As a college junior back in 2014, I was fully engaged in my video production class. The biggest takeaway from the class: Never take vertical videos! That advice aged horribly. There was a time when vertical video was the ugly stepchild of the video production world. Professional video creators rejected the notion that anyone could …

When you’re looking to improve email performance rates, start at the top—with your subject line. With people overwhelmed by the number of emails in their inboxes, your subject line has to clearly tell them, “I’m worth opening.” And you’ve only got 35 characters (for optimal mobile viewing), or up to seven words (according to this …

Remember the feeling of victory when you found the perfect show shot—the one with a bustling show floor, folks crowded around booths chatting, shaking hands and smiling? Those were the days. There’s a special kind of energy that is conveyed when you see large gatherings of colleagues sharing ideas and engaging on the latest ideas …

Over the past few weeks, we’ve seen client marketing strategies shift heavily to interactive channels, with email marketing being a campaign heavy hitter. The perennial challenge with email is to ensure your message is front and center. At Fixation, we collaborate with clients to adapt messaging, calls to action and other information to ensure their …

Regardless of what type of event you’re holding, you need to meet your registration goals. At Fixation, this is what we do for our clients. And we like to talk about it. Wayyyyyy back in pre-pandemic December 2019, Julie Parsons did a rapid-fire session with one of our clients at IAEE’s Expo! Expo! about how …

It looks like Change of Plans is the defining theme of 2020, with Replacing Revenue running a close second. Here’s what you can do to adjust your event marketing theme without blowing the budget. Define your new position—what is changing and what is not? Is it just a matter of the dates and/or the venue, …

Many events are doing short-turnaround strategy shifts from live events to virtual experiences, and it’s a challenge we aren’t used to tackling—particularly in a hurry and with budgets and a dozen other implications to consider. But with a few modifications and critical thinking, the same marketing tactics we use for live events can be successful …

At Fixation, we rely on procedures and protocols to ensure that the work we do meets our high standard of excellence. And as our skills, services and clients’ needs evolve and grow, we raise our standards and adapt our processes to meet that higher bar.   This spring we revamped our creative map showing how we …

As we continue to work with our clients and partners on necessary transitions and changes, we are also (like many of you) exploring new ways to learn, grow and be entertained.  In the spirit of being in this together, we would like to share a selection of what Fixation team members are enjoying between conference …

Many of us are finding this is a good time to go through our lives and clean house—declutter the basement, clear off the computer desktop, donate old clothes/toys etc. For me, it was the bookshelf that was adding to my quarantine angst: Do we need all this? What can I donate? Or—what could I use …