Using Promotional Items to Increase Your Trade Show Traffic

Trade shows and industry conferences can give your business enough quality information and contacts to carry it throughout the rest of the year. Hour after hour, you will find an incredible source of knowledge, competitive intelligence and ability to network with other important businesses and individuals in your target market. Now you need to find a way to ensure that your stand is one of the most popular and attractive throughout the trade show. You need to start using promotional items like promotional pens and promotional mugs to increase your trade show traffic.

Promotional marketing in general is an excellent way for your business to demonstrate how much better your products are than those of the competition. When you are at a trade show, surrounded by the competition, your success in promotional marketing becomes even more important. What will show your target market and business partners that your company is the best at what it does?

You can take two basic approaches while using promotional items to increase your trade show traffic. The first marketing strategy is to find practical, mass distribution items that will be used by all members of the trade show. Some of these promotional items might be canvas bags that conference participants can carry their materials or branded folders that hold all the industry trade show information. These items will be used by all the members of the trade show and be taken home with each participant after the show is long over. These promotional items will carry a long-term investment for your business since these items will be used over and over again with each use being yet another advertisement for your company.

The other basic marketing strategy you can take is the “wow” factor. Hold a prize draw for a big-ticket item. If you require people to stop by your stand to submit their name for an incredible promotional item that is trendy, expensive or highly valued by your target market, you will hear your business name on the lips of all the participants. You will see a heavy increase in trade show traffic as the conference attendees each stop by your stand to submit their information for the winning prize – giving you a superior opportunity to sell your products and services time after time.

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Occupation: Head of online marketing
Justin Blackhurst is head of online marketing at Dowlis.com the leading independent supplier of promotional gifts, and promotional items in the United Kingdom. Visit the promotional gifts website for more information.