Trade shows and exhibit are great way to showcase one’s product or services, attract potential customers and eventually rake up sales and profits. But since joining your business in such events can be costly too and as a business owner one will think it over if the limited trade show run will compensate for the time and money invested in it. The secret lies in knowing how to promote your product and services effectively during trade show and exhibits.

The opportunity to network and identify prospect are the fruits of labor a business owner can reap when joining trade show and exhibits.  This only shows how effective they are as marketing strategies. Another thing is that a trade show booth can generate actual sales during the exhibit duration.

The face-to-face interaction that trade show booth allows business owners to connect new and existing customers, competitors, supplies and distributors. Knowing your competitors is also good to your business as you can develop and acquire new strategies that will strengthen the business presence in public.

Pre-planning procedures before enlisting your business ensures value for business owner’s money. Actual visiting to an organized trade show event will give him an overview of the exhibit flow and a time to observe what particular both that attracts a lot of customers or visitors. Do these booths have an attractive signage? Do they give product samples to the booth visitors?

Once you have already in mind the type of booth that you to install, its time to have a research of the coming trade show and exhibits in your area. Make sure that the trade show that you are planning to enlist is related to the product and services that you are offering. Prepare the display materials ahead of time such as signages and pictures.

High traffic areas such as near entrance or at the beginning or end of rows of booth are good spot to set up your booth. To make sure that you will get the prime spot it is necessary to book early, but expect a higher price though. As a businessman that doesn’t matter at all as these prime booths attracts lots of traffic making them a good investment.

Aside from the listed ideas above, making the people listen and convince to your message is quite a challenge. Attractive signage, product displays and giveaways are proven and effective promotional tools at trade show and exhibits. Lastly, choose staff you are familiar and have knowledge with the product or services that you are selling and can professionally represent your company.

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Online Banner giant BannersToYou.com recently launched an online database providing the public with information on all large convention centres in the US. The online Vinyl Banners merchant, who also deal in Trade Show displays and signs, now hold information on almost every large convention centre in the US.

This information is searchable by the convention centre name or by location. Detailed location information and maps are given for all centres. Also banner/display specifications and sizes are given for most convention centres. The idea is to provide clarification to individuals and businesses who are exhibiting at such convention centres. Exhibitors can now have the peace of mind that they are buying the correct size banners for the convention centre they are visiting.

Overall the move has received a positive response from prospective buyers and those seeking information on convention centres. Due to the large nature of the database, it will take some time to be fully updated, however currently holds a good amount of info for all the major US exhibition centres.

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The Connecticut Real Estate Investors Association is announcing its 6th Annual New England Real Estate Investors Conference and Trade Show. This event will take place on November 21-22, from 9am-5pm on each day, at the Marriott Hotel in Rocky Hill, Connecticut.  This conference is the largest of its kind in the Northeast.  The two-day business education conference will help investors with their financial future, and will provide a chance to learn from dynamic speakers who are experienced in the real estate investing field.

The New England Real Estate Investors Conference and Tradeshow will provide real estate investing advice and networking opportunities to current and prospective investors. This event is designed to aid in the development of real estate investors, real estate agents, mortgage brokers, title Insurance agents, financial planners, frustrated stock market investors, attorney and CPA’s, landlords, property managers, contractors, lenders, or anyone else interested in buying a home and getting involved in real estate investing.

Topics which will we covered during this two day conference include: how to evaluate real estate deals, how to create passive income streams, how to buy apartments and multi-family houses, how to buy residential and commercial properties, how to sell your properties quickly with correct exposure, probate investing techniques, and much more. Although this conference is focused on real estate, skills useful to any business in today’s market will be taught: branding and funding your business, using Web 2.0 to build a client list, and marketing your business.

In addition to other conference events, there will be a roundtable session and expert panel discussion on Saturday evening. For full details about the event and our guest speakers, please visit www.ctreia.com.

A 12 member delegation from Kerala is currently in Europe to promote the State at the International French Tourism Mart, IFTM TopResa in Paris.  TopResa is the global event for the French tourism market and it is the first time that Kerala Tourism and its partners are participating at the 4 day trade fair which concludes today.

The Kerala delegation led by Dr Venu V Secretary, Kerala Tourism is showcasing Kerala products and experiences within the Kerala Stand in the Indian pavilion. Over 47 buyers who have expressed interest in Kerala have met Dr Venu and the Kerala trade over the last 4 days to discuss further about including Kerala in their product mix. They include Fram, Escape Mandarin and La route de Indes.

Dr Venu also met several journalists from the trade and general media including Easy Voyage, La Voix Du Nord and Routard

Kerala Tourism’s decision to participate at Top Resa was to further penetrate the French market after conducting roadshows there in the last 4 years. France is the number 2 source market for Kerala. 52,239 French nationals visited Kerala in 2008 which is a 9% growth over the previous year

Prior to coming to Paris the Kerala delegation took in a pre TopResa roadshow in Brussels, where they met 109 buyers.

This is first time that Kerala tourism had conducted a roadshow in Belgium which is the 16^th largest source market for the State.

Post Paris, the Kerala delegation will be conducting its first roadshow in Rome, Italy on 28 Sept. Italy is the 6^th largest market for foreign arrivals to Kerala.

The decision to conduct roadshows in new cities and to combine regional roadshows with trade fairs was made following a review between Kerala tourism trade and Kerala Tourism. Other international roadshows will be held in Australia in October and Scandinavia in November later this year.