Designing Virtual and Hybrid Event Strategies

Turn virtual and hybrid events from a stated policy into a practice your organisation can evidence.

📍 Cairo🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points

Course Overview

A message about virtual and hybrid events that tries to reach everyone reaches nobody. Most disappointing results in hybrid events trace back to an audience defined too broadly. It is appropriate for those preparing to take on wider responsibility for the marketing and commercial practice discipline. The course sets out a working method for virtual and hybrid events that participants can apply the week they return. Work is grounded in real cases drawn from this aspect of marketing and commercial practice, which each participant adapts to conditions in their own organisation. Ambition around hybrid events outruns capacity unless the sequencing is deliberate. They leave able to brief senior management on virtual and hybrid events in terms that support a decision. Where hybrid events is measured, it improves; where it is only discussed, it drifts. The closing exercise tests whether the participant's plan for this area of marketing and commercial practice survives a hostile question.

Expected Learning Outcomes

01

Apply a repeatable review cycle to virtual and hybrid events and act on what it produces.

02

Recognise early indicators that hybrid events is drifting away from its intended design.

03

Measure customer lifetime value arising from virtual and hybrid events, not first-order revenue.

04

Design the customer journey for hybrid events across the touchpoints that actually influence the decision.

05

Build the sales process for virtual and hybrid events so it is repeatable across the team.

06

Diagnose whether a problem in hybrid events is one of design, resourcing or discipline.

07

Align marketing and sales handover within virtual and hybrid events so leads are not lost.

Who Should Attend

01

Customer experience managers improving virtual and hybrid events.

02

Marketing managers responsible for hybrid events.

03

Project and programme managers whose delivery depends on virtual and hybrid events.

04

Digital marketing specialists executing hybrid events.

05

Risk managers assessing the exposure created by virtual and hybrid events.

06

Founders and owner-managers running hybrid events personally.

Course Modules

01

Virtual and hybrid events: qualification and pipeline discipline

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Where the buyer actually decides on virtual and hybrid events

  • Define the trigger that would require virtual and hybrid events to be redesigned.
  • Define qualification criteria that disqualify quickly in hybrid events.
  • Confirm that contractual obligations around virtual and hybrid events are understood.
  • Agree the attribution model for hybrid events and state its known limits.

Session 2Choosing channels for hybrid events on evidence

  • Build the content that answers the buyer's real question about virtual and hybrid events.
  • Set out the decisions in hybrid events that require sign-off and by whom.
  • Select channels for virtual and hybrid events based on evidence, then cut the rest.
  • Agree the indicators that will show whether hybrid events is improving.
02

Hybrid events: positioning and the honest claim

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1The cost of hybrid events and how to present it

  • Write the positioning claim for virtual and hybrid events and test whether a competitor could say it too.
  • Establish who is informed, consulted and accountable in hybrid events.
  • Build the report on virtual and hybrid events that answers whether to spend more or less.
  • Review whether short-term tactics on hybrid events are damaging the brand.

Session 2Testing the message on hybrid events before spending

  • Arrange the handover of virtual and hybrid events so capability survives staff changes.
  • Distinguish symptoms from causes when hybrid events underperforms.
  • Define the handover point between marketing and sales in virtual and hybrid events.
  • Test the procedure for hybrid events against a realistic scenario.
03

Hybrid events: channels, content and creative

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Reading the current state of hybrid events honestly

  • Establish what evidence demonstrates virtual and hybrid events is under control.
  • Name a single owner for each element of hybrid events.
  • Document the sales process for virtual and hybrid events so a new joiner can follow it.
  • Measure lifetime value from hybrid events, not just first purchase.

Session 2What has to be agreed before work on virtual and hybrid events starts

  • Compare the cost of virtual and hybrid events with the cost of its absence.
  • Map the decision journey for hybrid events and mark where the choice is actually made.
  • Compare cost of acquisition against value in virtual and hybrid events.
  • Structure pricing for hybrid events against perceived value.
04

Hybrid events: the customer journey and decision points

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Pricing hybrid events on value rather than cost

  • Remove steps in virtual and hybrid events that add effort without adding assurance.
  • Collect evidence on the present handling of hybrid events before proposing changes.
  • Identify where judgement in virtual and hybrid events is legitimate and where it is not.
  • Benchmark the organisation's hybrid events against comparable operations.

Session 2The claim about hybrid events competitors cannot copy

  • Set the discount authority for virtual and hybrid events and require justification.
  • Describe the buyer for hybrid events specifically enough to name who is excluded.
  • Agree the smallest change to virtual and hybrid events that would be visibly useful.
  • Script the three most common objections in hybrid events and the responses.

Choose the package that suits you

Silver Package

At least 3 people

USD1,250
  • Workshop or Program Participation
  • Airport Transfers
  • Customized Badge
  • Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
  • Supervision & Secretarial Services
  • Accredited Certificate of Participation
  • Complete Training Kit
  • Coffee Break
  • Closing Ceremony

Gold Package

At least 3 people

USD1,850
  • 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
  • Workshop or Program Participation
  • Airport Transfers
  • Customized Badge
  • Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
  • Supervision & Secretarial Services
  • Accredited Certificate of Participation
  • Complete Training Kit
  • Coffee Break
  • Closing Ceremony

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