Tips on How to Run a Successful Conference or Seminar – Part 1 Corporate Reasons for Having a Conference

There can be many business reasons why a company should consider having a conference, and events are an important part of the marketing mix. Listed below are some marketing reasons for holding a conference or seminar that a company or organisation may use to promote.

Reasons for a conference could be:

A medium for passing on information, specifically for new products and services
Internal communication to employees regarding internal information, such as training, boosting morale, making announcements, launch a new culture
Used by associations to network and educate their members
Yearly or quarterly way to communicate with their sales force, partners or distributors
A forum for discussing world issues or topical subjects

Excellent communication forum for the end user, ability to meet senior managers from the corporation, to get advice, discuss business propositions, get answers straight from the software engineers, product developers
Ability to fast track communications to the highest level
Good for the client to feel that they are having an impact on the future direction of the company and its products in relation to their requirements
Excellent for networking and meeting other users and hearing their business experiences, share ideas, solutions to problems
Good for education and increasing knowledge of the products and business environment
The event enables the attendee to build up a picture of the quality of the company products or services

One of the marketing vehicles for increasing regular communications with both current, new and potential customer
A platform enabling the company to know the client better and understand their business needs for the portfolio of products and services that they are developing
Make the customer feel that they are being listened to and giving the company first hand research into the future product direction
Excellent PR opportunity to made customer feel important and build on loyalty and customer relationship by sponsoring a drinks reception and dinner
Good opportunity to get the TPV/Resellers involved promoting the company’s products and making them more involved with the clients, as well as strengthening the business alliance
Opportunity to increase sales of products with users through workshops demonstrations
Event feedback should be measured against the objectives to know the bench mark for the next event and to measure if it has been a good marketing vehicle for ROI, and how to improve on future events