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Keep every participant, buyer and meeting in one record that outlives the fair.

A CRM for a trade fair organiser holds the manufacturers who took stalls, the buyers who attended and the meetings between them, edition after edition. GullySales works on setting it up so the team stops rebuilding contact lists from spreadsheets each year.

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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 CRM means

A CRM is the record where every enquiry, call and quote is kept against a customer, replacing separate notebooks, spreadsheets and memory. GullySales sets up or cleans an existing CRM and reports from it by enquiry outcome rather than by activity logged.

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Sales and marketing for trade fair organisers, the overview.

Last updated 18 Oct 2026.

For trade fair organisers

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

  • “Every edition starts from a blank sheet”

    The previous fair's contacts live in a spreadsheet kept by someone who has left, and a new team member begins with a folder of forms. A record that holds each participant's history across editions lets a caller say what the maker did last time.

  • “Two kinds of contact need two views”

    A participant is a sales lead that becomes a paid stall, while a buyer is an invitee who becomes an attendee. Mixing them in one list hides who has paid, who has confirmed and who has been asked for a reply by both teams.

  • “Meetings are the product”

    A buyer-seller meeting is what the participant pays for, yet it sits in a schedule sheet and a paper note. Logged against both records, with the product, samples and next step, it becomes the evidence that decides next year's renewals.

  • “Partner bodies need a place of their own”

    An association or council is neither participant nor buyer. Its contact person, the circulars sent and the members registered through it belong to a third record of their own, or the credit for those registrations goes to nobody on the team.

What we do

What we deliver for trade fair organisers.

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

  1. A record structure for participants, buyers and bodies

    Separate views for each with the fields that matter, such as product group, city, consent and edition history.

    Result: Each contact sits in the view that matches its role.

  2. Stages that fit a fair

    Participant stages from enquiry to stall signed to payment received, and buyer stages from invited to confirmed to attended.

    Result: The team can say how many are at each stage.

  3. A meeting log linked to both sides

    Each meeting entered with buyer, participant, product, samples and the agreed next step.

    Result: Open any maker and see the buyers met and what was agreed.

  4. Import of past editions

    Old spreadsheets cleaned for duplicates and loaded with the edition each contact belonged to.

    Result: Past participants appear with their history.

  5. Source and consent fields

    Where each contact came from and whether permission to message was recorded.

    Result: Before any broadcast you can filter to those with permission.

How the result is measured

  • Enquiries logged in the CRM
  • Data completeness
  • Reports generated from CRM data

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

Read the full CRM implementation and customisation page

Fields worth keeping

Fields a fair organiser should keep against every participant and buyer.

Contact type
Filled at entry: participant, buyer or partner body. Two kinds of contact need two views, so the sheet should filter by this first.
Products made or sourced
Filled by whoever speaks to them. It lets you match a buyer to makers before the next edition.
Meetings booked and held
Filled by the floor team during the fair. Meetings are the product, and this field is how you show them.
Follow-up outcome
Filled by the participant's or buyer's reply. It separates a sample requested from an order discussed, without inventing a value.
Editions attended
Filled from past lists. A maker who attended twice is a different lead from a first enquiry.
Partner body and contact
Filled for each association or council. It shows which body shared the fair and which went quiet.

Who it is for

This is written for these trade fair organisers.

  • Fairs run by sector associations, such as textiles, leather, engineering or handicrafts
  • Fairs organised with export promotion councils for overseas buyers
  • State and district industrial fairs that bring in MSME units
  • Agri and food processing fairs that draw wholesalers and processors
  • Hosted buyer programmes where buyers are flown in and meetings are scheduled
  • Regional buyer-seller meets run by a chamber of commerce
  • Private organisers who run a fair across several cities
  • Virtual and hybrid trade fairs that list suppliers online

Not for

It is not the right fit if.

  • The floor team will not log meetings, and the record would be empty where it matters.
  • You change organisers or staff every edition, and nobody owns the data to carry forward.
  • You want a tool for a one-off fair that will not run again.

How it works

How the CRM 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

    Map the sales process

    We sit with the people who sell and write down how a deal moves from enquiry to payment, including where it stalls.

  2. 2

    Agree stages, fields and owners

    Each stage gets a name your team already uses and a proof that the deal has left it. We agree which fields are required at which stage, and who may change what.

  3. 3

    Build on a copy

    Pipeline, fields and views are built on a trial copy where the CRM offers one, or in a separate pipeline where the plan allows. Live work stays untouched.

  4. 4

    Connect channels, then switch on automations

    Channels are connected first. Each automation is then switched on separately, so a misfiring rule is easy to find.

  5. 5

    Test with real deals

    The people who will use the CRM run open deals through it. Gaps are fixed before the whole team switches over.

  6. 6

    Switch over and trim

    Once real use shows which fields stay empty and which stages nobody uses, those are cut and the handover record is updated.

Where this fits

Three pieces of sales work, in this order.

This work sits inside sales management. A target, a review routine and someone who owns the number.

  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

    Sales process design

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

    Start here if every salesperson sells differently.

  3. Step 3 · you are here

    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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Tell us what you need
Do we need paid software, or is a spreadsheet enough?
A spreadsheet can start the job for one small fair. When several people update the same list, or when meetings need to link buyer to maker, a proper CRM stops overwritten entries and lost notes. Choose a tool your team will open every working day.
Who owns the data after the fair?
Your organisation does, and the record should say so. Keep names and phone numbers only with consent for the purpose collected, and tell participants how their details are shared with buyers before the directory goes up.
How do we get the floor team to log meetings?
Make the log short enough to fill on a phone and ask for it at the table. A form with buyer, product and next step takes less effort than a note on a card, and the team will use what saves them a call.
Who owns the data after the fair?
The organising body owns the record and one named person looks after it. Contacts who gave details for the fair expect them to be used for the fair and its follow-up, so state that at registration. Hold the data under your privacy rules and share only with consent.
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.
What if we are not happy with the work?
Tell us and the plan changes. Everything is reported against the baseline, so a number that is not moving is visible to both sides. The term is in your written scope, and the refund and cancellation policy sets out the rest.

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