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Preparing to  exhibit at a Trade Show is no easy task. Achieving the highest Return On your Investment (ROI) is crucial. Since the costs of exhibiting at a Trade Show are so high. We put together a 10 minute video guide with tips to help you get the highest ROI from your next trade show.

Looking for a unique trade show giveaway? You have come to the right place!

For more tips and ideas please leave a comment or call your FarFromBoring trade show specialist at 866-751-7766.

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Even the most basic trade shows make great marketing communications tools due to the simple fact that they are so interactive. 

Most important is that trade shows offer face time.  Attending a show provides the opportunity to meet in person with prospective customers and get their opinion of your product or service.  You’ll also get face time with existing customers as well as competitors and partners.

While at trade shows always take the time and opportunity to visit the broad spectrum of companies around the area and observe what they are all doing.
Attendees may not realize how much informational products and literature they will accumulate and don’t always come prepared.  A nice bag would prove quite useful to them and your advertising campaign. 

Nexus Convention Tote - As low as $5.74

Bags promoting your company will be circulating around the entire showroom floor!  Best of all, they will continue acting as walking billboards even after the show is over.  No one is going to throw away a cotton bag.  They use them over and over again and take them all over the place.  Every time they do they will be taking you right along with them every step of the way!

Classic Cotton Convention Totes - As low as $3.50

How do you attract people who would be interested in your product to you booth?

Choose unique and creative tradeshow giveaways and trade show items for promotional handouts at your next trade show or event.  Browse our trade show ideas and make a promotional product selection to hand out at your next meeting or company trade show.

Create a buzz.

Your giveaway or gimmick doesn't have to be expensive, big or elaborate. Samples of your own product given away at intervals during the show are ideal. Novelty items such as key chains, pencils or pads of paper with your company and product name can be extremely effective. Sometimes something as simple as a large bowl of bite-sized chocolates or hard candies is enough to lure people to you booth. Use your imagination if your budget doesn’t allow for expensive giveaways. We have several trade show items under $1 that are fun and efficient.

Promotional Highlighter

Trade shows continue to draw big business for all types of industries. According to The Center for Exhibition Industry Research (CEIR), business-to-business spending for trade shows is third to advertising and promotion. http://www.ceir.org

What’s even more important? Trade shows offer you outstanding and powerful opportunities to build and strengthen relationships with personalized face to face contact.

Trade shows offer the best venues to elevate your marketing scheme and effectively promote your mission to your consumers. Trade show exhibitors are able to personally endorse their products or services directly to their target audience.

One crucial component to succeeding at trade shows is choosing effective promotional items. Logo items are a great way to advertise your company beyond the trade show floor.

Cost Effective Advertising - in more ways than one!

The Cube Pen features twelve cube faces with your choice of two stock labels, either a current year calendar or 12 individual motivational messages. Your logo or website imprinted on the barrel will make it complete. You can also create or customize the 12 piece label to suit your needs.

TCT is a telephone, Internet, and television provider in Basin, Wyoming that came to us for some farfromboring ideas for an upcoming tradeshow.  We supplied them with thousands of items including credit card mints, fans, sound buttons, and Laughing Men Pens. 

Marie Sparks, Marketing Director of TCT loved all of the items, and their tradeshow was wildly successful.   Here is a direct quote from Marie: “We are very pleased with our Farfromboring experience, and do plan to order more from you when the time comes. Have a great year!”

If you have a tradeshow coming up give FarFromBoring a call 866-751-7766

Are you looking for a tradeshow item that has measurable results and is eco friendly? Farfromboring has the perfect solution. A download card is an innovative product that appeals to every demographic. With 90% of the US population using the internet every day, the appeal of these value incentive cards keeps growing, and now they literally GROW! With products such as music downloads, ringtones, movie tickets, DVD’s, photo prints, pizza promo cards, and magazine subscriptions this powerful promotional product create a fun, exciting, and memorable experiences. With an optional personalized landing page that can capture information, do surveys or promote sweepstakes with your clients, this product is a unique potent platform. The cards are now available in a seeded variety! More than just recycled, the seeded paper comes from 100% post consumer junk mail! When planted and watered, the paper biodegrades away and the seeds are left to germinate into a garden of growth. Each cad contains a hearty mix of annual and perennial wildflowers that are sure to grow across all growing regions. Available with a four color process, this tradeshow promotion will keep giving!

Seeded Download Card Paper

Mix things up at your next trade show - Literally!

Not only are travel mugs useful and practical – they just got even better!!!

These mugs are not just for traveling any more. People use them everywhere these days – work, school and even at home. They are convenient and simple to use.

Customers are always looking for something different – well look no further!

This intuitive and unique design makes all the difference and is unlike any other mug! This self stirring mug makes mixing your favorite drinks a snap!

Just add up to 8 ounces of liquid and add a flavor of your choice to the mug then sit back and enjoy! Chocolate milk, hot chocolate, instant breakfasts, instant soups, or mixing powdered vitamins and supplements into water or juice. The propeller built into the base of the mug spins stirring your beverage for you.

The self stirring mug has a sip through safety lid and is easy to clean. Pour hot soapy water into the mug and stir. These mugs are not dishwasher safe and should not be completely submerged in water.

Really stir things up at your next trade show!

Looking for something different? The self stiffing travel mug makes for a unique and useful item your customers will love! Easily mix beverages such as hot chocolate, chocolate milk or soup. The mug has a built in propeller at the base which when activated spins mixing your beverage for you.

Cyclone Mug As low as $8.60

Create a stir at your next trade show!

Looking for a unique tradeshow item to advertise your business name or logo? How about this compact mini safe that potential customers can use everyday while constantly being reminded of your company. This nifty container stores money, keys, credit cards and jewelry while on the go! The beach safe comes in 4 vibrant colors and features a water tight gasket to help keep contents dry. And the carabiner clips to belt, purse or beach bag for easy portability.

Beach Safe with Carabiner Clip

What product will everyone attending a trade show be thankful to have? The clear view drawstring bag of course! This bag will be a necessity to stash all of the information that everyone will collect while wondering the venue. And best of all, it provides the perfect place to display and promote your own company. This practical item is sure to attract attendees to your booth!

Clear View Drawstring Bag - As low as $2.95

Tradeshow season is fast approaching. Don’t let your favorite items run out of stock!

I am new to the industry and have just experienced my first holiday season working with promotional products and I was very surprised at how quickly stock flew off the shelves and out of the warehouses. And I was even more surprised at the number of last minute shoppers that came to us for help. Even though we were able to help them find a great product, some of them were disappointed that their first choices were out of stock.

Don’t let this happen to your tradeshow. Start thinking about it now. Work with us. We will do our best to make certain that you have the most attractive booth, stocked with the most desirable far from boring products.

Reach out to a sales representative today to find out more about our trade show promotional products.

Alaina
FarFromBoring Sales Rep

No need to reinvent the wheel of tradeshow success! This great preshow mailer will bring the response you are looking for at your next trade show! Just send your target audience via mail, a totally customized printed card with a tear off section leading them to your booth. Once this ticket is presented at the show you will allow them to “Spin the Wheel”. You get to personalize the wheel with 6 prizes of your own choosing. Whether it’s free info or services from your company or unique promotional product gifts, you get to choose the incentive! On the back of the ticket, your potential client has filled out information that you get to choose…so you have now created your own follow up database! It’s the perfect 3 tier approach to effective trade show marketing! Choose between a table top prize wheel and a free standing prize wheel. Your logo will stand out in the center of the spinner. Contact your Farfromboring.com sales rep for your best solutions to Tradeshow Marketing!

Trade Show Traffic Builder - The Wheel

Play your cards right, and you just might have the best Tradeshow ever!

Have an upcoming tradeshow in a casino town, such as Las Vegas or Atlantic City? Farfromboring.com will help you increase your booth traffic and bring the fun and excitement of blackjack. Here’s the deal, a preshow mailer with a random skin packed card is sent to attendees. The attendee is encouraged to bring the unopened card to the booth. A board presented at your booth will have a predetermined “dealer hand”. This hand is custom printed to your specifications. If their cards are greater then the dealer hand, they win! You determine the prize levels for a tie or for hands greater then yours!

This post card has all the information you need to create an interest database! Follow up will be a breeze because you already know the potential clients you met with at the show. Simple and easy, this traffic builder is no gamble! Call Farfromboring.com today to make your tradeshow a success!

You can never underestimate the exposure that trade shows can generate for your company. One good way of getting noticed and getting your company noticed is by using a variety of Farfromboring.com promotional products. Lots of businesses have their logo on an ordinary pen, but have your potential clients every seen THE PEN AGAIN?! This is a sure way to grab someone’s attention and a great way to advertise your company or business!

Another great trade show item that’ll definitely get the traffic headed your way are these miniature candy packs filled with skittles. Everyone will need a little sugar rush to keep them going, and these little candies are the perfect way to sneak in your
company name or logo.

Tradeshow season is fast approaching and Farfromboring.com can help ensure that you have the most successful booth at the convention!

We have thousands of promotional ideas that are thoughtful and creative that will help you reach and captivate your target audience and communicate your objective.

According to Susan Friedmann, The Tradeshow Coach, here are some things to keep in mind when planning a trade show:

1. Have a Proper Exhibit Marketing Plan

2. Have a well-defined Promotional Plan

3. Use Direct Mail Effectively

4. Give Visitors An Incentive To Visit Your Booth

5. Have Giveaways That Work

6. Use Press Relations Effectively

7. Differentiate Your Products/Services

8. Use The Booth As An Effective Marketing Tool

9. Realize That Your People Are Your Marketing Team

10. Follow-Up Promptly

To find out more about how to best prepare for a trade show, reach out to a Farfromboring.com representative today.

“The key to your tradeshow success is wrapped up in the lead-management process.”- Susan Freidmann, CSP.

We here at Farfromboring.com have some excellent products that can help you ensure the most successful. One excellent idea is a music or ringtone download card.

A download card will:

1. Capture Demographics on your Target Audience
2. Build Customer Profiles with Survey and Sweepstakes Data
3. Receive full campaign metrics online

• Web Traffic
• User Sessions
• Redemption Rates

It’s also a product that is universally appealing. Music Downloads are attractive to all age ranges, genders, and income ranges as long as they have access to a broadband connection sometime in their day. Below are some recent statistics on Music Downloading in the US:

• Users between the ages of 25 and 54 are the most likely to have paid to download music, but more than half between the ages of 12 and 17 reported that they have paid for music —Ipsos-Insight, January 2005
  
• 2/3 of American households with internet access have digital music files on their PC. —Cyber Atlas, September 2003
  
• By 2006, the installed base of mp3 players will top 26 million. —Jupiter Research, 2004

We not only have music downloads available, but also ringtones, phone time, photo prints, and movie tickets.

Reach out to a Farfromboring.com representative today to discuss further options.

Music Download Card

Looking for a unique trade show giveaway? Try an eco-friendly product that is unique and memorable. Try one of our Evergreen Seedlings and show how they can "grow" with you. Farfromboring will help you think out of the box and find the perfect product for your trade show needs. Check out our eco-friendly category for more options or contact a farfromboring professional today.

Promotional Seedling

Farfromboring.com is the natural choice for thousands of companies looking for the best and most unique trade show giveaway around. We are the place to go when you need a new idea that will give your booth the buzz it deserves. Trade shows are no small investment, companies invest thousands on exhibition supplies, travel expenses, and man hours. Don't forget about one of the most essential parts of the show, generating traffic by giving away a gift that compliments your marketing plan and makes your business and product the most memorable once everyone goes home. Farfromboring.com will match your companies needs, goals, and budget with the right products. A great item that is sure to sway visitors over to you is to offer them something they want (and need). Bottled water is a great item since we all know walking for hours can be exhausting and waiting on line at a snack bar takes away precious time. Custom water is a great way for people to say "hey, where did you get that?' and there you have it, increased traffic!

Promotional Water

Be the Belle of the trade show! Farfromboring.com sales reps are waiting by the phone, eager to offer help. Our knowledgeable and friendly staff are experts in the field, have been to many trade shows, and know what works! We can even offer many ideas that are specific to your industry.

Finding the perfect promotional product to suit your needs is essential. According to Print Solutions Magazine, studies conducted for PPAI by Louisiana State University and the University of Texas at San Antonio revealed participants preferred ad specialties over TV advertising.

Give the perfect item that is useful and intriguing and will have the trade show attendants coming back for more and staying longer! Farfromboring.com can help!

Trade Show Giveaways