Trade-shows

Did you have a successful Spring Fair this year? This year’s Autumn Fair has been successful for Blue Alligator, increasing our presence over the years and meeting new and existing customers using SalesPresenter. Our support team were on hand to help our customers with any issues they encountered throughout the show to ensure you were getting the most out of the application. Towards the end of Autumn Fair, we got the chance to get a few testimonials from our customers. See below the customers we visited and click the link to access the full testimonials. Two’s Company had a great trade show using SalesPresenter, having information at their fingertips to give to their customers. Heathcote & Ivory utilised SalesPresenters features to its full potential increasing orders at the show. Giftscribes saved a huge amount of time with SalesPresenter when taking an order and has moved their company forward. Ashleigh & Burwood are existing customers who have used SalesPresenter at Autumn fair before and are seeing an increase in sales to their company.

We are attending! The Blue Alligator team are attending this year’s Autumn fair from the 2nd – 5th September 2018. We are looking forward to meeting our new and existing customers at this year’s trade show. Our support team will be attending the show to help our customers with any issues they might encounter throughout the week. Do you have any questions about SalesPresenter or CloudCart? Our sales team will also be attending to answer any questions about the products we have to offer. Make sure to stop by our stand and have a chat! Stand Number: Hall 5 Stand L40 Email: sales@blue-alligator.com We hope you have a successful Autumn Fair!

Did you have a successful Harrogate home and gift show this year? It has been a successful year at Harrogate home and gift for Blue Alligator. Meeting new and existing customers using SalesPresenter was the highlight of the show. Blue Alligator have been attending the home and gift show for multiple years, each year we see an increase in SalesPresenter users. We look forward to attending future trade shows and meeting new faces along the way. Did you get to speak to us?  If not, we can always arrange a call at whatever time suits you best. Email: sales@blue-alligator.com Or call directly: 01908 368001

Did you have a prosperous Spring Fair last week? It has been a successful show for the Blue Alligator team, meeting new customers that are using the app for the first time at the show and making sure our customers were utilising SalesPresenter to its full potential. Over the course of the 5 days, we had meetings and demonstrations with potential clients regarding SalesPresenter and how you can use it's features to increase orders and broaden your sales. We also got the chance to take a few photos with our customers when the show was drawing to a close, see below the customers we visited! Wrendale Designs Wrendale have seen a huge increase in productivity whilst using SalesPresenter at Spring Fair. Pigment Pigment is one of our newer customers, using SalesPresenter at Spring Fair made is easy to take orders throughout the busy periods of the show. The Source The Source, aka Gift Universe is using SalesPresenter for the first time at this year’s Spring Fair, and they were delighted to see its benefits. Ling Design These guys are existing customers who used SalesPresenter at Spring Fair and look forward to increasing sales at future shows.

Do you want to attend more trade shows throughout the year, but don’t know what ones are best to visit? We have created the top 10 trade shows to attend in 2018, below is a list of the most popular shows within the UK and Irland. 21st - 24th January Showcase is the biggest trade show in Ireland with some of the best Irish crafted products, if you’re near the area it’s definitely worth attending to get those extra sales. 4th - 8th February Spring Fair is one of the largest wholesale trade shows in the UK with a high number of exhibitors and attendee’s year on year. The show spans across 20 halls with a great opportunity to expand your customer base. 11th - 13th February Pure London is the UK’s biggest fashion retail event which is a must visit in February. New products every year with new and existing companies. 20th - 21st March PATS is the UK’s national pet trade show exhibiting a range of pet products, with an attendance last year of over 4,000 retailers the show continues to grow every year. 21st - 22nd March The Sales Innovation Expo in March has invaluable knowledge to be gained from the seminars which will further help your company thrive and go on to reach the next level. 13th - 15th May Pulse is a living, fashion, accessory and gift trade show with newly released products and new companies entering the wholesale market. 15th - 18th July Harrogate Home and Gift showcase a range of products from multiple companies nationwide. Whether you are a gift wholesaler or a homeware wholesaler, this trade show will cater for you. 2nd - 5th September This Christmas and Gift trade show is a good opportunity to showcase existing and new products running…

See below the top 6 ultimate trade show tips, using these combined tips will provide you with that extra edge when preparing for your upcoming Trade Shows. 1. Updating iPads - During the show you want to have the newest update to ensure your iPad is at its optimal performance for a smoother ordering process, simply go into system settings and make sure there aren't any updates available. IMPORTANT: Apple has a tendency to release an update during the bigger shows. Please do not update DURING your show. 2. Updating SalesPresenter - Whilst updating your iPad you also want to update SalesPresenter, this will download all the recent features to help your sales process. Simply click into the App Store and view updates to see if there are any available. 3. Download data - Prior to the show make sure your company's data is already downloaded onto the iPad. It may take a while to update so you don't want to do it when the show starts. Go to the download section within SalesPresenter and press 'Download from cloud', this will update stock figures, products, customers and more. 4. Stand information - If you're a premium support customer and attending Harrogate Christmas and Gift, Home and Gift or Spring and Autumn Fair, you will need to let us know what stand number you are located at, this makes it quicker for us to resolve any issues whilst you are there. Click below to let us know ASAP 5. Test network and printers - Some of you will have air printers, make sure your printers are fully tested and your equipment is ready to plug and play when you arrive! 6. Show offers - Creating show offers will entice plenty of people to your stand, there are many ways to upsell and cross-sell using dynamic catalogues in SalesPresenter. If you are a Premium Support customer…

End Of Autumn Fair 2017 We firstly want to thank our customers for all the positive feedback from this years Autumn Fair. We had great suggestions for new developments that we will look to develop in the near future and look forward to seeing them in action. We also had many positive conversations with new clients and showed them the potential of what SalesPresenter and CloudCart can achieve for their order taking. Overall this year's Autumn Fair was a huge success for us and our customers, now it's time to prepare for Spring Fair 2018! It was a successful show for Nemesis Now and Mad Beauty who are new SalesPresenter users and we hope they can further their success at future trade shows. We will of course continue to support and guide them to increase sales and productivity. Nemesis Now These guys have used an iPad system for years, recently moving over to SalesPresenter. The feedback was great: "Overall we have been very impressed with SalesPresenter and we are very pleased that we decided to work with you." Mad Beauty Again another first time user of SalesPresenter, apprehensive to start but the Blue Alligator project team pulled through and now these guys are happy as Larry!

The Blue Alligator team are attending this year's Autumn Fair at the NEC from the 3rd-6th September. Our support team will be there throughout the show to help our customers that encounter any issues. Last year we had a very successful show with our customers using SalesPresenter, which increased their orders dramatically. Hopefully, we can have the same success this year! If you have any questions to ask the Blue Alligator team or need the support number for this year's trade show feel free to contact us. Stand number: Hall 5 M08 Email: sales@blue-alligator.com

The Blue Alligator team attended this year's trade show at Harrogate to give support to our customers and to meet new faces in the process. Support was at the show from the Sunday-Monday to help our customers with any issues that they encountered. It didn't stop there, we also gave our support from the office to anyone that was in need of it. We had a record number of SalesPresenter users at this year’s Harrogate home and gift. This tells us that SalesPresenter is rapidly getting better day by day! We hope the trade show has been a successful one, for all of you which attended.

Top 5 trade shows and expos you can attend this year? Here is a list of the top 5 best trade shows and expos we feel will give you the most success this year, with the experience in the past attending nearly every major event in the UK we believe these 5 will truly increase your orders, given that the chosen 5 are within your selling sector.   Autumn Fair: 3rd - 6th September With normally an attendance of around… This Christmas home and gift will certainly keep you busy, we even attend as exhibitors to support all our customers that are exhibiting. Click here    Sales Innovation Expo: 28th - 29th March Technically speaking this isn't a trade show but for us, it’s not to sell but to gain knowledge from seminars and meeting new faces, perhaps head down this year and learn some new intuitive ways sell and market your brand. Click here   Top Drawer: 10th - 12th September Situated in London you know that this event is special, with over 700 collections from UK and international designers. Click here   Spring Fair: 4th - 8th February Now technically speaking Spring Fair has already taken place this year, but because it’s such a huge show it still makes it on our list. Perhaps this is the time you look at your budgets and can consider this show for next year. This show has 20 halls to choose from making it a very valuable show to home and gift wholesalers. Click here   Harrogate Home & Gift: 16th - 19th July  Based in the heart of Harrogate this show draws a lot of attention, with its beautifully laid out stand set ups if you're around the area this is the place to be in July. Click here