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EVENT

MARKETING

Prepared by:

FRANCE MARIE ANN A. RAGUINI, MSHM


Instructor
MARKETING
- an integrated process of
producing, distributing and
selling goods and services to
the buyers.
5 stages of Marketing Plan

1. Market Analysis (Feasibility Study)


2. Defining the marketing mix
3. Setting Marketing strategy
4. Control
1. MARKET ANALYSIS
Stages of Marketing Plan
Market Analysis (Feasibility study)

- A market analysis is a quantitative and


qualitative assessment of target market.
- It looks into the size of market both in volume
and in value, various customer segments and buying
patterns, the competition and the economic
environment in terms of barriers to entry and
regulation.
Stages of Marketing Plan
Market Analysis (Feasibility study)

-Objectives of a market analysis section in


events management:
1. It lets you know your target market.
2. It shows event stakeholders that you know
your market and the event is appropriate for the
target markets.
Stages of Marketing Plan
Market Analysis (Feasibility study)

-How to do a market analysis?


1. Assess the size of your market.
2. Identify which segments of the market you
view as your target market.
3. Identify the needs of the market.
4. Identify and know your competition/s.
5. Identify barriers to entry.
Stages of Marketing Plan
Market Analysis (Feasibility study)

-How to do a market analysis?


1. Assess the size of your market.
When assessing the size of the market, your approach
will depend on the type of event you are planning and the
market segmentations.
Stages of Marketing Plan
Market Analysis (Feasibility study)

-How to do a market analysis?


1. Assess the size of your market.
There are 2 factors you need to look at when assessing
the size of a market:
1. The number of potential customers
2. The value of the market
Stages of Marketing Plan
Market Analysis (Feasibility study)

-How to do a market analysis?


1. Assess the size of your market.
Example:
Students Students in QSU Students in La
Sallete
Market Value Php 2,000.00 Php 5,000.00
Potential 500 students 200 students
Customers
Competitors 3 events 1 event
Stages of Marketing Plan
Market Analysis (Feasibility study)

-How to do a market analysis?


2. Identify which segments of the market you
view as your target market.
Identify the specific market segment with
different drivers of demands.
Stages of Marketing Plan
Market Analysis (Feasibility study)

-How to do a market analysis?


3. Identify the needs of the market.
You need to get into the details the specific
needs of your target market in your event. You will
also identify what will drive them to attend in your
event.
Stages of Marketing Plan
Market Analysis (Feasibility study)

-How to do a market analysis?


4. Identify and know your competition/s.
This gives you a fair view of who you are
competing against. You need to explain your
competitors’ positioning and describe their strengths
and weaknesses.
Stages of Marketing Plan
Market Analysis (Feasibility study)

-How to do a market analysis?


5. Identify barriers to entry.
This simply identifies the edge of your event.
It usually answers 2 questions:
a. What prevent others from conducting an event in
your chosen location and time;
b. What’s in your event that other events conducted/
to be conducted don’t have?
2. DEFINING THE
MARKETING MIX
Stages of Marketing Plan

Setting Marketing Mix


Marketing mix refers to the set of actions
or tactics a company uses to promote its
product in the market.
Stages of Marketing Plan

Setting Marketing Mix


4 factors of Marketing Mix
1. Product – what the event offers
2. Price – the cost of attending
3. Place/Convenience – ease of attending
4. Promotion – all activities undertaken to make the
event known to the user and trade. Its aim is to
achieve Attention, Interest, Desire and Action.
Promotion
- 4 Types of promotion:
1. Advertising
- Is any form of impersonal (one-way)
paid communication in which the company is
identified.
2. Sales Promotion
- It contains methods of stimulating
consumer purchase usually on a short-term or
immediate goal.
Promotion
- 4 Types of promotion:
3. Personal Selling
- It involves a one to one
communication between buyers and customers.
4. Public Relations
- It is maintaining public relations with
the public. It includes public relations to
customers, shareholders, suppliers and others.
Stages of Marketing Plan

Setting Marketing Mix


Commonly used Marketing Tools
1. Prints
2. Internet-based materials
3. Mass media
4. Outdoor advertising
5. Person to person
3. SETTING MARKETING
STRATEGY
Stages of Marketing Plan

Setting Marketing Strategy

 It involves identifying the Marketing Mix


and Marketing Tools.
Stages of Marketing Plan

Decide your promotional activities

How you are going to promote your event


using you marketing strategies?
Stages of Marketing Plan
Setting Marketing Strategy
A. Decide your promotional activities
How Electronic Media can be used for Promotion
1. Promote your event, sponsors and clients through TV
and Radio Commercials
2. Provide free ad space on your company's website
where your sponsors and clients can promote their
products and services for particular period of time.
Stages of Marketing Plan

Setting Marketing Strategy

A. Decide your promotional activities


How Print Media can be used for Promotion
1. Promote your event, sponsors and clients through
newspapers ads, magazines ads, trade journals, press
releases, tickets, passes, invitations, banners and posters.
2. Imprint you sponsor/client's company name and logo on
your staff's shirts and caps and on the pens, diary, gifts,
and exhibitors‘ manual and other promotional materials.
Stages of Marketing Plan
Setting Marketing Strategy
A. Decide your promotional activities
How Electronic Media can be used for Promotion
3. Develop an event website just to promote your upcoming event
and provide a facility for online registration. All the details
regarding the event must be available on the website.
4. Use electronic signage like visual display signage, Plasma
Screen, LCD Screen, LED Screen, Projection Screen, Video
Walls etc to promote your sponsors and clients.
4. CONTROL
Stages of Marketing Plan

Control

 How will you limit your activities, your


scope of limitations.
Activities:

 Create a Marketing Plan using the template below:


A. Market Analysis.
(follow the 5 steps on how to make a market analysis)
1. Customers
2. Competitions
3. Barriers to Entry
B. Marketing Strategy
1. Marketing Mix and tools selected
2. Promotional Activities.
REFERENCES
 BOOK REFERENCES:
1.Cruz, Zenaida L.(2006). CONVENTION AND EVENT MANAGEMENT SECOND EDITION. National
Bookstore: Mandaluyong City
2.Cruz, Zenaida L.(2015). CONVENTION AND EVENT MANAGEMENT THIRD EDITION. National
Bookstore: Mandaluyong City
3.Romero, Eloisa A. (2009). EVENT MANAGEMENT HANDBOOK FIRST EDITION. Rex Bookstore
Inc.: Sampaloc, Manila
4.Allen, Judy (2009). EVENT PLANNING SECOND EDITION. John Wiley & Sons Canada, Ltd.: Canada
5.Bladen, Charles, et. al, (2012). EVENTS MANAGEMENT: AN INTRODUCTION. Routledge: New York,
USA
6.IRFU Organization (2008). EVENT MANAGEMENT HANDBOOK for event organisers of larger events
(greater than 3,000 spectators). Eamon O’Boyle & Associates, Safety Consultants
7.Brown, Nancy ( 2011). HOSPITALITY AND EVENT MANAGEMENT
8.Wagen, Lynn Vander (2010). EVENTS MANAGEMENT 4TH EDITION
9.Wagen, Lynn Vander, et. al. (2012). EVENTS MANAGEMENT FOR TOURISM, CULTURAL,
BUSINESS AND SPORTING EVENTS
10.Polivika, Edward (1996). PROFESSIONAL MEETING MANAGEMENT

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