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Events · GCP Summit (Government Contract Pricing Summit)

$175 In, $1,200 Out: Filling a National Government Conference

6.9x
return per registrant acquired
At a glance

The numbers.

6.9x
return per registrant acquired
40%
year over year registration growth
31.4%
of registrants were net-new
414
registrants, excluding speakers and staff
8.49%
Google Ads click-through rate
The challenge

The situation.

The Government Contract Pricing Summit is an annual conference for federal contract pricing professionals, run by ProPricer. Before BusySeed, it relied on a single channel: LinkedIn Ads. Registrations averaged 38 per month and the room filled almost entirely with existing ProPricer customers, so the event was recycling its own client base instead of growing it. Sponsorship was flat too, with only 20 sponsors across the event's first ten years.

The situation at GCP Summit (Government Contract Pricing Summit)
What we did

The approach.

We ran a two-part engine. Paid search and paid social on Google and LinkedIn built awareness among federal pricing professionals who had never heard of the Summit. Underneath that, a LinkedIn outreach program messaged named job titles directly, handing every warm reply to the Summit's Senior Event Planner.

Midway through, we rebuilt the outreach audience from roughly 1,500 contacts to add 1,024 new prospects across Cost Analyst, Contracting Officer, Compliance Officer, Financial Analyst and Government Relations Manager titles. Separate drip sequences ran for attendees and sponsors, A/B tested against each other. A Cvent registration widget was embedded directly into the site so people could register without leaving the page.

Google AdsLinkedIn AdsLinkedIn OutreachEmail Drip CampaignsEvent ManagementMarketing Automation
The work for GCP Summit (Government Contract Pricing Summit)
The results

What we delivered.

Source: BusySeed All-Time 2024 GCP Summit Digital Strategy Review, June 2024; Cvent registrant data; LinkedIn and Google Ads campaign performance reports.

Before and after

What actually changed.

Registrants, excluding staff, sponsors and speakers
296
Before
BusySeed
414
With
BusySeed

40% higher

The evidence

Straight from the account.

Attendees at the Government Contract Pricing Summit in San Diego, with a naval carrier in the bay behind them
The room the campaign was filling. The 2024 Summit, San Diego.
Cvent dashboard showing registrations climbing from near zero in August 2023 to 540 by June 2024
Registrations over time in Cvent. The curve is flat until the campaign starts in January 2024. Total registrations here include staff, sponsors and speakers; the 414 figure excludes them.
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