Monday, 19 May 2014

Effective PR for Lifestyle-Event Promotion

Whether you’re setting up a gift industry trade fair or organising a fashion and beauty seminar, generating the attendance you need to make your lifestyle event a success requires a fair bit of public relations work. To capture the interest of potential attendees, PR companies rely on many different strategies to attract their attention. Below are just two examples:


Celebrity Involvement

One tactic that some PR companies may use involves getting celebrities to participate in some way in the event. This can be achieved in a number of different ways.

Working with the organiser, a PR company may secure the attendance of the celebrity at the event. This may entail the payment of a fee; however, celebrities may occasionally consent to unpaid involvement for various reasons—personal interest in the activity, positive PR for themselves (especially if the event is a charity event), or the high-profile nature of the event.

Another way to involve celebrities is by ‘celebrity seeding’, in which the celebrity is sent a valuable or unique product in exchange for their endorsement of the event.

Trade Publications

Magazines and other periodical publications aimed at specific industry groups are another great way of building interest in a lifestyle event. Promoting an event through trade publications related to the nature of the event is an especially useful tactic for PR companies because it ensures that a large majority of the audience they reach will already be naturally interested in the event being advertised.

So, whatever the nature of the event you are organising, enlisting the expertise of a professional PR agency will ensure it is a success.

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