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    CONSUMER EVENT SAMPLING

You can create impactful consumer event sampling campaigns that place your brand in front of thousands of targeted consumers at festivals, exhibitions, sporting events and live experiences across the UK. Combining product sampling, experiential marketing, product demonstrations, direct sales and social media engagement, LINK delivers fully managed campaigns designed to maximise brand visibility, encourage meaningful consumer interaction and generate measurable results. With over 20 years of experience and access to events for every budget, we help brands identify the right opportunities and manage every stage of activation. Read on to explore the possibilities or get in touch to discuss your next consumer event sampling campaign.

Promotional Sampling Consumer Show Types

There are so many types of consumer shows, events and festivals to pick from for your product sampling roadshow. They’re happening somewhere in the UK almost every single weekend!

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Airshows
Food Festival Sampling Button - Large crowd of people eating at a food festival
Food Festivals
Motorsports Sampling Button - Customers posing with promotional staff after watching product demonstration of power tools
Motorsports Events
Sports Event Sampling Button - Promotional Staff celebrating as customer plays penalty shootout game
Sports Events
Beer Festival Button - Promotional Staff posing in front of Mr Porky's branded table
Beer Festivals
Games Convention Sampling Button - Mogu Mogu promotonal staff member posing with cosplayers at gaming event
Games Conventions
Music Festival Sampling Button - Promotional Staff posing on steps outside Manchester Arena
Music Festivals
Theme park Sampling Button - Promotional staff posing outside Alton Towers entrance
Theme Parks
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County Shows
High Streets Sampling Button - VFC portable cart sampling on high street
High Streets
Office Sampling Button - Fulfil Promotional Vehicle sampling outside a busy office location
Office Areas
Train Station Sampling Button - Special K promotional staff sampling using portable trikes in train station
Train Stations
Flower Show Sampling Button - Customers queuing outside Yorkshire Tea promotional vehicle
Flower Shows
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Lifestyle Events
Shopping Mall Sampling Button - Oleo AR photobooth inside a shopping centre
Shopping Malls
Vehicle Rally Sampling Button - Glorious Soup Promotional VW van parked at event
Vehicle Rallies
Summer Sampling - Sparkling Ice Customers posing with sip samples in front of promotional vehicle

Effectively planned product sampling event areas for consumer shows should include a range of elements to attract, engage and add to the experience of the event goers. Promotional product sampling is an essential ingredient within the mix; but there’s more to sampling at shows than just giving your products away for free.

With our expert guidance and implementation skills, you will come away from each show with a measurable return for product sampling, direct sales, data capture, market research, social media – or whatever else is aligned to your brand’s commercial objectives and KPI benchmarks.

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There’s also the wide range of highly sensitive hygiene and safety considerations to factor in, when product sampling at consumer shows too. After recent, well publicised tragedies such as Pret A Manger’s lack of consistent allergy labelling in their own stores – one might hope that fatalities caused from poor attention to detail would diminish.

Despite your best intentions, it is up to you to ensure you enlist expert support to ensure your brand is not responsible for something equally horrific. When you allow us to plan your product sampling, you can be certain that always have clear allergy signage, separate chopping boards, food storage boxes, catering gloves, serving tongs and individual portioning methods.

We guarantee that your consumer events have all the essential catering items and procedures in place, to ensure that your brand is professionally represented, and products sampled both positively and safely.

Promotional Sampling with Data Capture at Consumer Shows

Data capture with First Buses at consumer events

Product sampling at consumer shows is one of the most effective ways to enable huge volume outreach to an accurately targeted audience for your brand. While the shows might only last a few days, your ongoing relationship with these thousands of new brand fans should not end with the show.

By including a strong data capture incentive or simple data capture mechanic into your product sampling event area, we are able to capture the details of thousands of event goers, for your long term, ongoing dialogue. These are all consumers who will have met your brand ‘in person’ who will have tried your product sample, engaged with your brand ambassadors, had a positive experience with your brand and then signed up for you to stay in touch.

This army of new consumer ambassadors is then available for you to share your NPD announcements, inform them of new retailer listings, inspire them with seasonal recipe ideas and pull across to your retailers for repeat purchases.

Let Us Help You Create a Unique Sampling Event Schedule

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The logistical coordination of product sampling at consumer shows is a massive and complex challenge for non-specialists to undertake. Rather than waste your time and energies battling with an alien task while you have other pressing priorities, partnering with us means your events are fully managed by our specialist product sampling campaign management team.

We will advise you on the huge array of specialist event type options, many of which you may never have been aware of before. All aspects of product sampling roadshow planning will be planned for you. We will take care of stock logistics, catering, staff travel, site set up, space booking, team briefing, consumables, uniforms, inclement weather provision, direct sales, social media, fun activities, handouts, social media – and everything else that’s required for each and every day.

Get in touch and we will show you how we will make consumer event sampling activities at festivals and shows come to life.

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Consumer Event Sampling Case Studies

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