1. Make an effort to visit as many vendors as you can at any trade show and collect information that are useful for you regarding their offer, which are their ideal client and their target market. Therefore do not let the opportunity to meet the exhibitors at any trade show slip out of your hand instead try to seize the best out of it.

2. Be a good listener than a good orator because you need to find out their business and their personal interests that matches yours so that these collected information at trade show are easy to reach later when you follow-up.

3. Try to make your networking efforts at any trade show interesting by planning to meet at least one new person every 10-15 minutes, collecting reliable information for your follow-up rapidly and not at a snail pace otherwise you will be the loser.

4. Value the people you come in contact in the trade show and set yourself as a significant, easily approachable resource of solution to any problems. Even if you are unable to find solutions to their problems you can direct them to the exhibitor you met earlier who might have a great solution for them or introduce them to someone else you know at the event who you think they might be able to make a good connection with.

5. cards are a significant tool in maximizing the networking opportunities at any trade show. It is important to make a couple of notes about what you learned about them or to write a quick like note that will add value to your card like the name of a website they might find useful, a book, another networking event, after asking for a business cards or prior to handing someone your own business card respectively.

6. Follow-up is probably the most important tip of all to maximize your networking opportunities at any trade show. Your networking efforts at any trade show will surely bear fruit of success if you make contacts during the week following the show, with each person you met through hand written note and a voice mail, brief phone conversation or an e-mail. It does not matter how you contacted but the time plays an important factor in building a relationship. The lesser is the time gap between the events and the contact the more is the surety of success.