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Trade Shows - where Customers Come to YouWouldn’t it be nice to have hundreds or even thousands of potential customers visit you? One of today’s best strategies for making your selling easier, less costly and more profitable is to become an exhibitor at a trade show. There are thousands of trade shows throughout the USA and overseas every year offering opportunities for sellers and buyers to meet face to face. They range from commercially sponsored trade shows on travel to large shows such as the American Association of Retired Person’s trade show on products and services for those over 50. By getting involved, you can share travel products and services with pre-selected audiences with specific interests, do comparative shopping to shorten the buying process, maintain a positive image, continue contact with potential customers and qualified buyers, introduce new products and services, investigate the competition and conduct market research. A Smash Hit sells trade show displays and accessories at reasonable prices. The value of exhibiting a trade show boothTrade shows serve as vital marketplaces for buyers and sellers. They are showplaces for introducing new products, transacting business, shopping and research, all in one location for greatest efficiency. Participating in trade events is vital to conducting business and maintaining a visual presence in an industry. Trade show attendees today are serious shoppers with sophisticated visiting strategies. Up to 60% of trade show attendees are part of a buying team. In some cases, a prospective customer will send a buying team to visit exhibits and then hold a caucus on the spot to assess which exhibits will be revisited. Displays must be professional, convenient, affordable and portable.
Trade shows are designed to let entrepreneurs meet many potential customers face-to-face in a brief period of time inexpensively. According to the Trade Show Bureau, more than 4,300 were held nationwide in 1994, attracting 85 million visitors. Trade shows help level the playing field for smaller firms, since booth space is generally inexpensive ($13 per square foot on average, with the typical small booth covering 100 square feet), and even small companies can usually afford attractive displays. With creative marketing and booth design, small businesses can actually appear as substantial as much larger corporations. The Trade Show Bureau reports that of the firms exhibiting at
business-to-business shows, 44% have fewer than 50 employees. Sophisticated
exhibitors do well at trade shows no matter what their size, while the naive and
inexperienced can waste thousands of dollars and countless hours - and possibly
do more harm than good. Using trade shows effectively takes only a little effort
and planning. Because trade shows generally take place at a single location, have short runs (usually one to three days), and bring together thousands of exhibitors and potential customers, they are a very powerful marketing medium. The Trade Show Bureau claims that the average total cost of closing a sale in the field is $1,080, while the cost of closing a sale to a qualified trade show prospect is $419. Because business-to-business shows typically do not allow selling on the show floor, generating sales leads is the most common reason exhibitors participate. It is possible during the course of one trade show to personally meet most of your important clients and suppliers, making shows a good way to establish and reinforce relationships. Common reasons for exhibiting include:
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