Oxygen Bar Rentals for Trade Shows & Conventions

Trade Show Tips

1. You won’t succeed at trade shows if you just show up. A trade show first-timer may think that because they have paid a few grand
to rent a 10 x 10 space for a few days, they automatically will reap the countless leads and sales from the show’s attendees. If only...
Surprise surprise! The reality is that you actually only paid for access to this great audience of buyers. Now you have to do your part,
such as train your staffers, create a promotion that attracts qualified prospects, and design your trade show display to entice the right
visitors to your booth. An Airheads Oxygen & Aromatherapy bar fits perfectly into a 10 by 10 area and will serve as the ultimate "people
magnet" within your booth. We can help you create the perfect "tag-line" and promotion for your company and products.

2. Trade shows are not as glamorous as they looked from the outside. To the uninitiated, this is what trade show marketing looks like
from the outside: Flying around the country to sunny or metropolitan locations, staying in top-tier hotels and meals on the company
dime, and access to top-level company execs. But seen from the inside, trade shows are not so glamorous. Trade shows
themselves are very hard work with a lot of stressful moments before, during, and after exhibit hours. There are so many details to
master, and so many vendors you are depending on. You can sweat more during exhibit set-up than a month of work outs. And while
travel can be exciting, it gets old fast when you are repeatedly away from home and your family. Here is where you leave most of the
worry behind by hiring Airheads Oxygen & Aromatherapy Bars. We will supply you with a turn-key package so you DON'T have to
sweat the set-up or lay awake at night thinking of marketing ideas.

3. Inertia determined much of your company’s show schedule. In the many years before you were handed the reins to your company’
s trade show marketing, your company cobbled together quite a list of shows. But are they all still worth it? Were some trade shows
chosen because your target market was there, or because your competitors were? Has your client base evolved away from the
demographics of some of the shows you exhibit at? Have some shows eroded their attendee base by not reinvesting in strong
marketing and educational content? Are there new vertical markets that you have yet to find good shows to market to? It’s up to you to
break the inertia — and create some new momentum. If your company DOES exhibit at multiple shows during the course of the year,
Airheads Oxygen & Aromatherapy Bars services the globe so we can offer you a multi-show discount on our services. This will keep
uniformity, continuity, and eliminate your sleepless nights searching for other marketing ideas in other show locations.

4. You always get what you pay for... EXCEPT AT TRADE SHOWS! Trade show labor is way more expensive than you think, and
sometimes it’s even worth it. It’s a eye-opener to find out how much you will pay someone else to set up your booth, hook up your
lights, or rig that hanging sign, especially if it’s on a weekend, or God forbid, on a Sunday. The union rules in most venues require
that you pay labor a wage that adds up in a hurry. You can minimize labor costs by getting easier to set up trade show displays, trying
to schedule your set up for straight-time labor, and by lining up dependable contractors. I’ve found some Exhibitor Appointed
Contractors are worth it, as they work hard to earn you business, show after show. You can eliminate most of that headache by hiring
an outside contractor such as Airheads Oxygen and Aromatherapy Bars to set-up and break-down their own equipment. We give you
a turn-key price for our services so there are no additional costs or surprises for you to obsess over.

5. You will blow your trade show budget if you don’t plan well. You can never plan too far ahead, especially for overseas shows. Your
budget was likely set with the best-case scenario for your trade show expenses, without room to pay for late fees and rush charges.
That’s powerful incentive to quickly master the show book. Fortunately, after several shows you learn what you really need to order
(electrical, leads machine, carpet) and what form pages you will likely skip (plumbing, signage, security). A pad of Post-It Notes or a
good electronic scheduling software helps you flag your most pressing deadlines. Again, signing a multi-show agreement with
Airheads Oxygen and Aromatherapy Bars will insure better pricing.

6. Everybody wants to help you pick the trade show exhibit color. No one wants to help you track the leads. When it comes to exhibit
design, everyone has an opinion. And in the time leading up to the show, they will all clamor to offer their ideas, making it harder to
get the booth built on time without rush charges. Yet after the show, you will have a harder time getting similar participation in tracking
the leads from the show – ostensibly the reason you designed your exhibit in the first place. Remind your colleagues that if you can
NOT prove the results from this year’s show, you won’t be exhibiting at the show next year.
Airheads Oxygen and Aromatherapy Bars will GUARANTY increased booth traffic or we will refund your money! If you hire us, THEY
will come!

7. The 10 minutes after the show closes is when most damage happens to your trade show exhibit. The show ends with a voice
booming over the loudspeakers saying, “The show is closed, see you next year.” But to impatient booth staffers, it’s as if they had
actually shouted, “Drivers, start your engines!” Booth staffers hurry to win the race to the taxi stand, hotel, bar, restaurant, or parking
lot. And if you have a portable trade show display that your booth staffers pack up, this is when they break it, by shoving it in its case
as fast as they can. Close that expensive window of time by getting a more durable display, getting better packaging, or just by having
a frank conversation with your staffers before the closing bell. Or, if you’re the one who wants to win the race, take a deep breath and
slow down before you make a costly mistake. Another way to avoid the 'rush-hour' is to leave the break-down to the professionals
who set-up. When you hire Airheads Oxygen and Aromatherapy Bars to display in your trade show booth, you acquire that piece of
mind.

8. Drayage is the most expensive way to move your exhibit the shortest distance. As a trade show newbie, one of the biggest
surprises is that you have to pay to have your exhibit moved from the shipping dock to your booth space. Even more shocking is just
how much you’ll have to pay — about the same to move something across a convention center as it does to ship it across country.
Drayage rates have risen by double-digit percentages in some of the last few years, probably because more exhibitors switched to
lighter weight trade show booths like Skyline’s. To offset the lower weight of exhibit properties, drayage charges per pound have
increased. If your exhibit is still made the old-fashioned way, it’s a double-whammy. When you contract Airheads Oxygen and
Aromatherapy Bars, our bartender/technicians usually carry the equipment in themselves thus eliminating those nasty drayage costs.
If we DO have to ship to the trade show site prior to set-up, in most cases our modular bar is contained in a 175 lb. ATA shipping case
(with casters) and measures 48 inches long by 28 inches in depth by 28 inches in height. Drayage (if any)
would be inconsequential.

9. It’s hard for booth staffers to take their very first lead at a trade show. In our lives we go though various, potentially scary rites of
passage: learning to ride a bike, going to your first day of school, asking for a date to the prom. While all of these have been
immortalized in film, no movie has yet to bring to the silver screen the epic tale of a first-time booth staffer engaging and writing up
their first trade show lead. What would yours have been, a horror film? A comedy? A tragedy? Whatever kind of movie it would be, it
would also be a drama, because it’s you’re likely filled with nervous energy as you go out and ask a perfect stranger face to face if they’
d like to do business with your company. Just remember that your booth visitors actually paid to visit the show, and many are
shopping for solutions to their problems that your products can solve. Practice the process of engage, qualify, present, and close,
and you’ll be more comfortable taking your first lead. Airheads Oxygen and Aromatherapy Bars bartenders can help your team. Our
bartender/technicians are all good-looking and personable, and if given a company shirt to wear and some basic information about
your product(s), OUR people can be an asset within your trade show booth environment.

10. Trade shows can be addictive. With the hard work, long hours, and time away from home, some people can’t wait to return from
their trade show. But for others, trade shows are a calling. They get all fired up by the performance aspect, the blitz of direct client
contact, and the relationships built before and during the show. They like the ability to create a successful marketing program in a
medium built upon the value of face-to-face interactions. And that’s when trade shows really become addictive: when you master the
medium and drive serious revenue to your company’s bottom line. Airheads Oxygen and Aromatherapy Bars mission is to help your
company achieve and exceed all of your trade show marketing goals.

I hope that if you’re an experienced exhibitor that you’ve been nodding in agreement as you read this, and that you share this with your
newer trade show marketing staff. If you have any of your OWN important lessons, please add them in the comments box below. If
you have a trade show which you would like to have quoted by us, please click here and give us the information that we need to give
you a bona fide and turn-key quote.

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The following are 10 things you should know BEFORE you start exhibiting at trade shows:

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