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I have lots of experience with this one! (Both with doing my own booths and in plannng an entire trade show.) First, think BIG, not EXPENSIVE! Depending on the location of your booth, if you're one of the first booths, the best thing to give away is the plastic bags for the attendees to carry their goodies in........each person will carry YOUR LOGO and advertising throughout the night, and become a walking billboard for you. Another inexpensive idea is to have helium balloons with your logo/company name on them.......some people won't want to carry your balloon all night, so you put a 'prize' in SOME of them. Tell the attendees that they can't pop their balloon till a certain time at the end of the night, and if they win, they can come by your booth to collect their prize.....depending on your budget, it could be a gift certificate; a free product or service from your business; a prepaid phone card; even an inexpensive am/fm headset. Again, the people will be walking advertising for you all night. Another great give-away is computer mousepads.......if yours is cute and catchy, it'll stay on their desk! Try to be a little unique....everyone gets so many cheap keychains, pens, soda huggers and magnets!

To display your pictures, if you don't have a vertical backdrop, you can use a 3-panel room divider to create your own 'wall' and put pictures on that. (Just make sure you secure it, so it can't fall into your neighbor's booth behind you!)

If you need to round-out your booth, you can always use plants for 'filler.' A few larger items work much better than a bunch of little items, which tend to look cluttered.

Good Luck!

I did not give out balloons> They were more for decorative purposes and I gave out these really kool foam boomerangs with my logo on them>(sorry my period button is not working)i orderd five hundred i also did a raffel for a kids digital camera which brought a lot of people over to the table SOMETHING WACKY IS GOING ON WITH MY COMPUTER $!)#@($(#$)(#* NONE OF THE BUTTONS ARE WORKING CORRECTLY> SORRY

Thank you for the great ideas. Nataly - I will check out Kinko's, I just assumed they would be too expensive. Also, it was helpful to look at the picture of your booth. Looks like you had something clipped to your banner. Pammy, the foam board was what I was originally thinking about but couldn't figure out how to put it up - so the foarm boards must not be that heavy if ribbon and velcro will hold them? How big of a picture would you suggest. I was hoping to get at least two pictures up. The back drape is 8 feet high (maybe 10 feet wide).

Does the booth include a back curtain or is there any kind of back drop for you to start with? How big are the pictures? consider mounting them on foam board and then you can use ribbon and velcro to hand them off the frame of the curtain. My husband & I have done a few similar displays. Feel free to email me details and I'll offer suggestions if I can.

I did recently. They supplies the table clothes, chairs and a waste basket.
I went to a discount party supply store and found ballons that was similiar in vide my logo. I also bought candy that matched the colors in my logo and put them in a clear bowl. Everyone loves candy - so I got a lot of people to stop by. My husband and I also wore matching shirts with my logo. If you can buy flowers that is always a nice touch. Do they supply a banner with your company name? Also if you want to use a laptop, make sure they can support that. Good luck and have fun!