Exhibition teams

Follow up before they leave your stand

At a Gulf trade show your team meets hundreds of people in four days. SEL XP turns each conversation into a qualified lead with the right catalogue sent, an owner and a next step, and puts it in your CRM before the hall closes. It works when the hall has no signal.

What it does

What you get

  • Cards, QR codes and open badges

    Scan a card in Arabic or English, a QR code or an open badge code. After a busy hour, photograph a stack and review the cards when the stand is quiet.

  • A target for the show

    Each event has its own targets. The dashboard shows leads against them while the show is still on, not in the report a month later.

  • The whole stand on one list

    Say who is on the stand. Reps from several companies of one group capture into the same event, and each lead keeps its owner.

  • This show's catalogues and wording

    Choose the catalogues for the event and give it its own follow-up wording, in English and Arabic.

  • The hall has no signal

    Tens of thousands of phones share one network. Leads are saved on the phone, encrypted, and send themselves when the signal returns.

  • No business card? Your QR

    A visitor scans your code, saves your contact and shares their own details back. They arrive as a lead.

How it works

Step by step

One visitor at your stand, from the first scan to your CRM.

  1. 01

    Scan

    Hold the Quick button and photograph the card, or point at a QR code or a badge.

  2. 02

    Check

    The fields fill in as the reading arrives, about ten seconds later. Any the reader is unsure of are marked.

  3. 03

    Qualify

    Tap the product lines they asked about, the timeline, their role and the next action. The score updates as you tap.

  4. 04

    Follow up

    Send the email with the catalogues for this show, or open WhatsApp with the message ready.

  5. 05

    In the CRM

    Within about a minute the company, the contact, the lead and its next task are in Odoo, with the show as the campaign.

In detail

The parts people ask about

Three companies on one stand, one visitor

When a group exhibits together, the same visitor speaks to several of its companies. While a rep captures, the app says who met the person first, at which show, and what your CRM already has open with them.

  • Works across every company in the group
  • Nothing you captured is lost: you choose where it goes

The catalogue is on their phone before they walk on

The follow-up carries a link to a page with the catalogues for what this visitor asked about, in your approved wording. You see when it was delivered and when the page was opened.

  • Email, or WhatsApp with the message ready
  • A reminder after a day with no follow-up

A card for every rep on the stand

Each rep has a digital business card with a QR code that works with no signal. A visitor without a card scans it, and their details come back as a lead.

  • Your company's logo and colours
  • The visitor saves the contact in one tap

Arabic and English, on the card and in the app

Cards are read in both scripts and a name is kept in Arabic and in Latin letters. Each rep uses the app in the language they choose, and the Arabic screens run right to left.

For managers

See the show while it is still on

Leads against the event's target, qualified and hot leads, pipeline with each currency kept apart, and how fast each lead got its first message. Then leads and hot leads by company, team and person, and the hot leads still waiting.

More on teams and dashboards

Good to know

What it does not do, said plainly

  • Some organisers encrypt the code on their badges so that only their own scanner reads it. Such a code is kept with the lead while you add the name.
  • A card is read at once only with a connection. With no signal the photo is kept and read when the phone is back online.
  • Odoo is the first CRM connection and is in pilot. Zoho CRM is next. Any other CRM takes the spreadsheet export.
  • The App Store and Google Play apps are on the way. Today the app installs from the browser on iPhone, Android and a desktop.

Case studies

Exhibition teams, worked through

One team from each industry, on a stand at a Gulf show.

ScenarioAt an exhibition · Oil, gas and energy

A valve and fittings group at a four-day energy show

Three companies of one group share a stand. The same engineers visit all three, and until now nobody could say who had met whom.

Team
12 people on the stand, from three companies
Show
A four-day energy exhibition in Abu Dhabi
CRM
Odoo, one database for the group
Read the case study

ScenarioAt an exhibition · Construction and building materials

A facade supplier sorting specifiers from traders

Four hundred conversations in four days, of two different kinds. One team sells into projects, the other sells stock, and the cards do not say which is which.

Team
9 on the stand: a project sales team and a distribution team
Show
A four-day construction exhibition in Dubai
CRM
Odoo
Read the case study

ScenarioAt an exhibition · Industrial and manufacturing

A machinery agent running demonstrations on the stand

The machine draws a crowd every hour. One visitor gets the rep's attention and nine others walk away unrecorded.

Team
4 sales engineers and a service manager
Show
A four-day manufacturing and packaging show in Dubai
CRM
Odoo
Read the case study

ScenarioAt an exhibition · Real estate

A developer's sales team at a four-day property show

Families walk in without business cards and can reserve within days. The developer needed every one of them to have an agent and a message the same day.

Team
14 sales agents in two teams, 1 sales director
Show
A four-day real estate exhibition in Riyadh
CRM
Zoho CRM (leads exported until the connector is ready)
Read the case study

ScenarioAt an exhibition · Healthcare and medical

A medical device maker appointing distributors

Distributors from thirty countries ask for exclusivity in four days. The regional managers who own those markets are not all on the stand.

Team
8 on the stand, 4 regional managers
Show
A four-day healthcare exhibition in Dubai
CRM
Odoo
Read the case study

ScenarioAt an exhibition · Food and hospitality

A food exporter meeting importers from twenty countries

Five days, a tasting counter and a queue. Every importer was promised samples and a price list, and some heard two different sets of terms.

Team
8 on the stand, 3 export managers
Show
A five-day food exhibition in Dubai
CRM
Odoo
Read the case study

ScenarioAt an exhibition · Technology and security

A cybersecurity vendor exhibiting at three shows in one season

Three shows, three organiser apps, three spreadsheets in three formats. Marketing could not say which show had been worth the stand.

Team
10 on each stand: sales, pre-sales and channel
Show
Three technology and security shows in Dubai and Riyadh
CRM
Salesforce (leads exported until that connector is ready)
Read the case study
By industryHow it fits the way your trade sellsSeven industries Case studiesAll fourteen, in the field and at exhibitionsRead them

Questions

Exhibition teams: what people ask

What is exhibition lead capture?

Exhibition lead capture is the job of recording who visited your stand, what they asked about and what should happen next, in a form your sales team can act on. Done well, each visitor becomes a qualified lead in the CRM with a follow-up already sent, rather than a business card in a pocket.

Do I still need the organiser's badge scanner?

Often not. An organiser's lead retrieval app works at that one show and hands you a spreadsheet afterwards. SEL XP works at every show and on customer visits, reads business cards and open QR codes, and follows up at once. If an organiser encrypts its badges, only its own app can decode them, so some teams keep both at those shows.

Does it work without internet in the exhibition hall?

Yes. Leads, voice notes and tasks are saved on the phone, encrypted, and sent when the signal returns. Reading a card with AI and sending an email need a connection, so those happen as soon as the phone is back online.

Can several companies of one group share a stand?

Yes. A workspace holds the whole group: its companies, branches and teams. Reps from each company capture into the same event, every lead keeps its owner and company, and a rep is told when a colleague from another company has already met the person.

How do we measure what a show produced?

Each event has targets. Its dashboard shows leads against them, qualified and hot leads, pipeline with each currency kept apart and the median time to first follow-up, then leads and hot leads by company, team and person. The same leads can be exported to a spreadsheet.

Does the team keep using it after the show?

Yes. The same app records site visits, client meetings and daily sales rounds, so a lead met at the stand and the visit that follows it sit on one history. Many leads from a show turn into a site visit as their next step.

Your next exhibition

Leave the next show with a pipeline, not a pile of cards.

Tell us which exhibition is next on your calendar. We will show you the app with your products, your stand team and your CRM in mind.

  1. What happens next
  2. Day 0You send the form. We reply within one working day.
  3. 30 minA call on your screen: capture, follow-up, CRM and what your managers see.
  4. Set-upWe build your workspace with you: companies, teams, products, wording.