Bridal Fashion Debut Show: Maximize Your Booth Investment

[Liquid Sky]

I have an opportunity to get a booth at a local Bridal Fashion Debut show. There are 4,600 registered people so far. The cost of the booth for January is $1250 and $750 for June 2009.

Has anyone done a booth at a huge event like this one before? My director told me that she has not had that great of experience with it b/c the show was sooooo huge and there were a billion different vendors there.

I dunno, I want to do it BUT want to make sure it would be worth my time and money. Of course I'd get a team of us consultants to split the cost and run it.

Thoughts? Experiences? Advice?

 

[pampchefsarah]

Has your Director done this particular Bridal show? What can you do differently to stand out from all the other vendors? Are you guaranteed to be the only TPC booth? What is the likelihood of earning your fee back, plus making an actual profit, within the following 30 days? Can you get enough other consultants to commit to make the fee per person reasonable?

These are the questions I would ask myself.

 

[confusedturtle]

My director tried really hard to get me to do these types of bridal shows but they are so expensive I just couldn't do it. She stressed that you may not make any sales that day but you'd get alot of contacts, it just wasn't convincing enough for me. It would be awesome publicity but for me I would have to pay for a sitter on top of paying for the booth. If I didn't come out making something immediately (or like the above post said in 30 days) I couldn't do it. If it is a 3 day thing that would be 400 per day, just have 4 consultants per day (a total of 12 consultants) and charge 100 each and it might be worthwhile. My director was an exec director, she can afford it much easier than I could. Then maybe split up all sales, and contacts, between the consultants. Bookings should go to the person who booked it since the host has begun a host/consultant relationship with that person. JMO