In this day and age, event marketing is critical to the success of any event. Subsequently, event planners are now much more experienced in developing targeted, multi-channel event marketing strategies to build buzz and increase event registration. Nominees in this category have adapted to the times and added ‘modern marketer’ to their job description. Their event marketing process is automated, integrated and includes multiple channels for event success.

Judging CriteriaUse of Cvent e-marketing solution, Cvent integration with a marketing automation solution (i.e. Salesforce, Eloqua, Marketo, etc.), or Cvent integration with a CRM Solution; Increase in event registration year over year; multi-channel marketing (social media, website, etc.) creative and compelling content; reporting to measure campaign success.

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1. Please summarize your submission in five sentences or less. (If you are a finalist, this information will be used in the Plannie award ceremony and placed on the Plannies website.

2. Please tell us a bit about your company and your event. Provide pictures from your event. Give us a vivid way to experience your success!

3. Please tell us about the problem you were trying to solve with your event marketing strategy and how Cvent helped support your success.

4. Before leveraging marketing automation and integrations, how long would it take for your sales team or services team to know who attended your events? What sort of time-savings have you seen since you’ve integrated your Cvent account with other solutions?

5. Please tell us about your event. What was the goal of your event? (i.e. lead generation, customer engagement, thought-leadership, etc).

6. What marketing systems or processes did you use to market your event? Please provide details below for the technologies you used:

a. CRM Integration (i.e. Salesforce)b. Marketing Automation Solution (i.e. Eloqua, Marketo)c. Cvent e-marketing toold. Social Mediae. Other:

7. What would you tell other Cvent clients about integration multiple systems?

8. How does your event marketing strategy play into your overall marketing strategy? What percentage of your marketing lead generation strategies are tied to your events?

9. Please provide example emails and/or other promotional materials related to marketing your event.

10. Did you include a mobile event app as a part of your event marketing strategy? If yes, please explain how your mobile app increased attendance/engagement at your event.

11. Tell us about some of reports you used to measure success of your event marketing tactics.

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