Your Best Rebook Starts with Head Start.
Strategic Exhibition Rebooking. Experienced Event Directors Former Sales Directors and Senior Sales People. Exceptional Commercial Results.
Your rebook is one of the most important commercial opportunities in your event's lifecycle. Get it right and you secure revenue, strengthen exhibitor relationships and give your team the freedom to focus on growing the next edition.
Head Start brings together some of the exhibition industry's most experienced event directors and sales teams to plan, manage and deliver exceptional rebooks.
From straightforward stand renewals, onsite sponsorship negotiations to rebooks with complex venue moves and complete commercial redevelopment, we bring the experience, strategy and sales expertise to make every opportunity count.
We don't just rebook your show. We help you grow it.
Some of the great shows we've rebooked
Market Leading Results
Making It Happen
Running the best rebook demands a distinctive skill set compared to the usual stand sales process and often requires a larger team than you would typically employ throughout the year.
At Head Start, we have the capacity to equip and enhance your team's capabilities, ensuring they are well-prepared and trained to harness the full potential of the rebook. We can offer expert guidance on crafting the most effective rebooking procedure, train your sales team to be master rebookers, supplement your team with experienced exhibition sales professionals during the rebooking phase, and even take control of the entire rebook process on your behalf.
Our goal is to empower your event with the tools, people and strategies required to achieve your best rebook ever. If you're seeking to optimise your rebooking results, Head Start is here to partner with you every step of the way.
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Giving You a Head Start
PLANNING & DELIVERY
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Securing early commitment for your event unlocks a treasure trove of advantages, setting the stage for incredible results. You’ll slash your unit cost per sale, turbocharge your sales drive, foster long-term client relations, provide financial security for your event and supercharge your bottom line. Plus, a winning rebook strategically harnesses the power of your event's floor plan injecting urgency into exhibitor bookings throughout your whole sales cycle.
The Quickest Way to Boost Your Business
“I am blown away with the success of this rebook and the way the Head Start team designed and ran the whole process. It has given the event's growth strategy a massive boost.”
James Howell, Founder, Digital Accountancy Show
The Planning Team
Dedication. Expertise. Experience.
Chris Down
Founder & Director
Chris Down is an award winning, strategic, sales, delivery and profit driven event director with 25 years’ experience of directing events with over 15 years at Group Event Director level for some of the biggest media companies. These include Montgomery Group, UBM, Diversified, Future Publishing, Closerstill Media and Mash Media.
He has always believed and experienced that exceptional rebooks are the basis for growing shows into market leading events. As part of his career he has managed many high performing show rebooks as well as being at the cutting edge, on the show floor, bringing in the rebook sale.
John Davy
Director
John brings over 25 years of experience in the media industry, having worked with major exhibition groups like Tarsus and CloserStill Media to expand portfolios and launch successful new shows.
With a global perspective gained from working across all continents and living in both the US and China, John combines a strategic sales focus with an understanding of the vital role face-to-face events play in fostering growth.
ECØS & HEAD START
Working Together To Create Sustainable Events!
With ECØS, staging sustainable events is simple. And by integrating it into your rebook and ongoing sales campaign more than covers the cost of making your event carbon positive.
🌍 Measure – Use the built-in Carbon Calculator to accurately track your total event footprint and that of each exhibitor
🌍 Reduce - Practical measures to reduce your carbon footprint through better stand & travel choices
🌍 Remove – Select from a portfolio of verified climate projects, from rainforest protection to renewable energy and carbon removal.
🌍 Report – Use our impact reporting tools to turn your sustainability journey into a powerful part of your brand story.
Seamless to set up and designed to scale, ECØS integrates effortlessly into your existing registration flow, re-booking forms and live contracts.
One Tribe work with exhibitions, conferences, expos and corporate events globally—helping organisers hit sustainability goals, boost sponsorship value, and engage climate-conscious audiences.Make sustainability part of the plan — measure, reduce, and remove carbon.