Lead generation, staff training, and exhibitor strategy from 20+ years on the trade show floor - plus tips for the talent who work it.
How Las Vegas grew from early tourism promotion and the first LVCC convention into a modern trade show capital.
A Las Vegas pricing guide covering local staff, hotel compression, travel risk, venue logistics, and role complexity.
A Las Vegas staffing decision guide covering local talent, fly-in costs, airport risk, venues, traffic, and weather.
SEMA staffing notes for LVCC halls, transportation hubs, automotive demos, Vegas weather, and lead roles.
CES staffing notes for LVCC, Venetian Expo, ARIA, shuttles, rideshare, weather, and lead-capture roles.
Center-Strip staffing notes for Caesars Forum, Koval Lane, FORUM Plaza, LINQ Promenade, traffic, and booth roles.
Center-Strip staffing notes for Venetian Expo halls, Sands Avenue, Grand Canal Shoppes, traffic, and booth roles.
South Strip staffing notes for Mandalay Bay exhibit halls, resort routes, traffic, weather, and booth roles.
Hall-by-hall staffing notes for LVCC access, transit, weather, traffic, and booth roles.
Venue-by-venue staffing notes for LVCC, Mandalay Bay, The Venetian Expo, Caesars Forum, and Wynn.
See how trained booth talent attracts, qualifies, demonstrates, captures, and hands off attendees.
Compare the two roles by setting, objectives, skills, wardrobe, training, and measurement.
Plan professional, brand-aligned booth attire around the venue, assignment, schedule, and comfort.
Give booth talent the messages, workflow, logistics, escalation rules, and measurement plan they need.
Connect staffing performance to qualified conversations, demos, leads, meetings, pipeline, and revenue.
Realistic planning ranges by role, the costs quotes include, and a sample event staffing budget.
Compare duties, training, selection, use cases, and cost factors before choosing your campaign team.
Calculate headcount from usable booth space, conversation capacity, demos, breaks, and lead goals.
Book, select, brief, schedule, manage, and measure your booth team from eight weeks out through follow-up.
A scorecard-driven process for sourcing, interviewing, training, managing, and measuring brand ambassadors.
Separate worker pay from client billing and budget training, management, travel, and specialist skills.
Choose the right mix of ambassadors, booth staff, demonstrators, registration teams, qualifiers, and leads.
How to verify language ability, role skill, terminology, capture workflow, and event readiness.
Audition, train, schedule, and measure demonstrators who present accurately and create the right next step.
Practical openers, discovery questions, handoffs, exit lines, lead scoring, and capture fields.
Compare total cost, speed, control, payroll, training, replacements, safety, and administration.
Current planning guidance for venues, timing, badges, transportation, and show-specific labor boundaries.
What trade show models really cost in 2026 - hourly and daily rates by role, what drives the price, and a sample booth budget.
Define the role, pick the right partner, brief the team, manage the day - the step-by-step guide to booking booth talent that converts.
How to hire promotional models for the busiest trade show city in the country - what they do, what they cost, and why booking local wins.
What separates a brand ambassador program that drives sales from a logo on a polo shirt - recruiting, training, deployment, and measurement.
Most booth leads die in a badge scanner. Here's how to qualify on the floor, capture clean data, and hand sales a list worth working.
Great booth staff aren't born - they're briefed. The training checklist we run our talent through before every show.
Booth picked, flights booked - now what? The exhibitor moves that decide your ROI before the doors even open.
Clients book what they can see. The profile fields that get talent hired - and the blank ones that quietly cost you work.
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A note from our owner Caryn Hanna
