The Power of Behaviour Change Marketing Free Event: 27th Feb, Den Bell, Antwerp In preparation for the 4th European Social Marketing Conference (6-7 September 2018, Antwerp) the European Social Marketing Association (ESMA) and City of Antwerp invite you to a special free event to introduce the power of social marketing to create positive, long lasting behaviour change. Enjoy an engaging afternoon of presentations from leading European social marketers, representatives from the city of Antwerp and Belgian social marketing experts. Speakers "An introduction to Social Marketing, why we need it and why it works" Professor Jeff French / ESMA Board Member, CEO [...]

Messages that Motivate: Leveraging behavioural insights to design powerful social marketing messages March 28/29, 2018 - with Brooke (Sadowsky) Tully (USA) As part of your social marketing strategy, you’ve clarified which behaviour(s) to promote, identified the priority audience(s), and coordinated interventions to make the desired behaviour as viable as possible. Now it’s time to design the messaging strategy. But that’s much easier said than done! This webinar focuses on five key ingredients needed to create powerful marketing messages that motivate your audiences to take action and shift behaviours. These ingredients work together to overcome many of the psychological barriers to behaviour [...]

From ‘So What?’ to ‘Wow!’ How Co-creation Energises Audience Research January 23, 2018 With Rita Brophy, from Red B/SMS Research (United Kingdom). Rita Brophy, from Red B/SMS Research, UK, will share how embedding co-creation techniques into audience research uncovered the actionable insights used to design two programmes in Dudley, UK. In one, a multi-disciplinary team that included members of the community co-created the strategies, tone and delivery of a campaign to increase acceptability of breastfeeding in public. Post-campaign results showed a significant improvement. In the second program, aimed at increasing uptake in cervical screening, co-creation activities revealed key barriers and enablers, [...]

Early Registration for the 4th European Social Marketing Conference (ESMC) 2018 is now live! Early Registration Rate €295.00 available until March 2018 (Conference Full Rate €369.00 applicable after March 2018) Early Bird Association Member rate €260.00 available until March 2018 (ESMA members should contact the European Social Marketing Association or check newsletters for the discount code). Student Rate €195.00 What does your registration include? Full attendance to both plenary days of the conference (6 - 7 September 2018) Access to book one of three optional pre-conference training workshops on the 5 September exclusively available to conference delegates Attendance to the Civic [...]

The call for papers for the Macromarketing conference to be held 10-13 July, 2018, in Leipzig, Germany is now open. The Conference theme is: Change between complexity and simplicity. The deadline for abstracts is 31st January 2018. Tracks include many interesting topics such as: Social marketing practice and macro-marketing reflection; macromarketing and health; ethical consumption in emerging economies; quality of life and wellbeing; ethics, equality and social justice to name only a few. Read more