Unlike many convention centers, the Saint Charles Convention Center offers marketing services to help you succeed on a local level.  Many national advertising agencies don't know each specific market as well as they would like to, but strong relationships with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, as well as radio, television, and outdoors advertising companies positions our marketing department to assist your marketing efforts locally.

Choosing to have your event in Saint Charles connects you to these relationships through our in-house "marketing agency!" 

Click here for a PDF of our Marketing Services brochure.

Services include:

Public Relations:  The Marketing Department takes advantage of every opportunity to generate media awareness, interest, and exposure for your event.  Press releases, event alerts, press conferences, photo opportunities, event celebrity visits, on-site coverage and satellite radio broadcasts at your event will generate coverage and ultimately result in additional ticket sales revenue. 

Media Buying:  The Marketing Department will use established relationships to help show managers select the best media outlets in the St. Louis market to best reach its target demographic.  Placing media in an unfamiliar market can create challenges, but utilizing the local marketing relationships can again increase your event’s success.  Buy-down rates have been established with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in addition to our working relationships with television and radio stations as well.  We will develop, implement and evaluate specific plans for your event

Exterior signage:  Our state-of-the-art exterior message system activates your event message on a 12’ tall by 18’ wide video messaging board right on I-70. Take advantage of the high-traffic location of our convention center and put it to work for you by placing your message in front of the 171,646 daily travelers passing the facility each day. This system provides you the opportunity to air brief video commercials, still-frame advertising pieces or messages promoting your upcoming event.

In-facility Promotion:  There are two options here: the LCD TV system and the "Infovision" board.  The interior television system activates your message on 8 LCD television monitors in high-traffic areas of our convention center. This system provides you the opportunity to air commercials, still-frame advertising pieces or messages from a company spokesperson.  By utilizing this opportunity, you can capitalize on attendees to other events and shows.  Our Infovision board highlights one of the LCD television locations and allows static advertising pieces to compliment your other event marketing messages.  These panels also give show advertisers a collateral distribution point for call to action pieces from show attendees.

What's even nicer about these services is that they are even less expensive than traditional advertising agencies, but get you a LOCAL IMPACT that you may otherwise miss out on.

Call the Marketing Department today at 636.669.3000 to put us to work for you.