Linq Teams: event tools for your booth
Events, a kiosk for your booth tablet and badge scanning, with every contact filed under the event and its cost per contact. Plus how the four Linq plans compare.
A trade show goes by fast. Three people on the booth, a tablet on the counter, a stack of badges to scan, and by Friday a pile of contacts spread across phones, notebooks and someone’s camera roll. Then the question from whoever paid for the booth: was it worth it?
Linq Teams is built for that week. It gives your team on-brand cards, and the event tools that turn a busy booth into a list of people you can follow up with, and a number you can show.
Before the event
Create the event under Events: its name, where it is and when it runs. Give it a tag, like websummit, and if you like, what attending cost and what a new contact is worth to you. As a team owner or admin, you can make it a team event, so everyone on the booth works under it.
From then on, everything anyone captures while the event is running is filed under it, with its tag and “where you met” already filled in. Nobody has to remember to type the event’s name at eleven at night.
At the booth
There are three ways in, and they all land in the same place.
- A kiosk on the tablet. Under Events, open Kiosk, create one and open its link on the booth tablet. Visitors leave their details, with any questions you’ve added to your form, and the form clears for the next person after each one, or after a minute of nobody touching it. Nobody sees who signed up before them. Turn off stops the link at once, even on a tablet that’s showing it.
- Badge scanning. Select Scan badges on the event and photograph a badge: Linq reads the name and company, and you save the contact in a tap. A badge that holds the person’s details in a QR code is read from the code, which doesn’t use up a scan. Teams includes 1,000 badge scans a month.
- Your cards. Visitors who scan your QR code and send you their details, the paper cards you scan, and the people you add by hand are filed under the event too.
If your team is at two events at once, each person selects I’m here on the one they’re at.
After the event
Open the event to see its dashboard: contacts per day, where they stand, how they were captured, and, on a team event, how many each person brought in.
If you entered what the event cost and what a contact is worth, you also get the cost per contact and an estimated return. A $2,000 booth that brings in 80 contacts costs $25 a contact. We call the return an estimate because it is: Linq knows what you told it, not which contacts became customers.
Then follow up while people still remember you. Teams includes everything in Pro, so you can send a template that fills in each person’s name, company and the event, by email, WhatsApp or text, and set reminders for the ones who need a call.
What Business adds
Linq Business includes everything in Teams, for a team of 10, and adds tools for bigger event programmes:
- Leaderboard: who on the team brought in the most contacts, how people opened your cards, and contacts by event with each one’s estimated return.
- Lead routing: rules that send each new contact to the right person, for example everyone captured at a given event to the person who owns that region, or everyone from a big account to its account manager.
- Connected apps: new contacts straight to Zoho CRM or Slack, so the team sees them as they come in.
It also adds the Business Card, a page for your company, and badge scans go up to 2,000 a month. See Team tools.
The four plans
| Who it’s for | Monthly | Yearly | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | One card, to share and collect contacts | $0 | |
| Pro | One person who follows up seriously | $6.99 | $69 |
| Teams | A team of 5, with event tools | $14.99 | $149 |
| Business | A team of 10, a Business Card and admin tools | $29.99 | $299 |
Extra team members are $3.99 a month each, on Teams or Business, with no minimum.
Pro and Business start with a 7-day free trial on your first subscription: you enter your card at checkout, nothing is charged during the trial, and if you cancel before it ends you pay nothing. Teams doesn’t have a trial: it’s billed from the first day. If you’d like to try the event tools before you pay, they’re all in Business, so its trial covers them.
Get started
Read how it all fits together on our event lead capture page, or go straight to the guide to events. Compare everything on the pricing page, then open Plan in the app to start.