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IBEX Uses networkNow! to Support Exhibitors Without Overloading Attendees
"We are in a down market and some of our exhibitors have struggled. They couldn’t be waiting for attendees to reach out to them. Using a2z, they got appointments before the show and felt much better."
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- 99% exhibitors added a profile
- 95% updated their product categories
- 25% attendees used the system
- 1039 emails exchanged between event participants
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a2zFloorPlan Boosts Productivity and Saves Time For Small SWVS Staff
"My personal virtual assistant was a2zFloorPlan. It helped with booth sales and financial management because I was out [on maternity leave] when payments were due and I was able to manage the entire process from home."
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- 65% booths sold onsite in 2 hours
- 15% more booths sold than in 2012
- An additional 15 booths were sold to companies that were not previous exhibitors
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The Institute of Food Technologists® Tastes Success with ChirpE Attendee Acquisition Widget
“Our exhibitors are low adopters. I was thrilled and amazed at the speed with which they implemented the widget. Part of that has to do with how they learn about the widget through a2z’s marketing program.”
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- 350K+ total widget views
- 279 visits to registration site fro widget
- 579 visits to the event site from exhibitors' sites
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Bring Your “A” Game to the Planning Process
“a2zFloorplan cut the booth allocation process down to 1/8 the time we previously spent on it. We didn’t have to chase exhibitors down. We didn’t have to scrub the database and we didn’t have to answer many questions.”
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- 168 exhibitor management man hours eliminated
- 93% reduction on compiling directory
- 88% time reduction on booth allocation
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Using a Single Solution for Better Management and More Revenue
“The single platform interface that a2z operates within is very efficient. In 2010, AAPEX used a vendor for the on-site show kiosks and another for the mobile app in addition to a2z for the website. Each of these services had to be updated individually. It was inefficient and created an incredible workload. This past year, we selected a2z to provide us with the mobile app and the on-site digital kiosk. Both of these services operate off of the website. a2z helped us streamline our work load and offered us a tremendous solution.” ”
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- 4929 booths
- 2292 exhibitors
- 1 technology vendor
- Decreased time spent on reporting by > 95%
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International Sign Expo Feels the WOW Factor
“a2z has made my life easier. The fact that I can send out invoices automatically through the floor plan management system, without having to create a separate PDF document, has changed everything. With a2z’s one-click system, two days of work is reduced to 10 minutes. All I can say is Wow!”
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- Decreased invoicing time by 96%
- Saved 19 hours in contract management time
- Named to EXPO Magazine's list of fastets growing shows
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Professional Retail Store Maintenance Association Retires the Whiteboard and Sharpie to Save Time and Money
“Being a smaller association, we have to watch our pennies a little closer. Any kind of change is difficult to implement and we are sensitive to throwing a bunch of technology at our members. FloorplanGenie was a tipping point for us. Members liked it. Members wanted it. Now, [using a2zShowEZ] they can upload product descriptions, press releases, etc., and it’s our job to train them.”
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- Saved 50+ man hours in accounting
- Reduced time to pull sales reports by more than 954%
- Improved cash flow by 90 days
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International Association of Amusement Parks & Attractions Uses iPads and Boosts Revenue
“We are only a year removed from a giant grease board floor plan and wax pencil. The transition was seamless and the results were substantial. Our transfer to a2z has changed the way we do everything. a2z has led this charge. If not for a2z, we wouldn’t have gone to iPads or be looking at salesforce.com.”
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- Boost space sales on site 60%
- Increase number of contracts on site 44%
- 3 reps selling space with 3 iPads
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National Trade Productions increases net revenue by 10-15% integrating a2z & Salesforce.com
“We are handling more volume with the same staff that we had before. Our cash flow has improved, our forecasting and tracking is better, and our exhibitors and clients are happier.”
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- Sales volume/rep 15%
- Gross profit 10-15%
- Time to close sales by 3 days
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How a2z, Inc. helped InfoComm deliver a highly successful global event
"a2z worked diligently with our team to deliver a complex solution and helped us exceed our business targets such as revenue and NSF sold. The value proposition that a2z offers to us and to our exhibitors and attendees is tremendous."
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- 88% NSF Retention
- 10% increase in revenue retention year over year
- 95% reduction in time for booth sales
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SEMI® Automates On-Site Booth Selection for SEMICON West 2009
"Working with a2z professional services has been a very rewarding and productive experience. Their professionalism has accelerated our joint design, development, testing and deployment cycle time. The a2z model has become a standard of excellence for us in IT.”
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- Decreased cycle time
- Improved customer experience
- Reduced IT labor costs
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Auto Aftermarket Products Expo
"This state-of-the-art matchmaking program creates the customer relationship before the show, leads to appointments at the event, and ultimately will generate sales at AAPEX. It’s an integrated system of connecting buyers and sellers that will start working the minute you sign up."
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- Established relationships pre-show
- Improved productivity
- Enhanced efficiencies
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National Defense Industrial Association - Increasing Show Floor Revenues
"a2z has significantly improved our ability to process booth sales while also relieving a considerable amount of NDIA’s administrative burden. In the first week, we had $2 million in booth sales for I/ITSEC — a time frame where normally we would have sold only about half a million."
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- More efficient use of staff time
- Boosted sponsorship revenue
- Improved ease of auditing data
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American Association of Critical-Care Nurses Expedites Booth Sales
"We like the a2zFloorPlan web-based system because it is online, real-time."
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- Expedited booth sales
- Real-time floor plan information accessible from anywhere
- Exhibitor satisfaction
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American College of Cardiology
American College of Cardiology's Annual Scientific Session is one of the top 200 shows in the U.S., with over 400 exhibitors and 232,500 net sq. feet. a2z provides the full online trade show module. The floor plan has been integrated with ACC's iMIS database; allowing information from iMIS's database to be updated in a2z's system. |
- Expedited booth sales
- Enhanced exhibitor satisfaction
- Reduced maintenance investments
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American Optometric Association
"Our cash flow has probably accelarated by more than 60 days. Before a2z, we had the same rules but the checks could take up to three months to get here."
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- Upturn in cashflow
- Simplified sales process, reducing administrative effort
- Increased onsite sales
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J. Spargo & Associates
“An improved process gives us the potential to increase booth sales for our clients, while providing a better experience for the exhibitor.”
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- More robust reporting
- Faster sales
- Improved attendee marketing
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National Retail Federation
“a2z has significantly improved many of the areas of event management that we had been challenged by in previous years.”
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- Better cash flow
- Cleaner records through multiple record consolidation across events/roles
- Faster booth selections
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New Hope Natural Media
A Penton Division
"What used to take us 6-8 weeks to assign booths in priority order, we now complete in 3-4 days with the a2z solution."
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- Better insight into booth inventory with real-time data
- Enhanced sales performance
- Simplification of processes
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Professional Beauty Association
"We switched to a2z because we needed more flexibility than what our current expo software could provide."
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- Automated process
- Enabled on site booth sales
- Improved reporting
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"It was time-consuming, and there was room for errors,” said the Advertising, Exhibits and Sales Manager. “We wanted to give the exhibitors ownership of their information and free our time to focus on selling space."
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- Streamlined the exhibit management
- Provided exhibitors with self-service
- Improved customer service and sales
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