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Part of the DLD Urban Festival - Evolero hosts Jeff Pulver and Maurizio Rossi on the bar for an open discussion about creating unique events.
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Events By EntrepreneursEvents By Entrepreneurs
Grow Ideas and Companies by Creating Events
#EventInnovationTal Shoham | Jeff Pulver | Maurizio Rossi
Moses was an entrepreneur
He had a vision to change the world - he needed users, and he needed to spread the word fast.
BUT Moses went up Mount Sinai alone, to “work on the product”…
And in the meantime…
Other entrepreneurs, less visionary but more practical, were down mingling with the crowd.
They were getting funded. In GOLD!
And built another product, with faster market adoption!
Spread Ideas - through People
Image of people at event?
Get out of the building
Get Off the Blogs and Onto the Main Stage
FACT: ‘People will remember not what you said but how you made them FEEL.’
37% of sites see an
INCREASE in traffic
32% of sites see an
INCREASE in avg. page
views
35% of sites see time
spent on the site more
than doubleEvent Month
Pre Event Month Post Event Month
Bigger, longer impact
Site Visits Per Month Compared to Event Month
The Grown startup
Goals:
Awareness, Lead Generation, Positioning as leaders in field, Ongoing Branding
Unique Point:
First event of a new industry
Aftermath Benefits:
Better way to connect with prospects and clients, powerhouse of content and
thought leadership pieces to leverage for post-event marketing, uniting the
entire company around an outward-facing initiative
The independent entrepreneur
• Goal: Expose new startups to the world
• Unique Point:Audience is involved, Twitter stream open on large screen during most of the event
• Aftermath: Getting good Feedback is encouraging, Making an Impact on startups success
The forum
• Goal: Creating a community
• Unique Point:
Partnering with a global brand
• Aftermath: New leads: more memberships to the MC Forum sold after events, Partnering with a label event (FailCon) helped in gaining PR
The Agency
• Goal: Events serve as thought leadership tool & lead gen, Provide value - content that is hard to find, a networking platform with peers
• Unique Point:It's a lot of fun actually. Doing an event in a field that you have passion for is something that I personally find as a break from the day to day work.
• Aftermath:In order to Get people there: We send emails to our friends, ask speakers (if exist) to promote the event, and use a lot of social media. We also team up with other organizations and do cross promotion
The marketplace startup
• Goal: Brand awareness, Meet our community, Receive priceless feedback, Visualize our marketplace offline
• Unique Point: We wanted to meet our potential "clients" and have our filmmakers helping them on the spot by telling them how they would tell their story
• Aftermath: Great product feedback, Great traffic to our site, more filmmakers joined us after the event.
The Business Network
• Goal:
Bring quality people together, Materializing their offering
• Unique Point:“Business is all about relationships and events provide that platform for interaction”
• Aftermath:
Feedback, Impact on startups success
Osho Israel
The spiritual workshop
• Goal:
Getting the word out, New leads for workshops, Additional revenue stream
• Unique Point:
Grew to be the biggest Osho Festival in the world
• Aftermath: This became a revenue stream, Our database grew tremendously
The hub
• Goal: Manifesting our value in real life, Relevant content for my community, develop their skills, creating new opportunities for the different entities, Giving a stage for talents from my community
• Aftermath: It’s a great way to get good feedback, It created a feeling of belonging and strengthened the bond
BEST PRACTICES
“Partner with an industry/domain expert, they can bring leads and an ecosystem”
Yuval, Osho Israel
“If your events repeat, change the program, or bring fresh content and participant to it”
Orli Yakuel
“It's not a matter of the quantity of attendees, but the relation they have to what is shared with them and the concept of the event”
Tom, SOSA Tel Aviv
“Do an event on something that you are really passionate about.”
Kfir Pravda, b2b Media
For more best practices: http://blog.evolero.com/
So – why should entrepreneurs create events?
• Become a thought leader
• Get attention
• Interact with your audience
• Validate Ideas & Products
• Build a Database
• Get $$!