For B2B marketers who depend at least partially on leads from conferences and trade shows, these are bleak times. You can’t look up without hearing about coronavirus and COVID-19 and the human tragedy in its wake–as well as the economic carnage across industries. And no one is talking about bringing back in-person gatherings anytime soon.
If you’ve been staring down the number of leads you drove from last year’s shows, asking yourself when trade shows come back, I am afraid that I have very bad news for you. I think that in the best case scenario, that date is in 2022.
