Steel Space Blog

Steel Space Concepts implements continuous improvements in an effort to reach our sustainability initiatives and reduce our carbon footprint. Our units are designed with the intent of reducing environmental impact on the event, pop-up and experiential marketing industry as a whole. These efforts can be seen through the overall design of our units.

Sustainable Features Hydraulic and Activation Ready Series

After an experiential marketing activation or pop-up, customers want to evaluate success using a number of KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) dependent on the objective of the activation. For some, overall sales during a pop-up shop activation may be the key metric, but for others, focusing on brand activation and awareness, other KPIs like attendance, booth visitors, and retention time give a clearer view of effectiveness. Today’s blog will be going over the KPIs and potential ROIs involved in experiential marketing and activations with your Steel Space Concepts Experiential Shipping container unit.

Steel Space Concepts offers a full range of design, engineering and manufacturing services to fulfill your experiential marketing needs. With quality products, and the creativity of our team of experienced professionals, we transform ideas into solutions and execute each step from installation to on-site activation.

Origins of Experiential Shipping Containers
Over the last 10 years, we have developed a robust, reliable and durable product. Our experiential units can be modified and adapted to the needs of each client offering customization in terms of its structure, design and technology.

Throughout our years in the experiential marketing/event industry we can’t help but notice that there is some confusion and difficulty in understanding how pricing works for container units. For this reason, we feel that it is important to discuss and explain a few variables that affect the prices of units.

Varying Transportation Costs
First and foremost, the main element affecting cost in the industry is transportation. This is due to factors such as: location of delivery, availability of trucks and fuel prices. Transportation costs are the most unpredictable variables in the industry. As a result of this, our team developed the SSLite series which can be hauled by a pick-up truck and transported more easily across North America.

Dear fellow marketers, today, we’ll be examining some of the perks and advantages of using Steel Space Concepts’ shipping containers for experiential marketing and brand activation events.

Mobility and Deployment Flexibility
The main advantage of using a container for experiential marketing is the mobility aspect. With our containers, you can get to different locations both quickly, and with ease throughout the span of one or multiple days. The SSLite series, pictured below, is especially effective when frequent venue changes are required. With the ability to be hauled by a pick-up truck, and easily deployed by our electrical leg system, the SSLite model is a favourite among our clients.



In addition, our solutions have a quick set-up time. Our standard units have hydraulic doors and leg systems built-in designed to make the load-in/load-out process as quick and efficient as possible, and our SSLite series have electrical legs and doors that are easily operated by a single person. We invite you to watch our videos where you will see the complete set-up process of both an SSLite unit:

“They did not know it was impossible, so they did it.”

This quote from the American novelist Mark Twain is a perfect illustration of Steel Space Concepts' desire to meet the industry’s highest expectations and the types of situations we might face throughout a project process. One specific project comes to mind when we think about the many challenges we have faced throughout this past year.

This project, for a German airline, had a very tight delivery time of 10 days. Due to a difference in time zones, we encountered additional communication difficulties with the client, which added to this already daunting challenge.

Container customization at its best

Today we’ll be going over most of our clients‘ favorite part of the project; deciding on how to customize the container. This stage of the project is very interesting for us as no project is ever the same. Some clients prefer to build the concept on their own and then have us execute their plan, others prefer to work on a collaborative basis with us in order to come up with the best possible outcome, and others ask us to design the entire concept and propose different alternatives that they can then choose from.

A few months ago, a marketing firm won an RFP to design a project with Lincoln and contacted us to collaborate on their major experiential marketing campaign.