Most marketers in the Asia Pacific have probably heard about the Adobe symposiums in Singapore and Australia. The fact that there were crowds stuck outside the doors and over 700 people joining via the live stream was pretty good publicity unto itself ! The question is, how did they do it? The attendance at the Australian event has tripled in three years, at a time when other marketing events are struggling to get attendees and some are closing down. What are Adobe doing to drive up attendance and create so much buzz?
I spent some time with Michelle Gautrin, the Adobe APAC Senior Social Media Strategist, she provided some insight on using social media to generate buzz, the way the company looks at social media, and provided a few interesting tips on how to use social for your next event.
The complete interview and transcript is on Social Media Today
Watch this space for my next interview with Siva Ganeshanandan, APAC Director for Marketing Cloud Adobe – where he’ll be sharing how they engage their customers, reduce sales cycles and drive demand – all through very clever content marketing.