Welcome to "Building Awesome Events," the podcast where seasoned event marketers from leading companies like VMWare, HP, and Drift join your host Ankush Gupta to share their insights on the art of event marketing. Tune in to learn about their personal journeys into the industry and discover their proven strategies for consistently delivering successful B2B events and business conferences. From event management to event marketing, this podcast covers it all. Don't miss out on valuable tips an ...
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Entertainment Marketing - Event Marketing and Digital Marketing by Laurent Lootens - Lapin Quotidien
Laurent Lootens - Lapin Quotidien
Weekly podcast about entertainment marketing, event marketing, digital marketing, social media marketing, content marketing, influencer marketing and entrepreneurship. As an owner of 3 (small) businesses I will share all my personal experiences on entrepreneurship. I will also provide you tons of value in event marketing & social media tips. Let's connect! And if you would like to be a guest on my show, please connect via my website lapinquotidien.com Website : www.lapinquotidien.com Instagr ...
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Ep 18: In conversation with Noelle Peterson, Senior Director, Global Event Experiences & Field Marketing at UserTesting
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In the 18th episode of Building Awesome Events, host Ankush Gupta chats with Noelle Peterson, Senior Director of Global Event Experiences and Field Marketing at UserTesting. Noelle shares her fascinating journey from law to event marketing and discusses how her unique background influences her current role. Tune in and discover: Transitioning Caree…
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Ep 17: In conversation with Hugh Forrest, Co-President & Chief Programming Officer at SXSW
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In the 17th episode of "Building Awesome Events," host Ankush Gupta sits down with Hugh Forrest, Chief Programming Officer of SXSW, to uncover the magic behind one of the world’s most iconic events. Get ready to dive into the evolution, challenges, and triumphs that make SXSW a must-attend experience for innovators and creatives alike. Tune in and …
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Ep 16: In conversation with Nick Borelli, Marketing Director at Zenus
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In the 16th episode "Building Awesome Events," host Ankush Gupta is joined by Nick Borelli, the Marketing Director at Zenus. Together, they explore the transformative impact of ethical AI on the event industry, discussing its application in facial analysis for improving attendee experiences while preserving privacy. Listen to the episode which talk…
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Ep 15: In conversation with Erin McElroy, Former Program Director, Executive Programs & Events at IBM and currently Founder of Adhesion
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In the 15th episode of Building Awesome Events, host Ankush Gupta is joined by Erin McElroy, Former Program Director, Executive Programs & Events at IBM and currently Founder of Adhesion. She shares her extensive experience in the field, particularly her transformative journey in event marketing at IBM and her insights on integrating technology and…
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Ep 14: In conversation with Dale Hudson, Knowledge & Events Director at IMEX Group
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In our 14th episode of Building Awesome Events, we dove into the fascinating world of events and sustainability with Dale Hudson, the Knowledge and Events Director at the IMEX Group. Listen to this latest episode, which talks about the following: 1. A Unique Career Journey: Dale shares her journey from considering geography to becoming an event ind…
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Ep 13: In conversation with Raf De Kimpe, CEO at Fintech Week London
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Raf De Kimpe, the CEO of FinTech Week London and Chief Commercial Officer at Disrupt Media, was our guest on the Building Awesome Events podcast. In this episode, Raf shared the story of how he transitioned from the business software side to the world of event management. He spoke about his early experience working at a software research company wh…
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Ep 12: In conversation with Ashly Priest, Former Head of Event Services at Hopin
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In our new episode, Ankush Gupta interviews Ashly Priest, who has worked in event management for several years. They discuss her experience managing large-formatted events, such as the Women in Digital and Women in Analytics conferences, which aim to give a platform to women in STEM fields. They also talk about Priest's role as Head of Event Servic…
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Ep 11: In conversation with Lauren Grady, Strategic Events & Programming Lead at Vimeo
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In the 11th episode of Building Awesome Events, Lauren Grady, Strategic Events & Programming Lead at Vimeo, smashed it out of the park and gave us so many nuggets, you would have to listen to the whole podcast to get it all, but to summarize, she spoke with us about: -The importance of understanding all aspects of events to operate more efficiently…
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Ep 10: In conversation with Allison Crooker, Director- Event Content at VMware.
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Building Awesome Events is out with it's 10th episode with Allison Crooker, Director- Event Content, VMware. -In this episode, Allison graciously shares with us her amazing journey and some of the highlights of her career, including her experience working with big event portfolios at NVIDIA and VMWare. --She also talks about how she manages her cur…
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Ep 9 : Learn how to avoid the top mistake in event setup w/ Accelevents CEO Jonathan Kazarian
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Building Awesome Events presents its 9th episode, an interesting discussion between Ankush Gupta, the Founder of Eventible.com, and Jonathan Kazarian, CEO & Founder at Accelevents. During the conversation, Jonathan speaks about his journey from working at a hedge fund right out of school to hosting a fundraiser of about 1000 people to raise money f…
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Ep 8 : Talking in-person vs. virtual events and event tech stacks - a chat with Liz Caruso
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Building Awesome Events presents its 8th episode, an interesting discussion between Ankush Gupta, the Founder of Eventible.com, and Liz Caruso, CEO at Liz King Events and TechsyTalk. During the conversation, Liz speaks about how her love for events was kindled during her stint in an admin role at the career center at Columbia and being promoted thr…
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Ep 7 : Learn about the importance of planning and strategic thinking in events w/ Gerilynn Marburger, Dir - Global Events at Hewlett Packard
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Ankush Gupta, Founder at Eventible.com dives into conversation with Gerilynn Marburger, Diretcor- Global Events at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, in this special episode of Building Awesome Events. Learn how Gerilynn realized that events were the right path for her. Listen to her talk about a variety of important topics today for #eventprofs ranging f…
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Ep 6: Creating hyper awareness around events - a discussion w/ Bethany Murphy from Drift
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A crucial element to a successful event is the innate ability to market and carry an event to production. In an engaging conversation, Ankush Gupta, Founder, Eventible, speaks with Bethany Murphy- Director of Global Events at Drift to better understand how events are executed, right from the stage where the event concept is on the drawing board to …
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Ep 5: In conversation with Rachel Russell, Marketing Manager at ONE (previously Even)
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Building Awesome Events presents its next episode. An engaging discussion between Ankush Gupta, the Founder of Eventible.com, and Rachel Russell, Field Marketing Manager at Even (now ONE). During the conversation, Russell speaks about how her love for events was kindled during the various events she organized. During her time at i4cp – an HR resear…
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Ep 4: In conversation with Lindsey Cohen, Director-Event Marketing at Snyk
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Ankush Gupta, Founder at Eventible.com dives into conversation with Lindsey Cohen, Director - Event Marketing, Snyk in this special segment of Building Awesome Events. Learn how Lindsey got into event marketing and solved her way through 2020 and 2021. Listen to her talk about a variety of important topics today for #eventprofs ranging from produci…
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Ep 3: In conversation with Richard John, COO at Realise
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If you're someone who has found comfort in the wealth of streamed content delivered through the pandemic by platforms such as Amazon, Netflix and Disney, then you'll not want to miss this hilarious yet insightful chat about what event organisers and meeting planners can learn from the best brains in the entertainment world. In this fireside chat we…
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Ep 2: In conversation with Victoria Matey, Event Psychologist & Consultant, Matey Events
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As an event prof you've lived through a time of intense change to the way events have been conducted - the pandemic saw in-person events swing heavily towards virtual events and now back to in-person and hybrid formats. These shifts have also affected your attendee behaviour and engagement patterns - from attendees embracing virtual formats to suff…
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Ep 1: In Conversation with Sir Martin Sorrell, Executive Chairman, S4 Capital
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In this interview with Eventible, Sir Martin Sorrell, Executive Director, S4 Capital, shares exclusive insight on the COVID-19 pandemic and the economy, the trends concerning remote working, his thoughts on reviewing as an aid to active decision making, and how we see a raging number of influencers across the global market. In a statement he says: …
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In this episode, no marketing, no entrepreneurship, no tips etc. But life as it is. Meet my 2 kids. 3 and 5 years old. They attacked my after recording one of my episodes. And they spontaneously started to talk in the microphones. I could not resist sharing this with you :-) And, when I think about it, THEY are the reason why I'm doing this podcast…
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Hospitality Expert & Brand Experience Manager Jim Cantens - About Failing in Business and Getting Up
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Hospitality Expert & Brand Experience Manager Jim Cantens (33yo) talks about how to start a business, about failing and getting up. Jim loves creating experiences for brands, especially in the world of food concepts. Enjoy! More about Jim : https://www.instagram.com/jimcantens/ More about Laurent : https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurentlootens/ https:…
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Entrepreneur Thomas Joos - Creating High Performance Teams - How To Scale An Event Agency
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Thomas Joos is a great entrepreneur and an amazing person. He talks about entrepreneurship, about how to create high performance teams, how to scale an event agency and how EGO stands in the way for success when entrepreneurs want to scale their business. More about Thomas Joos : https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomasjoos/?originalSubdomain=be More abo…
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Entertainment Marketing is an ecosystem for brands : a mix of event marketing and digital marketing. With entertainment as it's fuel. Resulting in relevant data and extreme customer delight. My point is that brands should be a part of the entertainment on social media and not interrupt people. And if we talk about creating entertainment : event man…
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Event Marketer Jenny Björklöf - About The Entrepreneurial Drive, Linkedin Tips and The Power of Networking
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Jenny Björklöf felt the entrepreneurial drive quite quickly. As an event manager she became an expert in networking. Today, she is known as a superconnector, organizing networking events and sharing Linkedin tips. Hope you enjoy the episode! More about Jenny : https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennybjorklof/?originalSubdomain=be More about Laurent Looten…
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Lucas Decuypere - ADAGIO - About entrepreneurship as a lifestyle & digital customer journey design & customer experience online
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My talk with Lucas Decuypere is pure fire! He talks about how he lived very humbly and low profile for a long time in order to build his business. He talks about his journey as an entrepreneur and also about his dreams and his vision. Lucas is the founder and CEO of Adagio, optimizing customer experience in the digital space by designing the custom…
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About Finding Your Purpose - Creating Disney For Dogs & Female Entrepreneurship
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This episode is about the journey of being an entrepreneur. Caroline Vander Straeten is an Belgian entrepreneur who wants to create Disneyland for dogs. After lots of studies at management schools like Vlerick and Stanford, Caroline worked as a vet expert for different companies. In stead of choosing the easy path, she chose love. Romantic love ànd…
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Growing A Business? Or keeping it small? What makes you happier? About Real Entrepreneurship - Interview With Filip Smet - Lemon Companies
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Filip Smets is the owner and CEO of Lemon Companies, making companies digitally successful. In this episode, Filip talks about the reality and struggle of growing a business. What would really make you happy? Growing your business? Or keeping it the way it is? You can get in touch with Filip via : www.lemon.be More about me : https://www.linkedin.c…
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About Happiness - From General Manager To Entrepreneur - Interview With Philippe Fierens
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After working for more than a decade as a General Manager for employers like TNT Express, Brussels Airport, Dachser, BAFI and Aviapartner, Philippe Fierens decided to start his own business and to be an entrepreneur. "My wife gave me a wake up call. My life was all about work and there was no balance. Since I started ExSeCo, a company in executive …
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How To Grow a Family Business - Interview with Christophe Morbee BESOX
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Christophe Morbee is a friend I've known since I was 5. Now, he is the leading man and owner of Besox, a payroll company in Belgium. Since he took over the family business, Besox is growing exponentially. His ideas about entrepreneurship are amazing and controversial. In this interview he talks about poker, cannabis, growing pains, daily habits, ho…
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The Concept of Social TV and the rise of Entertainment Marketing - How Brands Should Behave on Social Media - KEYNOTE for MPI BELGIUM
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Brands are egocentric when they post on social media. They post classic advertisements on their social media accounts, without being really customer centric. In this keynote for MPI Belgium, I talk about the concept of Social TV. A way of entertaining your customers within your brand DNA. I talk about how brands should stop interrupting their custo…
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How to Find your Passion as an Event Manager - Bart Taveirne on Finding Your Real Passion by Listening to Yourself
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As a serial entrepreneur in event marketing, Bart Taveirne shares every detail of his journey on how to find your real passion by listening to yourself. "I was a bartender and I never went to Cuba!". That was the moment he knew he needed to change his life. "Every Business Person is a Spiritual Person - we just got too detached". Reach your goals, …
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INTERVIEW with Nick Borelli about Event Marketing - Entrepreneurship - Passion & Influencer Marketing
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In this episode I have a talk with an amazing influencer in event marketing : Nick Borelli. Coming from Cleveland Ohio, he works all over the world as a event consultant and as a public speaker. He is also an great content creator around social media marketing and the event industry. What you will learn in this episode : - how to get started in the…
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There are very clear rules in the filmindustry about how to do storytelling. These rules are often well applied by brands when communicating through classic media, videomarketing, social media, etc. But not when brands communicate their message via event marketing. In this episode I explain you how you can apply these storytelling rules in the deve…
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How EventProfs can use Influencer Marketing to Develop their Business
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Influencer Marketing is a great way to develop your business and your brand as an EventProf. In this interview with Mariska Kesteloo from Word of Mice we have a great talk about Influencer Marketing in the MICE industry, about daring to say "YES", about entrepreneurship, how to start a business and mentorship. Hope you enjoy this episode full of fi…
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The Future of Shopping is all about Event Marketing
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In this episode I explain you how the rules of event marketing can be applied to retail concepts. It is first of all about creating a solid Brand DNA for your shop. After that I go into detail on : - how to create a highly experiential shop - adding the Human Touch - being relevant to people and planet Let's connect on Instagram : https://www.insta…
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Interviewing Isabelle Dumortier - Founder of Tutu Shop and Digital Expert - A Talk About Entrepreneurship and Letting People Shine
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In this episode, I have an open talk with the founder of Tutu Shop, Isabelle Dumortier. As a very young female entrepreneur, she runs an amazing brand, trying to run and dominate the world. It is a talk about the journey of being an entrepreneur. And also just about life. How to improve it for yourself and others. We talk about digital marketing, a…
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The 3 Lessons I've learned of New York City to Apply to my Event Marketing Business
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Visiting New York City is an Experience. Visiting the city was very inspiring to me and it taught me 3 valuable lessons that I will apply to my event marketing business. As an event manager / event planner I will apply these three lessons on my next event concepts. It's about making choices within a concept, being friendly and positive and also abo…
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Fireside Chat with Connor Gillivan - a 27 year old American Entrepreneur
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In this episode I am interviewing the 27 year old Connor Gillivan about how to start your own business. A talk about entrepreneurship, having a good idea and monetizing it, how to solve frictions with your business partner and about staying positive and humble. Connor is a serial entrepreneur that started out of his college dorm room. Sold over $25…
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A Personal Review of the Book A Four Hour Workweek by Tim Ferris
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I was always a little sceptic when I saw that book on the shelf. A 4 Hour Workweek? Really? That must be a scam. So I never bought it. But, in the end, after some recommendations, I did buy it. In this episode I go through the basic principles of the book, and I tell you how it affected my life as an event manager, an entrepreneur and as a person i…
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Why You Should (or Should Not) Start Your Own Business
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Lots of people hesitate to start their own business. Some of you are working for a boss and have moments of doubt : should I do this, or not? In this episode, I started with the idea of telling you why your brand should care about event marketing. But, suddenly, while starting the episode, I started talking about why you should (or should not) star…
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5 steps to Creating a Relevant Corporate Event Concept
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I see so many event managers struggle to create a relevant event concept. In 5 easy steps, I will guide you to an easy framework to build an amazing but relevant concept for the corporate brands you are working for. It's all about really understanding your client and being creative within the Brand DNA of your client. If you can find a link between…
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Eventprofs do not market themselves in the right way. It's a real problem of image. A problem of reputation. Especially when you talk about our business to CMO's and CEO's of corporate brands. They see us too often as party planners. Not as strategic partners for their brands. And this needs to change. Event Marketing is an underestimated marketing…
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Storytelling is an Art and a Science - How to Story for Brands
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In this episode I get into detail on how you can create a great story for your brand. First I tell you how you can define your story as a brand, and who your audience could be. Then I present you a specific framework on which kind of content you should create and distribute every week in order to get your story told. It is all about branding, not s…
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Jan Van Ongevalle - The Pharmacy - Interview about Entrepreneurship, How to Start a Business, Event Marketing, Working Hard and Creativity
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In this episode, I have my very first guest. Jan Van Ongevalle is the founding father of cocktailbar The Pharmacy in Belgium. They work on event concepts worldwide - and work for the world's biggest brands. In this open chat, Jan talks about how he failed his first business and how he learned from that failure to create a stunning business with his…
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Why Chanel Will Not Survive The Next Economic Crisis
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In this episode I'm telling you why I am worried that Chanel will not survive the next economic crisis. There is an economic meltdown every 10 years. Last crash was in 2008... When things go wrong economically, brands can get in trouble. Or they disappear, or people just do not care about them anymore. When you see the activity of big luxury brands…
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How To Get a Higher ROI on Social Media - Why Your Brand Should Think Like a Media Company
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There is a clash between what content brands post on social media, and what content customers expect to see on social media. In this episode I get very practical on how brands can create amazing content on social media, without interrupting the customer experience on social platforms. I will help you, as a marketing manager, to create this content …
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In this 9th episode, I will tell you why event managers need high emotional intelligence. And how that emotional intelligence will make you a better corporate event manager. Event Managers need to be trusted like a Swiss Banker and creative like great artists. They talk to top level managers ànd they need to be able to talk to their suppliers, thei…
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When Event Marketing & Digital Marketing Have Sex
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On this episode, I will give you a great framework on how to use Event Marketing and Digital Marketing, in order to create a great Brand Experience. Event Marketing is about 2 things: creating a shareable experience and collecting as much data as you can. Digital Marketing : Here we will talk about 3 things : social media marketing / website and e-…
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Brands and Marketing Managers that want to be more successful on Social Media, should think about it as being popular in a bar. In this episode, I compare Social Media Marketing for Brands, like being popular in a bar. The comparisons are amazing. Funny and easy to understand. Hope you enjoy it!Par Laurent Lootens Lapin Quotidien
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A week ago I got interviewed by a student in Event Marketing. One of his questions was : which 5 tips would you like to give to young students who want to become an event manager in the future? And I share the answer to this question through this 6th episode of my weekly podcast about Event Marketing and Digital Marketing. Hope you enjoy it!…
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In this episode, I am explaining why I believe that event managers are the best social media managers. How they will become allround "brand experience managers", creating online and offline experiences for brands. Very useful for all kinds of event managers, working for brands directly or working for an event agency.…
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