Everyone has at least a slight fear of being left out – including management. That’s why it’s a smart move to check out the competition. How often do they organize events? And what kind of events are they setting up? What advantages does their approach give them? And above all: how could you do better?
When you start your presentation off with these insights, you immediately create a certain sense of urgency among the people in the boardroom. The feeling that your company is behind on the competition is of course something management wants to resolve as quickly as possible. This will make them more receptive to what you say during your presentation. Not a bad starting point for being heard, right?
At the end of the day, management only cares about one thing: the profitability of the organization. Every euro invested, must generate profits. So when you are convincing management to free up extra budget, it is best to demonstrate how your approach will succeed in generating more profit.
And that is precisely where the biggest challenge lies for those organizing business events. It’s not easy to clearly demonstrate the revenue generated by these events. To a limited extent, it is; when deals are closed during the event itself. But the added value of one event contributing to a sale later on is more difficult to demonstrate.
InviteDesk allows you to capture this information for everyone to see. The platform is connected to your sales data. Combined with event-related data from guests, we can provide valuable insights into how your events contribute to business success. These insights are crucial in demonstrating to management exactly how much your event is generating in terms of sales.
Map out exactly what you want to purchase with the additional budget you’d be getting. What location do you have in mind, how much does that exclusive speaker charge, what additional peripheral activities do you want to offer, or on a smaller scale: what one-on-one experience do you want to be able to offer customers?
In addition to that, certain investments can also end up saving the company money. By automating time-consuming tasks, you create extra bandwidth for employees. This allows those employees to then focus on more important tasks, such as sending out individual invitations, calling invitees, manually updating guest lists, etc. We recommend quantifying the costs that would be saved by freeing up people’s time.
In summary, management needs to get a clear picture of what the budget will be used for. And, even more importantly, what you can achieve with that extra budget.
If you don’t yet have a good understanding of exactly what happens at your event, and what the exact financial impact was, then you are not ready to take your event approach to the next level. Knowledge is power. Statistics and insights help you make smarter tactical decisions in terms of the type of events that work best for you, what type of guests to invite, and so on.
The InviteDesk platform helps you map out these insights. In addition, it also offers the possibility to speed up a lot of time-consuming tasks. Selecting a suitable guest list based on a few parameters, and setting up automatic mail flows before, during and after an event are just a few examples of how InviteDesk can help take your events to the next level.
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