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The upcoming IBS/KBIS show in Orlando will provide a bounty of face time with the very folks you want to meet. You can use that time to cultivate leads with motivated customers and prospects. You can also present new product intros and how-to demos, garnering valuable feedback from those in the audience. As well, there will be a chance to size up rivals’ products, services and trade show strategies, forge new partnerships in your field, learn of breaking industry trends and nurture more consequential, profitable relationships.

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Brands wrest the greatest return from show participation by enlisting top-notch digital PR shops to handle myriad tasks before, during and after the show. An agency with long industry experience can gain valuable media coverage and help a company whip up booth traffic with informative social media outreach. The agency can also corral media coverage by slating briefings, booth tours and meetings yielding business-building coverage. Alignment of messaging is another agency specialty, helping ensure booth literature, presentations and booth staff’s talking points offer consistent themes and messages..
We’ve discussed ways in concert with its PR agency your brand can cultivate attention from interested show attendees. Let’s now examine other ways to reap trade show ROI.
- Extensive campaigns. Brands and their PR representatives should view trade shows not as multi-day events, but campaigns designed to cultivate interest pre-show, build traffic during a show and convert leads post show.
- Outreach and engagement. Weeks prior to the show are a time to use direct response campaigns, customized email marketing and social media to reach important people you want to visit your booth, ensuring they put your booth on their “short list” during the show’s run.
- Convert and measure. Post show, divide leads into those that should be contacted now, later or long-term and launch outreach efforts. Repurpose show media coverage and highlights. In later weeks and months, measure cost-per-lead and lead-conversion-rate ROI.
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