The Advocacy Playbook · Series

The Event Advocacy Playbook

Anyone can buy their first attendees. The next 30%+ you have to earn - by making every speaker, attendee and sponsor want to share. This is how.

Read the pillar for the model, generate a plan, check the benchmark, then go deep channel by channel.

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How to Fill an Event: The Advocacy-Driven Attendance Playbook

The full model in one read - paid base + advocacy multiplier, the 4-step framework, and where 30% of attendees come from.

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Every number in this playbook comes from somewhere. Here's the dataset behind them.

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The Premagic Event Advocacy Benchmark 2026 (n=366)

What share of attendees actually become advocates - measured across 366 real events, by event type and size, with full methodology.

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The Deep Dives

The pillar is the map. These go deep on each part of it - one channel and one tactic at a time.

The Channel Map: Every Way to Get an Attendee (and What Each Costs)

All channels, the CAC formula, and the tool stack per channel.

The Budget Formula: How Many Attendees Will My Spend Actually Buy?

Plug-in math to forecast attendees before you spend a dollar.

The Advocacy Engine: Where 30% of Your Attendees Come From

Why advocacy is a channel, not an afterthought - and how to size it.

Turn Speakers Into Your Best Recruiters

Personalized weekly content, posting tracking, multi-channel nudges.

Turn Attendees Into a Sharing Machine

One-click share after registration, reminders, repeat-share loops.

Exhibitors, Sponsors & Partners: The Network Multiplier

Tiered content, personalization, promo-code campaigns, media kits.

The Employee Multiplier: Every Company's Whole Team, Not One Contact

Activate every employee of your exhibitors & sponsors - the campaigns that turn one booth contact into fifty advocates.

The 10-Week Content Engine + Post-Event Afterburn

The cadence calendar and how to keep earning registrations after.

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