Staff Essential to an Effective
Trade Show Exhibit Display

An eye-catching, high-impact trade show exhibit display can draw visitors to your booth. Pre-marketing and event participation will also attract people who are interested in what you have to offer.

Yet, it is incumbent on your booth staff to create meaningful dialog with your visitors and identify who are high opportunity prospects for further follow-up. The impression your team members make while working the booth will determine how effective they are at qualifying and generating viable leads.

Your visitors will not judge you and your product by the beauty of your trade show display. Rather they will consider your staff’s behavior and appearance as key to their interest level in your product.

According to authors Jay Levinson, Mark Smith and Orvel Wilson in their book Guerrilla Trade Show Selling, the following staff behavior annoys booth visitors and inhibits sales effectiveness, based on surveys they conducted.

Top Ten Things That Drive Visitors Nuts

1. Being ignored
2. A staff that doesn’t know the products
3. Eating in the exhibit
4. Being interruped
5. Hands in pockets
6. Being kept around when they’re ready to move on
7. Gum
8. Continuous throat-clearing
9. Bad breath

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