Jodie Chapman - Marketing StrategistContact
Work/Trade Show Marketing/2023

Trade shows without the booth theater

Less swag, more signal.

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Trade Show MarketingFig. 04

Challenge

Six-figure booth budgets producing scanned badges nobody followed up on.

Strategy

Replaced the booth-and-pray model with a hosted-conversation strategy: invite-only dinners, executive roundtables, and a smaller, sharper presence.

Execution

  1. 01Pre-show ABM warm-up sequence to target accounts
  2. 02On-site executive roundtables instead of demos
  3. 03Post-show narrative content built from live conversations

Quote

"We stopped competing for attention and started earning it."

- CMO

Results

qualified meetings per show

−40%

trade show spend

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