Business Expo Booth Ideas
Running a booth at a business expo is a good way to meet potential clients and customers and showcase your company's products and services. It's also a good opportunity for conducting business-to-business networking. For best results, your business expo booth should be planned well in advance to include eye-catching visual elements, to be easily accessible to potential clients and customers, and to be fully staffed with knowledgeable and courteous employees.
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Design Your Booth
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Most business expo planners give exhibitors certain parameters to work within, such as booth dimensions, available space for backdrops, displays and access to electricity. Find out what these exhibit specifications are before you start designing your booth, and then look for ways to showcase the most important elements of your business in your booth design. Use high visibility signage that clearly identifies who you are and what you do, prominently display your company logo and incorporate company colors into design elements where possible. Balloons, banners and moving LED displays are also good eye-catchers.
Attracting People to Your Booth
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Regardless of the type of business you run, people will be attracted to your business expo booth if you feature "give-away" items, such as t-shirts, coffee cups, travel totes, pens, notepads and even candy. Make sure your logo and contact information is on every piece of material available at your booth, and if possible, attach company literature to your give-aways. For example, hook business cards to promotional pens.
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Upping the "Wow" Factor
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You can turn your exhibit booth into a focal point of a trade show by doing something out of the ordinary, even if it's not directly related to your line of business. Hire a juggling clown; rent a "money machine" that blows dollar bills around and allow people to take a turn in the booth; operate an ice cream sundae bar or milkshake machine; or make a giant prize wheel that "contestants" can spin to win your company's goods or services.
Conduct a Demonstration
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If your product or service lends itself to a visual demonstration, take advantage of that fact and put on a show for expo attendees. For example, if you sell a cleaning product that takes out tough stains, erect a demonstration area in your booth where you show potential customers first-hand how the product works; if you manufacturer a juicing machine, make juice on the spot and let bystanders taste the finished product.
Hold a Prize Drawing
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Conduct a contest or prize drawing from your booth to entice people to stop and fill out a card and then return later in the event for the drawing. Not only does this approach get prospective customers and clients to your booth twice during one expo, the prize drawing cards also gives you a list of names, addresses and contact information of potential customers you can use for future marketing purposes.
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