AI Trade Show Lead Pipeline 2026: Vector vs Popl Recipe
Trade show lead capture automation that actually converts: the Vector vs Popl playbook to stop the six-week rot and turn 340 badge scans into booked revenue.
Chapter 1: The Six-Week Rot: Why Booth Traffic Never Becomes Revenue You spent $18,000 on a 10x10 booth. Flights, freight, drayage, the carpet you had to rent because the venue said so. Three people off the floor for four days. You came home with 340 badge scans and a feeling that it went well. Six weeks later, someone asks what the show produced. You open the export. There are 340 rows, forty of them duplicates, ninety with no email that resolves, and a "notes" column that is empty on 300 of them. You remember maybe eleven conversations. Two of those...