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Promotions & Traffic Builders
No matter how cool your booth or event may be, you still need to promote it if you want people to see it. Learn how to spread the word via promotions, such as innovative mailers, traffic builders, advertising, Web promotion, and guerilla marketing tactics.

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Give it Away

Seven effective giveaways that will attract attendees and positively impact your company's bottom line.


The Pucker-Up Promotion

Snugz USA Inc. savors the sweet taste of success with a mystery-flavor promotion that generates a whopping $1 million in business.


Let Them Eat Cupcake

Lisa Rowland and AB Electrolux use a special breakfast, a surreal exhibit, and 5,000 savory cupcakes to generate 7 million media impressions.


Little Black Box

Inquisite Inc.'s black-box mailer coaxed recipients to provide information and experience a product demo two weeks before the show.


Cause and Effect

Eight exhibitors demonstrate how cause-related marketing in your exhibit provides cold hard results along with philanthropic warm fuzzies.


The 12 Dumbest Things to do With Giveaways

A guide to common giveaway blunders and how you can avoid them.


Games People Play

Nine companies hit the jackpot with casino-themed trade show promotions, generating traffic, increasing sales leads, and more.


Battle of the Bolts

Interlake Material Handling's attendee competition demonstrated their product and exceeded lead goals by nearly 70 percent.


A Mute Point

Derse Inc.'s "Not a Peep" campaign increased traffic by 49 percent and captured 30 percent more qualified leads.


How Green Are Your Giveaways?

From buying organic to recycling everything in sight, the whole world is going Green. But what about your giveaways?


Exhibit in Overdrive

Florida Power and Light Co.'s goes full throttle with a budget-minded NASCAR-inspired video game .


What About Bobbleheads?

Jim Brodo employs 7-inch-tall salesmen to create a tradition that increases leads by 1,367 percent.


While You Wait

How seven companies capitalized on their captive audiences, using wait time to boost the bottom line.


Lumpy Mail Gets Read

Tired of two-dimensional direct mail tactics? Here are five 3-D campaigns with tips to take your mailers to the third dimension.


Everything Matters

3D Exhibits' "attention-to-detail" promotion snags eight big-budget opportunities by focusing on their customers' detail driven jobs..


Fit to a Tea

An in-booth tea party helps Impact Unlimited Inc. demonstrate its customized solutions – and exceed its lead goal by 100 percent.


More Than S'mores

Exhibit Works Inc. takes the story-swapping campfire experience upscale – and triples traffic compared to the previous year.


Overcoming the Fear Factor

Cobius Healthcare Solutions addresses attendees fears about job security with a reinvent yourself theme that boosted loyalty.


Multipurpose Mailer

XMPie Inc. uses email and response URL software to contact their target market, qualify leads, and pre-schedule demos.


All-Star Awards – Buzz on a Budget

GeoLearning's Web based twist on classic promotions drives 80 percent of attendees to interact with their brand.


E-marketing: How to Test and Measure Your Next Campaign

E-mail, like direct mail, only has a chance if it's opened. Here's pointers on getting that far.


X Marks the Spot

X-Rite Inc.'s creative on-site promotion hit on some unlikely places to advertise at PRINT 05. Survey results show what worked best.


When in Doubt, Use Penguins

Magnussen Home Furnishings builds a simple giveaway into a formidable PR campaign for a 20-percent increase in traffic.


EXHIBITOR Magazine's Eighth Annual Sizzle Awards

Honoring red-hot trade show exhibit promotions


Monster: Here, There, and Everywhere

To market its services at an HR trade show, Monster grew larger than life and devoured the entire city.


Anatomy of a High-Response Direct-Mail Campaign

Five pre-show promotions that motivated recipients to open, read and respond.

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