How to make trade show more effective? — for Attendees
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15/10/2019How to make trade show more effective? — for Attendees
This is an Internet era, but no matter how convenient the Internet is, finding suppliers on fairs still is an important option.
So we will think about a problem: how to make our trade show visiting more effective and productive?
Here are some tips to make your trade show more efficient.
1. Make pre-show plans
a. Business plans:
* Pre-registering the trade show
* Set appointments with your current suppliers, better ask them to send you a show map and their booth number.
Be familiar with the positions in advance
* Contact potential back-up suppliers;
If you don’t have back-up suppliers, try to look up into your SPAM INBOX to check if there are any emails from new suppliers who sent emails to tell you that they will attend the same fair, then take some time to know them and pick 3 to 5 potential suppliers to reply their emails or add their Wechat or WhatsApp
* Make a checklist of all suppliers
* If you need to make customer-made products, you’d better put the files into a USB flash disk. Also, put a back-up file in your email inbox. So you can copy your design by computer or send emails to them by phone directly.
* WIFI: now almost everywhere in China has wifi. But the signal is not guaranteed to be well if too many people in the exhibition using wifi at the same time. So you’d better bring wifi by yourself if you need to deal with urgent affairs when you visit the fairs.
* Name cards: real or fake, you need to think about carefully
b. Personal plans:
* Hotels
* Plane tickets
* Traffic
* Passport(one copy in your bag just in case) /
suitable clothes(check the weather of the trade show hosting city) /
portable charger(power bank) /
Plug adaptor / notebook / pen /
extra bags for taking potential catalogs, samples or promotional products, etc
* Make a checklist of all plans and things
2. At the Trade Show
* Get an updated map of the trade exhibition at the show entrance, check the map to see if you need to change your plan
* Follow your plans, visit your vendors one by one with the best route
* Find the potential back-up suppliers and see the main products they display and ask prices.
Later compare these new prices with your current suppliers’ prices
* Arrange the lunchtime a little early or later to avoid the crowd
* Visit the booths which have your interested products or new products in sequence
* Leave the trade show a little early or later to avoid long lines for buses and taxies
3. After the trade show
* Scan your checklist and change your plans in next few days if necessary
* Compare the prices from new suppliers with your current suppliers’ prices, also the quality is the most important element
* Revisit some suppliers’ booth the next day if need
* Have dinner or meeting with suppliers if necessary
Now you must have some ideas on how to be more effective when attending trade shows.
These are really stressful and make people tired, and hope this article will help you be relaxed and organized by following our tips.
Actually behind all these business affairs, if you can deal with your personal affairs better, then you will have more time to focus on business.
So if you have the same ideas, please CONTACT US.
We can help you book the tickets, hotels(nearest the trade exhibition under your budget), pick up or rent car (we can get a better price in the domestic market) if necessary. And we are familiar with the routes.
Also, we can arrange an assistant or a translator for you when visiting trade shows if need. They can help you take all catalogs, samples or others.
Later we can send you all catalogs and relevant products by express if need.This will save you more time and energy to make you focus on your business.
Email Us for more details.
So we will think about a problem: how to make our trade show visiting more effective and productive?
Here are some tips to make your trade show more efficient.
1. Make pre-show plans
a. Business plans:
* Pre-registering the trade show
* Set appointments with your current suppliers, better ask them to send you a show map and their booth number.
Be familiar with the positions in advance
* Contact potential back-up suppliers;
If you don’t have back-up suppliers, try to look up into your SPAM INBOX to check if there are any emails from new suppliers who sent emails to tell you that they will attend the same fair, then take some time to know them and pick 3 to 5 potential suppliers to reply their emails or add their Wechat or WhatsApp
* Make a checklist of all suppliers
* If you need to make customer-made products, you’d better put the files into a USB flash disk. Also, put a back-up file in your email inbox. So you can copy your design by computer or send emails to them by phone directly.
* WIFI: now almost everywhere in China has wifi. But the signal is not guaranteed to be well if too many people in the exhibition using wifi at the same time. So you’d better bring wifi by yourself if you need to deal with urgent affairs when you visit the fairs.
* Name cards: real or fake, you need to think about carefully
b. Personal plans:
* Hotels
* Plane tickets
* Traffic
* Passport(one copy in your bag just in case) /
suitable clothes(check the weather of the trade show hosting city) /
portable charger(power bank) /
Plug adaptor / notebook / pen /
extra bags for taking potential catalogs, samples or promotional products, etc
* Make a checklist of all plans and things
2. At the Trade Show
* Get an updated map of the trade exhibition at the show entrance, check the map to see if you need to change your plan
* Follow your plans, visit your vendors one by one with the best route
* Find the potential back-up suppliers and see the main products they display and ask prices.
Later compare these new prices with your current suppliers’ prices
* Arrange the lunchtime a little early or later to avoid the crowd
* Visit the booths which have your interested products or new products in sequence
* Leave the trade show a little early or later to avoid long lines for buses and taxies
3. After the trade show
* Scan your checklist and change your plans in next few days if necessary
* Compare the prices from new suppliers with your current suppliers’ prices, also the quality is the most important element
* Revisit some suppliers’ booth the next day if need
* Have dinner or meeting with suppliers if necessary
Now you must have some ideas on how to be more effective when attending trade shows.
These are really stressful and make people tired, and hope this article will help you be relaxed and organized by following our tips.
Actually behind all these business affairs, if you can deal with your personal affairs better, then you will have more time to focus on business.
So if you have the same ideas, please CONTACT US.
We can help you book the tickets, hotels(nearest the trade exhibition under your budget), pick up or rent car (we can get a better price in the domestic market) if necessary. And we are familiar with the routes.
Also, we can arrange an assistant or a translator for you when visiting trade shows if need. They can help you take all catalogs, samples or others.
Later we can send you all catalogs and relevant products by express if need.This will save you more time and energy to make you focus on your business.
Email Us for more details.
