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2018 Attendee ROI Playbook Report Six: Gender Differences and Similarities
2018 Attendee ROI Playbook Report Five: Generational Differences and Similarities
2018 How to Grow Attendance Series Report Two: Marketing Channel Mix and Other Tactics that Drive Growth

This report explores the range of sources that business professionals who attend business-to-business (B2B) exhibitions relied upon to meet their business information and purchasing decision needs and documents the B2B exhibition channel's rank as a valued source in meeting their needs compared to all other primary sources relied upon.
This report is part of a multiple fact sheet series identifying attendee practices in general as well as insights on differences by specific attendee categories.

2018 Attendee ROI Playbook Fact Sheet One: Decision to Attend and Factors Driving Attendee ROI/Value
This report documents 22 different metrics used by survey participants to assess the value of attending by pinpointing which are most popular, how users determine an event performed to their expectations and where they feel B2B exhibitions deliver the best value/ROI against each specific metric.
This 5-page fact sheet includes:
- Snapshot of the decision-making process to attend
- Summary of the most important reasons for attending
- Process used to evaluate the value of attending – nature of the process and among those who follow a process, who is involved
- Attendee NPS (Net Promoter Score)
- Attendee ROI/Value Scorecard – list of 22 metrics used, how well exhibitions perform per metric user scores and for which metrics users identify B2B exhibitions deliver the best value/ROI
This report is part of a multiple fact sheet series identifying attendee practices in general as well as insights on differences by specific attendee categories.

This eight-page report includes:
- Areas Looking to Improve – identifies percentage of attendee marketers planning to address each of nine areas.
- New Activities Planned for Near-term Future – reports on percentage of attendee marketers that will take on each of nine new activities in the area of analytics, content marketing and other strategically focused activities beyond their current marketing practices.
- Commentary from marketing professionals on how they have applied these strategies.
This is the fourth report in a four part series on growing attendance. This series offers a look at the most popular marketing approaches and, most importantly, which characteristics are tied to success in growing attendance.