Trade-Show Return Kit
The show is not the event — the seventy-two hours after it are. Everything before exists to make those hours worth having.
What it is
Turns a conference or trade show from an expensive week of standing up into a measurable pipeline exercise: whether to go at all, the meetings that justify the flight, an opening line and a three-question triage for the floor, capture discipline before context evaporates, the 72-hour follow-up ladder that does the converting, and the cost-per-qualified- conversation read that settles next year. For founders, marketers and sales leads who keep coming home with a bag of badges and no pipeline.
What you receive
a trade show run as a pipeline exercise — the go/no-go verdict and the named target list booked before travel, the floor scripts and three-question triage that sort a lead from a lanyard, the capture card filled in the moment, the 72-hour follow-up ladder written per tier, and the ROI read that decides next year
Delivered as a single, complete .md skill file — open it, paste it into any capable chat model, and work. No installation, no account with anyone but us.
Supported models
- Claude (Opus/Sonnet)
- ChatGPT (GPT-4o/5)
- Gemini
- any capable chat model
People reach for it when
- “how to get leads from a trade show booth”
- “what to say to people walking past our stand”
- “trade show follow up email after conference”
- “was the trade show worth it how to measure”
- “how to qualify leads at a conference quickly”
Record
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gates passed: demand-evidence · function-fit · beats-the-blank-page
status: IN THE COLLECTION
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