WHAT ARE THE ADVANTAGES OF AN ONLINE FAIR?
VEF is Turkey's first online study abroad fair, organized under Endless Fairs, which operates in the field of online fair organizing. This way, potential study-abroad students located in different cities across Turkey will meet with language schools, universities, boarding or regular high schools and accommodation providers from all over the world. The real purpose of this system is to bring education consultants and students together directly on a single platform.
Online fairs have several advantages compared to classic fair processes. The foremost of these advantages is undoubtedly independence from location. At online fairs, attendees can connect to the fair area and browse the fair whenever they want — from home, from work, even while traveling on the subway. The only thing needed for this is an internet connection. Thanks to today's widespread internet use in Turkey's current conditions, attending online fairs poses no problem at all from anywhere across Turkey — from Izmir to Ağrı, from Mersin to Rize — or even from abroad, and it's quite simple to attend the fair via computer, tablet or smartphone. This way, there's no need to travel from your city to the city/fair area where the fair is being held just to attend a fair, and at the same time, expenses like transportation/accommodation and unnecessary loss of time are avoided.
Within the possibilities offered by developing technology, another advantage of online fairs is ease of use. Thanks to the smart matching system developed by Endless Fairs, you're directed to booths that might interest you, making it possible to reach your goal directly, without getting lost in the large fair area or wasting time going booth to booth.
Online fairs aren't tiring. You don't need to carry the brochures and catalogs you pick up from every booth you visit. The system archives these materials for you, and you can click to download or view them whenever you want. Likewise, information such as the business cards of the people you talk to and your meeting details are also archived in an organized way. After holding 9-10 meetings, matters like whose business card belongs to whom, or who you talked to about what, don't turn into a jumble — they're recorded in an organized manner. This way, you can achieve high efficiency once the fair is over.
Communicating with booth officials is very easy. Whether you prefer to message or hold a face-to-face video call, it's possible to talk with whichever official you want. At classic fairs, some very crowded booths sometimes make it impossible to catch the relevant official free and get information, but at our online fair, with the time management that's made possible, you can send your meeting request to a busy booth official. The official will get back to you when available, and you can comfortably hold your face-to-face meeting at the time you've scheduled.
While the Online Fair has many more advantages than we can list here, we'll close this piece by noting that seminars and conferences, which are indispensable at classic fairs, are also possible in an online environment. The ability to record online seminars and rewatch them again whenever desired afterward is an important advantage compared to classic fairs.
