The 17th Edition of the Total School Support Seminar/Exhibition has been cancelled for the year 2025.
We have launched www.mybazaarspace.com to enable you trade educational products and resources.
Dear TOSSE exhibitor, your registration has been submitted successfully. You will receive the exhibition sales brochure shortly. It contains the cost of exhibition space and sponsorship package available.
Your information will be use to communicate the event updates with you. Please check that you submitted the correct email address and phone number.
Date: Thursday 12th – Friday 13th June 2025 Venue: The Balmoral Hall, 30 Mobolaji Bank Anthony Way Ikeja, Lagos. Theme: Digital Equity: Ensuring Access to Technology for All
Thank you
TOSSE TEAM
HAND FLYERS ARE SPECIAL TOO, TOSSE 2019 WILL BE A PROOF
TOSSE is all about exposing your brand (alongside your products & services) to a specialized audience in the Education community. Handbills distribution is one of the best ways to take your products/services farther than your marketing team can. Start designing and redesigning your flyer for TOSSE 2019.
Organisations like yours try in all possible ways to develop
marketing strategies to sell their products or services and also build their
images around certain percentage of market shares they currently occupy while
aiming to expand beyond their present status.
Let’s
talk about utilizing the marketing tools at your disposure.
Have you asked yourself;
How
do I make my marketing/ads connect to my customers?
How
do I make my product the best?
How
do people perceive my product?
How do I get to retain my customers and get them to make referrals?
Handbill distribution might just be one of the tools that will take your products and services farther than your marketing team can.
A flyer or handbill is a form of paper advertisement intended for wide distribution. It is posted or distributed in a public place, handed out to individuals or sent through the mail (e-flyer). In 2010, small scale businesses and organizations start using flyers to gain more market traction.
Flyers range from inexpensively photocopied leaflets to expensive, glossy, full-colour circulars depending on your budget and taste for a design.
TOSSE provides you a platform where you can distribute your flyers to a large audience. Take advantage of this opportunity by calling us now to book a space at the 10th Total School Support SeminarExhibition.
The main objective of exhibiting your business at trade shows is capturing leads to acquiring new business and brand awareness. However, attracting the media to your stand is certainly the best way to achieve such objective, but how do you achieve this?
Prepare Media Kit
To get the media to talk about your products, the first thing to do is to provide them with valuable contents. Unless your company is very famous or your news incredibly powerful, journalists won’t spend time searching for information and material to talk about you. You must provide them with everything, make it easy for them.
A good Media Kit
contains the following information:
Company introduction
Company factsheet (figures, facts, graphs – key elements about your business that make it worth talking about)
Company timeline (your historic, major dates and milestones)
Major products / services / innovations introduction
Bio of the founder / CEO / key employees
High-resolution Photos and Logos (a good article always comes with a photo, if you don’t provide it, you risk losing control over your content or losing the article altogether)
The strategy is to always provide something very short to give a quick overview with links to find out, make it easy to grasp your documents within seconds, don’t lose your reader in pages of text.
Build your story
Most companies have no
story to tell, hence no PR coverage.
Unless you have some incredible innovation to share or an
internationally famous brand, why would people talk about you?
You need to have a
story that will captivate your audience.
The story can be about your company and what it stands for or about your CEO or founder on his own journey or unique personality.
Write a Press Release announcing that you will be exhibiting
at the show. Make it bold.
Use your story as the backbone of your release and add some suspense into
it. Talk about innovation,
announcement, exclusive information, etc.
If your press release is boring, don’t
even bother publishing it. It would have no
impact and would only waste your time. Write something worth reading that makes people (and media) want to come
pay you a visit.
Once written, publish your PR and relay it through your own networks (website, Social Media, blog, newsletter, etc.), send it to journalists within your network and invite your partners to help you spread it.
Prepare Question & Answer Forms
You did everything right and some journalists stop by your
booth, well done!
Then what?
They start talking to your staff. Your team members have been trained for capturing leads and educating visitors, but do they have a clue on how to handle media? Most probably not.
You will certainly ask them to direct journalists to you, but
what if you’re not here or the journalist has no time to wait?
Prepare a Q&A sheet for internal purpose. This sheet should contain the top 10 questions you expect journalists to ask about your business and the “correct” answers your staff should be giving.
Use this document to standardize your numbers (you don’t want a person to claim a number and another one say something different) and make sure everyone is on the same page. Distribute this Q&A document and tell your team to read it and memorize it carefully
Innovation is a key component of a business. For a business to grow appropriately, the key decision markers and business managers have to think innovatively and creatively. The benefits of innovation on business are already well-documented, so there isn’t really any need to go over it again. In any case, you can read about them here.
How exactly can you think innovatively? Here are a few tips:
Clear your head: This should be the first thing you do. Make sure you are relaxed and do not feel pressured. The best ideas are formed in a relaxed and calm atmosphere. If you find it hard to stay calm or keep a clear head, you can complete some relaxing activities like taking a walk while listening to calming music, preferably classical. It works for me and should work for you too.
Ask questions: ‘Curiosity kills the cat’ a common phrase. But this does not work when it comes to business. Prime your mind to observe, inquires, question and understand concepts around. Remove any constraints that might inhibit your inquisitive nature. Challenge old ways of doing things and try to imagine new ways that they can be done.
Increase your exposure: Make sure to put yourself in a position where you will be able to observe a wide variety of things. Never assume that any knowledge is useless. Note that ideas are usually birthed from other ideas. Henry Ford got his idea of the assembly line technique of mass production from observing a meatpacking plant. The more exposure you have, the more likely you’re going to pick up ideas for your ideas.
Be imaginative: You should be creative. Don’t squash that random idea that comes to you prematurely. Allow your imagination run wild. Think of ways things can be done differently. You can follow some tips to boost your creativity.
Exceed boundaries: Don’t feel caged or forced to follow the status quo. Be ready to think outside the box. Learn to deal with and learn from past failures; be ready to take risks to find out what works and what does not.
Welcome feedback: Ask for people’s opinions and ideas and gather these to come up with a better idea for your venture. Also, feedback is important to know if a current idea you implemented would be a hit. Never disregard this.
Run brainstorming sessions: This can be done individually or in a group, although it is usually more effective when done in a group. This would involve coming up with a large number of new product ideas. Make sure to have people from diverse backgrounds if you plan to have a group brainstorming session. You will be better served if you include a provocative outsider, like a consumer or supplier.
Adapt old solutions for new problems: You could do this by applying an existing product to a new need available. You could look for new uses of your product. For instance, De Beers produced industrial diamonds but found a new use for diamonds when they introduced the concept of engagement rings. It opened up a large new market for them.
Watch your competition: This does not mean to blindly follow whatever innovation they come up with. Instead, observe them intelligently. See if there are any of their ideas you can refine and adapt and even possibly license as your own. You can also acquire smaller profitable businesses if possible!
Look outside:You can outsource your new project development to external companies to work on this. Company like Edumark Consult can help us engage actively within the education community. If that seems like a risk for you, you can ask individuals to come up with novel ideas for innovation. Countless big companies have been known to do this successfully.
Go back in time: Look back at older business models and products. Try to ascertain which of these models can work for the present market. Be sure to refine it, however, to fit into the current market trends.
The tips above are in no way exhaustive of all the tips that can be used to improve innovative thinking. Also, not all of them might apply to your business model. Whatever the case, use the tips as a guide to building your business even further through innovation.
The annual Total School Support Seminar/Exhibition (TOSSE) holds this Thursday, 31st August 2023, at the 10 Degrees Events Center, Billing Ways, Oregun, Ikeja, Lagos.
The TOSSE platform brings together manufacturers/suppliers of educational resources and stakeholders in the education sector. TOSSE is an education fair featuring the display of innovative products and services, networking among top school leaders, administrators and teachers attending transformative seminars.
The 15th edition of TOSSE featured TOSSElead held in June, and TOSSE2023 slated for August. The event will host over 100 exhibitors with WOWBII Interactive being the lead sponsor.
Join the event YouTube Livestreaming on Thursday, 31st of August 2023
Check out some of the brands to expect at the event this Thursday:
FinLab is a leading indigenous scientific and technological equipment company actively involved in manufecturing, design, supply, and installation of laboratory equipment and furniture. Another brand is HowBodi, a teletherapy App where you get overall health care from the comfort of your home using a phone, laptop, computer, or tablet. KidsReadArt will also make an entrance as a literacy program that teaches children to read fluently through the use of phonics, animations and games.
Some institutions that will showcase at TOSSE2023 are African Leadership University (ALU), an higher education dedicated to building an army of ethical and entrepreneurial leaders, equipped with the required skillset, knowledge, and network. GreenSpring Training College (GTC), a subsidiary of greensprings educational services limited established to meet the development needs of teachers, school owners, parents, students and professionals. Blooming School is one of the top 15 educational institutions in Lagos State that blend British and Nigerian curricula designed to enhance critical thinking and HIIMA Education.
TOSSE Outdoor Floor Plan: Three seminar rooms
Attendees will be opportune to meet Wagefit, a payroll and financial well-being platform that provides Earned Wage Access (On-Demand Pay) by enabling employees to access a portion of their earned unpaid wages before payday to deal with unplanned emergencies. Visitors would also see Eduriea Future, a technology and innovation deploying technology company driving the much-needed innovation in the way educators engage young learners to lay a good foundation for success.
Parents would be excited to meet SchoolingYonda Consulting, an organization that assists parents and their children to study opportunities abroad and transition from study to work in Canada. Edukoya will also be making a return to TOSSE, the Nigerian’s No1 online tutoring platform, which enables students to learn LIVE with some of Nigeria’s best teachers from the comfort of their homes. Edukoya caters to learners in primary and secondary school, and learners preparing for competitive examinations. TOSSE2023 will also feature Lothego, a learning platform with the mandate to transform education and improve access to high-quality content for continuous professional development.
Education stakeholders will also meet LAPO Microfinance Bank, a leading Microfinance institution committed to the empowerment of members of low-income households and owners of MSMEs. The Bank is bridging access to quality education through its Edu-finance product by providing credits to school owners and parents. SuccessTAB by Chronicles Software will be on display. It’s an advanced learning device that offers diverse apps for students.
Nexcel Group will be showcasing its EduproVR and EduproTAB, their innovative educational solutions created to bridge the gap between knowledge and understanding of what students are taught in schools, enabling teachers to impart knowledge seamlessly. Zeta Brent Education is a leading study abroad agency in Nigeria.
Other great brands that will be present at TOSSE2023 are Revive Tech Montessori, Manners & Conduct, BredHub, Nliten, Legal Properties, Stamp4School Concept, Brains & Butter, The Ark Pregnancy, The Spelling Bee & Vocabulary Handbook, 9ijaKids, Syllabux, Kunda Kids, Lady Divine, Smart school uniform, Angels Learners, The Let Cerebral Palsy, Save a child save a nation, Teach for Nigeria, Red cross, Imperial Edtech, ALTS Education Consulting and many others.
The Total School Support Seminar/Exhibition (TOSSE) is a Viable platform that provides Impactful support for the education sector. This Initiative represents 15 years of passionate, committed and Impactful Support of the education sector by creating a platform for all stakeholders to Interact and devise creative solutions for current challenges in the sector; This was a statement made by Mr Alex Okoh, DG of the Bureau of Public Enterprises, Keynote speaker at TOSSElead 2023 event.
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