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Find the exhibitors and the buyers a show needs before the floor plan is printed.

Lead generation for an exhibition organiser means finding two audiences at once: companies who will pay for a stall and buyers who will spend a day walking the aisles. GullySales works on the lists, the first messages and the record that tells you which source produced a booked stall.

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Scope, fee, reporting and term are agreed in writing after we have read your brief and spoken to you.

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What lead generation means

Lead generation is the combined work of every channel that brings in a new enquiry, whether from search, adverts, referrals or a stall at an exhibition. GullySales runs these channels together and reports the number of enquiries each one produced, not the activity behind it.

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Last updated 18 Oct 2026.

For exhibition organisers

Where it usually goes wrong, and what we would do.

  • “Two lists, and each one sells the other”

    A sales head at a packaging manufacturer asks who will be visiting before agreeing to a stall. A plant manager asks who is exhibiting before registering. Build the exhibitor list and the visitor list together, or each side waits for the other to move first.

  • “The right exhibitor is found by product, not by size”

    A stall sells to companies that make or supply what the visitors came to buy. A list drawn from trade directories, past catalogues and sector bodies, sorted by product line, beats a long list of every company with a factory.

  • “Last year's exhibitors are warm leads, treated as cold”

    The people who took a stall already know the hall, the footfall and the price. Organisers call them only once the new brochure is ready, by which time the exhibitor has fixed the year's trade show budget elsewhere.

  • “Registrations fill with people who cannot buy”

    Free entry attracts students and walk-ins, and exhibitors notice as soon as the doors open. Registration that asks for company, designation and what the visitor wants to source keeps the audience list worth showing to a prospective exhibitor.

What we do

What we deliver for exhibition organisers.

Every deliverable, what it covers for you, and the result it is there to produce. Nothing here is an extra.

  1. An exhibitor target list by product line

    Companies grouped by what they make or sell, with the person who decides on trade shows named where it can be found, taken from directories, past catalogues and sector body member lists.

    Result: A list sorted by product line, each row with a named contact to call.

  2. A past exhibitor and past visitor call list

    Everyone who took a stall or registered before, with stall position, what they said afterwards and the next edition's dates.

    Result: A call sheet that opens each conversation with something the person told you.

  3. A registration form that qualifies the visitor

    Company, designation, city and the product the visitor wants to see, built to work on a phone.

    Result: A visitor list you can describe by buyer type without sharing names.

  4. Source tracking on every stall enquiry

    Each enquiry tagged with where it came from: a call, a sector body, a past exhibitor, an advertisement or a referral.

    Result: A count of booked stalls against the source that started them.

  5. An introduction pack for sector bodies

    A short proposal for the association secretary covering dates, visitor profile and what the body gets from listing the show.

    Result: One document to put before a committee.

How the result is measured

  • Enquiries generated
  • Cost per enquiry
  • Enquiries by source

Recorded as a baseline before work starts, so every later report has an honest comparison.

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What to capture or send

What to record on an exhibitor enquiry and a visitor registration so each can be sold to the other.

Product line the exhibitor shows
Record the machine, material or service on the stall. It decides which visitor group you pitch to them and which neighbours the floor plan should avoid.
Stall size and position wanted
Ask for the corner, entrance or hall zone and the area. It starts the floor plan conversation and shows where the budget sits.
Editions already taken
Note which past shows the company joined, with the stall number. A repeat exhibitor is a different call from a first-time one.
Visitor's job role and company type
Capture buyer, engineer, architect or student at registration. It lets you tell the exhibitor which kind of visitor is expected.
Who approves the spend
Record whether the marketing head or a director signs. It tells you whom to address in the quote and the reminder.
Source of the enquiry
Past catalogue, sector body, search or a referral from an exhibitor. It shows which source fills stalls and which only fills the registration list.

Who it is for

This is written for these exhibition organisers.

  • Organisers of manufacturing and engineering exhibitions
  • Building, construction and interior exhibitions that draw architects and contractors
  • Food, hospitality and agri exhibitions
  • Health, pharma and medical equipment exhibitions
  • Education and franchise expos
  • Consumer exhibitions, such as home, wedding, auto and lifestyle shows
  • Property exhibitions where developers take stalls
  • Organisers who run a series of shows in several cities

Not for

It is not the right fit if.

  • You have no floor plan or hall booked yet, so an exhibitor enquiry would have nothing concrete to answer.
  • Your visitor registration form asks only a name and a phone number, so new leads would not show which are buyers.
  • No one is free to call past exhibitors first, so cold lists would be chased before the warm ones.

How it works

How the lead generation work runs

The work itself, in order. How an engagement starts, from your brief to a written scope, is set out on our method page.

  1. 1

    Understand your capacity

    We ask how many enquiries your team can answer well, who answers after hours, and what a good enquiry looks like. Without this, the system fills a funnel nobody is watching.

  2. 2

    Audit current sources

    We read your call log, WhatsApp chats, enquiry sheet and platform dashboards. The baseline is recorded: enquiries by source, reply time, conversion and cost per order.

  3. 3

    Strategise the channel mix

    Search and maps are chosen for people ready to buy, ads for people who are not yet looking, and content and referrals for trust.

  4. 4

    Implement capture and follow-up

    Pages, forms, tags, the lead record and the first-reply message are built and tested end to end. We submit test enquiries ourselves before any media money is spent.

  5. 5

    Measure and optimise

    Enquiries are traced to source and judged by what became orders, not by volume alone. Channels that fill the sheet with poor enquiries are cut back. How often you are reported to is agreed in writing.

Where this fits

Three pieces of sales work, in this order.

This work sits inside sales process design, at stage 1, prospecting and lead generation. The audit comes before it, and sales management keeps it running.

  1. Step 1

    Sales audit

    Find where deals are being lost and what to fix first.

    Start here if you cannot say where orders are lost.

  2. Step 2 · you are here

    Sales process design

    One written way to sell, from first enquiry to repeat order.

    Start here if every salesperson sells differently.

  3. Step 3

    Sales management

    A target, a review routine and someone who owns the number.

    Start here if the team has targets and no routine.

Tell us what you need Your brief is read before we call. Scope, fee and term in writing.

FAQ

Questions owners ask before they call.

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Should we chase exhibitors or visitors first?
Both together. Exhibitors want to know which buyers are coming and buyers want to know which names are exhibiting, so progress on one side is your best argument on the other.
Where do we find exhibitor leads for a new show?
Start with trade directories, the member list of the sector body, catalogues from rival shows and the sponsors of industry magazines. Sort them by product and call the person who handles trade shows, not the general enquiry line.
How do we stop registrations filling with students?
Ask for company name, designation and sourcing interest on the form, and send the entry pass only to registrations that qualify. A separate student pass, if you offer one, keeps that group out of the buyer count.
Can we offer an exhibitor a list of registered visitors?
Share only what the visitor agreed to at registration, and say so on the form. Handing contact details to an exhibitor without that agreement breaks trust. Offer a count by job role, or a lead scan at the show, which the visitor allows.
How much does it cost?
There is no price list, because the work differs by business. The fee is scoped after we have read your brief and spoken to you, and put in writing before anything starts, split into our time, your media spend and production.
How long is the contract?
The term is agreed in writing after we have spoken, along with the fee and the reporting. It is never a default twelve months, and renewal is decided on the numbers against the baseline recorded at the start.
How soon will we see results?
It depends on the trade, the channel and what is already in place. After we have read your brief and spoken to you, we say what we would expect to move first and how it will be measured against the baseline. Nothing here is guaranteed.
Who will actually do the work?
The person you speak to before anything starts. We work from one office in Nagarbhavi, Bengaluru, with no account managers in between.
What do you need from us?
Your brief, and a conversation. After that, access to whatever this work touches, such as your website, your accounts or your enquiry record, and time with the people who handle your enquiries.

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