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Trade shows are getting highly competitive and you literally have to pull a rabbit out of a hat to stand out. Attendees want more excitement, more entertainment according to CEIR 2017– and only exhibitors who feed this desire get noticed.
How do you get noticed?
You get noticed by doing what your contemporaries are not doing. Things like:
Continue reading “The $7 Trick For Generating Buzz At Your Booth”
Trade shows are getting more expensive by the day. According to the Center for Exhibition Industry Research (CEIR) 1996 and 2014 research, the exhibit space was 29% of the total event cost in 1996 compared with a 39% cost in 2014. This means more money being spent on just buying the space and less on other necessary items to make the event successful.
But is that your aim? To spend money just on the space? Possibly not, hence you need to strategically come up with a plan that ensures you meet your goals with the marketing budget you have mapped out for an event.
To help you achieve your aim for getting an exhibition space at trade shows, conferences, and expos, here are some common myths that you should know and look beyond:
Continue reading “5 Trade Show Myths Exhibitors Need To Know”
We started the countdown of proven ways to grow your business fast in our previous installment of this article. Now, we continue from where we stopped…
Here goes.
Continue reading “Proven Ways To Grow Your Business Fast – Part 2”
Starting a business is hard, but having the patience and knowledge to grow it is even harder – but do-able.
If you’ve already started a business but are struggling to grow it, don’t fret – we have a few tips to help you grow your business and ultimately make more money. Take a look below:
Continue reading “Proven Ways To Grow Your Business Fast – Part 1”
As a business owner, you wake up every day with a purpose – to make your business succeed. This drive is what sometimes keeps you up at night and what makes you seek better ways to do what you do. With last year being history and this year looking good for gains, what steps have you taken to ensure that 2018 is a good one for your business?
Here are a few fundamental things you should do for your business this year: Continue reading “4 Things Every Small Business Should Do This Year”
In the non-profit sphere, you must know that donor retention is very important. It will cost much more to get a new donor than what it will cost to keep an existing one. That is why you must go all out this 2018 to keep your donors happy and content enough to keep supporting your cause.
Don’t be one of those organizations that reach out to donors only when you want something from them. When you are generous and show them how much their support means to you, you’ll be amazed how a little love can keep you in your donor’s heart.
For this Valentine’s Day, forget about asking – you have the rest of the year to fundraise, just give love. Think about those donors who you’d like to really appreciate. It could be your major donors, monthly donors or the longest donors you’ve had over time.
Pick the ones you want, and then use these strategies to cement your relationship with them: Continue reading “Non-profits: 5 Ways To Show Your Donors Love This Valentine”
Employee retention is a big issue for many organizations. To keep your employees, you must build a relationship with them. It needs to be more than getting them to perform certain work-related tasks or greeting them, you have to show genuine interest in your people. When you show your staff that you truly care, you give them a reason to stick around.
Here are a few ways you can genuinely get to know your employees and help them feel a connection with the company.
Continue reading “5 Ways Leaders Can Get To Know Their Team Better”
Did you know that many people have a disdain for surveys? Why? Because most surveys try to sell the person something instead of presenting a legitimate question.
This unfortunate twist has caused more and more surveys, especially ones from legitimate businesses like yours to get sent to the trash without even a second’s glance. There are many reasons why people have come to dislike and distrust surveys. We’ll list a few of them so that you know what to avoid when putting your survey together.
Here we go… Continue reading “3 Things To Avoid When Creating Surveys”
They say a picture speaks a thousand words, but a video speaks a million words.
Why use only written words in your survey when you can speak a million words and communicate better to your audience?
Using videos in surveys is not new, but sadly underutilized. According to a study by National Centre for Research, video and film have featured in the development of social research in different sectors for years.
The study mentioned that researchers have used video for many years particularly in workplace studies, the learning sciences, and the home. “Research has used video to ask questions in a variety of sites including how social class and race are articulated in the school classroom; how museum visitors interact with one another and exhibits; how patients and General Practitioners manage consultations, including how digital resources, such as the Electronic Patient Record (EPR) shape these interactions”, the study revealed. Continue reading “Reasons To Use Videos In Your Survey”
How well is your survey working?
A quick way to tell is how well it pulls in responses.
In survey research, the response rate is the number of people who answered your survey divided by the number of people in the sample.
With the increasing burden to retain customers, it is important that you figure out ways to increase your survey response rates. All your business may need to get to that next level could be the right customer feedback. Continue reading “15 Tips To Improve Your Survey Response Rate”
It is a constant challenge to find new ways of reaching volunteers and donor prospects in the nonprofit marketplace. Many nonprofits struggle to grasp the attention of your organization’s prospects making it hard to break even.
However, your organization’s marketing strategies and execution of those strategies could be the big difference that sustains it or not. To remain standing even in the midst of all other nonprofits, your organization needs to create a following and grow brand champions to represent your cause. Continue reading “How Nonprofits Can Improve Marketing Efforts In 2018”
The year is fast running out and right about now, everyone is getting in the mood for the holiday festivities. As a nonprofit organization, you should be doing the same too while consciously setting the plan in place for a hitch-free 2018 for your cause.
One of the things you should be working on in these last days of the year is a plan to make next year better than this year for your organization. Part of these ways must also include charity events you are penciling down to push the cause you believe in. Continue reading “Nonprofits: 8 Ways To Plan Successful Events In 2018”
The word ‘Feedback’ has been around for ages. We hear it being used in various spheres of our existence, but what exactly is it?
Feedback – broken down
The term ‘Feedback’ is defined as information about reactions to a product, a person’s performance of a task, etc. which is used as a basis for improvement.
Feedback occurs when a person or persons react to an action or behavior. An example is the term Customer Feedback which refers to the buyers’ reaction to a company’s products, services or policies. Employee performance feedback, on the other hand, is the employees’ reaction to feedback from their supervisor. The exchange of information sees both performances expected and performance exhibited come to play. Continue reading “5 Reasons Feedback Is Essential”
Data is important to non-profit organizations and the survey software offers a powerful tool to use in data gathering. As a non-profit organization, surveys are a great way to reach and engage with your target audience, while getting honest feedback on matters of concern. Here are more reasons to use online surveys: Continue reading “Non-Profit Organizations: 9 Reasons To Use Online Surveys”
We welcome you to our very first blog post here at Upsurveys!
Let us start by providing you a quick breakdown of ‘who’ can use Upsurveys.
Who can use Upsurveys?
The simple answer is everyone!
As long as you have a business or foundation requiring feedback from clients or the general public, you need this product.
Marketing departments:
Do you have a marketing department in your organization or work in the marketing unit? Online surveys are the easiest and cost-effective ways to assess customer awareness, preferences, satisfaction or general product performance. Continue reading “Hey, You! Welcome to Upsurveys…”