What are exhibits like @ LifeSavers?

CarSeatPoncho · Dec 26, 2007

Well, I'm going to exhibit at LifeSavers in Portland OR next April! I am so excited!

I know a lot of you have gone, so I was wondering if anyone could tell me how elaborate and/or professional (or basic and simple) the exhibitors get? Since I'm a startup, I am, well, FRUGAL is one way to put it, but I do want to be taken seriously.

If anyone has any pictures, I'd love to take a look.

Thanks in advance!

PS: I was totally absent here for the past month, bc poncho orders were AMAZING! Thanks to all of you for your support and help in getting the word out. The feedback has been wonderful and it really helps me keep going.

Hope you all had a wonderful holiday! xo

joolsplus3 · Dec 26, 2007

Oh COOL!!!! I love love love mine, but my extremely moody 2 yo won't wear it yet

You basically get a table, like 6 or 8 feet long and 2.5 feet deep, and you can make it plain or fancy... Like last year the Sunshine Kids one was just Russ standing there with 2 car seats, though the year before that they had a fabulous array of aftermarket products on the wall behind them (seems there's a way to hang stuff up there...?). Some people give away loads of gadgets (buttons, keychains...), but we appreciate a fishbowl full of tootsie rolls if that's all you can afford

. Anyway, I hope someone has pictures, but it's really very standard exhibit hall stuff, so you might get good ideas from just googling for ideas about that.

:thumbsup:

ThreeBeans · Dec 26, 2007

What about a large posterboard with bullets on why it's unsafe to wear a coat in the car, and then show the alternative; blown up photographs of different sized children in various car seats in your ponchos :twocents:

Victorious4 · Dec 26, 2007

So happy for you :cool!: Wish we were going....

I'm positive you'll be great & ditto ThreeBeans' ideas :2thumbsup: I'd also include a hands-on life-size doll in carseat for techs to play with using a poncho: give-aways are always a smash, too!

P.S. my kiddo can't get enough of hers

It's pretty amusing -- her fave outfit day in day out is my green floor length Prof. Sprout skirt tied around her waist by a belt with blow up Pirate sword attached & the poncho (no shirt or shoes)

I've lost track of all the various characters she pretends to be in this outfit, LOL! Sorry, I should take a picture to share with you

I do have 1 of her in the car which I'll email, though....

ThreeBeans · Dec 26, 2007

What about tiny doll poncho giveaways? Make leeetle tiny ponchos with your website embroidered on them. Something that fits the standard 16-18" doll?

skaterbabs · Dec 26, 2007

That's a good idea! You could raffle off one poncho as well. Someone did that last year. They had a fishbowl on the table & some index cards and at the end of the convention they drew a name and gave away the whatever-it-was.

joolsplus3 · Dec 27, 2007

ThreeBeans said:
What about tiny doll poncho giveaways? Make leeetle tiny ponchos with your website embroidered on them. Something that fits the standard 16-18" doll?

EEEEEEEEEEK!!!!! YES!!!!!!!! If I had one of those now, my dd might wear hers...I wonder if I can hack up a blanket and fool her (I don't sew...at ALL... It'll have to be pinking shears and safety pins if I do it

)

CarSeatPoncho · Dec 27, 2007

Great ideas! I can definitely do a raffle and Tootsie Rolls. Doll ponchos, I'm not so sure, but I can see where you're going on that... maybe I can get a magnet made or something useful, pens? ... wow, I am excited and nervous!

Do people buy things there? Should I bring inventory or is that a no-no? I'll also email the LSver people...

spokaneCPST · Dec 27, 2007

I got an email that pens with logos are "free" at Vista Print today! It sounds like you are getting some fabulous ideas.
Renee

joolsplus3 · Dec 27, 2007

I've bought a few things from booths...mugs from Safetybeltsafe...and a locking clip pin from some other place...I know I WANTED to buy a bucklebag, they probably could have sold dozens of those. You should find out the rules, though...

murphydog77 · Dec 27, 2007

I wish I were going! I don't think I am, though. I've got pictures . . . somewhere. Let me see if I can find something and I'll put some up.

skaterbabs · Dec 27, 2007

the Bucklebag people said that they weren't allowed to sell; I think SBS was given special permission or something.

Victorious4 · Dec 28, 2007

joolsplus3 said:
I've bought a few things from booths

Yep, I also bought a couple things from SafetyBeltSafe & the Buckle Bag guy was willing to let me place an online order with the discount coupon via his laptop set up right there -- just didn't have that $

jen_nah · Dec 28, 2007

I soooo wish I could go to Lifesavers this year. I could if I wanted to pay my own way but we want to take the girls to Seaworld & SC this year so I need to save my pennies instead.

I think I tended to explore the ones that had more info or stood out more then the basic booths. Or even raffle 1 poncho off on the last day. I know that got several booths more exposore.

azgirl71 · Dec 28, 2007

I am going to LS. I will be watching for your booth

AliRR · Dec 28, 2007

I was also going to suggest VistaPrint for making magnets, business cards, pens, and other stuff with your info on it to give away.

skaterbabs · Dec 28, 2007

You can also get little candies or keychains with your website on them to hand out. That's pretty cheap.

brooklynsmommy · Dec 30, 2007

Do you have to be a tech to be able to go to this?

tarynsmum · Dec 30, 2007

Oh man! I swore the next LifeSavers was in Nashville (turns out that's the one in '09). Guess I'll be going in 2 years then...

azgirl71 · Dec 30, 2007

tarynsmum said:
Oh man! I swore the next LifeSavers was in Nashville (turns out that's the one in '09). Guess I'll be going in 2 years then...

I hope DH lets me go to 09 too

. I was suprised he said I could go to this years.

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