Trade shows for Manufacturers
How to leverage your next trade show to increase physical and digital footfall
In this digital age your trade show strategy must change. You may engage with a couple of hundred of people at the event but if you leverage the right digital strategy then thousands of people can see your message on the back of the show. It’s now no longer enough to just tell your contacts you are going to be at the exhibition; if they aren’t attending the trade show, then you need to bring the trade show to them!
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Your trade show ROI is about capturing details of people with legitimate future interest, not about taking orders
how do you leverage your trade show in the digital age?
A trade show is a place where you can first make contact with people who have a general interest in what you do. But remember, the reason that potential customer engaged with you on that day was because that’s when the trade show was, not because they were ready to buy.
For example, how often have you traced back a sale and discovered you first met the customer at a trade show several months or even years earlier? To then extend your thoughts about this: how many other people did you meet on the same day that expressed an initial interest but you didn’t keep in contact with?
This is why your show strategy has to change. The return on investment should not be how many orders you take at the event, but how many people with a legitimate future interest you capture and put into the top of your marketing funnel. And here’s the key take away: these people don’t even need to be at the event!
What you will learn in the e-book:
- How to map out your digital show strategy 3 months before an event.
- How to create a landing page to promote each trade show you will be attending.
- How to leverage event hashtags on social media so that huge amounts of people see your message even if you have next to no followers.
- The power of recording video interviews with your engineers and product demonstrations live from your stand.
- What marketing you should be doing whilst you are at the trade show to bring the event to all your contacts who don't attend.
- How top use simple technology to collect people's details and automate follow-up messages.
- Why you have an extremely short window to follow-up with new contacts after the event, and how to have everything ready to do that before the event even starts.
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