Tag Archive: tradeshow best practices

Five Tips To Improve Your Tradeshow Exhibitor Communications

Tweet Recently, I’ve been doing a bit of research and consulting on exhibitor communications. While I’ve lived in and around shows for many years, in the past my focus has been more on revenue, lead management and ROI, and not so much on the service, hand holding and communication of confirmed exhibitors. Most tradeshows have…

Four Ways To Flip Your Tradeshow Buying And Selling Model

Tweet “People don’t like to be sold, but they love to buy!” Jeff Gitomer. That’s one of my favorite truth quotes, from Gitomer, a speaker, sales trainer and author of The Sales Bible, Little Red Book of Selling and many others. This truth is playing out in the way buyers are changing how they attack…

How The Billboard Effect Influences Your Tradeshow

Tweet About a year ago, I learned about a term used in the hotel industry known as “The Billboard Effect.” Defining The Billboard Effect Chris Anderson Ph.D., assistant professor at Cornell University, conducted a study on the impact of hotel reservations for hotels with or without a presence on Expedia. During the study, four hotels…

Attracting & Engaging Peeps To Your Tradeshow

Tweet It’s more than coincidence, luck, serendipity or synchronicity. It’s your deliberate actions that will attract and engage stakeholders to your next tradeshow. So are you deliberately doing all you can to attract and engage more stakeholders – attendees, exhibitors and sponsors? What specifically should you do to attract, convert and transform more stakeholders for…

5 Reasons To Increase Your Online Exhibitor Presence

Tweet This post is by Dave Lutz, Managing Director of Velvet Chainsaw Consulting. Recently, I reviewed some very telling analytics from several of the largest tradeshows. Here’s what I learned: Exhibitors that completed an online booth profile received twice as many page views as those that didn’t. Attendees also bookmarked them for an onsite visit….