Forget everything that you, as an exhibitor, have learned about trade fairs. Simply waiting for sales leads to accumulate at trade fairs no longer works. While in the past many exhibitors have been able to rely on the pull effect of global corporations being there as well, these days they have to attract their own booth visitors. What visitors expect…

“Topic Worlds? Sounds like a sales campaign at a department store. What’s that got to do with me, a B2B supplier?”, you might be asking yourself, when such campaigns are best known to do well by focusing on “all your kitchen needs” or something similar. “What would that achieve in B2B?”, we at LUMITOS were thinking about two years ago.…

Does this sound familiar to you? You’ve prepared well for that important trade fair. You want to gain new customers at your booth. Later, after the trade fair, you discover that 95% of the visitors were again only existing customers. This is what happened to me many years ago with my trade fair preparation for the analytica 2000. As a…

Where do the member companies of SPECTARIS, the German Industry Association for Optics, Photonics, Analytical and Medical Technologies, stand when it comes to sharing know-how by offering webinars? To answer this question, we analyzed the websites of the member companies: Who offers webinars for existing and potential customers? Are the webinars made available live or on demand? How many webinars…

When launching a new product, you must advertise it vigorously to attract as many potential buyers as quickly as possible, because even the best product won’t sell by itself. Why should it be any different for your webinar? Here, too, you need to make it clear to potential participants that there is a webinar of interest to them about a…

The future of trade fairs is uncertain. Attendance at corporate workshops is in continued decline, simply because potential visitors have less freedom to travel. Field sales can hardly visit customers at their premises anymore. As a result, communicating with existing and potential customers is becoming increasingly difficult. All of this leads to a difficult situation. Buyers still want to get…

In part 1 of our miniature series “How to make your webinar generate sales leads” we gave you an example of how aggressive sales tactics can put off potential customers. Based on a recent GDPR campaign of ours, we’ll now show you how to do it better. Within 90 seconds of sending out our mail blast, we received the first…

There are many horror scenarios about the consequences of the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on the internet at the moment. Some sites give you useful suggestions on how companies should implement necessary changes. But you will hardly find an answer to a key question: Will it remain legal to use sales leads generated through web portals after the…

Generating sales leads online has become one of the most important marketing objectives for B2B companies. They are typically obtained by placing enquiry forms on the company’s own website, on dedicated landing pages or on B2B internet portals. Users with questions or information requests fill them in, submitting their contact details, all in the expectation of receiving a quick and…

When searching the internet for new software that our company could use, I regularly come across webinars or videos that give me a quick impression of how a software solution works and what its typical uses are. This helps me to assess with little effort whether the tool could be suitable for us and if it is worth looking at…