Field notes
First-hand stories and practical guidance on running customer meetings, booth coverage, and team schedules at trade shows and field events.
wo hundred customer meetings across three days breaks a spreadsheet by day two. How to book the exact person in a genuinely open slot, at conference scale.
Why software to run booth meetings costs $7,500 to $50,000 a year, what a custom quote really means, and what fair pricing looks like.
Sales teams abandon event meeting software when it is built for the manager. The three things a rep actually needs, and how to test for adoption before you buy.
Coordinating customer meetings across multiple reps at an event is a single live view problem. How to keep rooms, reps, demo stations, and meetings true at once.
When a spreadsheet is genuinely enough for event meetings, and when it quietly costs you meetings. The cost has changed the answer.
Event management software runs the conference for the organizer. Field marketers running a booth need the opposite. How to tell the two apart.
Teams repurpose Chili Piper to book booth meetings. It works to a point. Where an inbound web-lead tool stops being enough for a physical event, and what to use instead.
Your calendar manages time. Your spreadsheet manages data. Event coordination is the intersection, and neither tool manages the intersection.
You are coordinating four things at once at a booth — rooms, demo stations, the team, and customer meetings. They all collide on one timeline. That collision is work.
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