how to exhibit in a different economy: 17 strategies to leverage your tradeshow success (that work)
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17 Strategies to Leverage Your Exhibiting Success
(That Work!)
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Realize the Landscape has Changed
Leverage Your Exhibiting Success
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The Changed Landscape
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Monologue
Marketing the Old Way
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Marketing the New Way
Dialogue
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Tradeshows perfect forum for dialogues!
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Understand the New “Social” Economy
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Tools
The Right Tools
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Learn The Tools
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Blogs
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Mobile Marketing
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Understand the Rules of the Game
Leverage Your Exhibiting Success
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Leverage Your Exhibiting Success
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Leverage Your Exhibiting Success
Chris Brogan
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Books Worth Reading
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Pinpoint Your Target/Niche Markets
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Identify Where Your Customers Go for Information
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Leverage Your Exhibiting Success
Traditional Marketing Still Works!
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Social Media Not the Holy Grail
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Know and Understand Your Customer’s World
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Leverage Your Exhibiting Success
Know and understand
WANTS and NEEDS
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Leverage Your Exhibiting Success
Marketing & Sales Must Work Together
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What marketing needs from sales…
Information
#1 Marketing Focus
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What sales needs from marketing…
Quality Lead Generation
#1 Sales Focus
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Lead Generation
50-90% of collateral prepared by
Marketingis not used
by salespeople in the field American Marketing Association
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Get Top Management Support
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Accountability
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Leads not followed up!
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Use Social Media Tools to Outsmart the
Competition
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Marketing dollars spent during slow times are the best investment a company can make.
Your marketing dollars work harder in slow times. If your competition is less active, this is a time to steal market share.
Just because your customers are not buying at recent levels does not mean they have stopped reading, thinking, or formulating opinions about the companies and brands they buy from. Josh Gordon, Sales Training Expert
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Tryvertising
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Brand Butlers
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Think Long Term
Leverage Your Exhibiting Success
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Leverage Your Exhibiting Success
Plan to invest time and money
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Destroy the Myth:
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Be Nimble
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Human Interaction is Still Human Interaction
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“Human interaction is still human interaction, and what it takes to be
successful with it has not changed. What has changed are the places
where it happens.” Brian Solis
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Don’t Do Everything: Practice the “Try Something” Technique
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Chris Brogan
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Leverage Your Exhibiting Success
Re-Think
Re-Focus
Re-Tool
Wishing you much
tradeshow success!
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