u/musings24x7

Hey again, quick follow-up since a bunch of you helped me out last time with the booth games thing, I really appreciate that!!

Disclosure: I work in marketing for the company behind this, and this is something I planned. Mostly just wanted to show you what became of the ideas you gave me so thank you for that.

So here's the context I skipped over before. The company I work for is a sponsor at Dreamforce this year, and for the first time we're actually putting our own product at the center of the booth instead of just showing up with a banner and hoping people wander over. It's called ChargeOn, a payment processing app that lives inside Salesforce. We've already got a handful of clients using it, but this is our very first time we are taking it to a big reveal on a big enough platform. So yeah, the pressure to not have a boring booth was very real, hence the whole post.

And if I talk about the goodies, we genuinely went a little overboard (since we are sponsoring for the first time, so wanted to make it a deal ngl). Not the usual pens and stress balls that end up in a drawer within a week; we sat down and actually picked stuff people would want to hold onto. Worth stopping by just for these honestly, even if you don't care about the product at all.

Anyway, that's how we landed on a small arcade-style runner game and a giant Jenga on the floor instead of the spin-the-wheel thing we were originally going with. honestly, a lot of it came from stuff people said in that sub, so credit where it's due (thanks all!).

On the product side, without making this a whole pitch, it handles payments, recurring billing, invoicing, all natively inside Salesforce. One thing we really cared about was keeping pricing reasonable since a lot of similar tools quietly get expensive once you actually need the advanced stuff, so yeah, that's something we leaned into.

If you're heading to Dreamforce and want to swing by, play the game, grab some goodies, or just say hi, would genuinely love to meet some of you in person. Happy to answer questions about the product too if you're curious; drop a comment or DM, whatever's easier.

So this is my first post on Reddit, and I'm already asking for help, which feels very on-brand for me.

I work in marketing at a B2B tech company, and we're heading to a major tech conference next month. My manager has tasked me with coming up with booth game ideas to drive foot traffic, and I am completely lost.

Here's my problem: I genuinely do not enjoy games. And on top of it, I don't know what kind of games people enjoy at tech conferences. So asking me to come up with "fun" booth activities is a bit like asking someone who hates cooking to design a restaurant menu.

So what I actually want to know from people who've been to tech events:

• What booth games have actually made you stop and engage vs. ones you walked right past?
• Is there anything you've seen that felt fresh or actually clever rather than just "win a tote bag"?
• Do people at B2B tech events even want to play games, or is that a myth marketers tell each other?

Any ideas welcome. I promise I'll actually use them even if I personally would never play them.