Event Marketing1 min read

Trade shows: one link for lead capture

Booth staff say URLs aloud over crowd noise. Badges and slides need matching paths. Short links keep follow-up consistent when CRM forms change.

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Jordan Ellis
Creator growth and platform strategy

Trade floors are loud and distracted. If your CTA sounds like reading a UUID, you lose leads to happy hour.

Slug matches the show

/saas-week-boston on slide one, badge ribbons, and demo kiosks. After the event, redirect to on-demand demo or nurture page.

Sales + marketing alignment

SDRs should paste the same URL in follow-up emails that prospects photographed on stage.

International keyboards

Avoid ambiguous characters (0/O, 1/l) in slugs you expect Europeans to type from a photo.

Post-show hygiene

Archive /saas-week-boston stats, then point idle slugs to a generic contact page so QR on old swag does not 404.

Octilink’s speed helps when the booth opens in an hour and the form URL just changed.

Topics & keywords

#trade-show#b2b#short-links#lead-gen#events
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