Resources for Motivated Awards Professionals: October 16th
Ready to improve your marketing, event planning, project management, and IT skills? Get ready, because this week we’ve got several resources that will help you do just that!
Upcoming Events/Courses
Blogging: How to Become a Better Blogger
Webinar
This pre-recorded webinar outlines steps you can take to improve your blogging skills and create content your readers will love. The hour lesson reveals blogging best practices, what’s new in blogging, and examples of exceptional blogs you can use as inspiration for your own.
Three Secrets to Measuring Marketing’s Impact on Revenue
Webinar
Exceptional content can go to waste if you don’t take the necessary steps to promote it properly! In this pre-recorded webinar from HubSpot, you’ll learn six ways to promote content for lead generation purposes and other tips and tricks to make your content as successful as possible.
Content Strategy: The Best Ways to Promote Your Content
Webinar
This online course is designed to help you learn more about the features and functionality of Microsoft Excel. It includes video lessons, tutorials, and information to help improve your Excel skills.
Get Better at Marketing
Your Blog Posts are Boring: 9 Tips for Making Your Writing More Interesting
HubSpot
A blog is essential to generate awareness as a marketer and build authority. However, generic content that you source from other websites can often leave readers feeling bored (or even worse, unimpressed). In this guest post by Neil Patel, you’ll learn 9 tips to make your writing (both on your blog and otherwise) more interesting!
16 Examples of Awesome Email Marketing Campaigns
HubSpot
Email marketing is a strategy that almost every company uses. It’s inexpensive and offers instant connection with leads and customers. But sometimes, it can be difficult to conceptualize successful email marketing campaigns, especially those that no one has seen before. This article from HubSpot provides 16 examples of other successful campaigns,to help generate ideas of your own.
Get Better at Event Planning
[Podcast] Simplifying Event R.O.I.
BizBash/GatherGeeks
Measuring and analyzing an event’s R.O.I. is often one of the most difficult aspects of an event planner’s job (you probably already know what we’re talking about). What you measure in each organization will differ and in this podcast brought to you by BizBash and GatherGeeks, you’ll better understand what to measure and how to relay this information to clients.
5 Simple Ways to Building Meaningful Relationships With Event Sponsors
SocialTables
Applying for sponsorships may seem difficult enough after the countless phone calls, emails, and other correspondences. However, winning over a sponsor who has agreed to hear your proposal is often even more of a challenge. This article from SocialTables discusses five ways you can build critical relationships with sponsors you can count on not only for one event, but many others to come.
Get Better with Technology
[Infographic] The 7 Excel Tricks Every Office Worker Should Know
HubSpot
Excel is a program packed with features most users will never master (let alone find). With this infographic from Microsoft Training and HubSpot, you can learn seven tricks that will simplify and streamline your use of the program.
HTML Training
W3Schools
Understanding HTML allows you to build your own website. In this training brought to you by W3Schools, you’ll have real examples in each lesson, making it simpler to put your newfound knowledge to the test!
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