How to maximize your Brand presence at Exhibitions

It takes a lot of marketing efforts to sell-out innovative products/services to key decision makers in most sectors.

Event hosts will propose a value driven partnership that will offer your organisation different opportunities, but you must also know what you want to achieve with your marketing objectives.

Here is a checklist to help you maximize your brand presence at exhibitions, trade shows and seminars and generate .

  1. Branding of Seminar Room: With sponsorship, your organisation has the opportunity to brand any of the seminar rooms making your brand visible to thousands of participants and other exhibitors at the event.
  2. Official Bag Branding: Your organisation’s logo on official bags to be given to all participants. The below-the-line advertising keeps your brand name in the minds of the audience.
  3. 3m by 3m Well-located Stand: Your organization should be allocated a 3 meters by 3 meters exhibition stand in a unique position that is open to the traffic of visitors and prospective clients.
  4. Presentation Opportunity: In-event speaking engagement to boost your brand equity. It is best practice to get a time slot to make a sales pitch to thousands of participants at the event.
  5. Press Conference Right: A special mention and participation at the exhibition’s press briefing will further put your brand out there to the prying eyes of the media.
  6. Ushers Branding Right: Your Company’s logo at the back of the T-Shirt of all Ushers will give your brand 360 degree awareness at the event.
  7. Pre and Post Event Advisory Service: Get pre/post event advisory services on how to better chart your path in the Education sector for greater customer conversion.
  8. Pre and Post Event Brand Publicity: Pre-event offline and online promotional campaign for brand presence at the event will drive footfall to your exhibition stand. This will create some form of familiarity between your brand and prospective clients.

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The list is not exhaustible but your organization can use this checklist to negotiate for the best deals that will maximize your brand presence at exhibitions which will ultimately convert to quality leads for your business.

Furthermore, organizations also need to recognize the value of leads acquired to put that information into use after events. You can read more about this here.

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Adefisayo, Azeez, and other distinguished guests to grace TOSSE 2022

The honourable commissioner of education for Lagos state, Mrs Folasade Adefisayo, Mrs Adeola Azeez, Dr Femi Ogunsanya and other highly distinguished guests will be at the opening ceremony of the 14th edition of the Total School Support Seminar/Exhibition.

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The annual program brings together key stakeholders in the education community as well as organizations creating innovative products and services for the sector.

The Total School Support Seminar/Exhibition welcomes top school owners, directors, administrators amongst other top level managers from various parts of the world. Parents and students are also a part of the event.

The 14th edition of the program is scheduled to hold on the 1st and 2nd of September at the Ten degrees event centre Oregun, Lagos.

More than 7,000 delegates from various countries are expected to attend this two day event.

The theme of this year’s TOSSE is tagged ‘Building a sustainable Education Ecosystem in Africa’.

Watch this space for more details.

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TOSSE 2022 welcomes uLesson as official partner

The organizers of Africa’s biggest Education event, the Total School Support Seminar/Exhibition (TOSSE) officially welcomes uLesson as a TOSSE 2022 partner.

According to the CEO of Edumark Consult, Mrs Yinka Ogunde, the partnership clearly demonstrates the commitment of uLesson towards the transformation of the Education sector across Africa.

She stated that as the leading learning App for students in the Primary, Junior and Secondary School, uLesson is adding a lot of value to the Education sector.

uLesson leverages best in-class teachers, media, and technology to create high-quality, affordable and accessible education for students. The uLesson app offers students in Primary, Junior and Senior Secondary School a holistic learning experience as well as those preparing for WASSCE, JAMB, NECO and GCE exams.

The uLesson app features over 10,000 interactive quizzes with detailed solutions; making it an excellent tool for preparing for and cracking their exams. Students can also take advantage of quality resources put together by subject matter experts to pass their exams. The app also helps students learn time management, exam formats, and accuracy skills.

Other product offerings ranging from uLesson’s education tab to its coding school will be displayed at TOSSE 2022.

The Total School Support Seminar/Exhibition( TOSSE) is an annual event that brings together key stakeholders in the Education Community.

The 14th Edition is scheduled to hold on the 1st and 2nd of September at the Ten Degrees Event Centre, Billings way, Oregun, Lagos.

To register for the event, click here.

How to Attract The Media To Your Stand At Trade Shows

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.

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What should my Media Kit contain?

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.

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Make use of PR (Press Release)

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

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