Using QR Codes For Trade Show/ Event Sales & Marketing

Are QR codes just a fad — or on their way into the mainstream? How can you use them to turn that glance from a prospect into meaningful engagement at your next trade show, conference, and other face-to-face event and move them down your sales pipeline?

Here are my suggestions for both event organizers and exhibitors,  [...]

Top 10 Signs You Need a New Tradeshow Booth

The situations on this list, while presented with humor, lead to results which are anything but funny. If you cannot read through it without a glimmer of recognition — chances are that you are coming up short on achieving the tradeshow results you are looking for, including quality leads and new opportunities with existing clients.

Unfortunately, [...]

GOAL? OR WISH?

“A goal without a plan is just a wish.” (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Experience seems to bear out the wisdom of this quote.

I’ve known people who set their sights on a “round the world trip of a lifetime” and succeeded, by determining the specific financial and logistical steps required and following them, even if it took months [...]

EFFECTIVE TRADE SHOW FOLLOW-UP

There are only three important things to remember after a show:

1. Follow-up
2. Follow-up
3. Follow-up.

TURNING LEADS INTO CONTACTS and RELATIONSHIPS INTO SALES

Fact: 89% of exhibitors go with the intention of gathering leads, but only 21% of the leads are followed up on. Don’t let this happen to you!

Unless you went in the interests of winning a [...]

USING LINKEDIN TO BUILD RELATIONSHIPS & KEEP IN TOUCH

There’s more to LinkedIn than a static database of job titles and historical information.  It’s also a resource to deepen new and existing relationships.

Tell Us About Yourself – Today

You can use LinkedIn to communicate “out” about yourself, not just about what happened in the past – but what is happening today: your interests, your activities [...]

OPTIMIZING TIME WITH YOUR PROSPECTS - CAPTURING LEAD INFORMATION

Preparing the Lead Card, AKA the Customer or Prospect Survey

Is there a “most important moment” at trade shows – a time when a mistake will hurt the most?

Obviously if you do not even exhibit, you will not meet anyone. And if your booth is not designed properly, very few will stop.

But the “rubbber meets the [...]

LINKEDIN - A FUNDAMENTAL TOOL FOR BUSINESS NETWORKING

LinkedIn is arguably the one online “social networking” tool that all business professionals should include in their marketing/business development kit.

While not directly related to “on the floor exhibiting”, LinkedIn is a simple but sophisticated way to maintain ongoing relationships with clients, vendors, peers, and other trusted resources – as well as to nurture and deepen [...]