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newsletter Newsletter: The ePromos Tradeshow Survival Guide
- Jan 25, 2008

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Score New Business and Employee Pride!
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Warm Weather is A Great Time to Promote Your Business
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Fall Tradeshow Attention Grabbers
The Best Back to School Products
Semi-annual Bestsellers Issue
Summer Special: Under $2 Promos
Summer Road Trip Promo Specials
Patriotic and Outdoor Promos for the 4th of July
Outdoors and Sports Promos for Summer
Hot Promos for Summer Fun
Promos on the Go
April Specials: Golf, Totes, and Stress Relief
Hot Trade Show Products!
Budget Beating Promos for Spring!
Innovative Products for Great Promotions
Use the Brand Name Advantage
Attention Grabbing Trade Show Promos
You'll Love Our Valentine's Day Promos
Breakout Products for 2005
An Exclusive Preview of New Products for 2005
Great promotional ideas for the winter
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Gift Sets and a Special Offer
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Back To School
National Tennis Month
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Get the Most Out of Your Tradeshow Investment

Tradeshows are a big investment for most companies. Between the set-up fees, attendance costs, and flying out employees to the locale, the financial obligations can be intense. So getting the most out of your investment by driving traffic to your booth and getting them to act is extremely important. With tradeshow season in full swing, here are a few tips to help you maxmimize your ROI at your next show.

Expand Your Brand Visibility and Drive Traffic

Tradeshows are held in big places and you'll only have a small booth. In order to be seen, it's important to spread your brand visibility across the floor and reach everyone in attendance that could be a potential prospect. To do this, you need to get your brand into the hands of people walking the floor. By giving out fun and interesting promotional products, the recipients will enjoy playing with the products as they walk the floor. Passersby will take notice and want to know where that person got such a fun product. This, in turn, drives more traffic to your booth. Whether you're located in the center of the main floor or nestled away in a corner on an upper level, fun giveaways in the hands of attendees are a great way to get people to your booth.

Take a look at this addicting tradeshow giveaway that we saw at a recent tradeshow that attracted huge attention to the company's booth.

Brand Your Booth and Immerse Your Audience
Once the potential customers reach your booth, you need to make sure that your booth screams with your brand identity. Outfitting your staff and booth with promotional products enhances both your visibility and professional appeal to the attendees. Something as simple as having your attendants all dressed in promotional long sleeve shirts or imprinted polos with your company logo can let your attendees know who to talk to while projecting a highly professional image.

 

Get Interactive and Get Results

High booth traffic and brand immersion alone won't make your show a success, though. At the end of the day, you need to get your visitors to interact with you and take the desired next steps, whether that's leaving a business card, listening to a pitch, or watching a demo. Incorporating tradeshow giveaways in demos and presentations will effectively engage your visitors. This will build rapport with new customers and solidify relationships with existing ones.

Here's an example of how a tradeshow presentation encourages customers to interact with your booth and enhances their experience while they are there.

With the right promos in tow, you can ensure that your appearance at a tradeshow is both fun and effective!

 

Pre-show and Post-show Direct Mailers

One of the best ways to generate trade show booth traffic and build rapport with clients is pre and post-show direct mail pieces. By using this inexpensive medium, you can generate a huge return on your investment by generating early buzz about your booth and what you would like to talk to them about when they come by. Here are a couple of good reasons why pre-show and post-show direct mail is effective:

Pre-show Direct Mail
It's informative: By giving out pre-show direct mail, you are giving your prospects all the information they need to find your booth and know who to talk to. This is a great way to drive early traffic to your booth (and give out some addicting toys to use when they leave which will drive even more traffic to your booth).

Generates Buzz: Picking the right products for your direct mail piece, you can initiate buzz about your booth before they even get on the floor. A great way to do this is by sending out game pieces that will let your target audience win prizes. They would just need to bring the direct mail piece with them to the trade show.

An example of this would be to mail promotional puzzles. Each puzzle can be missing a piece and when the puzzle is brought to your booth, recipients can receive the remaining piece.

Post-show Direct Mail
Helps your prospects remember your company: A post-trade show direct mail piece reminds those you met at the show of who you are and what you can do for them. It is another way to get you one step closer to future business. One of the ways to do this is by getting your brand into their hands after the show or driving them to visit your site. This will give them one last look at your logo and message. A customizable pocket sudoku is an effective way to do this. You can even imprint a link to your company website that contains the answers to your sudoku. It is an effective way to keep in touch after the trade show is over, plus generate traffic to your site.

Having a direct mail strategy is a sure fire way to generate excitement and booth traffic. Along with producing new leads, it will help solidify important relationships with your clients.

 
Upcoming Promotional Event Dates

In February we observe American Heart Month. With heart disease a leading cause of death in the U.S., it's important to take time to understand the disease and promote ways to prevent it. This month, the American Heart Association teams up with thousands of volunteers nationwide to inform the public about this deadly disease. Their goal is to increase knowledge of the illness, and raise funds for further research and education. Promotional heart-shaped stress balls are a great item to hand out at awareness events during this time.

While we're on the subject of hearts, remember to save all your heart-themed items for Valentine's Day promotions. There are a number of clever things to do with promos on this day. To get on your recipients' sweet side, hand out some promotional candy.

 

Plan ahead and take advantage of the following promotional opportunities. You'll find a wide choice of personalized products as well as predecorated items that feature unique messages and slogans to help you celebrate your event.

Want the full list of promotional events? Check out our promotional calendar.

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Top New Tradeshow Giveaways

  Corporate Color Candy in Mini Candy Dispenser

Corporate Color Candy in Mini Candy Dispenser
A tasty trade show giveaway. Build brand visibility by having the candy match your corporate colors.

Morph Ball-Magic Color Changing Ball

Morph Ball
Transform your next giveaway. Literally. Watch as the two-tone Morph Ball changes from white to black!

Paper Eco-Pen

Paper Eco-Pen
Reduce trade show waste with this great eco-friendly pen made from recycled paper.



Blitz ® Energy Gum
Give your trade show promotional items a boost with this peppermint flavored gum.

Water Powered Calculator Water Powered Calculator
Forget the batteries. Use water to power this eco-friendly giveaway.

Unique, Interactive Promotional Kit Boosts Return on Tradeshow for Anderson Floors

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Challenge: How to successfully launch a new product line at an annual tradeshow Drawing attention at your industry's largest annual tradeshow isn't so hard. But keeping attention and generating enthusiasm for a new product line? Now that's a whole other story.

It's a story Anderson Floors can tell-happy ending included-after launching its new flooring line at Surfaces, the not-to-miss tradeshow for floor covering professionals. Anderson's people wanted to introduce the new line to dealers while quickly conveying, in a way that dealers would long remember, the special characteristics of each of the line's four styles.

Solution: Pique interest and encourage learning with an interactive dealer kit Knowing that people retain more when they interact with learning tools, we developed a unique promotional kit that dealers couldn't help but want to see, touch and play with. The kit included: · A deck of cards with four styles instead of suites and loaded with facts and selling points about each style. · A set of four luxurious scarves capturing the line's four distinctive styles; dealers took home one scarf that most appealed to them. · A shopping bag imprinted with visual cues about each style to further help dealers differentiate among them.

Result: Dealers are prepared-and eager-to sell Anderson's new flooring line Dealers stopping by Anderson's booth lingered and learned; they spent more time in the booth than usual, exploring the unique qualities and selling points of the new flooring line. Even better, many dealers asked for extra card decks to help educate their prospective customers-the true meaning of tradeshow success!

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