Learn how to create your Virtual Event's Expo Hall
The Expo Hall is where all the exhibitor booths for your event will be held. This is important to your event, as it will be the digital central location for your attendees to visit and chat with your exhibitors at their own exhibitor booths. It's crucial to make sure that you have set up your Expo Hall for success.
Creating the Expo Hall
1. On your Event Admin dashboard, go to Event Modules
2. Create a module and select Expo Hall in the Template setting.
Your virtual event's Expo Hall is ready to be edited. You can click on the module to be taken to the manage page. Click on View Landing Page in the top right corner to find the designer page. Use the left hand menu to add branding and design elements to the Expo Hall's header, title banner, and more.
Note: Your Expo Hall is empty, meaning you will need to add in your Exhibitor booths individually into your Expo Hall. Below is an image of how booths can appear after they've been added.
Once you've finished designing your Expo Hall, click Save & Exit to return to the virtual event's Manage Event (Beta) dashboard. This button is located on the top right corner of your page.
Adding Exhibitors to the Expo Hall
Important: In the BigMarker system, the Expo Hall is structured as a webinar series. So in this Expo Hall, each individual exhibitor's booth will take the form of an individual evergreen webinar. Unlike live webinars, evergreen webinars are automated presentations scheduled to begin "just in time" as the visitor enters the booth environment, giving each participant an identical, full exhibitor experience regardless of whether they enter the booth on the hour or 20 minutes after.
Creating Exhibitor Booths
Back on your virtual event's Manage Event (Beta) dashboard, click on Exhibitors in the left hand navigation menu.
Click Create Booth.
Enter in your Exhibitor's basic information:
- Booth Image - the image for the booth that appears in the Expo Hall
- Tradeshow - Choose the expo hall that the booth will be added to
- Exhibitor Name - the name of the Exhibitor
- Booth size - the size of the thumbnail image of the booth within the Expo Hall
- Booth title - the title of the booth
- About - A description about the Exhibitor/Exhibitor booth
Click Save & Exit
Once you've saved your Booth, it will appear under the Exhibitors section. You can Edit, Enter Booth, and Manage from here.
Repeat the above steps to create as many Exhibitor's booths as needed for your Expo Hall.
For more information on creating and managing exhibitor booths, click here
Back in your Expo Hall designer page, select Exhibitors, then Add Session. Find your Booth in the Webinar drop down menu.
Select your booth (CloudBank in this instance) and select the settings you'd like to attribute to the booth within the Expo Hall. Add things like title, Join Button text, a summary of the product or company, a thumbnail image which will show on the Expo Hall main page, and much more. Once you've added all your information, click Save. Your Booth should now appear on your Expo Hall home page.
Be sure to Save & Exit once you've added all the booths.
