Sertus helps customers navigate what can be an overwhelming experience of attending a trade show in China. From Planning prior to your trip, Shadowing with qualified and knowledgeable staff that can speak your language and translate for you during the show, to follow up (collection of samples, quotes, factory certifications, etc.) - Sertus can help you get the most out of attending any trade show in China.
1. Comprehensive Trade Show Services
Follow Up
Trip Report: Sertus will
provide you with a full contact
list inc. the status of each
supplier visit (whether it was
completed
or
remains
pending). All observations and
next steps will be noted as
well.
Planning
Trip Objectives: Sertus will work with you to clearly define your trip objectives for your
China visit and identify, where possible, clear and measurable goals that will be used
to help determine the agenda, gauge the overall success of your trip, and define what
follow-up action is needed after you have returned home.
Agenda: A great agenda is the starting point of a successful trip. Sertus will assist
with the daily time allotments for all activities and events during your trip, ensuring
enough time to have meaningful and complete meetings and to get to each scheduled
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appointment on time, but not too much time so as to limit the number of meetings on
your schedule. Sertus will also assist in contacting suppliers in advance of the show to
set up meetings so as to manage a more efficient agenda.
Contact List: Sertus will work with you in advance of your trip to identify the target list
of suppliers that will be visited during the Fair. This list will consist of names that are
provided to Sertus based on your prior research or relationships you may have
developed. In addition, we will help you to identify other names that we consider to be
of interest. The combined list will comprise the Contact List and will be captured in a
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database, with stand number, location, and any published or available contact
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information (including factory address, telephone, website, products description, etc.).
Accommodations: Sertus will assist, if needed, with hotel reservations and any
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domestic airfare or travel that might be required during your visit and will provide a
letter inviting you to China for visa purposes. In the event you wish to visit factories
after the Fair, Sertus will be happy to accompany you and arrange all logistics of these
on-site visits.
Shadowing
Trade Shows: We will provide you with a member of our team, who
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will accompany you to all of your meetings and assist with translations,
collect valuable contact information, pricing commitments (where
provided), photographs, catalogs, etc.
All information will be
consolidated into a single, well-organized file for your reference. We
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will make sure that your guide has relevant language fluency to be
able to fully translate for you any important information and to assist
with all of your meetings. We will leave contacts with a general email
(e.g. sertusforcompany@gmail.com) so that there is a central point for
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all emails, pricing, etc. and to protect you from receiving into your own
personal or work email the post-show spam that often arrives. The
show
email account will be well organized by category and supplier name for
easy reference.
Factory Visits: In the event you wish to visit the plant of certain
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factories following or preceding the show, Sertus will accompany you
and arrange local transportation to and from the site and your hotel.
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We will offer the same translation and data management services
noted in Trade Shows as well.
Pricing:
Any
pricing
requested during the show or
factory visits that were not
provided during your trip will
be collected by Sertus.
Suppliers will have been
instructed
to
send
all
information into the central
email account, but Sertus will
follow up to make sure the
promised
information
is
indeed sent and will also
update the Trip Report to
reflect status. Sertus will also
help with pricing analysis.
Samples:
Any
samples
requested during the show or
factory visits that were not
provided during your trip will
be collected by Sertus.
Sertus will ensure at least two
samples of any product are
sent, one of which will be sent
to you either directly by Sertus
or directly by the factory.
Sertus will follow up to make
sure all samples are indeed
sent and will also update the
Trip Report to reflect the
relevant status.
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