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After Show: Event ROI, Relationship Capital & Did She Actually Cancel Christmas?
Yes. She canceled Christmas. And she went to Waffle House instead of making Swedish pancakes. But before we get there — this aftershow is one of the most dense, useful, and occasionally unhinged episodes we've done. Christine Martin is back, and we go deep on the things that didn't fit in th...
Your Attendee Experience Is Being Graded By Someone Who Never Filled Out Your Survey
Your events are being graded in real time by attendees who will never fill out your feedback form, never tag you in a post, and never tell you what they actually thought. They'll just decide whether they're coming back. Today I brought one of them into the studio. Christine Martin has attend...
The Business Side of Events Nobody Talks About with Stuart Ruff-Lyon
It was the last day of RISKWORLD 2023. The show had been the best one yet. Danica Patrick was about to take the stage for the closing keynote. Then Stuart Ruff-Lyon got pulled from the show floor and walked, without explanation, to a room where the Chief of Police of Atlanta was waiting. Two miles a...
When Hackers Hold Your Conference for Ransom with Stuart Ruff-Lyon
Everyone says celebrity keynotes are out. Data says audiences want practitioners, not personalities. So why is RISKWORLD, the world's largest gathering of global risk professionals, doubling down on names like Adam Grant and Michael Strahan? Because sometimes the data is right and your audience is t...
Why "Great Exposure" Is the Biggest Lie in Events with Beth Nydick
You asked your speaker to show up. They did. You offered them exposure. They smiled and said thank you. And then nothing happened for either of you. In this Dynamic Dialogue After Show, Megan Martin and media strategist Beth Nydick pull back the curtain on the unspoken agreement between event organi...
What No One Tells Speakers About Surviving the Stage with Beth Nydick
What do you do when someone steals your mic, your camera, and your clicker right before you walk out to a standing room only crowd? You scream. Literally. In this episode of Event About It, host Megan Martin sits down with Beth Nydick, former TV producer turned media strategist and creator of the Mi...
The Missing Link Between Event Content and Sponsor Renewals
The Attribution Conversation Event Teams Need to Have with Their CMO Most event reports are a PDF nobody reads. What if your post-event data told you exactly which VP-level executives engaged with your sponsor's content — by name, by title, and by intent signal? In this Event About It Dynamic Dialog...
The Real Reason Your Event Content Never Gets Used
Why Your B2B Event Content Disappears — and What to Do Instead You spend months planning the event. You fill the room. You film everything. And then... it all just fades. In this episode of Event About It , host Megan Martin sits down with Florentin Ngabitsinze , co-founder of Uchop , to unpack one ...
22 AFTER SHOW The Event Marketing Question CEOs Should Be Asking with Devin Bramhall
Why do CEOs keep asking for content that doesn’t work? In the Event About It after show, Megan Martin, CMP and Devin Bramhall go deeper into the leadership side of content and event strategy—specifically the questions executives ask that unintentionally lead teams into busywork instead of growth. Th...
22 Why Event Content Fails (And What Actually Drives Growth) with Devin Bramhall
Why does event content fail to deliver real business growth—especially in B2B? In this episode of Event About It , host Megan Martin, CMP sits down with Devin Bramhall , a longtime B2B marketing leader, to unpack why so much event content misses the mark and why the issue isn’t volume, platforms, or...