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Computex 2007 – Dueling Booth Babes

written by John Chow on June 11, 2007

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One of the coolest/funniest thing that breaks out at Computex every year are the booth babe duels. For whatever reasons, many companies schedule their product demos at the same time as the next booth. This results in two or more demo teams trying to out talk each other. It’s really funny to watch. Many times the duels end up in a draw. However, in the duel that pitted the Apacer babes against the Thermaltake babes, Thermaltake clearly won. No doubt because they were giving away free hammers.

The below video features the Hitachi demo babes going up against the Apogee demo/dance babes. I have to give the edge to the Hitachi girls because they were just damn hot. Part way through the video, you’ll see some roaming floor babes from AData walking between the two demo teams to try and make some show goers follow them to their booth.

Why don’t we have booth babes duels in North American trade shows?

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Hooray for the booth babes!

Thats my question too "Why don’t we have booth babes duels in North American trade shows?"

I see John likes babes beside $$$. :)

Hi!
In korea, they are lot of girls who promote products, its a normal thing there. My friend did that for LG in Busan, she actually liked it.
It paid for her college.

bye!

In Australia, the girls hate it. You try to take a picture of the booth girls and the security guards will be all over you.

yes, i can see why some people won't like it. But in korea, i didnt see that problem. I am sorry that in Australia they are that zealous. The booth girls are there for the public, why would a picture hurt them.

bye

Kelly

Aww I was expecting them to have some sort of dance battle. :P I have never heard of such things as booth babes until this convention.

thous babes are hot...

The girls seem to be working well for the booth owners. They get the attention of passersby (who are mostly male, by the way) and lure them to the booth where all the other good techy stuff are -- not bad for on-site marketing.

That's kinda Pathetic that in a technology convention, the one who makes more sales is the one who has the hottest babes, and definitely not the best technology.

:cool: I think we might need to get some booth babes for the Authority Summit in Vegas!

And people carrying large signs. Wonder what you can get paid to walk around with a great big sign at a tech convention?

lmao wtf. doesn't seem like a tech show at all. :eek:

haha no kidding Johns having way too much fun to be at a tech show :wink: . The video is prety funny i guesss...

Back in the day when I paid $20-40k for a 10x10 booth space, I met a true tradeshow veteran in the booth next to me. In his 50s-60s with coifed silver hair and exquisitely tailored suits, he exuded money. While the booths around me had babes and contests for prizes (always won by the booth staff, btw) he had nothing. His booth had no people - just product displays and a place to leave business cards. While he wandered the show and charmed everyone else's babes and ate/drank at the press buffet, *qualified* interested leads quietly stopped at his booth, read his literature, and left their cards. After the show while most booths collected many thousands of low-quality leads (mostly interested in free prizes), he walked away with a few hundred very profitable leads for only a fraction of the cost. And he enjoyed the show a lot more.

oh wow! he's really smart! Innovative with low cost...

more booth babes!

That girl in the silver dress is probably a local celebrity. Top notch booth babe right there.

Whatever it takes to get attention. This is certainly one of those ways to get it done. . . . .

does it inviolate the Google Adsense Agreement to put many kinds of Ad networks in one site or one page???
Thanks!
We are trying this too.

Haha it's so funny! They are really using all the babes to attract the crowd... Funniest part is they are all side by side with one another trying to compete for the mass crowd.. :lol:

Hey Mr John Chow, I think your blog really rocks like you! Here's my first post.. :cool:

Booth Babes! Coming to a Tech Exhbition/Conference near you :)

Oh, but could their voices be any more annoying? It sounds like they're talking through their noses. :lol:

I know, so freaking high, I think I heard a 'congratulations' from the whole thing. I don't speak mandarin but it sounded and looked like chaos.

I am from Taiwan and I can not understand every single word. It is not necessary to understand them, just look at them :razz:

They were kinda high pitch, weren't they. I'm sure they sounded better live.

Sounds like they were in the local fruit market on a Saturday afternoon.

Why do they speak Mandarin if it's an international conference?

It seems that if they need babes to lure you into their booth, they must not have much of a product. Maybe that's what up and coming blogs need as well.

Oh well, I guess noting never changes. Sex sells.

Agreed. But did you see how the danced? :shock:

The funny thing abou the dancing is they were dancing hip hop to Britney Spears earlier now its hip hop to Marilyn Monroe 50s jazz...

yes.. it's time for companies to have a good product AND hot babes. jk lol. I somewhat agree with you on that point though.

John always bring the fun on the blog :)

btw, i think it's TTZmedia call to bring the booth babes on North American trade shows. how do you think john? :)