4 OKR examples for Event Marketing
What are Event Marketing OKRs?
The OKR acronym stands for Objectives and Key Results. It's a goal-setting framework that was introduced at Intel by Andy Grove in the 70s, and it became popular after John Doerr introduced it to Google in the 90s. OKRs helps teams has a shared language to set ambitious goals and track progress towards them.
Crafting effective OKRs can be challenging, particularly for beginners. Emphasizing outcomes rather than projects should be the core of your planning.
We have a collection of OKRs examples for Event Marketing to give you some inspiration. You can use any of the templates below as a starting point for your OKRs.
If you want to learn more about the framework, you can read more about the OKR meaning online.
Best practices for managing your Event Marketing OKRs
Generally speaking, your objectives should be ambitious yet achievable, and your key results should be measurable and time-bound (using the SMART framework can be helpful). It is also recommended to list strategic initiatives under your key results, as it'll help you avoid the common mistake of listing projects in your KRs.
Here are a couple of best practices extracted from our OKR implementation guide 👇
Tip #1: Limit the number of key results
The #1 role of OKRs is to help you and your team focus on what really matters. Business-as-usual activities will still be happening, but you do not need to track your entire roadmap in the OKRs.
We recommend having 3-4 objectives, and 3-4 key results per objective. A platform like Tability can run audits on your data to help you identify the plans that have too many goals.
Tip #2: Commit to the weekly check-ins
Don't fall into the set-and-forget trap. It is important to adopt a weekly check-in process to get the full value of your OKRs and make your strategy agile – otherwise this is nothing more than a reporting exercise.
Being able to see trends for your key results will also keep yourself honest.
Tip #3: No more than 2 yellow statuses in a row
Yes, this is another tip for goal-tracking instead of goal-setting (but you'll get plenty of OKR examples below). But, once you have your goals defined, it will be your ability to keep the right sense of urgency that will make the difference.
As a rule of thumb, it's best to avoid having more than 2 yellow/at risk statuses in a row.
Make a call on the 3rd update. You should be either back on track, or off track. This sounds harsh but it's the best way to signal risks early enough to fix things.
Building your own Event Marketing OKRs with AI
While we have some examples below, it's likely that you'll have specific scenarios that aren't covered here. There are 2 options available to you.
- Use our free OKRs generator
- Use Tability, a complete platform to set and track OKRs and initiatives
- including a GPT-4 powered goal generator
Best way to track your Event Marketing OKRs
OKRs without regular progress updates are just KPIs. You'll need to update progress on your OKRs every week to get the full benefits from the framework. Reviewing progress periodically has several advantages:
- It brings the goals back to the top of the mind
- It will highlight poorly set OKRs
- It will surface execution risks
- It improves transparency and accountability
Most teams should start with a spreadsheet if they're using OKRs for the first time. Then, once you get comfortable you can graduate to a proper OKRs-tracking tool.
If you're not yet set on a tool, you can check out the 5 best OKR tracking templates guide to find the best way to monitor progress during the quarter.
Event Marketing OKRs templates
We've covered most of the things that you need to know about setting good OKRs and tracking them effectively. It's now time to give you a series of templates that you can use for inspiration!
We've added many examples of Event Marketing Objectives and Key Results, but we did not stop there. Understanding the difference between OKRs and projects is important, so we also added examples of strategic initiatives that relate to the OKRs.
Hope you'll find this helpful!
OKRs to use Event Marketing to drive outbound leads
- Hold the first annual user conference
- Register 250 attendees
- Drive $500,000 in upsell/cross-sell revenue from event
- Drive outbound marketing efforts
- Secure two keynote speaking slots at industry events
- Increase event-driven leads by 25%
OKRs to achieve 10% organic growth via event marketing
- Achieve 10% organic growth via event marketing
- Secure 3 new partnership deals for collaborative events to broaden audience reach
- Pitch partnership idea to identified potential partners
- Negotiate deal and finalize partnership agreement
- Identify potential partners for collaboration
- Improve event-lead conversion rate by 20% to enhance sales
- Develop engaging follow-up messaging targeting event attendees
- Implement event-specific promotional sales or discounts
- Train staff on successful sales conversion strategies
- Increase event participation by 15% to increase brand exposure
- Leverage social media platforms for event advertising
- Establish partnerships with influencers or celebrities to boost event visibility
- Develop engaging promotional materials to attract potential participants
OKRs to successfully orchestrate an engaging food street event
- Successfully orchestrate an engaging food street event
- Attract at least 500 attendees
- Utilize social media channels for widespread promotion of the event
- Develop a compelling event agenda to attract potential attendees
- Send out personalized invitation emails to targeted audience groups
- Achieve 90% positive participant feedback
- Develop a responsive and effective communication system
- Implement comprehensive, regular training programs for staff members
- Evaluate and enhance participant experience based on surveys
- Secure a minimum of 20 food vendors
- Initiate contact and discuss vending opportunities
- Finalize agreements with at least 20 vendors
- Identify potential food vendors in the local area
OKRs to develop an engaging and results-driven events strategy
- Develop an engaging and results-driven events strategy
- Measure and increase participant satisfaction by 25% post-event via surveys
- Create a post-event satisfaction survey for participants
- Implement feedback to improve future events by 25%
- Distribute the survey to all event participants
- Secure partnerships with at least 5 industry influencers for event exposure
- Identify relevant industry influencers for partnership
- Draft compelling proposal for potential influencer partnerships
- Follow-up proposal with individual discussions and negotiation
- Boost event engagement by 30% through interactive and engaging execution strategies
- Use visual storytelling to captivate attendees' interest
- Adopt gamification methods for interactive participant involvement
- Implement live polls/quizzes to encourage audience participation
More Event Marketing OKR templates
We have more templates to help you draft your team goals and OKRs.
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OKRs resources
Here are a list of resources to help you adopt the Objectives and Key Results framework.
- To learn: Complete 2024 OKR cheat sheet
- Blog posts: ODT Blog
- Success metrics: KPIs examples