Trade Show Models in Chicago

Yes. Send the event, venue, booth number, dates, daily hours and responsibilities. We can assess local talent availability for your assignment, from greeting and lead capture to a separately scoped demonstration role.

TSM recruits from a local Chicago roster. Confirm each selected person's availability and relevant venue experience, and check the quote for any travel-related charges. Being local does not automatically mean a candidate has worked your particular hall.

Yes. Put your qualification questions, required lead fields and routing rules in the brief. Tell us which retrieval platform you use so experience and preparation can be checked during selection. Your sales team should define the follow-up process.

Discuss attendance reporting, escalation contacts and replacement procedures with your account executive before the event. If someone cannot attend, contact your account executive promptly to review available options. An unbooked standby or immediate replacement is not assumed.

TSM's published typical range is $50–$85 per hour, with a four-hour minimum. Your quote depends on the role, requested skills, dates and hours. Confirm preparation, total cost and additional charges for the assignment; your account executive can confirm the quote response timeline.

TSM is a woman-owned agency founded in 2005. Our documented general liability coverage is $1 million per occurrence and $2 million aggregate. Request a certificate of insurance and send your organizer's requirements so the documentation can be checked for the booking.

The booth assignment can include greeting, visitor questions, lead recording, appointment support and introductions to your reps. Product demonstrations require suitable experience and preparation. Choose the duties you need rather than assuming every model performs every task.

Send the show, venue, dates, daily coverage hours, headcount and role description. Review the proposed profiles, confirm the selected talent and agree on the booking details. Then provide the product brief, arrival instructions and sales handoff contacts.

Review each proposed profile against your actual booth duties. Ask about comparable assignments and check communication, lead-capture and demonstration skills as relevant. TSM coordinates selection and preparation; the booking should establish the experience required.

Request talent for your Chicago-area convention venue, including McCormick Place or a hotel exhibit space. Include the specific event, building and booth number. Availability and any venue-experience requirement are checked for that booking, not inferred from the venue name.

Yes. An exhibit may need models, promotional staff, hosts, presenters or brand ambassadors in different positions. Describe each position, the required skills and hours so your account executive can scope a coordinated team.

TSM supports booth engagement, promotional activity and brand representation. Use the Chicago event-staffing hub for a broader team, and the local promotional-model or brand-ambassador pages for those roles. The assignment determines the final team and service scope.

Provide the approved demonstration sequence and arrange a rehearsal for the selected talent. Define what the model may explain and which technical questions go to your product specialist. Include the contact for an equipment or routine problem alongside the sales handoff contact. Review actual product and software experience during selection; a profile title does not establish proficiency with your equipment or authority to answer specialist questions.

Start with the exhibit footprint and the duties that must stay covered. Agree on where models greet, where qualifying introductions go and who covers each position during breaks. Include briefing and equipment checks in the requested shift rather than using public opening time as the reporting time. For several halls or assignments, request a team lead where needed and confirm the coordinator, schedule and change contact in the booking.

Yes. Specify the language, proficiency and actual booth conversation the person must handle. Greeting, presenting and discussing a technical product have different communication requirements. Your account executive can check suitable talent and availability; review language skills during profile selection before confirming. Include the approved product messages and specialist handoff in the brief rather than assuming a language request makes the model a technical product expert.

List reception and off-site work separately from the booth shift, with the venue, reporting point, duties and coverage hours for each assignment. Include movement between locations and any overlap that needs another person. Confirm availability, preparation and additional charges with the quote. Reception greetings or brand representation do not turn a trade show model booking into catering, bartending or other hospitality service.

Define the questions that identify the visitors your sales team wants to meet. Models can note the visitor's role, interest and requested next step before introducing them to the right colleague. Decide which answers lead to a demonstration, scheduled meeting or later follow-up, and name the sales contact. A badge scan is a recorded interaction, not proof that every visitor is the same kind of prospect or will buy.

Name the McCormick Place building, hall, booth, staff entrance, badge collection point and on-site contact. Use the plan for your assignment and the current exhibitor manual rather than the campus name alone. Set a reporting time that allows for briefing and equipment checks within the agreed shift. A Rosemont or hotel assignment needs its own instructions; do not reuse a McCormick Place arrival plan for another venue.