Anyone have any success with setting up a booth at their local h$g show. My local one is $800 for the booth and the show runs from Friday noon till Sunday evening. Figure 2-3 jobs and it’s paid for. Plus probably quite a few additional leads…
I’ve yet the opportunity but whatever you do with you presentation, put out candy. The people love the candy.
A buddy of mine is doing a big 10 day show in March for his window covering company. 10 hours a day for 10 days straight. I told him he’d be my guinea pig to see if it’d ever be worth my while.
Joshua Adriance
Pure Water Window Cleaning
514.867.8324
www.pwwc.ca
Several here have done it. Michael Mole I believe has done it and Dave Caroll too I think. They reported good results. Go for it
A buddy of mine is doing a big 10 day show in March for his window covering company. 10 hours a day for 10 days straight. I told him he’d be my guinea pig to see if it’d ever be worth
That’s crazy hours, couldn’t do it myself. Where is it New York or Los Angeles ???
It’s up here in Montreal in one of the big convention centres. He’s spent tons of time and energy already educating presenters and sales people to take care of shifts. I hope it works out for him. It’s booming around here so there is potential.
Joshua Adriance
Pure Water Window Cleaning
514.867.8324
www.pwwc.ca
… When I worked for another company years ago we did it with good results. We had a drawing for free window cleaning. One winner got their windows cleaned for free and we got hundreds of names and phone numbers (from the entries) of people wanting window cleaning. Have to follow up on them tho or it’s a waste.
We do our show here in Minneapolis every year. It’s quite large, about 80-100k people over 5 days. Great for branding and exposure for your company. This year, we are looking into some of the smaller shows, as we have our entire booth set up from the previous years. I’ll try and dig up some pics. I believe we spent about $1500 on the set up with signage, table throws, banners, handouts,
etc.
I had a lot of success with a drawing for $500 in services. Great way to collect customer information.
It’s definitely advise trying it out once. Shoot me a pm if you wanna chat about other ideas for the booth
I’ve done a bunch of Home Shows.
I am the lead promoter for our local show. (It is put on by the Local Builders Association, I am chairman of the committee)
Smile, be available, schedule work on the spot. By schedule I mean to have a calender and tell them that you are currently scheduling for three weeks out or whatever and simply ask if they’d like to go ahead and get set up to have it taken care of.
At last years Home Show, I hit my sales goal for the weekend by noon of the first show day.
If you are the type that is good at following up, consider offering a gift card if they register. I have had tremendous results with that tactic. In years past, I made up cards on MS publisher and had them printed at Staples. They were very effective but if you would like something a bit fancier, I can help you with that.
Attached is a picture that Scott Davidson sent of the Gift Card that I did for him.
Thats a great gift card!!
Thanks everyone for the replies. Think I will contact the h&g promoters thus week for more info. This could be a great marketing tool…
