Vfd Marketing
3 min readMay 14, 2016

Tips for Making Your Trade Show Exhibition a Great Success

When you are exhibiting at a tradeshow, you present yourself to the possibility of capturing very many prospective customers. Exhibitions at these events are significantly cheaper than advertising on TV or radio. It is also better because it gives your clients the opportunity to get a hands-on experience of whatever new products you have on offer. Actually even the potential clients get to have a demonstration done for them. This is the best thing about trade shows. However, in order to achieve these ends you will have to get a team of the best promotional models to help you out.

Preparing your exhibition

There are a number of things that you will have to do in order to capture the attention of these show-goers. The goal is always to remain conspicuous. Your competition will also be at the tradeshow and that is why you need to make yourself as conspicuous as possible. The booth does not have to have some flashy colors and lights on it in order to be visible. It just needs to be designed properly.

As such, the first thing that must be done when you want to exhibit at a trade fair is to get the booth. There are some companies that do this at the last minute. If you know that the trade show is on in a month’s time you are free to start doing the construction. You can never be too early with the construction of the booth. There are so many things that can go wrong when it comes to design and construction. When you have it constructed well in advance you will be able to make several changes to suit your needs.

Secondly, you need to hire those Promotional Models as aforementioned. Getting a promo model is not difficult regardless of location. Models are not only pretty and attractive they are also very instrumental when it comes to demonstrations. There are people who will make a purchase at your trade show booth simply because the person who was demonstrating was attractive and eloquent. As weird as that might sound, it actually does happen that way.

The final thing is to organize the products that will be exhibited at the trade show and train the models for the demonstrations. This very important as many people tend to have so many products lined up on their trade booth to the point that they are not able to carry out demonstrations for each of them. It is necessary to pick out those products that are best selling in your brand and those that customers need demonstrations for. Select the products wisely.

How many models do you need?

This is a question that cannot be answered exhaustively. There are brands that will go for one or two and others will hire scores of them. Remember, you do not want to make the place look so congested to the point that it is hard to control the models. At the same time, you do not want to have too few models that you are not able to serve the show attendees.

As a general rule of the thumb, make sure that you hire models relative to the size of your trade show booth. The goal is to make sure that the place does not look deserted. If you have a large booth with only two people inside it then you might not attract as many people. However, when you have enough Promo Models, you will see people coming to see what you have to offer. They will be curious to find out what is being offered at that both where everyone seems to be hanging around.