COLLECTING INFORMATION FROM TRADE FAIR VISITORS
There’s a good chance you want to use your trade fair participation to collect leads: getting to know new people from your target group and saving them in a file. Then you can approach them with appealing promotions and content. What do you need for this? We’d like to inspire you with these tips!
Position in the funnel
You have probably thought about your (potential) clients’ customer journey. Now is the time to bring that into consideration. Determine what part of the customer journey trade fair visitors are in. They are probably somewhere near the beginning, between the awareness and consideration phases. Ask yourself how you can trigger your target group in this phase. What questions and needs do they have? And which of these questions can you give an answer to?
Effective action
If you know the questions your target group has, you also know what you can offer them in exchange for their data. People don’t just leave their data behind for nothing, so your offer needs to have real added value.
Here are a few ideas:
Content
Questions are easily answered in text (a whitepaper or e-book, for example), an infographic or (animated) video. Provide high quality content.
Play
Game elements can be a fun change of pace at a trade fair. Find a game that fits with your target group’s experiences. “Would you like a chance to win a prize? Just provide your information.”
Quizzes
Another interactive element can be a test or quiz. “Test your knowledge about…” can be a very effective trigger for specialists in a certain field. Of course to get the results, they have to give their information.
Raffle
Welk gadget zou uw doelgroep graag willen hebben? Het enige wat ze hoeven te doen is hun gegevens achterlaten. Een flinke korting kan hier ook werken. Maken ze meteen kennis met uw product of dienst en doen ze dus al een aankoop!
Gadget
All they have to do is leave their information. A good discount can also work here. They immediately get to know your product or service and actually already make a purchase!
Invitation
Stand out!
Tip: let your stand builder think along with you. Eldee will always come up with great ideas to help you make your campaign get noticed.
The actual data gathering
Make it easy for your visitors to leave their details. For instance, by just having to leave their business card at your stand. Or have them enter their details onto a tablet. Make sure to only collect the necessary information, to avoid a long list with required fields to fill out. Needless to say: make sure your form is GDPR-safe. In other words: describe specifically how the collected data will be used.
