Successful Trade Show Outcomes - How to Achieve Multi-million-dollar Opportunities from Trade Shows *New!*
Overview
Both local and overseas trade shows can open up many mega and untapped opportunities.
However, exhibition booths and marketing events can be costly. But how effective have these been for your business?
Have you invested in $10,000s and are disappointed with the ROI?
Are these due to strategy or skill set issues?
Is it common to see trade show more for branding or for sales closures with solid lead generation and partnerships?
Let’s re-examine the approach to maximise every trade show conversation to the fullest with a strategic approach and booth-manning techniques. This responsibility need not just reside on Sales and Marketing, but to all who are manning the booth.
Event Detail
Programme Outline:
Booth-manning skills
Rapport building
Presentation
Questioning techniques
Lead qualification
Follow-up to closure
Use of customer data, pipeline metrics, and simple performance indicators to guide sales prioritisation, execution, and review.
Learning Outcome:
Build rapport with trade visitors
Converse effectively with strategic questions
Stage an impressive booth presentation
Identify implicit and explicit concerns and challenges
Formulate a holistic lead pre-qualification approach
Engage in a meaningful and fruitful exchange for opportunities
Set up a follow-up mechanism to advance to the next step of the business process
Apply data‑driven sales strategies using practical tools and translate learning into a structured action plan with measurable business impact.
Programme/Agenda
This module enables participants to provide positive branding, introduce corporate solutions, understand competitive landscape, pre-qualify opportunities and nurture them to deal closures or partnerships.
Participants will:
Gain practical frameworks, tools, and reference examples that can be applied immediately in their business or professional context, including digital (LinkedIn), regional, and international sales considerations
- be guided to identify practical indicators to assess sales effectiveness and ROI, such as lead quality, conversion rates, deal velocity, and post‑engagement outcomes.
- be introduced to regional and global go‑to‑market considerations, including partner‑led expansion, cross‑border selling approaches.
Trainer Profile
Christina Tan brings over 30 years of sales leadership and entrepreneurial experience across Asia Pacific. Her strengths include opening new markets, penetrating complex accounts, and developing them into long-term revenue contributors. She has driven strong sales results for SMEs and MNCs across key industries and is known for building rapid rapport and trusted relationships with customers and partners.
Using a structured methodology rooted in strategy, self-management, systems, and service excellence, Christina helps clients improve lead quality, elevate sales performance, and accelerate career and business growth. Her approach builds repeatable success through holistic sales skills enablement and practical solutions. A hands-on practitioner, Christina actively shares her experience to help business owners and sales professionals achieve consistent breakthroughs, navigate challenges, and stand out in competitive markets.
WHY SHOULD I ATTEND
The workshop incorporates SME‑relevant case studies, real‑world success stories, guided discussions, and practical exercises, enabling participants to analyse what worked, what did not, and why, in comparable business contexts.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Sales, Pre-Sales, Product and Marketing Teams involved in exhibitions and events.
Contact Detail
Email: josephine.ong@sbf.org.sg
Tel: 67011135
Wednesday, 26 August 2026 - Wednesday, 26 August 2026
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
160 Robinson Road #06-01 SBF Center Singapore 068914