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Label Label Placeholder May 2020 Release: What’s New in Splash Date TBD David Doe Designer - Redshoe David Doe Designer - Redshoe Product Text goes here X Services Text goes here X Blog Text goes here X Resources Text goes here X Customers Text goes here X Support Text goes here X About Text goes here X Product Product Services Blog Resources Customers Company Login Request Demo Support Request Demo Text goes here X Try for Free Text goes here X Sign In Text goes here X ← More Articles Text goes here X Sign up Get these in your inbox every week! Written by Piper Stull-Lane Connect on LinkedIn Text goes here X May 2020 Release: Built to Empower Your Team Self-serve team management, scheduled guest list updates, our very virtual reality, and more May 27, 2020 Whitepaper May 2020 Release: What’s New in Splash Try It Free Text goes here X Written by Zach Napolitano @funeral_z 7 Ways to Improve On-Site Communication With Your Team and Your Guests July 31, 2018 Amy Barone, Sr. Director of Marketing Events & Engagement Programs at Tableau Software, shares her event marketing secrets in our A New Era in Event Marketing webinar with Harvard Business Review and AdAge. Below, she gives an inside look at how Tableau grew and scaled a high-performance event program. The events industry is evolving, and with that, marketers are saying hello to events that go beyond the “big show” (i.e., massive conferences with thousands of people) and instead looking at multi-city, repeatable programs they can run globally. While you can throw a large tentpole event — the one that involves year-long prep and half the annual budget — have you considered smaller, repeatable programs throughout the year that can have an immediate impact on your revenue targets? Splash recently partnered with SiriusDecisions to host a conversation focused on going Beyond The Big Event with expert and Research Director, Demand Marketing Strategies, Cheri Keith of SiriusDecisions; veteran Senior Field and Partner Marketing Manager, Natalie Graham of Medallia (recent IPO); and Splash’s savvy Senior Director of Product Marketing, Sasha Pasulka. The trio covered the new era of events, defined repeatable event programs, and addressed the business impact of repeatable events, including topics: modern and effective event strategy and management, building field marketing programs, and event marketing at scale. This set the stage for event program owners and marketing leaders to consider how they will navigate going beyond the “‘big-event” mentality. • Quick Start: Splash Host App for iOS • Splash Host App for iOS • Splash Host App for Android person next to them? Ten years later, our annual conference attracts nearly 20,000 customers and partners, our company has grown to 4,000 people, and we have a first-class marketing team with dedicated event professionals who are the best in the biz. Events have been a crucial part of our brand and help us better connect with our community, evangelize our customers, and ultimately grow our company. Here’s how we did it: MODERN EVENT STRATEGY No matter your business’s product or service offering, or if you are a large-scale enterprise or an up-and-coming fast-growth company, part of an organization’s growth strategy includes event marketing. As a marketer or event manager, you are the driver of your programs and responsible for deciding the type of event, cadence, goals, and of course budget — determining just how much are you willing to put on the line to get the results you need. Let’s rewind to the first line of this blog post — we’re saying goodbye to the big-show mentality. I know what you’re thinking: Is Splash suggesting I should hit the pause button on hosting my large annual conference?! No, definitely not. We are, however, suggesting that implementing a strategy that allows teams to test ideas and move quickly to action can yield some truly amazing business learnings and results. And, we know repeatable field events are becoming a key tactic in marketing plans, as they help drive quantifiable outcomes; just ask the team at Index Exchange. These smaller, rinse ‘n repeat events are not only easier to pull off than a 1,000+ person conference, but significantly cheaper, and will likely prove a better ROI since they are higher, more curated touchpoints for your audience. INSERT IMAGE HERE In the latest study on event marketing, Harvard Business Review found that rapid revenue growth was fueled by event marketing — 52 percent to be exact. So maybe you’re nodding, perhaps even bought into the idea of the repeatable half- to full-day field event strategy — fantastic! Here’s how to bring your event programs to life, effectively and in a scalable way: Define Your Event's Value Proposition The first step to any event program is to take a deep breath and ask yourself, Why am I actually doing this? Whether you’re an event marketer, demand gen marketer, or field marketer, it’s easy to lose focus of what you’re truly attempting to showcase for the company’s webinar, live event, or customer conference. Is your award ceremony an opportunity to showcase branding or a platform to give out your sustainable swag? What are you telling your sales team when they ask for follow-up materials? How many customers versus prospects are you inviting? Collaborate with your marketing team, ask your sales team questions, and put something on paper that will serve as a north star for the entire initiative. For example, if you see in your analytics that one organization isn’t engaging with the initial email, it probably means they have a very strict firewall in place. So, now you know to follow-up personally or adjust your strategy for the next email. This first email could come in the form of a teaser email to drum up buzz for your event, or even something a little more vague to get people interested (and curious). PUT THE RIGHT TOOLS IN PLACE Field marketers adjust their programs based on the needs of varying customer and prospect types. To do this, they need reliable tools to keep their brand, data, and communications consistent. If you or your field marketing team are leveraging one-off tools to showcase regional events, strategic scale and brand continuity is not feasible, and the value proposition you worked so hard to define will be overshadowed by the technical difficulties you encounter every step of the way. Your brand is your company’s identity, so why would you use tools that are not powerful or flexible enough to showcase it? From your landing page to email communication to name badges onsite, make sure your field marketing team has the proper tools in place to execute on-brand, seamless experiences every time. INSERT IMAGE HERE Here’s an example of a great looking event email: Setting a Global Field Event Strategy into Action at Medallia Don’t just take it from us. Having a field event or repeatable event strategy that is consistent, scalable, and globally friendly pays off beyond what you (or your boss) thought was possible. Natalie Graham, who joined us for the previously mentioned Beyond the Big Event conversation, explained it best: Image: Penguin Random House Image: Conference Matters When Natalie started at Medallia in 2018, she was faced with one-off tools for field marketing programs. The Medallia brand was not always displayed properly, teams were working in silos, and if field event data existed, it was hard to track down. Natalie is responsible for scaling the global field marketing program and had all the right ideas in motion to make an impact on the business, but was missing the tools to do so. To set a registration page for an event and ensure email marketing was ready to rock quickly wasn’t a thing; there was a ticketing process in place that usually took days, if not weeks. It was the furthest thing from self-serve, and the marketing operations team was saddled with the stress of handling all technical aspects of a global field program (landing page, emails, list management, campaigns... the list goes on). This simply wasn’t scalable. Enter Splash. Once the Medallia team was onboarded with Splash, they were able to streamline all field event programs and the weight was lifted from the ops team. What used to take over a week and involved multiple departments, now took a mere 24 hours; and Natalie was able to build out the whole event herself. Splash helps the people behind the event programs deliver a beautiful, branded, digital experience, and allow hosts to measure event impact accurately. "It felt to us that so many parts of businesses have breakthrough technology that really enables scale. We hadn't seen that in events yet, so we built it." - Sasha Pasulka Want to see how we built it? Check out every corner of Splash's event marketing platform here. Show your sales team the data and the ROI they get for taking those extra minutes to get people to register. Show them that their time investment is worth it. Amy Barone, Senior Director of Marketing Events & Engagement Programs at Tableau 4. Take Care of Your Lists Image: Google Books When it comes down to it, the goal of any event is to grow and nurture the relationship between your guests and your brand — whether you’re promoting a product, building community, or looking to increase brand awareness. You also need to think about who you’re sending your emails to. Make sure you’re only sending to your engaged recipients — a good rule of thumb is to send to those who have opened or clicked emails in the past few months. And of course, don’t send emails to users who have unsubscribed or whose emails have bounced in the past. This also means you need to constantly maintain your lists, and update them with any unsubscribe or bounce information. Post-event page made with Splash This way, guests didn’t have to worry about memorizing each other’s names or drawing a blank when they turned to chat with the person next to them, and we also got to show off our product in a natural way. 5. BUILD UP SENDING VOLUME OVER TIME One of the best ways to improve email deliverability is to build a solid reputation with email services by sending high-quality emails day after day. For example, you shouldn’t just send an email to 500,000 people in one day (that’s a huge red flag to servers). Instead, build up to a large email send by breaking it up over several days, and increasing the volume with each send (in other words: sending to 100,000 people five days in a row isn't great either). P.S. If you're a Splash customer and considering a large-volume email send, talk to your CSM about the best approach for your strategy. 6. IP Whitelisting This is the most effective email deliverability tactic, but it’s also the most complex to achieve. Depending on your relationship with your guest list (e.g. VIPs or high-value accounts), you can request that their IT team have your company’s IP put on a “whitelist,” which would allow your promotions to bypass any company firewalls. Even if your event doesn’t require a full seating chart with assigned seats, think about how you want the flow of your event to go, and how you can create natural opportunities for meaningful connections. Image: designworkplan • A sense of privacy: a completely private and closed off room for dinner proved to be an extremely crucial element. At one of the venues, an open section in the room allowed noise to disrupt the flow of conversation — making it feel less private and less special of a night compared to dinners that were completely closed off to the public. 6. Create the best guest experience possible At the end of the day, throwing events mean nothing if you’re not providing value to your customers. At our conferences, we provide “Tableau Doctors” on-site that help customers or prospects with any questions about our product. Not only do these one-on-one appointments empower customers to engage with us in a meaningful way, they’ve also been the critical to driving event ROI. Want to watch the whole webinar? Grab the recording here: Beyond the Big Event: Innovative Strategies for Marketing Event Programs at Scale author Hannah Swanson Hannah is the Community & Customer Marketing Manager at Splash. Her goal is to empower Splash customers to showcase their expertise with the rest of the event marketing community. A former event marketer, Hannah understands the effort it takes to pull off a seamless event and understands how imperative the Splash software is to an event marketer's success. Hannah is a Rhode Island native/glorified beach bum, equestrian, and mother to the world's most perfect corgi, Wilbur. Written by Zach Napolitano @funeral_z 7 Ways to Improve On-Site Communication With Your Team and Your Guests July 31, 2018 Amy Barone, Sr. Director of Marketing Events & Engagement Programs at Tableau Software, shares her event marketing secrets in our A New Era in Event Marketing webinar with Harvard Business Review and AdAge. Below, she gives an inside look at how Tableau grew and scaled a high-performance event program. Splash’s May 2020 release includes key new capabilities to empower people across your organization to take advantage of marketing’s highest ROI channel: events — including virtual ones. First up: Say hello to Team Manager ↓, your one-stop-shop for centralizing user, role, and group management in Splash. Self-service platform access has never looked so good, and it’s coming your way. Speaking of self-service, it's never been easier to host online events that get results. Virtual Branded Themes ↓ will have you up and running in minutes with event marketing assets specifically designed for webinars and live streams, with setup tips and tricks baked in. If you've ever wanted to schedule guest list updates ↓, now you can. It's easy to keep your management team current with the guest list via email (so you can focus on the interesting parts of your job). If visibility is important to your organization, this one’s for you. Last but not least, our checkout page would like to say thank you, merci, danke, and děkuju. Now, when global users purchase their tickets, their checkout experience will be localized in their language ↓. Czech it out. Plus, integrations with ON24 and Zoom, and a new touchpoint — Virtual Event Page — are coming soon. Let’s go! HELP YOUR TEAM GET VALUE OUT OF SPLASH: TEAM MANAGER • Quick Start: Splash Host App for iOS • Splash Host App for iOS • Splash Host App for Android person next to them? Ten years later, our annual conference attracts nearly 20,000 customers and partners, our company has grown to 4,000 people, and we have a first-class marketing team with dedicated event professionals who are the best in the biz. Events have been a crucial part of our brand and help us better connect with our community, evangelize our customers, and ultimately grow our company. Here’s how we did it: Team Manager enables self-service at your organization. By adding and removing users, designating roles, and organizing groups all in one place, admins can manage users flexibly and efficiently, at scale. Take it from Product Manager Jon Saft: “We love scaled event programs, so we are here to ensure that anyone interacting with your event program has all the essential tools to be great, and perhaps more importantly, no unnecessary tools that could cause problems.” Don’t wait to get teams up and running in Splash. Give your team appropriate access to take advantage of everyone’s expertise. How do I get Team Manager? Team Manager is available now for new users with a Splash for Business license. Existing users will receive an email when Team Manager becomes available in their accounts. Learn more about when your team will get access. Gimme gimme more (resources). Watch our on-demand webinar to learn how to streamline event programs, facilitate approvals, and uphold enterprise standards with Team Manager. And don’t forget to check out the help topic for a full feature walkthrough. Host Best-in-Class Online Events: Virtual Branded Themes In less than one week, our Virtual Branded Themes became Splash’s most popular event marketing templates — and the reason why is obvious. Today, event marketing programs for virtual events require best practices and your brand built in. These themes are simple, designed to convert, and set up to showcase your brand. Included are a dynamic event page, registration form, email templates, and a share card (everything you need to promote and host your virtual event). "We built Virtual Branded Themes for the virtual attendee — and also to make an event manager’s life easier. This meant including default, yet optional, blocks to toggle on and off, like resource lists, speaker layouts, and video embeds for pre-recorded and live stream options. As an added bonus, each video block is pre-populated with pro tips that directs the host on how to use the block optimally." - Pete Richardson, Senior Education Manager With Splash, you’ll be hosting beautiful, on-brand online events in no time — because there’s no sense in reinventing the wheel when you’re moving from in-person to virtual events (and back again). How do I access these themes? Splash for Business users can check out our Virtual Branded Themes, Connect and Stream, anytime by clicking New Event from the Event Dashboard and selecting the Webinar / Virtual Event type. Can I get step-by-step instructions for how to set up my Virtual Branded Theme? We thought you’d never ask. Check out our help topic to get up and running in minutes with everything you need for a virtual event — from registration pages to customized emails and a post-event experience. KEEP EVERYONE IN THE LOOP: SCHEDULED GUEST LIST UPDATES AND LOCALIZED CHECKOUT PAGE We’re excited to share two major ways Splash helps people get the info they need about events, in the way they need it. First things first: You can now schedule automated guest list updates. Save time by selecting Guests > Export, and toggling on Scheduled Export. Updates can be sent daily or weekly to anyone with an email address. Next up: When you’re selling tickets for an event, the last thing you want is for the checkout experience to be confusing. What's a great pre-req to ensuring your guests know what they’re purchasing? Speaking their language. Today, the checkout page in Splash will render in any of seven languages a user’s browser is set to. It’s not every event marketing platform that considers every step of an event from both the host’s and guest’s point of view. But we’re not every event marketing platform. We’re committed to helping you and your team scale. How do I get my hands on Scheduled Guest List Updates and Localized Checkout Page? They're already available in your account. Just log into Splash to get started! Wait, I want a little help from my friends. Great news! Where there’s a need, there’s a help topic. Here’s one for guest list exports and another for our ticketed events. Let us know what you think. Coming Soon Our product and engineering teams are constantly releasing new features and functionality to make Splash work hard for you. And we’ve got some major new features on the horizon to keep your team moving the needle with virtual event programs. An all-new touchpoint — our Virtual Event Page — gives you, the host, the power to embed a virtual event stream, perfect the day-of experience using a dynamic event page, and gate and automate your check-in process to capture guest data. Catch the on-demand webinar to learn more from product experts Perry Piep and Mike Siegel. Did we mention that we’re expanding our native webinar integration library? BlueJeans, check. ON24 and Zoom are batters up. Learn all about what’s coming your way next month with Product Manager Tim Alexander as he walks through automating your webinar strategy by leveraging the tech already in your stack. Stay Current Subscribe to What’s New to stay up to date with monthly product releases. For the Splash-obsessed, we also rolled out the Release Log, updated weekly with info about every platform update (no matter how small!). How’s that for transparency? Here’s to scaling event marketing programs together. Not on Splash yet? Watch our product tour or request a demo. For example, if you see in your analytics that one organization isn’t engaging with the initial email, it probably means they have a very strict firewall in place. So, now you know to follow-up personally or adjust your strategy for the next email. This first email could come in the form of a teaser email to drum up buzz for your event, or even something a little more vague to get people interested (and curious). PUT THE RIGHT TOOLS IN PLACE Here’s an example of a great looking event email: Image: Penguin Random House Image: Conference Matters Show your sales team the data and the ROI they get for taking those extra minutes to get people to register. Show them that their time investment is worth it. Amy Barone, Senior Director of Marketing Events & Engagement Programs at Tableau 4. Take Care of Your Lists Image: Google Books When it comes down to it, the goal of any event is to grow and nurture the relationship between your guests and your brand — whether you’re promoting a product, building community, or looking to increase brand awareness. You also need to think about who you’re sending your emails to. Make sure you’re only sending to your engaged recipients — a good rule of thumb is to send to those who have opened or clicked emails in the past few months. And of course, don’t send emails to users who have unsubscribed or whose emails have bounced in the past. This also means you need to constantly maintain your lists, and update them with any unsubscribe or bounce information. Post-event page made with Splash This way, guests didn’t have to worry about memorizing each other’s names or drawing a blank when they turned to chat with the person next to them, and we also got to show off our product in a natural way. 5. BUILD UP SENDING VOLUME OVER TIME One of the best ways to improve email deliverability is to build a solid reputation with email services by sending high-quality emails day after day. For example, you shouldn’t just send an email to 500,000 people in one day (that’s a huge red flag to servers). Instead, build up to a large email send by breaking it up over several days, and increasing the volume with each send (in other words: sending to 100,000 people five days in a row isn't great either). P.S. If you're a Splash customer and considering a large-volume email send, talk to your CSM about the best approach for your strategy. 6. IP Whitelisting This is the most effective email deliverability tactic, but it’s also the most complex to achieve. Depending on your relationship with your guest list (e.g. VIPs or high-value accounts), you can request that their IT team have your company’s IP put on a “whitelist,” which would allow your promotions to bypass any company firewalls. Even if your event doesn’t require a full seating chart with assigned seats, think about how you want the flow of your event to go, and how you can create natural opportunities for meaningful connections. Image: designworkplan • A sense of privacy: a completely private and closed off room for dinner proved to be an extremely crucial element. At one of the venues, an open section in the room allowed noise to disrupt the flow of conversation — making it feel less private and less special of a night compared to dinners that were completely closed off to the public. 6. Create the best guest experience possible At the end of the day, throwing events mean nothing if you’re not providing value to your customers. At our conferences, we provide “Tableau Doctors” on-site that help customers or prospects with any questions about our product. Not only do these one-on-one appointments empower customers to engage with us in a meaningful way, they’ve also been the critical to driving event ROI. author Piper Stull-Lane Piper is the Senior Product Marketing Manager at Splash. His goal is to shine a light on new product functionality and help the world understand what's next in event marketing. He brings a love of analytics to his work from a previous life at Tableau, and a deep fixation on ROI to every piece of content he slots into your funnel. Piper is a backpacking fiend, playlist hobbyist, and dreams in data visualizations. Our latest event marketing guide has a galaxy of on-site tips and best practices. Start exploring The Universe of Events. 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