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Danish shoe brand Ecco hosted a special event for fashion bloggers on April 18 at the Scandinavia House on New York City’s Park Avenue to promote the brand’s couture chops in addition to its legendary comfort. Ecco took over the upper level and outdoor balcony at the venue where it displayed its new collections and walked attendees through its men’s and women’s offerings.

To connect with college kids and promote its Flavors with Benefits campaign, beverage brand SoBe activated at Spring Break hotels, beaches and nightspots with samples and other freebies. The four-week program took place from March through early April at Lake Havasu, AZ, Panama City Beach, FL and South Padre Island, Texas.

BRAND: KIA
AGENCY: EWI Worldwide
CAMPAIGN: Close Encounters of the KIA Kind

How to bring your brand message to life at a trade show? Let us count the ways. There’s signage and graphics, high-tech experiences and theatre presentations, press events and cocktail parties, to name a few. But trade shows can also be a forum to release a brand’s more creative side. Like Lenovo did this year at CES when it hired Hollywood stuntmen to ride through Las Vegas on top of taxis and limos. Or Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, which turned rubber duckies and conga lines into business-generating engagement tools.

If you want to have a meaningful engagement with attendees in your booth, the first thing you have to do, after you get them there, is to encourage them to stick around. After all, your booth is an ideal touch point for cementing face-to-face relationships and providing hands-on information about your product or service. But you’re competing with hundreds of other exhibitors for the attendees’ time and attention.