Wood Shelves for Trade Show Booths

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With a slow economy, trade shows have become a very popular event for business owners and corporations to display their products or services to potential customers and existing customers alike. Branding and business promotion is very important to increase profits and a company’s book of business. While a lot of planning goes into marketing and creating a profitable trade show event, planners must make sure that they have an efficient design with the proper wood shelves.

You never really know how much work it takes to plan a successful trade show until you have actually done it. From checking out the available trade shows to find the proper event for your industry, to designing a booth within your budget while still making it appealing and functional, it can be an exhausting but profitable task. Signage and marketing material must be displayed in a visible location, while still being eye-popping to customers. Wood shelving can range in color, price, style and size, and is an essential feature in your trade show booth.

The first factor in deciding the proper shelving for your booth is the location of your booth in aspect to the warehouse or room. You must determine if you are going to be placed along a wall, corner, or in a center aisle. Wood shelving can range from units to hang clothing, display small products, business cards, and those to display posters and fliers.

Shelf Expressions, a distributor of shelving for various events, offer stylish and practical shelving that require no tools for setup. Their products include freestanding wood shelves, as tabletop shelves, corner shelves, stack-able units and columns. There is a unit to fit any trade show design. They are easy to assemble, with the convenience necessary in a stressful time. Aside from being easily assembled, they can be disassembled for storage. This convenience is perfect for trade shows, and gives consumers a cost efficient alternative to other shelves. The units are constructed of small pieces of scrap wood, making them affordable, durable and environmentally friendly as well. Aside from the cost and efficiency, Shelf Expressions offers their customers trade show booth ideas, and has a contact us option to ask questions that are not answered on the Frequently Asked Questions page. Depending on the size, and amount of shelves of a unit, the price can range from $30 to $80 per piece.

Another great company in the world of trade shows is Flexi Display. Flexi Display has created kiosks, ten and twenty foot displays, and tabletop displays. These units offer features such as 3D graphics, Light boxes, LCD monitors, shelving and pedestals all in one to create the ultimate booth. The units are easily assembled, and light in weight for easy portability. They are expandable for when you have larger and smaller booth sizes and made of high quality materials. These Flexi Displays will get your company noticed and get your point across as well. The custom shelving built within the units are durable and appealing. These displays vary in price depending on your customized design, and are very versatile.

Another online provider of trade show displays is Smart Fixtures. This manufacturing company offers fully functional customized booths. They come in many different finishes from a cherry oak lacquer, to black, white and traditional oak. They are suitable for any industry from jewelry displays to crafts, gifts and salons. The options are unlimited in the spectrum of booth designs. Whether you need a single shelving display for your booth, or a full fixture layout there is something to fit your design. Units can hold up to a maximum weight of 70 pounds and are easy to disassemble and move. These fixtures range in price from the features and designs. While the smallest unit containing three shelves costs only $100, the larger models can cost up to $6000.

While there are trade show specific shelving units on the market, there is a good chance they may not fit your budget. Having a successful booth includes not only a quality and noticeable design but also staying within budget. It is important for companies using marketing events to promote their business to make more from the event then they spend in supplies and booth rental costs. With this, you must weigh how many accounts or products you will need to sell to make back the money you have spent and profit from the event in the long run.

So, for those of you in the process of planning a successful and intriguing booth, make sure you do the proper research of the shelving options you have at your disposal. Aside from being affordable, it is important to invest in a unit that is easy to assemble, disassemble and to store. Take all of these factors into mind when budgeting and planning.


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