{"id":7629,"date":"2010-12-14T07:30:15","date_gmt":"2010-12-14T12:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.albany.com\/hr\/2010\/12\/putting-personality-into-your-performance-at-hr-or-business-trade-shows.html"},"modified":"2010-12-14T07:30:15","modified_gmt":"2010-12-14T12:30:15","slug":"putting-personality-into-your-performance-at-hr-or-business-trade-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.albany.com\/hr\/2010\/12\/putting-personality-into-your-performance-at-hr-or-business-trade-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Putting Personality into Your Performance at HR or Business Trade Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past Saturday I had a table at a local trade show\/craft fair, and had great results meeting some new potential customers and clients. In the facility with 29 other vendors, I saw varying degrees of interest in selling and promoting services. The approach by the most successful was to offer a pleasant greeting when people came by, and by taking a passive but professional approach to each customer.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>Some of the best trade shows and booths that I have been to over the years have had a high energy feel to them, but didn&#8217;t go to far with it by coming across as hard-sell. Booths that saw less results either had people who hid behind displays, seemed disinterested in being there, or were too pushy or not pushy enough.<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>The key with trade shows, to me, is to try different venues and target markets out each year, and only repeat a show if you saw results that were above and beyond expectations. Sometimes, changing a venue opens you up to a completely different audience before and a new mix of vendors.<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>Sometimes, the best source of new business as well is the people hosting the event or the vendors you work alongside; don&#8217;t dismiss them as potential new partners, customers or resources.<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>Next time you do a trade show or booth for your business, take all these things into account.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past Saturday I had a table at a local trade show\/craft fair, and had great results meeting some new potential customers and clients. 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