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Universal Attribution for Event Businesses: Track Every Lead Across Any Form Tool

Dan Charles
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04/11/2025
Uncategorized

Time: 14 Minutes well spent!Why event businesses need universal data enrichment when using third-party forms—and how to preserve UTMs, tracking parameters, timezone data, and complete customer journey attribution regardless of your tool stack Key Takeaways Here’s what kills most event business marketing campaigns: You’re running Google Ads and Meta campaigns. Tracking is set up. UTM parameters are clean. Attribution is working. Then you decide

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The 4-Phase Event Marketing Timeline System: From Reactive Panic to Predictable Revenue

Dan Charles
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10/10/2025
Events

Time: 8 Minutes well spent!Most event agencies are trapped in a devastating cycle: they plan events 6-12 months in advance but concentrate all marketing efforts in the final 3-4 weeks before each event. This backwards approach creates the very cash flow problems that 82% of businesses cite as their primary reason for failure. The solution isn’t more marketing – it’s strategic timeline planning that

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Meta’s Incremental Attribution: Why Event Businesses Need to Stop Chasing First-Order Profit

Dan Charles
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06/10/2025
Meta Ads

Time: 6 Minutes well spent!Meta just rolled out a feature that fundamentally changes how event businesses should think about their advertising. It’s called incremental attribution, and it validates something we’ve known for years: if you’re optimizing your Meta ads for first-booking profitability, you’re training the algorithm to find the wrong clients. Key Takeaways The First-Order Profitability Trap Here’s the pattern I see constantly. An

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Why Event Marketing Timelines Are Backwards (And How to Fix Them in 2025)

Dan Charles
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29/09/2025
Events

Time: 4 Minutes well spent!Most event businesses have their priorities completely backwards. They’ll spend months planning an event but mere weeks planning the marketing to fill it. It’s like training for a marathon by only running the week before the race. This fundamental misunderstanding of marketing timelines is quietly bankrupting event agencies across the industry, creating devastating feast-or-famine cycles that keep otherwise talented professionals

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The Event Marketer’s Guide to Building Competitive Moats Through Trend Positioning

Dan Charles
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22/09/2025
Marketing

Time: 5 Minutes well spent!Key Takeaways How Forward-Thinking Event Businesses Use Strategic Positioning to Capture Market Leadership Your biggest competitor just won a contract you thought was yours. The client said they chose them because “they really understand where the industry is heading.” Sound familiar? While most event businesses compete on price, portfolio, or proximity, the smartest ones are building something far more valuable:

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