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Trade Show & Events Marketing How-to Guides for Small Business

MarketingZone.com how-to guides on trade shows, events and seminars.  Learn how to attract visitors to your booth and nurture leads afterwards.  How to evaluate which shows to attend.  How to host a seminar.  Top suppliers for trade show booths, displays, promotions, graphics and equipment.  Start by learning how to save money: Trade Show Marketing Best Free and Low Cost Ideas

What do you want to get done today?
  • Choose which trade shows to attend
  • Event Planning
  • Attract people to come to your trade show, event or seminar
  • Host a seminar
  • Calculate the costs and ROI for a trade show
  • Choose a trade show booth or display
  • Create and print trade show banners
  • Select promotional items as give-aways
  • Order shirts with the company logo
  • Develop a customer contact plan
  • Sell more to existing customers
  • Create a customer database
  • Generate viral marketing
  • Create a brochure
  • Print flyers, banners, business cards, signs, banners...
  • Cross sell relevant products/services
  • Get more referrals
  • Improve customer satisfaction
  • Create a customer satisfaction survey
  • Sell more to existing customers
  • Treat customers like VIPs
  • Social media marketing
Plan for Success
  • Trade show planning
  • Marketing planning and strategy
  • Create a customer contact plan
  • Customer segmentation
  • Determine who your most profitable customers are
  • Direct mail strategy and planning
  • Managing a customer database
  • Determine marketing effectiveness & ROI
  • Conduct market research
Help with Budgeting
  • Direct mail marketing
  • Direct mail lists
  • Direct mail postcards
  • Printing
  • Bulk Mail
  • Hiring graphic designer
  • Hiring a copywriter
  • Hiring an agency
Top Suppliers
    For Premium Members
  • Top trade show suppliers
  • Top CRM suppliers
  • Customer database suppliers
  • Data management services suppliers
  • Top direct mail marketing suppliers
  • Top direct mail list suppliers
  • Top printing suppliers and their costs
  • Top suppliers for promotional products
  • Top market research suppliers
  • Top marketing planning tools and templates
  • Top lead generation suppliers
  • More...
Marketing Advice From Your Peers
Learn what your peers and colleagues say about what works and doesn't work for marketing in your industry. Plus what people are paying, ways to save money, and who the top suppliers are.

 
Tips on Trade Shows
  • Tips on local trade shows and events
  • Tips on seminars
  • Tips on national trade shows
  • Tips on calculating ROI for trade shows
Trade Show & Event Marketing
  • Fastest ways to get direct mail done
  • Mailing lists
  • How to create an effective direct mailer
  • How to create direct mail yourself
  • Direct mail offers
  • Personalized direct mail
  • Personalized website addresses (pURLs)
  • How to write effective direct mail copy
  • Best graphic design software
  • Top suppliers for marketing templates
  • Top suppliers for stock photos and graphics
  • Direct mail fulfillment (mail preparation required for bulk rate discounts)
  • Tracking direct mail responses and ROI
  • PR / Public relations
  • Social media marketing
  • Advertising in trade show magazines
Hire Experts to Help
  • Trade show booths, displays and exhibits
  • Select and hire an ad agency
  • Select and hire a marketing consultant
  • Who you can hire to help with direct mail
  • Direct mail agencies for small business
  • List brokers
  • How to select and hire a copywriter
  • How to select a graphic designer
  • Top suppliers for direct mail marketing
  • Commercial printer
  • More...
Tips
  • Direct mail tips from experts and small business owners
  • How to increase your direct mail response rates
  • Best direct mail lists to buy
  • How to generate sales leads

 

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  • How to Find, Select and Pay Agencies and Freelancers
     
  • Best Sources to Find Marketing Freelancers to Hire
  • Costs for Marketing

 

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