Avoid Picking Duplicate Vendors
Posted on Friday January 27 2017
It's important that when selecting vendors for your health fair, you try to mix it up and have various kinds of services and education - not multiple vendors who represent the same service.Securing too many vendors of the same service typically happens with the chiropractic category.If your company is in a large, populated area, it's quite typical to have multiple chiropractors interested in your health fair. This isn't a bad thing! You can review each profile and select the one that is going to bring the most value to your health fair.Depending on the size of your health fair, it might not...
How to get started on HFC
Posted on Wednesday January 25 2017
HR and benefits pros - welcome to Health Fair Connections! (HFC)This help post is to show you how to create a profile and gain access to your health fair planning dashboard.It's quite easy, so this will not take long :)Step 1: Create Host ProfileYou're going to start at the homepage. No surprise there.Check out this screenshot from the homepage to see where to go (https://app.healthfairconnections.com):Once you click the green, "join for free now," you'll be presented with two options:After you click, "I plan health fairs," you're taken to the final step of creating your profile:Now that yo...
"Share HFC" Email Template
Posted on Saturday January 21 2017
HR managers and benefits professionals - save your colleagues 40-60 hrs in health fair planning by recommending Health Fair Connections' (HFC) FREE health fair platform.Here's a template you can use to copy and paste into an email, then send to your connections. Subject:new health fair tool I know you'll likeBody:Hi {First Name},I wanted to let you know about a cool, new health fair tool that you can use for your 2017 health fair. It's free and will save you 40-60 hours of a headache. I've used it and I know you'll love the new, modern health fair experience.Info on Health Fair Connections...
Second Chance Email
Posted on Tuesday January 10 2017
AKA - The Reconsider-me EmailVendors, were you denied from a health fair and don't think the host is getting the full picture, not to mention, missing out on a great vendor? HFC now gives vendors a chance to email the host via HFC's messaging system once vendors have been denied from a health fair. Now, vendors can let the host know why they're missing out and to consider them next year. It is a possibility that vendors can be re-accepted into the health fair. When you're denied from a health fair, you'll get an email like this:Click the link in the email and it will take you to a page wher...
Manage your Ratings and Reviews
Posted on Tuesday January 10 2017
How To Manage And Respond To A Rating And ReviewDidn’t like a rating or review you received?Would you like to respond to rating or review you received and share your side of the story? No problem! HFC allows you to reply publicly to a rating and review you received from a health fair host. The host will not be emailed or notified of your reply, but future hosts will see your side of the story under the review you chose to publically reply to. Just to be clear, as soon as you reply, it will show up underneath the review on your vendor profile for the world to see. To get started, visit the "...
Request a Rating and Review
Posted on Tuesday January 10 2017
Attention Vendors - we now allow you to request ratings and reviews from the host of the health fair once the event has come and gone!It shows validity when your profile has numerous ratings and reviews, so do you feel more ratings and reviews are needed on your vendor profile? This is how you can make that happen.Or, do you have subpar ratings and would like to get your ratings up? Once again, the "request ratings and reviews" feature is the solution.See below as to where you'll go to request a rating and review on your dashboard:Next, find the health fair you'd like to request a rating an...
Follow-up Message
Posted on Tuesday January 10 2017
The follow-up message feature allows you to reconnect with the host after their health fair.We find that many vendors have presentations, workshops, lunch 'n' learns, services (1-on-1 nutritional counseling), screenings, etc. that they can offer to corporations outside of the company's health fair.We designed this feature, so vendors have another opportunity to start a relationship with these companies and potentially generate revenue or leads from the connection.You can find the follow-up message feature in two places:-When you click "follow-up" for a health fair, here's how it looks:You'l...
Is It A Problem That HFC Doesn’t Have Any Exhibitors Or Vendors In The Area I'm Located?
Posted on Thursday December 1 2016
The answer is "no." Health Fair Connections (HFC) will do the manual labor to ensure vendors are driven to your health fair listing.HFC will "scrape" the area around your location to find different types of vendors and spike their interest about your health fair via email campaigns, personal emails, etc..Keep in mind that all vendors have to create an account before gaining full access to your health fair information, as well as before they can join the interested list for your event. This means we vet the vendors before you check them out.Now, we do ask hosts take a few small steps to help...
What's the difference between the different types of exhibitor ads inside my list of interested vendors?
Posted on Thursday December 1 2016
As vendors join the interested list for your health fair, you'll be able to view them under the "interested" tab of your "vendors" section.As you might have noticed, certain vendors have better, more lavish listings. These exhibitors have chosen to go with a risk-free, only-pay-if-selected paid ad listings.These exhibitors/vendors want to stand out, provide you extra information, and typically have excellent health fair booths. They pay a small fee to make this happen and are only charged if you select them (making it risk-free). For the basic ads, they're free all the way around until 14 a...
Can I use HFC for multiple office locations?
Posted on Thursday December 1 2016
Can I use Health Fair Connections for multiple office locations?Yes! HFC makes it super easy to manage multiple office locations, nationwide.HFC has a view outside of the dashboard that lets you keep track of upcoming, past, and draft health fairs:And don't forget, you don't have to manage all these health fairs on your own.You're able to go inside each event dashboard and invite your team members or the onsite contact for each location.You can set the health fairs up, and then hand them off to the person who you want to manage the event. Benefits professionals - this same invite process wo...