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3 Easy Ways To Improve Trade Show Marketing With Social Media

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How Do Trade Show Marketing And Social Media Marketing Fit Together?

Trade show  marketing and social media feed into each other in a way that causes your brand and product exposure to snowball. Yes, you’ll put in some work to make the snowball and get it to the top of the hill, but once you’ve done that, it will begin to expand on its own as it gains momentum. Here are some of the simplest ways to incorporate social media marketing into your trade show plans. These social media for trade show marketing tactics may be simple, but the results can be quite impressive.

  • Hitch A Ride On A Hashtag – Hashtags are the single most important thing you can learn about social media. It’s far too complex a topic to explore here in depth, but one way you can use them immediately, to great effect, is to include the most popular hashtags that are genuinely applicable to every post. For example, if you’re posting about your booth at South-by-Southwest, include your own tags and #SXSW. Most large events have several tags, so do some homework to identify which are the most popular that apply to your post. Doing this  will help your post gain much broader exposure as people search for the more popular tag you’ve included. Free publicity!
  • Investigate Instagram – Instagram is arguably the most valuable social medium for businesses. There are several points to support that argument. Instagram allows longer posts than Twitter, so you can post in Standard English instead of cryptic jibberish. Instagram is, (obviously) visually driven, so you can use photos and graphics with click-through links on your posts. Unlike Facebook, Instagram doesn’t throttle your posts to the point that no one sees them. When an Instagram user creates a post, his connections see it. The best tool is the Instagram auto-post interface. It’s reliable and most Instagrammers use it to cross-post theirs to all of their connected accounts. That means when someone posts about your business on Instagram, it’s likely it will also end up on Twitter and Facebook at least, and possibly other media, as well.

Plan For A Post-Worthy Trade Show Display

You don’t need a giant budget, a super model, or a giant Ferris Wheel to create a post-worthy display. One cost-effective way to create a post-worthy display is to use banner stands. Place one near your booth with a great photo, graphic or quote with a hashtag on it; pick the right one and people will line up to take a picture with it. Create a series of banners and place them around the venue for a photo scavenger hunt, which is a popular pastime on Instagram. It may sound like a silly idea, but you might be surprised by how willing people are to engage in these kinds of fun, silly-sounding things.