Make it Informative and Entertaining

Parents are the ones who will decide whether or not their kids attend a branded event. Ideally, parents would like to bring their kids to events that are not only entertaining, but also educational or beneficial to their child’s growth in some way. Brands should make an effort to emphasize the educational opportunities that kids will have at their event so parents know exactly how their kids will benefit from attending.

If your event is not educational, it’s important to emphasize other ways in which kids will benefit from the activities. For example, painting and sculpting may not be seen as educational opportunities, but these two activities can help kids tap into their creative sides and explore their talents. So, even though kids won’t necessarily be learning anything from painting and playing with clay, parents should still be able to see how attending this event could be beneficial to their children.

Entertain Mom and Dad

Marketers who are planning an event for kids often forget that kids will not be the only ones in attendance. Parents or guardians usually attend events with their children, so marketers will need to figure out a way to keep them engaged throughout the event.

Many brands set up separate areas within the event so parents and kids can each partake in different activities. However, some experts believe that this is not the right approach to take when planning an event for kids. These experts cite research that states many parents have a “Velcro mentality,” which means they want to stick by their kids’ sides and experience things together. Marketers can make parents with this mentality happy by planning events that allow parents and kids to engage in different activities together. Don’t expect parents to stand on the sidelines and watch their kids have all of the fun—parents want to be involved, too.

Choose the Right Brand Ambassadors

Brand ambassadors can make or break your event—especially if it’s a kid-friendly activation. The ambassadors that you choose must be able to relate to both parents and children so they can engage with every guest at the event. Some children can be shy, especially when talking to adults, so the brand ambassadors must have a knack for drawing kids out of their shell. A lot of kids are also incredibly intuitive when it comes to reading people. These children will be able to tell right away if something is not being authentic, which is why it’s so important to choose the right ambassadors.

Brand ambassadors should also be trained to encourage parents and kids to try activities together. Parents may be hesitant to participate in certain activities, so they may need a bit of encouragement from friendly brand representatives.

Technology is Not Necessary

Technology is almost always incorporated into events that are targeting adult consumers. However, experts say that technology is not always a must-have for kid-friendly events. The younger the targeted audience is for the event, the less necessary technology may become.

If technology seamlessly fits into the plans for the event, then it’s perfectly fine for marketers to incorporate it into scheduled activities. But if it doesn’t, then there’s no reason to try to make it work. In fact, experts suggest that parents may prefer a technology-free event because it forces everyone to put their phones away and focus on spending time with one another.

If you want to encourage guests to share photos and videos on social media, set up a photo booth with branded props. Parents will love the idea of taking family photos, especially if there are props that kids can have fun with, so they will be eager to share these images on their social media pages. This is a simple way to incorporate technology into kid-friendly events without going overboard.

Design With Durability in Mind

There’s a reason playground equipment is made out of heavy plastics instead of glass—plastic is a durable and safe material that kids can play on without getting hurt. Keep this in mind when designing the details of your event. Kids are not careful—especially when they are having fun and running around with friends and family—so make sure everything is designed with their safety in mind. Avoid sharp edges and slippery surfaces, and be sure to keep the aisles wide so parents pushing strollers can easily make it through. If there are potential hazards at your event, be sure to post adequate warnings and hire people to watch over the guests. For example, if your event’s venue has a swimming pool, hire lifeguards to stand by to ensure that everyone is safe and abiding by the rules.

Encourage Friendly Competition

Kids love a little friendly competition, so find a way to incorporate this into your event. Give kids the opportunity to challenge their friends, siblings, and parents to compete against them in various activities. For instance, let’s say you are planning an event with a fun obstacle course for kids. Instead of simply letting kids complete the obstacle course on their own, turn it into a competition where kids can challenge each other to see who makes it through the course the fastest. Kids love to compete, so adding a competitive element to the activities at your event can keep guests engaged.

Door-to-door marketing is a canvassing technique that is generally used for sales, marketing, advertising, or campaigning, in which the person or persons walk from the door of one house to the door of another, trying to sell or advertise a product or service to the general public or gather information. People who use this sales approach are often called traveling salesmen, or the archaic name drummer, to “drum up” business. This technique is also sometimes called direct sales. A variant of this involves cold calling first, when another sales representative attempts to gain agreement that a salesperson should visit.

With the realization of telephone “Do Not Call” lists it is becoming increasingly more difficult to connect with consumers and business people. An emerging trend is the deployment of very professional, highly skilled door-to-door canvassers to drive product sales and brand awareness.

Coordinating, training and motivating these teams to produce results are at the very core of Fulcrum’s proven capabilities. Fulcrum has the knowledge and experience required to implement these programs, such as best days and times to canvass, who will sell the most product; male, female, young or mature and what geographics and demographics respond best to door-to-door marketing. Put Fulcrum’s experience to work for you and avoid the costly mistakes of trying to manage these programs in-house.

Hire and Train Door-to-Door Marketing Team

If you’re in charge of hiring people, that typically means that you’ve found success in Door To Door Marketing yourself. You know what it takes to be great, but now you’re stuck with an entirely new problem. How do you find others who will be just as good (if not better) and will stick around and grow into important influencers invested in the long term growth of the company? A great D2D sales company is a great recruiting company. So what does that greatness look like?

First off, you need to realize that you’re not going to hire a superstar every time. If you think you have found one, be careful. It’s not hard for someone to seem golden during one interview and you don’t want to be fooled.

Even if you think the candidate does have a lot of great experience working in the field for other companies, you have to realize that success doesn’t always translate. What worked for them at previous companies probably won’t work as well for you. In fact, their success will probably make them stubborn; after all, what reason do they have to follow your approach when they’ve figured out their own?

It’s also possible that the rep’s previous company might have had much better-developed training and selling systems than you do, and that system was the key reason they killed it. If you’re not developing a competitive system, what does that communicate about your company? The more dialed-in you are about a rep’s success, the more likely you are to attract and keep strong performers.