We had an ambitious goal - to ensure competent and efficient management of the flow, consisting of several types of customers.
There were held several tactical meetings with the heads of departments responsible for the following sales channels - distribution (B2B2C), project sales (B2B), retail sales (B2C) and heads of service departments (logistics and FEA, marketing, IT, HR, finance, etc.). As a result of the discussion it was decided:
Involve representatives of all channels as standers, dividing them into pre-agreed point-posts
Create clear instructions and checklists
For the first time our team represented at the trade fair a new international brand of porcelain stoneware and sanitary ware LAPARET, which belongs to one of the market leaders - the company Bauservice
Use uniform corporate clothing
Create a schedule of managers' duties and a schedule of scheduled negotiation time with existing clients
Scanner and business card recognizer, and it works great, everything is recognized correctly
The application is online, shows what the situation is already: how many visitors have been scanned, how many questionnaires have been worked through
The scanned data is instantly displayed in the app, no need to wait for it to download
I received a tremendous amount of enthusiastic thanks from our staff about the service. They said it was so convenient, fast, and informative that they didn't even expect it to be.
In the process, there were almost never any serious problems with the use of the application.
Number of LAPARET booth attendees
We had an ambitious goal - to ensure competent and efficient management of the flow, consisting of several types of customers.
According to the concept, the stand was divided into 2 functional zones - the exposition of porcelain stoneware samples itself and the zone for negotiations, and the total area was about 800 meters.
Given the specificity of the ceramic business and our key role on the market, we knew right away that we were in for a real rush of visitors. The fact is that our company is over 20 years old and in this time we have established a substantial network of partners all over Russia.
Despite our own IT service and the presence of mobile application developers (as part of the innovative development of our business, we created an ecosystem for organizing sales of porcelain stoneware through interior visualization), we came to the conclusion that we would not have time to create our own IT product for accounting checklists in the short term. Then we turned to the organisers of the Mosbuild exhibition, and they recommended that we apply to LeadFrog, which I did immediately.
The manager Ekaterina Genze quickly and easily helped us to understand the basic functional advantages of the mobile application and promised to provide technical support in the further adjustment.
After conducting an initial presentation to the team, I gathered feedback and suggestions for the composition of the checklist. The problem was that the project sales channel wanted to have a detailed questionnaire / check-list with related questions of three levels of depth, and the distribution needed a fairly simple questionnaire, as they were planning to use additional paper questionnaires, the retail initially did not plan any questionnaires, believing that it would be sufficient to have scanned contacts in the database.
In other words we could not create unified questionnaires or checklists. Then it was decided to create an algorithm or script to quickly identify and allocate a visitor to the most relevant booth attendee.
Roles were created for all the exhibitors - someone had to be at the reception all the time and deal only with the management of the flow, someone after the allocation of the visitor had consultations and negotiations, someone was helping and supporting his colleagues (bringing catalogs, promotional materials and souvenirs).
All this was embedded as dependent questions in a mobile application (see attached scheme). When the sales channel was specified, a separate list of questions appeared for each of the channels.
In the first minutes of the trade fair we realized that the application has a very important functionality:
Then it was decided to create an algorithm or script to quickly identify and allocate a visitor to the most relevant booth attendee
Possibility to create different dependent questionnaires. This allows you to choose a specific client path when interviewing a client
The application interface is designed for intuitive use all ergonomics, UX\UI, and button placement have been thought out
Number of LAPARET booth attendees - 89 people
Number of scanned badges - 3115 pcs
For each there is detailed information that went into the database and was grouped using Excel spreadsheets.
What difficulties were encountered:
The arrival of Polina Gagarina at the booth (Polina is the face of the brand and an active creator of LAPARET collections). There was a sharp influx of visitors from all over the trade fair, and it is clear that no one scanned their badge
Further data analysis - there were a lot of bad words about the registration system on the Mosbuild site. Phone numbers were not entered according to the same standard, which made further comparison with our CRM system difficult
It turned out that only 20% of our booth managers clearly worked off the checklists. Then they explained it by the fact that they did not have enough time, but a thorough analysis showed that this was not true: two managers with the same number of scans, but one had 95% of the questionnaires filled out, and the other had 0
The Mosbuild site does not have a unified system of addresses or cities when registering - there were also difficulties with combining clients by region
I would like to express special thanks to our LeadFrog manager Ekaterina Genze - she was at the trade fair, always helpful, and introduced us to her colleagues, which allowed us to quickly, «hot on the trail», discuss all possible ideas and improvements to the application.