How can The Mountain Home Show Benefit Your Business?
Advertising on our busy web site
Advertising with us in the newspapers
Advertising with us on the radio and television
Teaching a seminar at our next trade show
Participating in The Mountain Model Home project
Setting up a display in our next trade show
Who May Exhibit?
* Advertising on our busy web site.
* Advertising with us in the newspapers.
* Advertising with us on the radio and television.
* Teaching a seminar at our next trade show.
* Participating in The Mountain Model Home project.
* Setting up a display in our next trade show.
Our web site has some of the best traffic ratings in this area.
We want to use this to benefit local businesses in the construction industry.
By setting up a display in The Mountain Home Show, we include your listing on our web site.
You may include a photograph, your name, address, phone, email, and web site, along with a slogan.
All we ask is that you add a link to our web site on your's. By crosslinking web sites we help each other build traffic.
You may also write an educational article for our web site.
In the conclusion of this article we include contact information for the author.
This is a great way to educate prospective clients. The Mountain Home Show reserves the write to edit all articles.
Articles written by exhibitors
(Your name could be on an article like these).
Exhibitors in the last Mountain Home Show.
(See how we advertise exhibitors from the last Mountain Home Show)
Exhibitors in the next Mountain Home Show.
(Advertisements for Exhibitors in our next Mountain Home Show)
We have established a very good relationship with the local newspapers.
Before every Mountain Home Show we work with them to create the best newspaper advertising deal in our region.
We have a multi-page Home Show guide inserted in seven area newspapers.
For about the same cost as a regular newspaper ad, your ad can be seen in seven newspapers and handed out at the show.
We also include a directory of exhibitors without extra charge.
(You may be included if all of your paperwork is completed and received three weeks before the show).
By cooperating together, the newspapers receive the benefit of new advertising contacts. Our exhibitors get a great advertising deal.
And The Mountain Home Show gets promoted.
The local radio and television stations have also enjoyed advertising The Mountain Home Show.
You can see or listen to advertisements we made for some previous shows:
Our television commercial for the 2007 Mountain Home Show.
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Our WPPL radio commercials for the 2007 Mountain Home Show.
(These mp3 files are each under 950KB).
Our WCNG radio commercials for the 2005 Mountain Home Show.
(These wma files are only 997KB).
We sometimes have the radio stations broadcast live from the show. You may ask to be interviewed live on the air.
Interviews are brief and we ask that you invite people to see your booth at The Mountain Home Show.
We may also work together to negotiate a special rate for your own advertising during the show.
Our guests attend our show looking for ideas for their home. Many are glad to attend a seminar if the subject interest them.
Do you have an informative presentation that would interest the public?
We can advertise the title and time of your presentation on the web site and in the newspaper.
There is a small fee, and you would need to be an exhibitor in our show.
The presentation must be about services or products for a mountain home.
You might speak, show a video, or demonstrate something interesting.
For the schedule of seminars in our next show, see this page:
Public information about our next Mountain Home Show
(including current list of seminars).
The Mountain Model Home is an experimental home designed to be extremely energy efficient.
We organize open houses and invite people to tours of this home.
By supplying labor and materials you can have our guests see a sample of your work.
We are glad to provide them with your brochures and contact information.
We also feature what you do on our web site.
In this way you can barter for your advertising.
The Mountain Model Home Web Page
(See how we advertise our sponsors).
What benefits come from exhibiting in our Home Show?
You can join our group of local business people who work together to promote themselves.
We all work hard to set up interesting display booths. We also share the expense of running and advertising the show.
Newspaper, radio, and cable TV have done an excellent job of promoting this event.
The result is a very professional home show for our own area, of which we can all be proud.
Many exhibitors say that this is by far the best and least expensive advertising they do.
The Journal of Light Construction article about organizing a display in a home show
We are limiting the show to local businesses that offer services or products for the home.
You are welcome to email us with a description of your business to see if you qualify.
Each exhibitor is required to sign an agreement and pay for his space in advance.
We would be happy to email you a contract that you can print, sign, and mail.
You are welcome to email us with any questions you have.
We can also get together on the phone after you receive the contract to help you pick out a spot.
Each exhibitor is responsible to gather everything for their exhibit, set it up before the show,
have someone at their display during the entire show, tear down their exhibit after the show, and clean their space.
This is a lot of work, but there is no better promotion available in our area for such a low cost.
In fact many of the exhibitors have networked with each other and continue to do business together.
Exhibitors may have a drawing at their booths for a free prize.
They are welcome to keep the drawing slips to use as sales leads.
Our Current Home Show Plan:
Spaces Available at This Time:
Inside Spaces: #10, 15, 16, 20, 22, 24, 25, 35, 36, 39-43, 46-60
Covered Outside Spaces Under a Porch Roof: #101-109, 115-120
Open Outside Spaces in the Grass: Please contact us.
Every year, previous exhibitors have until December 31 to reserve the same space they had the previous year.
January is when the most spaces are available.
How Much Does this Cost?
(Prices might change a little if our hours change from last year. This will be posted soon).
Each space has a $50 deposit that may be refunded after the show if all the terms are met.
There is also a $50 base fee.
There is also a square foot charge according to where the space is.
Inside Booths 1-32 cost $1.85 per square foot.
Inside Booths 33-60 cost $1.60 per square foot.
Porch Booths 101-120 cost $.85 per square foot.
Outside Booths in the grass cost $0.60 per square foot.
You are welcome to phone us for help in selecting and pricing a space.
This pricing covers the cost of your space and all of the advertising.
You are responsible for all of your displays, backdrops, and booth furniture.
We charge $40 if you would like to teach a 30 minute seminar in a classroom.
Other Pages on this Web Site
How to Contact The Mountain Home Show
Appreciation......
This web site contains information obtained from various sources.
The Mountain Home Show is not liable for the accuracy of this information.
Please contact the source of this information with your questions.
The Mountain Home Show, Home Page and Site Map (How to find what you're looking for)
The Next Mountain Home Show Program (For guests and exhibitors)
How to Get in The Mountain Home Show (For exhibitors)
Articles (About designing, building and remodeling a mountain home)
The Mountain Model Home (An experimental home that is extremely energy efficient)
The Mountain Model Cabin (A very small mountain cabin designed to sleep four comfortably)
Construction Diary (The joys and frustrations of building these two model homes)
Home Designing and Planning (How to get great plans for building or remodeling your home)
Email Us (Questions about The Mountain Home Show or Your Mountain Home Project)
The Mountain Home Show, P.O. Box 446, Murphy, North Carolina 28906-0446
The Mountain Home Show owes its success to the businesses that participate in the show. They arrange such wonderful exhibits. It is obvious that they take great pride in their work and our show.