If you’re planning to exhibit at a trade show, quite likely one of your goals is to procure sales leads while at the show. What you need to keep under consideration when it comes to leads, though, is that you are on the lookout for qualified leads”leads that are very likely to convert into tangible sales.

You do not need to present your sales department with hundreds of contacts if just a couple of of those contacts are going to result in tangible sales. Your ROI drops if the sales department puts time into calling leads that do not convert. Additionally, the sales dep. may become disheartened and stop calling your show leads, which reflects badly on your exhibition and on you.

As an alternative to bringing your sales department the contact details of each and every person who stopped in your booth at the show, bring them the contact data for the people who wanted to leave with your samples and your displays, especially if these prospects are able to of making these types of decisions for their firms and organizations. Those are your qualified leads.

Before you left for the show, in all your planning you conducted in preparation for the show, you outlined your target prospects. You decided who you wanted to meet at the show, who you wanted to entice into your booth, and it’s on these attendees that you are going to focus your attention.

When a target prospect enters your booth, you (and your booth staff) must be ready to ask him or her some questions which will further help you assess the quality of the lead. The questions you ask should be aimed at ranking the lead and placing the lead to a category. If you aren’t sure what kinds of questions to ask your leads, speak with your sales department. They know what kind of info is most helpful to them when attempting to close a sale. Their input should help you develop your questions.

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