Vetted booth staff, brand ambassadors, lead-capture and registration talent — locally sourced in 25+ markets, briefed before show day, and managed end to end. (Almost) instant quotes.
The people walking your aisle came to buy and to find something new. The only question is whether your booth engages them before they pass.
Source — CEIR, 2025"Event staff" isn't one role — it's a team built for how your event actually needs to perform. One model in one city, or a hundred across a national tour.
Polished, approachable talent who draw traffic, greet attendees, and keep your exhibit active and on-brand through long days.
Trained reps who carry your messaging, run demos, and engage attendees at trade shows, activations, and experiential events.
Staff who gather a crowd, run a live demo, and convert interest to purchase — from show floors to Costco-style sampling.
Trained on Cvent, Compusystems, Validar, Klik, and Bartizan — so prospects are scanned, qualified, and noted in real time.
The organized, friendly first point of contact who keep attendee flow and badge management running smoothly.
Booth-front and entrance talent who turn foot traffic into engaged visitors.
Stage-experienced hosts for keynote programming, corporate events, and on-camera moments — rehearsal built in.
Engagement in Spanish, Mandarin, French, Portuguese, and 10+ languages where your audience calls for it.
For booths of five or more or multi-city tours — an experienced lead who runs check-in, breaks, and performance.
From the registration desk to the booth to the stage — the work that keeps an event running and converting.
Welcome attendees, manage flow, and set a professional first impression at every touchpoint.
Scan badges, ask qualifying questions, and tag prospects so your team follows up with the right people.
Keep attendee flow, badges, and lines moving smoothly through peak arrival windows.
Assist product demonstrations and presentations, and keep energy and pacing on the mic.
On-message conversations drawn from your brief, so every interaction reflects your brand.
On-site team leads run check-in, breaks, and coverage so you never have to manage staff.
That math only works if the leads actually get captured and qualified on the floor. The right staff are the difference between a list of names and a pipeline.
Source — CEIR, 2025Events run on people, and your own team can't be everywhere. The booth, the desk, the stage, and the aisle all need someone — and when they're covered by trained, on-brand talent, your team gets to focus on the conversations that actually close.
The outcome: more leads captured, a smoother event, and a brand that looks buttoned-up from check-in to close.
Booth talent, lead capture, and convention models for industry shows from CES to HIMSS, RSNA, and World of Concrete.
Registration, hosts, greeters, and brand staff for conferences, meetings, and company functions.
Ambassadors and demonstrators for launches, festivals, and mobile tours.
Product demonstrators and sampling staff who drive trial in-store and in-market.
Every booking includes a brand brief built for your show: an intelligence report on your company, your products, your key talking points, and why this event matters to the buyers walking the floor. Our talent studies it before show day, so they speak for your brand with the fluency of your own team — many attendees assume they work for you. That's exactly the point.
History, positioning, and the product detail talent needs to answer with confidence.
The messages you want every visitor to hear — delivered on-brand, every time.
An intelligence read on the event and your buyers, so talent engages the right prospects.
Event staffing sits inside a $24.2B U.S. trade show and event-planning industry — part of a global exhibition market still climbing. Staffing is no longer the line item to cut.
From first inquiry to show-day close, you have one accountable team. Here's how it goes.
Event staffing spans the whole floor. For booth-specific talent see our trade show models, for sampling and demos our promotional models, and for experiential work our brand ambassadors. Explore all staffing services, the markets we serve, or staffing for specific shows and events.
"Simply stated, TSM Agency is the best model staffing agency we have ever worked with. We only had two days to staff two models — we had our models the same day I contacted them."Patty Collins · Client
A woman-owned talent agency co-founded by Caryn Hanna, a former professional model.
More than 20 years of trade show and event staffing experience.
More than 2,000 trade shows, conventions, and promotional events staffed across the United States.
Over 2,000 experienced trade show models, brand ambassadors, and promotional staff across 25+ U.S. cities.
Rated 5.0 stars on Google Reviews based on verified client feedback.
A member of Meeting Professionals International (MPI), the largest global community of meeting and event professionals.
Fully insured with $1M per occurrence and $2M aggregate general liability. Certificates of insurance available on request.
Local talent in every major U.S. convention city, eliminating travel expenses, with staff who know the venue.
Most staffing agencies email you a roster and hope. TSM runs one connected system where AI is the backbone that makes our people better — it does the research and the legwork so our account executives and our talent show up sharper and better prepared than anyone else on the floor. People still make every call that matters.
Describe your event once and our AI compiles everything into one place — venue, dates, booth size, roles, and the intelligence around your show. Your dedicated account executive uses it to build an accurate quote fast and to start lining up the right talent for your booth.
The talent you see has been interviewed and matched to your brand and event by your account executive — chosen for your booth, never a roster dump or whoever happened to be free.
Every TSM contractor agrees to published talent guidelines and a code of conduct before they represent you — professionalism, punctuality (on-site 15 minutes early), brand alignment, floor conduct. Training is the standard, not an upsell.
Before the show, our AI assembles each model a brief on your brand, products, talking points and audience. They study it in the portal — so the person at your booth sounds like they work for you, not a temp who showed up that morning.
You get your own brief to review and shape — talking points, products, dress code, goals. A sharp brief turns a staffed booth into a selling booth, and we build it with you.
Multiple automatic touchpoints in the run-up to your event, plus a firm confirmation before doors open, keep your team locked in and protect a replacement window if anything changes. Your booth is covered, not crossed-fingers.
Clients rate talent and talent leave feedback; strong reviews raise a model’s priority for future bookings. The people you’re offered have continuously earned their place.
Compile, quote, curate, brief, remind, perform, review — one connected system, run by people. That’s why a TSM booth runs sharper than a booth that’s merely staffed.
You're paying their salary that week either way. Add up everything else and booking TSM is usually the cheaper way to staff a booth — and the better one.
Airfare, airport transfers, hotels and per diem — for every person you send.
A full week of their loaded salary, which you're paying whether they're working the booth or at their desk.
The work they're not getting done back home while they're on the floor.
The hours someone burns booking travel, building the schedule, and managing the team on-site.
And they still aren't event pros — qualifying booth traffic isn't their day job.
A day rate — and because talent is local in 25+ U.S. cities, often no travel at all.
Vetted professionals who staff booths for a living, briefed on your brand before the doors open.
One dedicated account executive scopes the team and runs it on-site.
Your core team stays at their desks doing the work only they can do.
Coverage from open through show close — never an early walk-off.
A note from our owner Caryn Hanna
