• Reach hundreds of potential customers in two days.
• Be part of an ideal environment where qualified customers can see, touch, compare and BUY your product.
• Experience increased sales…resulting in follow-up sales throughout the year.
• Take the guesswork out of where your advertising dollars should be spent. You could spend more money on one television or newspaper ad in one day than it will cost you to display your products over a two-day period in our show.

Increase Your Sales

• 70% are homeowners
• 60% have greater than a $75,000 household income
• 76% are in the key 25-54 age bracket
• 60% attend the event with their spouse, MEET BOTH DECISION MAKERS

Qualified Audience Ready to Purchase

• 86% come looking for gardening/landscaping, renovation/remodeling ideas or, decorating, specifically:
  • 59% come looking for gardening/landscaping ideas
  • 50% come looking for renovation/remodeling ideas
  • 42% come looking for decorating ideas
• 52% come to see what's new in home-related products

Newspaper & Magazine

Advertising promoting the Home & Garden Show will appear prior to the show in local news print media and in the Lake Magazine.

Show Program

A show program will be distributed to the public and at every entrance to the show. The program includes a list of exhibitors, floor plan, articles about the show and a schedule of events. Exhibitors and Non-Exhibitors have the opportunity to advertise in the programs.

Radio

The show will be promoted on WBT radio a week prior to the show. WBT will also be doing a live remote broadcast from the show. Live 60 second commercials are available for purchase ($100) to promote your company from the show. Limited number available, first come first serve basis.

Celebrity Appearances

The Royal Chef, Darren McGrady will be this years featured celebrity.  Darren McGrady was personal chef to Princess Diana for four years until her tragic accident and was a senior chef in the Royal kitchens at Buckingham Palace for eleven years where he traveled around the world with the Queen and the royal family. Prior to his royal service he trained at the Savoy hotel in London and obtained a bachelors degree in culinary arts.

Darren has cooked for four U.S. Presidents as well over a hundred Kings, Queens and Heads of State. He has cooked on The Today Show and CBS Early Show in New York as well as many breakfast shows around the U.S.A. and Canada. He has also appeared on; CNN headline news. Larry King live. Fox News Channel. Fox and Friends. QVC. BBC and Sky TV.  He is also the author of Eating Royally.

Chef McGrady will hold two cooking demonstrations as well book signings and appearances throughout the show.


"Cotton" Ketchie, a Mooresville native and nationally known watercolorist and owner of Landmark Galleries will also be on hand for book signings and appearances throughout the show.  

Today "Cotton" Ketchie’s works can be found in collections throughout Europe, Asia, the United States, and Canada including the private collections of the former Governor of North Carolina, Jim Martin and the former White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles.