticket promotions, deals or discounts that you offer to exhibitors and/or attendees for your event. To date, BusinessVibes has featured over 10,000 events. Furthermore, with 1.2 million professionals from more than 75 different industries in over 170 countries in its database, promoting with BusinessVibes will enable your event to gain extensive publicity.

Endorsements

Receiving endorsements will provide you with greater publicity too, especially from trade associations and chambers of commerce that have hundreds or even thousands of companies as members. As a member of BusinessVibes, you will be able to connect with thousands of trade associations and chambers of commerce in various industries from around the world. After conducting each tradeshow, attempt to retrieve testimonials from satisfied participants and visitors. Positive feedback from a tradeshow will encourage an even greater number of exhibitors to participate in your even and more visitors will also attend your event.

Media Contact:
Lise Martineau
Marketing Executive – Europe
BusinessVibes Network International Inc
8 Wimpole Street
London W1G 9SP
+44 20 7291 0883
lise@businessvibes.com
http://www.businessvibes.com
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BusinessVibes Introduces New Microsite for Events

BusinessVibes is pleased to announce that it has recently launched an exciting new feature in its website called “Create Your Own Event”, an online tool that allows BusinessVibes members to create customizable websites.

London, UK, August 2, 2012 — BusinessVibes, the latest B2B network dedicated to connecting businesses all over the world, is growing strong with more than one million members worldwide. Today, it is pleased to announce that it has recently launched an exciting new feature in its website called “Create Your Own Event”, an online tool that allows BusinessVibes members to create customizable websites. This enables members to gain greater online publicity of their company and also showcase all their events, helping them grow both their business and image as a whole.

BusinessVibes Events has always been the number one go-to platform for businesses around the world to advertise their events online. Since its inception in 2010, BusinessVibes has provided businesses that register as members with them, with the opportunity to create an event page and have it advertised. “Create Your Own Event” enriches the user and visitor experience as an actual website, rather than a single page from BusinessVibes, will be provided. Moreover, this new feature is packed with customizable options that will make the event page unique to each business and more appealing to visitors, as opposed to a static, standard background. In addition, although BusinessVibes builds the website, members continue to have control over the content and can make changes anytime.

The main difference between BusinessVibes and any other website creation and hosting platform is that with BusinessVibes, it is free. Furthermore, BusinessVibes offers other types of event promotion solutions to businesses including displaying banner advertisements, publishing event profiles, conducting e-mail blasts and much more for a minimal fee. Therefore with this new feature, businesses can not only substantially save money by avoiding expensive website maintenance costs but also time which can be better utilized for other event planning activities.

Website creation with BusinessVibes takes just 3 easy steps.
1) Choose any one of the attractive, professionally designed templates of your preference.
2) Customize it by adding your own logo, text, graphics and menu options.
3) Publish it with one click of a button!

Schedule a demo and benefit from other supporting promotions which will be available for free for only a limited time. There are no hidden costs or special conditions involved in this promotion. Register with BusinessVibes too to connect with thousands of companies and trade associations in more than 170 countries.

Media Contact:
Lise Martineau
Marketing Executive – Europe
BusinessVibes Network International Inc
8 Wimpole Street
London W1G 9SP
+44 20 7291 0883
lise@businessvibes.com
http://www.businessvibes.com
Follow us on Twitter @businessvibes for daily updates
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/BusinessVibes

LEAVING STRESS BEHIND YOU

• Have you ever tried to do your best?
• Have you ever been happy having a great idea and later stressed because you haven’t succeeded in realizing it?
• Eventually, have you ever felt being left alone with your unsuccessful job?

Let me guess, you just said 3 times “Yes” and you are still thinking what I could suggest for you. You know, there is no more time than 24 hours in a day and there is no more time than 31 days in a month so you should ask yourself is everything what you are doing in your life is worth your time.

I agree with you, it is hard to delete some tasks from your list in mind BUT just try to make a list with your daily tasks on a piece of paper. Some tasks you can join, some of them you can delete. Then you can think in what ways you are realizing them. Sometimes you just don’t have enough possibilities to do everything by yourself. Reach success – think of what you want to be best at and DON’T FORGET to use the help whatever it would be: tools or job done by professionals not from your sphere.

Today I offer you, Event Marketing and Promotions, to save your time and to use GoodBuzz.org as a great tool for event planning trade shows which helps you to reach a wider audience in shorter time. Don‘t waste your time and think whether is it worth to exchange your stressful day to your smile or not.

Life is often stressful and always too short,
So let‘s find time sometimes to go to the health resort.

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How to get Free Viral Buzz with the GoodBuzz network

Word of mouth is the most effective way to get the buzz you need.  But how do you make it happen without spending a lot of money recruiting a street team or hiring an agency?  GoodBuzz software taps into a free peer referral network to get you reliable event management services effectively, easily and affordably.  GoodBuzz allows you to create professional looking promotional materials and special event promotions in just a few minutes.

Start by creating emails, web banners, flyers or widgets within the GoodBuzz software.  Then, invite friends to join your campaign. If you don’t have friends to invite, GoodBuzz allows you to access a system of Internet Event Organizers Network and Chicago Sister Cities Network that allow you to recruit people.  Invite anyone to join your campaign with just the click of a button! Send your online event promotion materials to your new “buzz team” through GoodBuzz or by mail and watch the word of mouth turn into dollars in your pocket.

How fast can you spread the word?  Imagine you are going to small businesses event in canada and everyone has invited all of their friends.  30 people may have been invited to begin with but, through friends inviting friends, 3,000 people attend.  That’s how it works with GoodBuzz.  In less time than it takes to watch your favorite television show, you will have a “buzz team” of 30,000 talking about your event, product or service.  The best thing is… it’s free!  Join today and get buzzing!

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How to promote your event Fast with Goodbuzz

Event promotion is not a picnic. Let have a mental play.

Imagine you need 50 people to fill your next concert. Last time you’ve tried to fill the 50 seats by posting on Facebook, Myspace, sending email to your contacts, inviting friend, and spreading some flyers around the city, you end up with only 18 people, and it took you 30 hours of work time.

Imagine how disappointed you would be if after spending days and weeks planning and organizing your event no one showed up.

You know what, most events fail not because of planning or execution, but because of the marketing of the event itself. Simple event listings and mailing to your personal list is never enough. MySpace is nearly useless and there is too much clutter to fight through on other social networks.

Now, Imagine you and your bother band are member of Goodbuzz, and belong to some local network of Brass bands or Jazz bands.
 If there are 15 bands in your local network and they accept to help you spread the word about your next concerts, and each has 250 email contacts, you reach 3700 people. If conversion rate is 2%, you end up with 75 people willing to attend your event from your peers referrals.

If you add to that they could post your concert announcement on their Facebook and Myspace profile, you may end up selling out weeks ahead of your concert. You’ll feel relaxed, and view life differently.

What is new here? 
Nothing. Event organizers or online event promotion, promoters, bands, clubs, etc. are doing this peer referral system already in a way or another with scattered tools. Goodbuzz.org is not a revolution. It is just here to help to make things simpler and easier.
 It gives bands a tool that they didn’t have in the past, which is to get in front of another band’s entire fans and contacts without having to negotiate with them 1 on 1.

This is the big idea. You have all of the Business Services Trade Shows tools you need in one place. And your partners, inside or outside the system, could use it to help you spread your word. You can even send referral request to people outside of the Goodbuzz program, still they can use the system to send you referrals.

How it works?
•    Step 1: I have an event or an activity that needs promotion
•    Step 2: I go to GoodBuzz.org
•    Step 3: I Create my promotional materials (emails, social network message, banners, Flyers, Posters, SMS, etc.)
•    Step 4: Then I ask my peers (or connections in the system) to relay my message to their contacts.
•    Step 5: My  peers or connections will pick my marketing materials, and use their communication channels (mailing list, website, blogs, display spaces, Facebook, Twitter and MySpace profiles) to spread the word about my event.
•    Step 5: This is all done in one place, inside the GoodBuzz.org program.

Your campaign will be relayed simultaneously by several peers to hundreds of contacts.  Your promotion reaches so many people so quickly that your event becomes a success.

Here’s the best part, you don’t pay your peers when they recommend your events, and your peers don’t have to pay you when you recommend their event to your contacts. So it’s a FREE referral network.

When you join and build networks, you can access hundreds of people.  For example in my GoodBuzz network, I have 40 peers. Those peers are all willing to promote my stuff. I reached about 32,000 people, through my partners and their contacts, for my last concert!  It sold out 3 weeks ahead.

Why we have created Goodbuzz?
If you’ve ever tried to promote an event you probably know that it’s no picnic. Event promotion is really difficult, stressful and costly. Simple event listings and mailing list is never enough. MySpace is nearly useless and there is too much clutter to fight through on other social networks.

The idea of a “peer referral network for event promotion” started, about 3 years ago, as a way to help a desperate friend. Then we invited more people to try it. But slowly and steadily things started to take off, more and more people were joining. And you know what … We got excited.

Basically, we have created Goodbuzz to help event organizers who don’t have a lot of money to promote their event. They can use the peer referral system to reach more people in less time than they ever thought possible. But recently, we have seen companies with lot of money using GoodBuzz, and we have asked them why, and they’ve said it’s because the system works better than the other event promotion tactics they were using.

From then, we knew that this idea had the power to transform the whole event marketing and promotion industry.

Is it for you?

GoodBuzz is for you if you have tried to promote your event with any other event promotion methods but face lot of stress, uncertainty and lost money. Goodbuzz helps you promote your event fast.

We discovered with our in house survey that:

  • Events organizers using Goodbuzz has seen their event success increased by 78%,
  • 52% have events that sold out several days in advance,
  • 98% will recommend Goodbuzz  to other trade show organizers or promoter.
  • 99% saw events promotion cost decreased by at least 7 folds, and
  • Above ALL enjoy the stress free process of Goodbuzz cooperative promotion system.

Thousands of artists and bands are using Goodbuzz. So many people can’t be wrong. Join us today.

Before we conclude, let me summary the main benefits of Goodbuzz:

  1. Less Sweat, Less Stress, for special event promotions.
  2. Save time: Your partners and your events promotion tools in one place.
  3. Reach new audience: your message reaches people who you will never hear about you without your peers’ referrals. Receive referrals worth thousands of dollars for Free.
  4. Something money can’t buy:  stop worrying about attendance.

I can only suggest that you put what I’ve written to test.
Start your free trial now. Here is your link to sign up: http://www.goodbuzz.org

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