Did anyone go to the Autumnfair.co.uk show at NEC........??

[jimbojones]

I have just spent the last 2 days networking, sourcing new suppliers and products for our up an coming company launch.

If anyone did visit the show I would like to hear your thoughts/reviews and if you are planning to go to any other trade shows this year/into next year ?

All the best,

Jamie

 

[Abdul]

Jamie,
Did you get lots of leads for your business. How many potential customers do you think you met at the fair? I have always viewed these as nothing but time wasting, but would like to hear your views on it. I have found better ways of networking that yield results.
Abdul
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[Pete Williams]

How do you find out about trade fairs etc?

 

[jimbojones]

Hi All,

In my opinion it was one of the best things we could've done in terms of striking up potential partners and most definately not a waste of time. The tradeshow was mainly directed at wholesalers/distributors but we had alot of success.

The show runs upto wednesday but after a day and a half we had made more than enough contact with suppliers (roughly 150ppl) to cover the 20 or so sites left to be populated in time for the launch.

Not everyone was so forthcoming to the idea of dropshipping, which was made even harder when micky mouse outfits were getting there before us and they weren't taken seriously - (with no company literature, brochure etc.)

However this did not deter me - we battled on and managed to get a number of people who said "no" initialy into, "we're definately interested".
Others were obviously clued up on the whole concept and gave us everything we needed in order to make it happen - so all in all I would recommend it to anyone who is interested in gaining valuable contacts in a short period of time or simply the latest products, crazes and other retail related stuff.

To answer your question Pete - I found out about it initially in the Trader magazine; I visited the website and ordered my free tickets straight away - easy as that. The site also contains details of similar shows to be held at the NEC.

If anyone has any questions on the above matter, I will be more than happy to answer them,

All the best

Jamie