Venue Marketing

Venues

A great event begins with a great venue. Whether you're hosting a party, launching a product or putting on a conference, having a killer looking venue is a huge asset. It's impossible to overstate the marketing benefit that comes with people organically promoting your event on social media. What better way to generate a buzz and tempt those Instagram influencers than with a gorgeous venue that they just can't help but take photos of. We've picked f

Venue Marketing

Laura Jefferies is a Marketing Executive at Twickenham Stadium . It’s Laura’s job to drive venue sales at the iconic London venue, and keep the place buzzing with events. Laura is a trailblazing events industry professional, winner of the Marketing Award at the prestigious MIAList awards in 2016. Laura worked previously at the National Theatre, and sits on the social committee for Unique Venues of London. In 2016 Laura took out a Prime Hi

Venue Marketing

Today's world of digital sales and marketing brings up a wealth of new words and phrases that, on first glance, can be dauntingly unfamiliar and may make you want to jump into a time machine back to the good ole-fashioned days of cold calling and smooth talking. But there's no getting away from the fact that modern techniques are here for good. So the marketing team at Hire Space has put together a go-to guide for the terms you may come across in 2017 and beyond. PPC:

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If other businesses are benefiting from new tech offerings, why shouldn't us #eventprofs get a slice of that pie? 1. Buzzhire On-Demand Staffing We all fear that same event nightmare: You're putting on an event in a couple of hours. You've set up the presentations for the first stream of the event with the second stream ready in the other room. Everything is on track until you get that WhatsApp message from a team member who would be manning the registration desk and clo

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Hire Space

We're very excited to introduce EventLAB , our first two-day event designed to take event professionals through every step of the event planning process. We'll be bringing you the latest updates in the run-up to the event in our 'EventLAB Series' , including relevant content and a little glimpse of the speakers, workshops and themes that will feature at the event. In the first instalment, we’ll explain all there is to know a

Venue Marketing

Four years ago, we launched Hire Space to connect event venues with new customers easily via our online platform and Venue Expert service. We've come up with 6 reasons why Venue Managers might like working with Hire Space, and why venues should join the club ! 1. Best SEO in the Industry = High Web Traffic Our Marketing team has enhanced our site visibility on search engines and as a result 1.3M customers visited our web site in 2016 (7% higher than the previous year). Ou

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Venue Marketing

Check out 10 Reasons Why Hire Space Venue Managers Are Events Superstars: Part I 6. They're always, always on the ball However meticulous your scheduling and logistics planning is, things can still go wrong, problems can still arise, and it would be down to the venue manager to ensure that the event will go on as smoothly as possible. Jack Mayorcas at Tanner Warehouse

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Venues

1. Whatever event you put on, they're always enthusiastic about it A Hire Space venue manager not only helps you set up a room, but also makes sure that your guests will have a memorable experience. Once, Harry Upton who's based at Madame Tussauds , hosted an after party for 750 Star Wars fans. Not exactly a fanatic himself... What did he do? He read up on everything Star Wars, got the DJ to mash up the saga's theme songs and everyone dan

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Digital Marketing

Now that we’ve had a quick look at the beginnings of online marketing , it’s time to start looking at what you, as venue marketeers, can do to start bringing in brand new customers online. Your own website is the place to start, and you should play a big part in deciding how it looks. Whether you are building it yourself, or are outsourcing it to a web developer, it should be a reflection of your business - and you know that best! It should

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Digital Marketing

If Facebook is a scatter-gun, where your marketing can get to everyone, then LinkedIn is a sniper. It can pinpoint people precisely, on the basis of location, gender, but most importantly, their job. So, if you're after conferences, you can target conference planners. After meetings? You can target meeting planners. After weddings? You can target wedding planners. Here's how. LinkedIn is a business-focused platform, and so it attracts people who are in a high-income bracket, as well as those

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Venues

As a keen advocate for your venue, you might wonder about your profile's marketing exposure from time to time. Our Community Support team have compiled some top tips to help you optimise your venue profiles for customers. Big Q: Is My Venue Profile Published? Head to hirespace.com , where customers carry out their venue searches. Click the green Search button on our homepage and then click More Filters. Run a search using the Venue Name filter and click Show Results.

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Digital Marketing

As a venue, you should have some beautiful, professional photos. And not just of the whole of your space - even the little things, the trinkets, the details, the touches that make your venue what it is. But are you making the most of them? Pinterest is the photographer's paradise. It's a place of strong hues, inventive ideas and beautiful images. It's a place that, for venues, is the ideal landscape to get people excited about what you can offer to everyone planning their event. Here's a step-

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Digital Marketing

The world wide web is a multi-faceted thing, but when it comes to marketing, all roads lead to (and from) one place... Google. To understand how best to market your venue to new users online, it's helpful to have a sense of how Google works and thinks - and a brief understanding of the journey it has gone on since its inception in 1996. Here’s a very brief history. 1. PageRank When Larry Page and Sergei Brin started building the platform, they had a simple question to

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Digital Marketing

Calling go-getting venue managers! In this series, we'll discuss the basics of online marketing for venues. We’ll talk about social media, SEO, search marketing and a lot more great (and often free) ways to generate new customers for your venue. You can see the full breakdown of the Venue Marketing Series below: 1. Introduction 2. A brief history of online marketing 3. On

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Venues

This blog is written for Hire Space venue managers. Not yet a Hirespacer but wanna get involved? Sign up your venue now . Enquiries can be unsuitable at a venue for a number of reasons. Lack of availability, incompatible production requirements, or simply, your space is just too big or small for the client's guest numbers. Rather than turning the client away, why not introduce them to our Venue Experts at Hire Space

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Venue Marketing

Lots of venues have a team of event superstars managing enquiries daily. Because of this, quite a few venue managers have requested a feature allowing them to manage access to their venue profiles easily. That means adding and removing team members' Hire Space accounts, in a few clicks. Guess what? It's been released! Add a new admin in 28 Seconds: Give it a go! First, log into your Hire Space account and head to your venue profile. Click on the ta

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Venue Marketing

Hire Space Enquiry Cycle in 47 Seconds We recommend users to use a Chrome browser when managing Hire Space enquiries for an optimal experience. When a customer contacts a Hire Space Venue, a notification email is sent to the venue's registered email inbox(es): * Click the Respond button on your notification email to be redirected to the new enquiry * On the enquiry page, you can see the customer's event brief and contact details. Should anything change, you can update them, a

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Film and Photo

We recently partnered with London Filmed to create our most immersive event recording at Nine Adam Street . We thought it was pretty cool, so we made that partnership a bit more permanent. As a result, we can now offer film and photography packages to both customers and venues. London Filmed has also created a virtual tour at the Round House

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