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COMMERCIAL GROWTH PROGRAMMES

Delegate, sponsor and rebook, run as one commercial system.

An integrated programme that rebuilds the three engines driving event revenue — and the reporting that lets you see where the money's actually coming from. For organisers whose numbers have to move, and whose CFO is paying attention.

Most event organisers measure marketing, sales and retention as three separate functions, run by three separate teams, reported in three separate dashboards — and then wonder why the commercial picture is always slightly blurred. Commercial Growth is the opposite of that. We run delegate acquisition, sponsor pipeline and rebook as a single programme, because they're the same commercial engine viewed from three angles. One senior lead. One integrated reporting view. One set of numbers you can take to the board and defend line by line.

THE THREE ENGINES

One programme. Three engines. One set of numbers.

WHAT'S INCLUDED

A senior commercial lead, owning the three engines and the integrated reporting view.

Programmes are scoped to the engines you need, but the operating model is consistent. Every engagement includes:

Commercial diagnosis

A structured review of the current state — where revenue is coming from today across registrations, sponsorship and rebook, where the biggest leaks are, what's working that's under-resourced, and what's being done that isn't moving the number. The first two weeks of every engagement.

Engine-by-engine execution

Running the actual programme work across delegate acquisition, sponsor pipeline and rebook — paid media, outbound, email, content, pitch development, renewal workflows — with the right specialist depth brought in for each engine.

Integrated commercial reporting

One dashboard showing the three engines as a single revenue picture, updated weekly. Pipeline, conversion, cost per acquisition, rebook rate, Net Revenue Retention — in one place, not three.

Cross-engine optimisation

The work that only happens when the engines are run together: aligning the delegate audience the sponsors are sold against, feeding rebook insight back into acquisition targeting, adjusting sponsor pitches based on live delegate data.

Board-ready commercial view

Monthly or quarterly commercial reviews built for the CEO, CFO or event owner — not marketing dashboards with marketing metrics. The view the board actually wants to see.

HOW IT WORKS

Programmes, not campaigns. Measured in quarters, not weeks.

HOW WE WORK IN PRACTICE

How we rebuilt a B2B conference's rebook funnel and took retention from 41% to 68% in twelve months.

The client's flagship B2B conference had hit a ceiling. Strong first-time registration, but rebook had dropped from 58% to 41% in two editions. Finance was asking hard questions. The team knew creative wasn't the problem, the funnel was.

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We rebuilt the post-event journey from the ground up. New segmentation in the CRM. A rebook programme that started pre-event, not after. Sponsor retention work run alongside, not separately. Twelve months later, rebook sat at 68, and the team had a system they could run without us.

OUTCOMES

41% → 68%

Rebook rate, 12 months

+£840k

Retained revenue, edition over edition

3.2x

CRM engagement, pre-event window

COMMON QUESTIONS

What organisers usually ask before booking a Growth programme.

GET IN TOUCH

Want to talk about what we could do for your events?

Book a 30-minute pipeline review. We'll look at where your commercial engines are leaking, which one's worth fixing first, and whether a Growth programme is the right shape for the problem.

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