TSNN Feedback Promotion, Month Five – "Vendor & Show Feedback"
Win a $100 Visa Gift Card, Just by Providing Us with Feedback
Have you inquired about products/services from any of the vendors advertised or listed on TSNN from the past year or have you attended events? If so, we want to hear from you. Please send your responses to sales@tsnn.com by July 8, 2009. One lucky winner will be randomly selected to receive a $100 Visa gift card, as sponsored by SVM.
About Promotion Sponsor: SVM has been a leader in the gift card industry since 1997. SVM represents all of the major gasoline brand gift cards along with over 150 of the most popular retail, restaurant, hotel and universal gift cards. The ease of transporting and distribution make gift cards ideal for booth and event prizes.
To find out more or to order, visit us at www.svmcards.com or call 1-800-972-7481.
Rules of Eligibility: Winners will be chosen randomly on a monthly basis for the next five months. Current and former employees/contractors of TSNN and the Tarsus Group plc are ineligible.
Announcing last month's winner of a $100 Visa gift card:
Jenni Kahle
Commerce Bank
811 Main St - 11th Floor
Kansas City, MO 64105
What's New on TSNN?
TSNN's First Complimentary Webinar was a huge success with over 700 Trade Show Professionals in attendance....Stay tuned for information about our next one coming in July!
If you are interested in presenting or sponsoring one of our highly attended and publicized webinars please contact us at: sales@tsnn.com
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News
TSNN Feedback from Members
"I am an exhibitor and have our Home Shows listed on your site. I receive about 3 leads a month. Most of them are "tire kickers" and don't become sales. But about every 6th lead does become a sale and I've had some good exhibitors as a result. Many times I reply to the email or phone number provided by TSNN and a lot of people are exploring avenues for marketing."
Carole Ozanian, Account Executive
The N.E.C. Group
San Fernando Valley, CA
Top Ten Wholesale
TopTenWholesale is a vertical search engine that connects buyers of general merchandise wholesale products to manufacturers, importers, distributors, auctioneers, independent retailers, flea marketers, drop shippers and any reseller of new and closeouts merchandise.
The #1 goal of TopTenWholesale is to be the information super highway of the general merchandise wholesale trade.
For more information on TSNN's newest partner click here.
Best Practices
Turn Trade Show Leads Into Sales
By Dick Wheeler
Did you know that eighty percent of all trade show leads never receive any form of sales rep follow up once the trade show is over? Forty-three percent of your key trade show prospects will have already made their buying decision with someone else by the time they get your materials?
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Trade Show Lead Generation, What's Next?
Going the electronic way to capture qualified leads at a trade show will save you a lot of grief and extra expense in the long run as opposed to just collecting misc. business cards in a fish bowl. Having a personalized marketing piece ready to send out the day you met a prospect at the show is another best practice.
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Advanced Planning Can Help In Your Trade Show Success
By Mike Gandy
Well planned advertising saves money. In today's multimedia world advertising expenses can be costly. However, there are methods such as trade show marketing which equates to money well spent. Many companies use trade shows as a launching ground to introduce new products but it has other benefits. Trade shows are great for branding and lead generation. When done properly, they can be a very lucrative marketing tool for your company.
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Industry Updates
EXHIBITTRADER.COM achieves milestone for Exhibitors with U. S. Patent
EXHIBITTRADER.COM, Inc., a Dallas based corporation, announces the achievement of another great milestone for Exhibitors with the reward of a U. S. Patent for "Estimating the Value of a Pre-owned Trade Show Exhibit."
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Retractable Banner Stands for Advertising Your Company, from Capital Exhibits
Every business wants to flourish and make great proceeds. To achieve these results, they try everything they can to promote their business. Retractable banner stands are some of the most reliable and most simple methods of promoting and endorsing.
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Social Media
SEM Feeds Social Media Activity that Leads to Leads
By TMT Editor, Brent Skinner
Can activity in social media lead to qualified leads and closed sales? According to a recent survey 48% of businesses have generated leads by utilizing social media…
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10 Ways to Use Google Alerts for Business and Social Media: (Plus Tips to Improve Search Results)
By Stephanie Chandler
One of the most useful services released by Google in recent years is its powerful Google Alerts. This free tool allows you to receive e-mail notifications when keywords and phrases that you specify appear on websites, blogs, online news channels and more.
Listed are 10 ways to leverage Google Alerts for your business:
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Build Tradeshow Buzz with Twitter
By Susan Friedmann
Twitter is the ideal way to spread your message to trade show attendees. Much of Twitter's power is that it is a viral medium, designed to be spread by users. With these four tips, you can take advantage of its speed and versatility.
1. Fast, frequent, and focused: At a mere 140 characters, a Twitter message is more like a headline than a full press release. Trying to cram a full day's information into a single tweet is counterproductive. Much better to post a separate message before each event or demo.
2. Take advantage of technology: One way to post a full event schedule is to direct users to your web page. Shorten URLs with an outside service like TinyURL.com, which converts longer web addresses to short clickable links. Several companies offer Twitter client software that will enable you to compose your messages ahead of time and post them on schedule. Many of these offer their own automatic URL-shortening services.
3. Leave room to re-tweet: If you want to build buzz, keep your message under 100 characters or so. That should give plenty of room for users to add "RT @[your Twitter name]" so their readers will know where the message originally came from.
4. Make searching easy: Twitter users add hashtags to key terms to make searching easier. For example, when the flu pandemic was clocking more than 10,000 tweets per hour, many of the messages included #swineflu at the end.
To Get Your Own Twitter Toolbox from Susan Click Here
SEO Advice
A Simple Guide For Achieving Top Rankings in the Search Engines
(Even if You Are a Complete Newbie)
By Darren Chow
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a combination of two major elements. First, learning how publish valuable content on your web pages and #2 building "back" links. However, before you dive straight into SEO, you must first know which keywords to target. Many new Internet Marketers make the mistake of choosing the wrong keywords to target. So what makes a keyword inappropriate?
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Economics & ROI
Trade Show Booth Staffing Secrets
By "The Trade Show Guru"
The success of your trade show booth largely depends on your trade show booth staff. Listed are valuable "Top Ten Secrets" to ensure your trade show booth staff (no matter what the size) do a great job and maximize your trade show marketing success.
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Job Postings
Tradeshow Sales Manager - New York/Las Vegas/Chicago/Orlando
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Trade Show Exhibit Sales Account Executive - Dallas
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Trade Show Exhibit Sales Executive
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MeetingJobs.com
TSNN has partnered with MeetingJobs.com to bring you the meeting industry's most comprehensive job search website. The goal is to more effectively put hiring officials and job candidates together. MeetingJobs.com posts between 40-60 new meeting planner jobs per month and receives between 7000-9000 hits per day from qualified meeting planners seeking open positions.
Click here to Post Your Job!
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TSNN Partners with The TrainingCenter Group
Powered by HRTrainingCenter.com, this section is designed to provide training and professional development courses to HR, Insurance, Finance, Real Estate, Accounting, Legal, Health Care, Sales, and other industry professionals. Individuals can use the Training Center to find licensing, certifications, seminars, conferences, webinars, manuals, and more to help them either comply with industry requirements or to improve their own job skills.
Click here to view TSNN's newest offering, Industry Training
Plan ahead… save time and money on your next event.
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Featured Events
- China Textile & Apparel Trade Show
- Show Type: Trade Show
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center
June 16, 2009 - June 18, 2009
- NAHC Financial Management Conference & Exposition
- Show Type: Trade Show with Conference
Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel, Boston
July 29, 2009 - July 31, 2009
- The 20th Annual VISIONS: The Women's Expo
- Show Type: Public Show
Dallas Market Hall
August 28, 2009 - August 30, 2009
- Anti-Aging Conference: Clinical Applications for In-Office Procedures
- Show Type: Trade Show with Conference
San Jose Convention Center
September 9, 2009 – September 12, 2009
- NAHC 28th Annual Meeting & Exposition
- Show Type: Trade Show with Conference
Los Angeles Convention Center
October 10, 2009 – October 14, 2009
Event Organizers seeking more ideas on best practices for their events can access tsnn's enewsletter archive at http://www.tsnn.com/newsletter_archive.asp.
Do you have a story on a new and/or best practice that garnered successful results for your event? Whether it's sales and marketing, operations, customer service or any new idea that can benefit your peers in the industry, WE WANT TO KNOW! Send your ideas, stories or press releases to Arlene Shows, tsnn.com online editor.
For advertising and sponsorship opportunities on TSNN, please contact Seng Weiland (262-754-6920) or John Rice (617-201-7088).
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