Organize to Handle Trouble Before It Arrives
Here are two tips that will help to reduce the odds of chaos taking over your next event.
We have three booths that we send out, quite often all at the same time. We always ship our literature and samples with the booth. Each time a booth comes back from the show it is set up and checked, and immediately re-stocked with literature and samples. This way, we never have to scurry around on shipping day trying to pull things together. Each booth has a check off sheet taped to the outside of the case that indicates it has been check and is ready to go.
- Nancy Smith, Nord-Lock Inc.
We have multiple trade show booths and set ups. We use Joboxes® (heavy-duty, secure storage boxes) and cover them and use them as part of the display set up. That way, we know where they are and can store supplies without looking sloppy. We have also keyed the locks to ALL of our boxes with the same lock. This way, each member of our entire sales staff has a key to access all the boxes we have at any show anywhere in the country. If someone forgets it, someone else there is sure to have a key that fits all of the locks.
- Bev Murphy, Master Magnetics