Expo Experience

[MomTo3]

Well, I thought others might be interested in my experience doing chair massage to promote my business this past week at a Business and Technology Expo. (If you're not you can just quit reading at this point!  ;D)Facts: 1. I shared the booth with a printing shop and internet consulting agency.1a.... The person who owns the Internet consulting agency is in my BNI group and I just approached him with the idea of sharing space when I heard he was going to be at the Expo. I knew I couldn't afford it on my own. 2. It cost me $166 for my share of the booth, $14 to get a name eforum.xxxe made up (should have already done this), $13 to get brochures copied and folded and $3 for a fish bowl for my drawing. Total: $196 plus a handful of business cards that I already had.3. I was there from 9:00 to 5:00.4. I did 36 chair massages and talked to many more.5. I had a drawing for one free hour of on-site chair massage at a business location. People loved dropping their business cards in for that! They figured if they won they would be the hit of the office.6. I got 75 people to enter the drawing. I'd say out of the 75, 25 were at least good leads, and 10 VERY good leads. 7. Jotting down notes on that backs of the business cards while talking to people was very beneficial later in the evening when I was sorting through the cards.8. I got one client on the spot....the printing shop!9. I really wasn't all that tired at the end of the day. People who were just standing at their booths were feeling a lot more sore than me. Part of that I attribute to wearing very good shoes. DON'T go for style over comfort! 10. Being pretty new to my area, this was great for just getting my name out there and meeting lots of "movers and shakers" in the community.Overall, I thought the time and money I spent were well worth it. Of course if some of these leads pan out then it will be even more so.

 

[pureinsomniac]

Expo Experience

I hope those leads DO pan out for you. Congrats on a successful expo!

 

[1:45.83]

Expo Experience

Good Job!

 

[Jassy]

so there i was, going to start a new thread, when a tiny voice inside my head said "do a search!"

... and i found this thread which was exactly what i needed..

i just got the date for the chamber's business expo in august and i can't wait to show off my new equipment (infrared body wrap)!

i was going to ask for ideas & such ( i haven't done one in about 4 years), but then i saw this ad. being the only LMT i will not be doing chair massage on 1000+ people... :shock: no way, not going to do it!

but if anyone else has done this lately and has some ideas to post, that would rock.

i'd forgotten about jotting down what you talk about with people on THEIR business card! good way to refresh your memory! and i hope to have a video of the service so if that works i will have that and a tv.. guess i need to make up a sign too. not much time! ooh i'm excited!

amanda
p.s. there are birds inside my chimney that are DRIVING ME CRAZY!

 

[dyingatheist]

aha! i just found this thread: http://www.massageplanet.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=610

about marketing with dvds (great idea) ... i could do a slide show of pix of the office, tx room, wullstones, reflexology, etc and just let that run.

it'll be way too loud in there to hear anything anyway.

yay! i'm so tickled that i found that thread!
amanda

 

[Khaled]

oh, sweet... my laptop... yeah!
i have a tv with a vhs in it but dind't think of the laptop!
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[Daniel John]

Well or one of those portable DVD players... less loss should it somehow "grow legs and walk"...