How to avoid the top ten trade show sales killers

Mark Smith and Orvel Ray Wilson, co-founders of the Guerrilla Group, say that it takes three and 1/2 seconds for someone to walk the ten linear feet of a typical 10 by 10 exhibit booth. How can you get your prospect’s attention in so little time? One way to get more attention is to make sure that your sales staff does not commit one of the top ten trade show sales sins: !wQrd#Z.?"J'tX$?G
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Don’t let your customers wait. v.J D0d6L:h6X|
Make sure your staff knows your product. LaMVm UE_Q OjgH
Don’t allow your staff to eat in your exhibit.
(f PlHs:M6L3f0nc Make sure your salespeople listen to your visitors. )Y*gfW` @:Nd
Don’t tolerate unprofessional appearance. Salespeople who stand there with their hands in their pockets, jingling change, rocking back and forth won’t enhance your company’s image. vq%gV7z)x(R
Make sure your visitors don’t stay too long in your booth, it wastes their time and yours.
@9xm,KS Don’t allow excessive touching like the pat on the back.
2XobY|h3C%d!i Make sure that nobody is smoking or chewing gum on the trade show floor.
'xU7w2g6x!x$L Don’t use sexy models, they will distract your personnel and your visitors from the purpose of the show. x&z(Je*Z9Orp2C
Make sure that your staff gets plenty of rest, plenty of water and plenty of breath mints during the show.

:loveliness: Good ten tips!

nice suggestion , it's significant for you to make a deal....

I will avoid these question if I can attend trade show:lol

it's really popular problem during us exibition i think, of cause, in order to catch up all of above things we must pay more attention and study hard before exibition indeed.

It sounds very professional!Brilliant!:) I like it very much!Thank you very much!

helpful,thanks for sharing.

Good idea1

Thank for lz's suggestion !

that is really useful.And  try ulmost to avoid and do well  so that you are professional. Thanks for sharing.