Vetted trade show models, booth staff, lead-retrieval and convention talent — locally sourced, trained on your brand before the floor opens, and managed on-site. (Almost) instant quotes.
92% of trade show attendees come specifically to see new products — and trade shows are the single largest segment of the global exhibition market.
Sources — CEIR; Global Market Insights, 2025Booth size sets the team — a 10×10 inline needs a different crew than a 40×40 island. Your account executive scopes the right one.
Polished, approachable talent who draw and greet traffic and keep the booth energized across long show days.
Booth talent trained for professional, industry-specific shows — HIMSS, RSNA, AAOS, and financial or tech audiences.
Trained on Cvent, Compusystems, Validar, Klik, and Bartizan — scanning and qualifying leads correctly, in real time.
Deliver short feature-benefit demos, field first-line questions, and support hands-on product trials.
Booth-front talent who pull aisle traffic into your space and warm up visitors before your reps.
Introduce sessions, run announcements, and hold energy and pacing on a microphone.
Engage attendees in Spanish, Mandarin, French, Portuguese, and more at international and gateway-market shows.
For booths with 5+ staff or multi-day shows, an experienced lead who runs check-in, breaks, and performance.
Trained for the show floor — the booth work that turns foot traffic into a follow-up list.
Acknowledge everyone who passes, open conversations, and read who's a real prospect.
Badge scans and qualifying notes on your app, in real time, so nothing is lost.
Run or assist product demos and highlight the features that matter.
Route serious buyers straight to your reps for the close.
Keep traffic moving, run giveaway lines, and distribute materials.
Capture notes and feedback that sharpen post-show outreach.
Exhibitors who run pre-show outreach generate 46% more booth visits than those relying on walk-up traffic. Trained models turn the extra visitors into captured leads.
Source — CEIR, 2025When your reps are deep in a demo, the visitors walking past go unqualified — and those are the leads you paid for the booth to reach. Trade show models add the hands and the floor experience to capture every opportunity, all show long.
The outcome: more badges scanned, more qualified conversations, and a booth that's busy from the opening bell to the final hour.
HIMSS, RSNA, AAOS, and device conferences where credibility and a corporate register matter.
CES and major tech expos — talent who can speak to a savvy, product-hungry audience.
World of Concrete, CONEXPO, and trade-heavy floors where energy holds across long days.
Auto shows, food and beverage, and financial and professional-services exhibits.
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.
From first inquiry to wrap, you have one accountable team. Here's how it goes.
Booth talent is one piece of a bigger floor strategy. Related: event staffing, promotional models, and brand ambassadors. Explore the markets we serve.
"We have never received so many leads as we did this year at the World of Concrete Show. Our models were great and performed above and beyond our expectations."Evelyn Vang · 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
