{"podcast":{"title":"EVENT ABOUT IT: Event Marketing, Strategy & Business Growth","slug":"event-about-it-event-marketing-strategy-business-growth-7239343","podcast_index_feed_id":7239343,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/101f02740/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://www.eventaboutitpodcast.com","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/43174832/43174832-1741041749033-1ed46abec87dc.jpg","author":"Megan Martin","episode_count":69,"summary":"Struggling to make events drive business growth? Welcome to Event About It, the podcast for event-led growth. Hosted by Megan Martin, we ditch surface-level logistics for the high-stakes event strategy and event marketing your CEO, CMO, and CRO actually cares about. We blend actionable tactics with wild, backstage stories to ensure your next activation is a strategic powerhouse, not just a party. Join us every Friday: • 1st/3rd: Event strategy, stories and “Vent of the Week.” • 2nd/4th: The Aftershow—unfiltered truths & Dynamic Dialogue Stop guessing. Start growing.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-25T14:20:43.644795+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/event-about-it-event-marketing-strategy-business-growth-7239343"},"episode":{"title":"Which Four Numbers Do Executives Actually Want From Your Event?","slug":"which-four-numbers-do-executives-actually-want-from-your-event","published_at":"2026-09-11T04:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/event-about-it-event-marketing-strategy-business-growth-7239343/which-four-numbers-do-executives-actually-want-from-your-event","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/event-about-it-event-marketing-strategy-business-growth-7239343","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eventaboutit/episodes/Which-Four-Numbers-Do-Executives-Actually-Want-From-Your-Event-e3obvrj","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/101f02740/podcast/play/125222195/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-8-4%2F431209242-44100-2-ac8d6b3243dc8.mp3","summary":"Six hundred registrations is not an answer. The first thing a CRO wants to know is which logos are in the room, and most event leaders cannot answer that without asking for time to go look. This is not a recap of the main episode. This is the meeting that rewrote our guest's entire career, told in full. Sara Ann Straw walked in with a binder, a highlighter, and a registration count. She walked out with an $80 million pipeline target attached to her event and no idea how to hit it. What she did in the weeks after that meeting is the actual lesson, and it is more repeatable than it sounds. In this one: Bring the four data points executives consistently ask for: who is in the room by account tier, what percentage have open opportunities, which accounts are up for renewal in the next six months, and how many attendees are repeats from last year Find out why one event leader lost a director role after three flawless product launches, and what the person who got the job did instead Get the Strategy, Alignment, Scale framework, including why scale means consistency rather than running more events See the real math on pulling a fragmented event org under one roof, including the $130,000 a year one team stopped spending on an agency Sit in on an honest conversation about pricing anxiety, discounting people you like, and what nearly 20 years of experience is actually worth per hour There is also a Bravo break, a Bethenny Frankel story that got someone's father genuinely concerned, and a real debate about whether Montana deserves a Housewives franchise. If your next executive review is on the calendar and you are still building the deck around attendance, listen to the first ten minutes before you touch another slide. About the guest: Sara Ann Straw has spent nearly two decades b…","meta_description":"Six hundred registrations is not an answer. The first thing a CRO wants to know is which logos are in the room, and most event leaders cannot answer that…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3459,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/event-about-it-event-marketing-strategy-business-growth-7239343/episodes/which-four-numbers-do-executives-actually-want-from-your-event/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/event-about-it-event-marketing-strategy-business-growth-7239343/which-four-numbers-do-executives-actually-want-from-your-event.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}