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From technical to tangible: visualisations on the exhibition floor

Ton Kuper

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Ton Kuper

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Ton Kuper

Founder & managing director

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Virtual showroom on screen during exhibition

TL;DR

It is exhibition season again. Stand designs are being finalised, banners ordered, content prepared. Yet every year we notice the same thing: many companies pay all their attention to the stand, and hardly any attention to what a visitor actually sees and understands there.

That is a missed opportunity, especially with technical products. A visitor walks past hundreds of stands in just a few seconds. A brochure or a static product photo requires explanation. And that conversation is often exactly what is missing, because your colleagues are with another visitor, or the stand is busy.

What works: showing instead of explaining

The solution does not lie in more text or a larger screen, but in content that explains itself. An animation, an interactive 3D model or a touchscreen application can show in thirty seconds what a text would need ten minutes for.

A good example: for Arlanxeo we built an interactive 3D product explorer for the exhibition floor. Visitors could click on any part of a car and immediately see which of Arlanxeo's more than 140 products plays a role in it. No explanation needed, no queue waiting for an employee: the content did the work, even during the busiest moments.

We see the same principle with clients who deploy a virtual showroom. It doesn't just run on the stand, but also on the website and in sales meetings afterwards. Visitors who saw something at the exhibition can find it again afterwards and share it further internally.


Nijhuis Saur visaulisaties tijdens beurs

Three questions before you step onto the exhibition floor:

Does your content speak the language of your visitors? At an international exhibition, content that is only in Dutch is a missed opportunity, especially if you want to tap into new markets there.

Do you show what your product does, or just what it looks like? A render is nice, but a render that shows the operation convinces faster.

Can a visitor click, rotate or try something out themselves? Interaction keeps people at your stand longer, and active attention sticks better than passive viewing.


Remeha Visualisaties tijdens beurs

What this leads to

Companies that focus on this see exactly what you would expect: visitors who stay longer, conversations that get straight to the point instead of the basics, and content that gets a second life on the website and in sales after the exhibition.

Are you going to the exhibition floor soon with a technical product or system? Don't just think about the stand, but especially about what runs on it. Curious about what that could mean for your exhibition presentation? See how we approach that, or check out a number of cases in which we have worked this out for clients.

What works: showing instead of explaining

The solution does not lie in more text or a larger screen, but in content that explains itself. An animation, an interactive 3D model or a touchscreen application can show in thirty seconds what a text would need ten minutes for.

A good example: for Arlanxeo we built an interactive 3D product explorer for the exhibition floor. Visitors could click on any part of a car and immediately see which of Arlanxeo's more than 140 products plays a role in it. No explanation needed, no queue waiting for an employee: the content did the work, even during the busiest moments.

We see the same principle with clients who deploy a virtual showroom. It doesn't just run on the stand, but also on the website and in sales meetings afterwards. Visitors who saw something at the exhibition can find it again afterwards and share it further internally.


Nijhuis Saur visaulisaties tijdens beurs

Three questions before you step onto the exhibition floor:

Does your content speak the language of your visitors? At an international exhibition, content that is only in Dutch is a missed opportunity, especially if you want to tap into new markets there.

Do you show what your product does, or just what it looks like? A render is nice, but a render that shows the operation convinces faster.

Can a visitor click, rotate or try something out themselves? Interaction keeps people at your stand longer, and active attention sticks better than passive viewing.


Remeha Visualisaties tijdens beurs

What this leads to

Companies that focus on this see exactly what you would expect: visitors who stay longer, conversations that get straight to the point instead of the basics, and content that gets a second life on the website and in sales after the exhibition.

Are you going to the exhibition floor soon with a technical product or system? Don't just think about the stand, but especially about what runs on it. Curious about what that could mean for your exhibition presentation? See how we approach that, or check out a number of cases in which we have worked this out for clients.

Case study in the spotlight

Exhibition marketing concept that stands out at global trade fairs – Pentair

Pentair carries multiple sub-brands and products within the food and beverage industry. For visitors at international trade fairs, it was difficult to see what all those brands and products meant for them. We developed Pentair World: a single visual concept in which all market segments, brands, and products come together into a logical whole, told from the customer's perspective rather than from the product range. The world as a metaphor: each continent represents a market, and for each market, you see a cross-section of real-life practice with the products that play a role in it. That concept now forms the common thread in all visual content that Pentair uses at trade fairs and beyond.

Pentair world

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